Reminder rule

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Too bad I have no executive function!

just took my estrogen :3

Worst part about ADD meds: need meds to remember meds

There are always worse kinds of meds: Meds that make you more forgetful (valproic acid, etc.).
Make a recurring event in your phone
- iPhone has a medicine reminder feature in the Health app that is way more helpful because it lets you put it off for a bit and then can get progressively more aggressive until it literally screams at you and I think can even be configured to tell someone else to come and bonk you until you do it.
- This only works if you have a set schedule.
  
  I have a schedule at work that shifts randomly from morning to night and this resulted in me forgetting my meds for my Monday shift. So many errors...

Mmmmm tasty SSRIs (that don’t work for shid) :3

I get that they work and are quite helpful to many people, but I will never take another SSRI in my life again. I hate them things. They make me feel dead. It's like tricking my mind into pretending everything is okay and jolly by becoming stupid and unaware to the reality of the overall situation. If I feel depressed, it's for a reason, and the solution is to address that reason, not pretend it doesn't exist or it's fine. It's like if you are in a situation where your leg is broken and can't heal, would you rather take an opiate to numb the pain or change the situation so your leg can heal? I guess my issue wasn't necessarily a serotonin imbalance 🤷
- I still have prominent scars from the time SSRI withdrawal triggered psychosis and I went apeshit on myself with a knife. absolutely never again
- If your depression is for a reason, then yeah, probably not chemicals.
  
  Mine is treatment resistant major depression and very much chemicals. Took me until I was in my midthirties to find the solution. There's hope even for people with bad chemistry!
Sorry to hear yours aren't working. You might need something else
Not good for bipolar people. I wound up with two different anti seizure medications. One of them makes me horny AF all the time.
- I find the whole class of anti-convulsant mood stabilizers very interesting. They are also sometimes prescribed as migraine preventative medications.
  
  It’s fascinating how these compounds have these multiple indications. It raises question to how the underlying mechanisms of these conditions may interact.
As someone who recently weaned off of SSRIs after several years on them, I found that thre worked quite well for managing my (at the time I was prescribed) debilitating OCD. That combined with occasional weed edibles (1-4 times a month) seems to have permanently decreased my symptoms, to the point where I no longer need SSRIs. I've generally heard that they work much better when applied to anxiety disorders than for depression, which makes me wonder why they're still prescribed so often for that. My guess is some combination of institutional inertia + minor symtom improvement + profit incentive.