#self medication

[sensitivehandsomeactionman]

[stonedish]

UFO Cookies 🛸🍪

[neuroticboyfriend]

so when a disabled person self medicates unsafely it's abuse, but when health providers gaslight us, lock us up, neglect us, and put us in dangerous situations, it's treatment? interesting.

[daydrinking75]

see the problem with self medicating with weed is that it works and but then its like a 50/50 toss up whether i get sleepy or go actually insane. but hey at least i slowed my brain down enough to form a coherent thought

[remyxavierr]

I feel like I'm slowly getting out of control. I feel this slow spinning, like all the pieces of my body are detaching one at a time while I'm all pretty and made up and dancing for the world.

Watch me come apart.

[clock-06]

Had a conversation with that same able bodied neurotypical guy from a few months ago except this time one of my girl classmates was part of it.

It started after I left our lab table to go get pain killers and he was like “what’d you just take” and I told him “painkillers” and he asked why and I did a brief explanation of hEDS, ie; so I lack the connective tissue you have so my muscles hold everything together and they get tired and stuff slips, I took those specifically for a rib slipping. And he gave me the typical able bodied look of horror and then the girl in our group is just like “oh yea I took four pain killers this morning” and we high fived and he looked even more terrified. He looked flabbergasted when we talked about our mutual large doses of high strength painkillers it takes to get through the day.

We then go into a conversation about our experiences with pain killers, why we use them, and the shittiest times we have to take them (for her it’s migraines that she gets for an entire week each month where they’re bad enough she vomits) and I’m like oh those absolutely suck I’m sorry they’re that bad and at one point the guy chimes back in with “I can’t remember the last time I had to take pain killers” and we’re both just like :| good for you buddy.

As we keep talking, she reveals that earlier in the month she was in enough pain and delirium that she accidentally got drugged by non-human approved medicine that her mom told her to take (her mom later realized her mistake and apologized profusely). Her dog had gone through surgery and she’d accidentally taken those pain killers for her migraine, and found she was almost physically incapable of moving once it kicked in. She brings up that she thought she was dead once she realized the medicine wasn’t approved and was just laying there unmoving waiting for it. Guy classmate looks like he’s never heard anything worse and is shocked and irked when I sympathize with her.

During this conversation, we bring up the medical malpractice and consistent disbelieving of AFAB patients seeking pain relief. This is something I’m glad to be seeing more stories about online and more awareness being brought to, but it’s a continuing problem in the medical community. And it’s even worse for women or afab individuals of color, as medical students tend to continue to be taught POC are “naturally more resistant to pain” and therefore don’t need pain killers. This, combined with drug abuse stigma, blocks a ton of POC from getting the proper care they need. This problem is only made worse when coupled with commonly misdiagnosed or overlooked chronic illnesses/pain, and it is absolutely disgusting and horrific the amount of people who die or are permanently affected by this kind of malpractice.

TL;DR

Disbelief towards POC and AFAB individuals when it comes to medical situations and pain can and does hurt and kill people. There is a problem with the system which causes many to seek alternative and potentially dangerous treatment/relief, and many people are in enough pain that they will take anything with little question behind what it is they’re taking if it will help them feel better in the moment. Next time someone tells you they’re in pain or you see them take pain killers seemingly out of nowhere, don’t judge them or ask them invasive questions, try to have more empathy and if possible, make things you’re doing easier for them to handle. (Don’t overdo it obviously, but like, maybe get them in a chair with backing instead of a stool if possible or have a place where they could sit when they would otherwise be forced to stand)

[robotmechagirl]

Self medicating for my ADHD with microdoses of caffeine throughout the day administered through sips of $1 5 hour energy knock offs. Y’all… Y’all don’t even know. Feel like I can bring down governments with the amount of focus I can finally do. The handicap is off and the world isn’t ready for me at peak functioning self.

[turns-out-its-adhd]

[chemicalcarousel]

Any tips on self-medicating adhd? Not as in substance abuse, but something that genuinely helps and is somewhat accessible? I am desperate to try just something that fucking fixes me so I can have a life and the psychiatry has failed me

[stonedish]

that P33V5 so pretty 🤩

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"I saw a therapist because I was going to get top surgery - thank God I didn't - and I went and saw a therapist once. And I remember this was like about 6 to 8 months down the line, down the road from my transition. I was starting to really actually pass as a guy. And I went to see another therapist about getting top surgery, and it only took one. One therapy appointment for me to explain to them that I was trans, or identified as trans, and I wanted to get top surgery. They didn't ask me any questions. They didn't like, poke or prod or try to be like, how long have you been transitioning? Are you sure this is the right thing for you? Nothing. Nothing. They sent me a letter or something to my insurance company so I could get approved under insurance to go get the surgery. I had even been talking to the doctor's office that does these. Everything was approved. Nobody questioned me. Nobody did anything. I was basically diagnosing myself consistently throughout my entire transition. I was responsible for my own medical diagnosis. Which is really crazy, and is something that's unfortunately, very, very common."

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"I've had relapses on T [testosterone] and short periods of time where I've decided to reidentify as a transman. Well, as a 'man,' as I put it. I go to the doctor cause, you know, I think I'm that I'm gonna get on testosterone. And they'll be, they'll be fully affirming of that, not questioning the fact that I've gone back and forth like, many times like, not asking, you know what, why are you changing your mind so much? They just completely affirm it. The only issue I run into is my primary care physician, she refers me to someone else, but she's still overly affirming. She's not questioning why I'm wanting to go on testosterone, and then why I'm going off it, and then why I'm going back on it. You think that would be something they would be concerned about."

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"I personally believe that exploratory style therapy would have helped me to dig down into the roots of why I was so uncomfortable as a girl and later as a young woman. I also believe that I was failed because I wasn't screened for developmental disabilities. Knowing that I was on the autism spectrum might have helped me to reframe my experience growing up as a weird girl."

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"What happens, you end up with cases like me where someone who needed therapy got this treatment that they didn't need in the first place. Treatment that is irreversible. All of those doctors who have their agenda to get as many people on those pills as possible, they don't ever question your motives. They just affirm your belief that you're supposed to be the opposite sex. That's how you get more and more people detransitioning."

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The things that never happen keep never happening.

To borrow a quote from Stephen Fry, regarding the Catholic Church: "then what are you for?!?" These doctors are just vending machines.

And that's not by accident, it's the goal of the activists. The same people will tell you it's the detransitioners' own fault and still demand even less "gatekeeping" than they're already doing.

[worldbuildingwanderlust]

Smokeless smokes

And toothless tokes

Another day of abstaining

Will it make the morning

Brighter?

...Maybe I just need my lighter

[xxxnonsenssxxx]

Black Cherry Gelato 🍒 <smalls>

CALIFORNIA LOVE

Hmu if your town be dry 🤪

[flame-cat]

alright. im kinda drunk and in the mood to talk about it.

autism and the use of drugs and alcohol. i dont think ive met many autistic people who havent at least considered alcohol, weed, or harder drugs as a method of self medication. it dulls your senses, the very thing that makes it so hard for us to function. being able to walk into a crowded room with lights and music and not be immediately overwhelmed feels like a super power. for once you feel normal. like you can talk to people. like you can be part of something

lets talk about it guys. come on. gimmie your thoughts

[takingtestosterone]

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Welcome to my side blog about my DIY HRT journey, you can call me Tel and my pronouns are he/him, this is a sideblog!

I am making this blog as a record about what it's like to be on HRT via not so legal means in the UK.

I'll do "traditional" T updates (changes to my body etc), as well as speaking about the experiences I have (with family, procuring hrt, blood tests, interacting with healthcare professionals) as someone who self medicates.

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[strwbrryangelskiss]

we all have our way of ✨self-medicating✨