Correct about being dead-inside, on some of those chemicals.

Mind-you, sometimes medication is the currently-right-answer, but I find psychiatry’s devotion to a perpetually-medicated population to be the wrong paradigm.

IF medication’s required, THEN can it be made to be not required, in the future, through engineered-healing, somehow??

That isn’t how Western medicine worked, when I was engaging with it ( I’m autistic, then a brain-injury survivor, & spent much of many days catatonic, for years, late last century ).

When you’re zonked on their drugs, though, you’re zonked, & it affects you consistently-enough that good cops’ll figure-out that you’re medically-drugged probably without even having to ask.

I remember seeing a newspaper photo of an arrested murderer-suspect, & immediately thought: zonked on antidepressant ______ … & then when I read the article, yeah, they were.

Going up against neurological-damage … COSTS one, but … depends on the person, you know?

Some’d rather die than live drugged ( me ), & others just want life to be easier…

Please understand this, though: alcohol & marijuana both can produce the same result.

There used to be a subreddit called r/leaves which was people who wanted to be living again, instead of deadened the way THC does…

( & all the people who pretend that THC “helps” autism, no, it hides the symptoms it doesn’t help reduce the problem and they don’t care: marijuana-cult is a cult, as I was forced to learn, some years ago )

It isn’t only pharmaceuticals which produce the effect you’re asking about…

hell, sometimes trauma can obliterate a person’s emotional-functioning!

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