[curioussavage]

I think it’s impossible for many to be treated without drugs. I think it’s irresponsible to tell people with a disease that saps their energy and motivation that the solution is to pick themselves up, willpower their way through it and go be social and active etc. medicine itself is a very traditional means of helping people, probably as old as civilization.

No need for an “imbalance” as justification to get help through medication. This attitude is a form of ableism that can ultimately be deadly for the people it’s targeted at if they buy into it.

Coming from a spiritual and community oriented background people aren’t doing well. “medicine bad” and constant implicit and explicit messages they get - that they must not be doing it right, doesn’t help at all.