With apologies if I've misunderstood your intent, but what you said came across as quite condescending, and that's being generous.
In any case, for some of us it is the only way we can live at all, and without becoming outcasts at the fringes of society as used to be the case. To some extent we still are, as witness by many trying to hide their problems, not rarely because of the (apparent) intent and position you express in you comment. Yes it's a drug for many, for me it's a necessary evil. It's a locked and completely boarded up door becoming only locked with a rather shitty lock.
Our problems might not appear real to you, or it might be that you think chemistry is the wrong solution, it's hard to know from your comment, but I can assure you that while I would love to be without my chemical 'wheelchair', it's not realistic. Being able to be a decent father, keep a job, and tons of other things simply wasn't possible. I tried so hard I completely burned myself to the ground, while really only trying to do the things others take for granted. Like doing dishes.
If you call being allowed a decent life is being 'on speed', then by all means call it that. But understand that it's no different than throwing slurs at the quadriplegic, the blind, the deaf or the dyslexic.
In a different world I might not have needed my medication, who knows ? But as I can't change the world completely in my lifetime, I have to change myself, at significant risk.
With apologies if I've misunderstood your intent, but what you said came across as quite condescending, and that's being generous.
In any case, for some of us it is the only way we can live at all, and without becoming outcasts at the fringes of society as used to be the case. To some extent we still are, as witness by many trying to hide their problems, not rarely because of the (apparent) intent and position you express in you comment. Yes it's a drug for many, for me it's a necessary evil. It's a locked and completely boarded up door becoming only locked with a rather shitty lock.
Our problems might not appear real to you, or it might be that you think chemistry is the wrong solution, it's hard to know from your comment, but I can assure you that while I would love to be without my chemical 'wheelchair', it's not realistic. Being able to be a decent father, keep a job, and tons of other things simply wasn't possible. I tried so hard I completely burned myself to the ground, while really only trying to do the things others take for granted. Like doing dishes.
If you call being allowed a decent life is being 'on speed', then by all means call it that. But understand that it's no different than throwing slurs at the quadriplegic, the blind, the deaf or the dyslexic.
In a different world I might not have needed my medication, who knows ? But as I can't change the world completely in my lifetime, I have to change myself, at significant risk.