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by slingnow
1470 days ago
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Have you considered that you're an outlier and that policy and approaches shouldn't be based on your outcome? It's clear you're an evangelist for this approach, but your complete dismissal of people who have issues with drugging children doesn't add anything to the discussion. |
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I don't think it's reasonable for OP to advocate for policy that would materially make their life worse. I'm not sure what you expect their response to be, but it's not going to be, "medication doesn't work for everyone? Great, I'll just go back to being miserable then so no one accidentally takes it unnecessarily."
Prescription medication is something you should work out with a doctor/psychiatrist who monitors your behavior and figures out whether the approach is right for you. But even if methylphenidate only worked for even just 10% of the people who have ADHD -- those people should have access to it. And the rest of the people don't need to take it, that's something their psychiatrist/doctor can work out with them.
> complete dismissal of people who have issues with drugging children
It bothers me that people read "hey, medication worked for me and didn't give me depression" as "literally everybody and their dog should be on this." I don't think that OP is the person here who's dismissing or generalizing.