18, first visit to the psychiatrist today. we talked for like 40 minutes and i got prescribed something called "oribion". no concrete diagnosis or anything like that, he just told me he suspects i might have adhd (not even the issue i came with). he wants me to have blood and adhd tests done, and i have another appointment with him scheduled on the 22nd, but apparently i'm supposed to start taking the meds now. i'm worried because i've heard that antidepressants can permanently fuck up your brain chemistry or some shit like that. anyway, should i take them or not? PLEASE help i'm fucking scared
If you didn't need meds before, why would you need meds now?
>>34009122Cool, you got the poison pills. But why would you go to a psychiatrist at 18 did your parents force you?Are you lonely? Get friends/pussy.Are you fat? Get fit.You have bad parents? Sucks, just have to tough it out until you can move, but psychiatry? I don’t know.
>>34009133because everything has been getting worse lately. i am now in the last year of highschool and i'll be writing the final highschool exam (which will influence my education and future career heavily) and i'm just so mentally exhausted all the time that i don't have the energy to study, and i'm worried i'll fuck it all up. i keep having mental breakdowns all the time and everything is awful
>>34009152Dude it’s not real, don’t worry. You’ll make it whether you ace the exams or not. Maybe this is some bluepill bullshit from your parents that you HAVE to make it. You don’t. And if you do that’s great. Anyway, if it’s that big deal for you, you probably should be studying or resting instead of talking to shrinks, which will just stress and exhaust you more.
My advice would be to get a second opinion. Also, try a "therapist", and not a "psychiatrist". Therapists usually attempt the non-medicine route first while psychiatrists typically do the opposite. Your psychiatrist is simply trying to give you different medicines to eliminate different diagnoses, which is very typical. (It goes: "Take drug A. Do you feel better? No? Okay, take drug B instead... and so on). Just like you can manage diabetes with diet and exercise, you can manage a mental disease with similar tools and exercises. Therapists specialize in equipping you with those tools, whereas psychiatrists tend to work with the flow of: Patient has problem -> It could be a disease -> prescribe medicine used to treat that disease -> Did it help? -> Stick with drug if so, see if it is another disease if not.
>>34009147>Cool, you got the poison pills. But why would you go to a psychiatrist at 18 did your parents force you? i went because i haven't really been well in like 2 years, with things gradually getting worse. some time ago i told my mom about me not being satisfied with my life and had a huge breakdown in front of her, and she told me she would like me to go to a psychiatrist - if not for myself, then for her. i thought about it and decided to go>Are you lonely? Get friends/pussy.ain't that easy. i have been losing friends since the beginning of highschool, but really none of them were real friends to begin with. perhaps my expectations are too high, but i feel like it's all fake. and about the "pussy" part, i spent the past one and a half years chasing a girl, and just when i thought we're getting somewhere, she told me she was a lesbian and now i'm stuck being "friends" with her, and it really fucking hurts>Are you fat? Get fit.not fat, fortunatelyanyway, so you're saying i shouldn't take them?
>>34009122>Livia Soprano: They sent you to a psychiatrist? >But that's crazy, that's all nonsense. That's nothing but a racket for the Jews
>>34009157i'm just worried that if i don't have a successfull career i'll have nothing to lean on if things continue to be as bad as they are in other areas of life. the fact i'm in a "good" highschool doesn't help either because many people are so study oriented that they don't seem to have time for a relationship, and i've been feeling very lonely for the past year or so
>>34009171Yeah but that skirts around why are things worse. Anyway if it’s bad parents try to move when you can. You are doing girls wrong, you shouldn’t wriggle from friendship to girlfriend that’s not manly, you should ask girls out on dates. Don’t take the poison pill it’s probably everything you’ve heard and more.
>>34009164ok this sounds like a good idea thank you i will try this
>>34009157but thank you for so much positivity, you made me feel a bit better
>>34009184If you really wanted a succesful career you would go for influencer/celebrity and/or entrepreneur, otherwise it’s just will you be a physical drone or an office drone and it doesn’t really matter you can be happy or sad as either one, it’s not the be and end all of things. You can kill the good vs bad career, everything is bad except being the business owner.
>>34009189In medcine, someone who tried issuing medication as a diagnostic or without knowing what the issue is, would be struck off and rightly so. I wouldn't take anything such a person gave me.
>>34009201>>34009203thank you guys, i won't take the pills. i'll do the tests the psychiatrist suggested, and when i see him in 3 weeks i'll tell him i'll try therapy before i start taking any meds. again, thank you very much and hope you have a great day/night
>>34009164Therapy is just as much of a scam. They are just going to feed you basic bitch bullshit instead of giving you any actual direction or advice.
>>34009122Yeah no. Go get a sceond opinion, preferrable from a doctor who actually explains risks and advanatges of the chosen treatment and makes a proper diagnosis before blasting you with midn altering drugs.This guy just wants to sell prescriptions, fuck him. Get properly diagnosed an dthen think about possible steps you may or may not want to take.Remember, unless you're some kind of schizoid who has to be instituzionalized, its always your decision to take medication.
