#placebo affect 100% but uwu

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just washed all my bedding and uwu it feels so nice and clean

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pills for the meta thing

Megan vs Meta | ▸ Open ◂

                         Uwu, pill meta? We stan. A lot of the opinions I have on Eddie and his pills are a good mixture of both the novel and movie. So, keep that in mind when I blab on about this little hypochondriac.

I mean, we’ll start with younger Eddie. This boy, even at eleven, was taking two aspirin for a simple headache. Now, I don’t know a whole lot when it comes to medication but I know that he shouldn’t be doing that. I know that we all know that I’m captain of the ‘I Hate Sonia Kaspbrak Club’ but like, honestly, putting this on a child is godawful. It probably falls onto the fear of losing Eddie just like she lost Frank but seriously, this kid is eleven and he carries around aspirins that he freely takes for a little headache? Like just casually popping two aspirins??? I can’t believe it. He shouldn’t have them on him. And he doesn’t know any different so this is all completely normal to him. I reckon, on the daily, Eddie takes aspirin - which covers a few bases but I think he mostly uses it as a painkiller - along with fever medication, allergy medication and then his inhaler (which is a placebo but he doesn’t know it). How they work on him, I’ll never know. I feel like the amount of medication he takes and how often he takes them, really affects his future. I reckon a lot of it is much more of a mental healing than physical. So, like when he does take aspirin for a headache - say when he’s a little older - I reckon that it’s much more of habit and believing it will settle it that causes it to do so. His body would slowly become more and more used to the effects of the drugs.

Following on from this, as an adult, I really believe it’s really really fucking unhealthy. He probably requires higher doses for actual medication. Like, don’t get me wrong, he’s human and will get pains and aches but after being fed them as a child? The two aspirins he was taking from eleven for a simple headache, probably would do nothing for him as an adult. So these 350mg pills probably have to be doubled to actually do anything. That, and Eddie definitely uses pills more as a comfort than a help. I mean, I’m 100% sure that he takes anxiety medication but the slightest idea that he’s getting a headache and there’s some form of pain relief going down his throat. Without it, he’s 100% sure that he’s gonna die or something. It’s bad. 

There’s also this issue of how he gets half his medication? Because I believe that most of it is over-the-counter drugs but! Either Eddie is really good at bullshitting? He’s illegally acquiring medication? Or the more realistic option, he’s just as manipulative as Sonia? The latter really makes the most sense because I already imagine Eddie knows how to manipulate well anyways. So, I can imagine him really being a dickhead at the doctors to get what he wants. Which I hate, like I really hate the idea, but it seems the most realistic of all situations. I mean, we have seen him kick off far too quickly just at the simple accusation that everybody wants to have children? So, try denying this man of medication that he feels like he’ll die without and you’ve got a problem on your hands?

This is why I feel like if he were, at certain points of his life, trying to fight this dependency? Then Eddie would be hard to deal with. I don’t think he’d be physically aggressive in any way but he’s very much a loudly spoken person; he’s demanding and manipulative and angry. And, of course, in reference to the losers helping him out? He doesn’t mean it. It’s mostly just the words being fuelled by a need and anxiety? He’s gonna panic a lot. He’s gonna be constantly on the edge. It’d be bad.

I like to think that if he were to survive the second encounter then Eddie would definitely seek help for it. He’d find a way to deal without pills. Simply chucking them away wont really do much. And, I think he would relapse a few times. It’s a process but he’s trying. Support would really help though. Also, analysing why he feels like he has to take them and the source, it would really help bring to light what the problem truly is. I believe he’d be able to do it though. Slowly but surely. Eddie would get over the pills. That day would be absolutely wonderful.

Also, random additions: Eddie 100% just takes them without a drink; he still keeps the daily medication in them little pill tubs; his little beeper? a forever thing; also he probably takes them in alphabetical order.

Also, Sonia can suck my dick.