My psychologist referred me to a psychiatrist so I can begin taking medications to "help" me deal with the symptoms of...

My psychologist referred me to a psychiatrist so I can begin taking medications to "help" me deal with the symptoms of my personality disorder (schizoid).

Are these drugs really that bad for you? I've been a perma-shut in NEET since age 16, I am 30 now, so going on 15 years. Never worked, never leave the house, never had friends, never do anything, just stay inside all day. My day consists of just exercising, cooking fresh meals and browsing the internet.

They tell me the medications can possibly help mask the schizoid personality disorder, enough to get me out into society and actually wanting to interact and function with normies - I doubt this though, but they claim they can give me stuff that can help.

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What did you get? Kind of little schizoid myself and can only imagine amphetamines might get one to interact with people.

Why the fuck do you need pills if you're not harmful to the society? These things will do nothing anyway, it's mostly placebo and dependency.

I find out on the 15th

My brain is harmful to me because when my parents cant support me forever and even knowing that isnt enough to make me want to go out in the normie world.

Also, the gubment only gives me a half-pension right now and they pretty much said without saying it that they wont give me a full-pension unless Im actually getting treatment in the form of medication.

Do freelancing, start a business, stream on twitch. Who needs a job with all that opportunity? Occupation and friends will come bundled with that. Plus, you get fucking paid just for being mentally ill, I mean, really.

>Do freelancing
I dont talk to people
>Start a business
I dont talk to people
>Stream on twitch
Australian internet

I'm in your boat. Shut-in for about 7 years now, never had a job, friends, etc. But I'm agoraphobic and get panic attacks. Not sure if you have the same thing.

I've been on the pill train and nothing worked, honestly. Antidepressants, benzos, amphetamines, you name it I've done it. The only thing that helps me somewhat, but not much, is ket.

Have you tried weed or shrooms. Thats all you need.

You have have some variety of schizophrenia, and you are asking this place for advice. What the fuck? You are a year older than me, and I feel nothing but a deep resounding sense of shame for still being on this fuckstick website. Do you want to be here in your 50s? Take their advice god damn it.

If you have doubts, go to another doctor and get their opinion. You know the average age here is probably early 20s, and you are asking these people for advice? You do know that your retard mental faculties are the only thing standing between you and a better life dont you?

Weed just makes my panic attacks worse. Shrooms is almost always a depressing trip for me because I'm in my room and refuse to leave.

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I take anti-depressants, who cares are they good or bad for you when i can live more normal life

blinky bill lives in AUS too, doesn't stop him from doing Twitch. quit making excuses for everything. if you want to go out and interact with people and whatever then take the fucking meds. if not, shut the fuck up and continue how you have been.

Schizoid personality disorder is not the same thing as schizophrenia, actually they're very different. Schizoid is more emotional and mental, schizophrenia is neurological and way worse

you're retarded. if you feel shame from Sup Forums please kill yourself

Pharmaceuticals radically change the chemistry of you;re brain. Never expect to be normal on that shit.

It's a jew bandaid and the withdrawal is horrible. When you don't have them or start "coming down" you're much worse than when you started.

I've been prescribed ssri' s for a general anxiety disorder that manifests in extreme nausea only while im at work

Been pretty miserable for quite some time, what am I in for? Will they work? Am I getting sneak attacked by the pharma jew?

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I've heard people who said it turned them into zombies who can't sleep, eat, or fuck correctly.

I've heard people who've said that it saved their lives.
Probably worth a shot.

weed can be very risky if you have a predisposition to mental health problems

This guy is saying he hasn't left his house and has been a shut in for his entire adult life. I don't think he should be seeking answers here.

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Try it. I had severe problems interacting with people until I took a (non medical) drug it was like a light switch and suddenly I could act like a normal person and made loads of friends. Drugs absolutely can affect the way you behave so give it a go and see what the benefits are. It might change your life. If the side effects don't outweigh the benefits, just stop taking it.

I personally would never take typical or atypical anti-psychotics (the chance of permanent movement disorders is high), but then again I've never had to deal with any extra serious symptoms of mental illness.


Are you sure you can't man up and better yourself? Cognitive Behavioral Therapy will likely have a very positive impact on behaviors that you feel are undesirable.

Youve clearly never dealt with anyone who suffers mental illness my man

My best mate suffers from a similar condition to OP and its very much an "abstract" type affair, unless youre a brain expert your opinion carries literally no weight

So please fuck off mutt

Do you actually want to change your personality though? You sound like you have a better lifestyle than 99% of humans whos life is non-stop interpersonal drama and unhealthy living.

And if the answer is yes, you want to start socialising, why don't you just go do it, if that's what you already want to do?

If they suck you can always stop. As for me I've been on zoloft for ocd for about 9 months and for what it's worth I don't really give a shit about the little shit anymore. Before dumb stuff would stress me out for days on end. I don't feel different otherwise, which sucks because I'm pretty damn lazy too.

>They tell me the medications can possibly help mask

WE ALL WEAR A MASK STANLEY

>what is low salt intake

I bet you piss a heap as well, water right in and back out again.

What's this getting at?

I piss a alot but I drink alot of water and diuretics have an extreme effect on me

seek god ye strayacunt faggot

As someone actually diagnosed anti-social personality disorder, medication helps. Accepting the problem exists and working in a profession that allows you to work through those issues also helps.

My mother is diagnosed with schitzophrenia, and the bi-effects on the drugs she gets are fucking insane. She didn't really aquire help that fast, because this was the 1990's, and we didn't know as much about it as we do now. So her mental state deterioated a lot before she was treated.

But trust me, my mother taking the drugs is by FAR better than the alternative, so I would recommend trying it out.
It will of course take some time to see just how your body reacts to the drugs, and the drugs will have to be adjusted and replaced accordingly, so you might have to be a little patient before you'll see the desired results.

No amount of pills will make up for the fact you're a fraidy cat. You're such a soyboy you'll let a snake oil salesman hook you on big pharma junk science so you'll go hang out in bars, drink heavily and hook up with random bar sluts as pathetic as you. This is what your doctor thinks is normal. Get off your ass and get into life, crybaby.

You have some reading to do. If youre on ssris, start with Davies' Cracked. Heres a list of books on the corruption in pharma-psych.

google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/19/james-davies-top-10-psychiatry-critiques

To summarize Cracked: ssris didnt beat placebo in the majority of cases, and only helped the severely depressed. Most people prescribed them do not meaningfully benefit from them. Get some exercise, fix diet, etc. Theres also a book in the list on antkpsychotics. Read that too.

Tell the govt and your program whatever it takes to get you out, and stop ingesting meds as soon as possible. A few weeks on them wont kill you, but longer wont be good.

Ok before all the bullshit starts ... most psychopharmaceutics work IN THEORY. In some people they do induce the desired outcome but in others they are virtually without effect. You may try them out for a while though do not expect too much out of it. They also do have side effects so maybe the benefit you will get out of them won't be worth it.

The problem is that we still do not fully understand how psychiatric diseases actually work on a biological / brain chemistry level. The current medication is targeted to broadly and usually does not act directly on the cause of your condition.

>ssris didnt beat placebo in the majority of cases

This is exactly what I am talking about. They are ineffective in many patients. I have read somewhere that some classes of SSRIs for example are only effective in women as they somehow require an interaction with estrogen signals to properly work in humans. Just an example...

>I dont talk to people

Why do you not talk to people? Is it out of some kind of fear or do you simply not have the drive to interact with others directly?

>My day consists of just exercising, cooking fresh meals
kek.
you're going to destroy yourself with crazy pills.
you were 100% healthy before
>muh social life
fuck normies.

you're legit going to die taking these fucking pills. it's hilarious. probably get super fat and depressed first.

>what is low salt intake AND BEING SLOW

I bet the normies bully you :/ please put some salt on your next tendie. do it for me the pixels, your savior in the darkness.

This. Seriously sounds like a comfy life. Why don't you just spend a year learning something that'll land you a job using the internet? Do that and keep up with hygiene and you're good. Your parents already assumed the worse, they'll take another year of you living at home.

Meds of been incredibly successful for me…

Most people think here that getting shit done in your life is as simple as getting some light-bulb idea over your head and going out and doing it.

Do shrinks overdiagnose? YES. There's a diagnosis for literally anything these days. But what you make of a psychiatrist's diagnosis is what matters. Pills don't magically work, you need to have a good attitude. If you're not ready to help yourself, as in, if you're not ready to be helped and to move on from your current state, then don't even bother. It all starts with your attitude.

It's also fine not being socially outgoing. You need to find things to do in your life. You must have underlying conditions. They're not as serious as psychiatrists make them out to be, you just need help in the sense that you need to be educated on how to deal with your problems and live in the moment.

Drugs can be bad for you if you don't actually need them. I know people who used antidepressants and it literally saved their lives. Try it out, but understand your life must never depend on a pill. Hope it helps.

>Pills don't magically work
opiates, 2c-i, and viagra do

>you need to have a good attitude.
WHAT IS A PLACEBO FOR $100

Dont take it. Once you start they pressure you into taking it indefinitely and a lot of these drugs have bad long term effects. I know from experience.

Only have experience with depression, but SSRIs are generally complacency inducers. Instead of having positive and negative emotions you just no longer have emotions anymore. Destroyed any drive I had to improve myself. You should see if you can get a med that'll only last you through work rather than a typical med that's supposed to be active 24/7.

One positive is that time flies by really fast which is great for work.

due to the total disbelief in the usefulness of most psychiatric medications, I turned to food to solve my problems. And all your problems point to a low salt high sugar "I'm scared of fat so I binge it" diet. I'd feel rude saying you're not a good cook, maybe it's just brain cancer or something oh who cares.

if you REALLY need drugs ask for beta-blockers which treat stagefright and social anxiety from a physical level (keeping blood pressure low, reducing shaking) without any mental effects.

But most prescription drugs don't work magically in the sense that they don't solve one's problems instantly.

Do you know what a placebo is, or are you just trying to be funny for a group of people who don't give a shit? Having a good attitude, in clinical terms, isn't a placebo at all. Do you know the first thing about psychiatry and clinical psychology?

Get on a small dose of xanex. Makes you not give a shit so you can do the stuff you hate. Once you have gotten into a new routine ween off of them.

Or Valium not sure which is better

Xanax is now a schedule I drug in australia and cant even be administered medically lol

How can a benzodiazepine be made illegal when ethanol is totally legal? They're both GABAergic and have the exact same withdrawals.

So many fucking psychos on Sup Forums rub some dirt on it

>interacting with normies
Did that last night. I think I narrowly averted being sodomized. This interaction thing seems more trouble than it's worth.

Who knows. Australian government is fucked when it comes to drugs. So much shit is illegal. We have an analogues act here which even makes all RC's illegal. There was even a proposed ban on DMT containing plants that would have made out own floral emblem ,the golden wattle, Illegal. Upon further research though it seems I was wrong. Xanax is still available mecinially but it was just increased from a schedule 4 drug to a schedule 8 drug in 2014

You sound like a fucking retard, OP. Might as well kill yourself and let your parents die in peace.

Don't do the pills, they're made to get you hooked on them. It's never too late to "integrate", and it's never been easier to make money online without talking to anyone.

>of been
Apparently not

>My day consists of just exercising, cooking fresh meals and browsing the internet.
Then what are you complaining about, faggot?

jesus fucking christ...

Like propranolol?