I’m going to write about a serious topic today.
I’ll try to keep my natural charismatic sarcasm to a minimum.
Pssh… who are we kidding here? This thing is going to be dripping with sarcasm!
The topic I present to you is about Medication.
I take it. I’m pretty sure most of you take it too.
Medication is so common place now.
Take 12 of these and call me in the morning, right?
I have tried the au natural thing before. I ended up in the “vacation station”. (For those of you who have no clue what that place is you are obviously not crazy and simply do not belong here. Shoo!)
Totally just kidding about that last (….)
“All are welcome. All are welcome.”
Poltergeist 198?
Please, please, please tell me you all got that last quote.
Anywhosit, au natural did not work for me.
If you have mental health issues such as anxiety and or depression, and you want to go the natural route, bully for you.
Let me preface this next part with a, I am Not a doctor, but I do have personal experience and tons of research on my side. If you want to go the natural route 5-HTP, vitamin B-12, and amino acids, are a huge help. Diet is also a big part. Eat salmon like a MF-er. Them omega-3 fatty acids are your friend.
As for me, I’m really interested in psilocybin. I would consider micro dosing but a part of me knows they would never release it in the natural form. Big pharma would lose too much money. I expect it will be released in a pill form.
Mary-J is also tres bon! That, at least, they kept natural, but where I live it is highly regulated.
I do have a medical marijuana card, though. I qualify because of a few conditions. Mostly I qualify because of my PTSD.
I can honestly say it really does help.
Whenever the flashbacks start, which leads to anxiety, which then leads to profuse vomiting on my part, I use that ma-j-ic herb, and I calm right tf down.
Downside is I order an entire peanut butter pie and eat the whole thing with a spoon.
But I digress.
Medication can be your best friend or your worst enemy!
It has been both to me.
At one point in my life I was on 27 different kinds. I was so doped up that there was an intervention of sorts. I wasn’t on anything narcotic at the time but the combination of those 27 pills made me a zombie.
It took a neuropsychiatrist 2 years to get me down to only 5.
Give me a second. The thought of that peanut butter pie got to me.
Seriously, y’all! Look at that shiznit right there!
What was I saying again?
Oh yeah, medication.
I’m going to give you all some helpful knowledge. Did you know there are certain types of medications that your body cannot process? It’s different for each individual. There is a DNA test which your doctor can order that will tell you which ones those are.
I found out that I cannot process pretty much any of the psych meds out there. So, basically I’ve been taking placebos for the past 16 years!
No friggin wonder I have been in an institution 8 times.
Bad news bears for me… I am currently on the few that I can process, but I have been on them for 3 years now, and I have built up a tolerance to them.
What that means is I am running out of options. Traditional options, anyways.
So, where does that leave me?
I looked into ketamine treatments.
What I have found out is:
- They are highly addictive
- Incredibly expensive
- There are No locations near here
- Insurance only pays a small portion
Sure, you can order it by mail.
I’m betting you all have seen those adds on Facebook for ketamine treatment via mail, or maybe you haven’t. Maybe Facebook is linked to your search engine and creates adds specifically geared towards the individual. (Um, Duh!)
Basically, I am interested but cautious.
If I choose to try that, it will be through a company that only does a 6 dose treatment. According to them that is all you need to re-wire your brain.
I refuse to get caught up with those infusion clinics!
Come and spend your money every week until you are totally hooked and then you then have to prostitute yourself out just to keep getting our drugs!
Citation by Pimp Doctors
Catchy slogan, huh?
There is also the option of Magnetic Cranial Stimulation.
That is where they put the Magneto helmet on your head and use the powers of magnetism to force your brain into submission.
To me, that sounds a little too shock treatment-y for my liking.
Next thing ya know you are getting a lobotomy and end up with a bar cages on your head.
Was not joking, folks. This is how they treated the mentally “ill”.
All in the name of science and progress, right?
And that isn’t even the worst picture I found.
I can tell you from experience that they still use restraints, lock people in small rooms, and shoot you full of Thorazine if you get out of hand.
Have you ever heard of the “Thorazine Shuffle”?
There is a reason it was given a name. Once you wake up from this injection, your feet are lead weights, and you shuffle them along as you walk.
I have personally experienced all of the above mentioned, except for the cage on my head, and do you want to know why?
Well, I’m going to tell you anyways.
It was because I got angry that the only phone in the place didn’t work and I had no way to call any of my loved ones. I made it a known fact, very verbally, that I was upset by this. Next thing I know I’m on the ground being given an injection in my ass and then strapped down to a table in the isolation room.
Ok, ok, ok. I realize I have gotten a bit off the topic of medication, and jumped onto my soap box, but I had to include all of that for my own benefit, so thank you for listening.
The newest option they have come out with was recently in the news. You all, I am sure, are familiar with Elon Musk? If not, look him up.
He has designed a computer chip which can be put in the brain for human to machine interface. As I write this, they are figuring out how it can be used to treat mental “illness”.
Those schizophrenics who commonly believed they had a chip in their brain, are you going to tell me that was just the schizophrenia talking?
Or, perhaps it was a science experiment already in the process?
But I will not get into my conspiracy theories…yet.
Look, folks. Whatever route you choose to go is totally up to you. Each individual has different needs and different beliefs. Just do your research.
As for me, I’m going to keep looking for that magical cure in the sky until the sun burns out my retinas, but I refuse to be a guinea pig ever again!
Viva la Revolution!
Just A Girl In A Whirl 