@smegmo-the-unclean I don't know which fallacy to address first, so I'll go for the first one.
no, taking meds is dangerous in 90% of cases,
Categorically false. Firstly, it is the dose that makes a poison. Secondly, the vast majority of therapeutic drugs have a very high dose threshold before being dangerous, because that is one of the criteria for selecting a particular drug for market.
especially when meds create a dependancy that can not only last for the rest of your life, but can also have some pretty nasty side-effects every time one brand of meds stops working
Medications that cause dependencies are in the minority. Also, dependency doesn't work like that, and active chemicals don't change between brands of the same drug.
especially if you don't take care to actually do activities outside of taking meds to try and get rid of any dependencies that might arise
The only activity that can rid you of a drug dependency is controlled cessation of that drug.
which, unfortunately, is the case for most people who take meds; they assume that by just popping pills every day then all their problems will magically be fixed. It doesn't actually work like that.
It actually can be like that. Even assuming you're referring only to drugs taken for their psychoactive effects, that can be the case. It often isn't, but you can't make a blanket statement like that in truth.
You still need to do something other than taking meds in order to cure whatever issues that they have, including activities such as taking walks outside and letting the sun have a positive effect on you.
Walking outside in the sun does not treat or prevent major depressive disorder, or PTSD, or generalised anxiety disorder etc.
If your issue is dealing with people, then you can take walks with low foot traffic and gradually get used to it that way. In most cases these activities are unironically all you need to do.
While avoidance is not a healthy coping mechanism for anxiety, taking ''walks with low foot traffic'' is not therapy. If someone just needs to go for a walk more often, they do not have an anxiety disorder in need of medical intervention.
Meds should always be seen as an absolute last resort and not the first port of call precisely because there's always another option that you don't have to pay for in order to help you get better, and any doctor who prescribes you meds as a first step is probably just trying to bleed your cash away.
I get free prescriptions. I also need the drugs I take because without them I am unable to look after myself. They are my first port of call because they are the appropriate course of action.
In a lot of cases, creating a drug dependency actually ends up being worse over all for the person who's taking the meds, not because anyone makes fun of them, but because the patient starts thinking of themselves as a lesser human for having to rely on medication in order to live a normal life, when they could have just been told that if their case wasn't especially serious, then all they'd really need to do is make a positive effort to take breaks, get some air, stop looking at porn (this one is genuinely a big factor in helping fix any issues if you're a dude), stretch their legs and stop overfocusing on things that have fucked up for them.
I think this says more about you and your anxieties than it says anything about overmedication. Also, drug dependency is not depending on drugs. It is a biological adaptation to drug dosage that can cause adverse withdrawal effects. You're speaking from a position of ignorance, and should probably stop.
tl;dr - please stop shilling for meds when the ideal situation would be that no-one has to use drugs to feel happy at all.
Nobody here is on a pharmaceutical company's marketing payroll (I assume), so nobody is shilling. I don't take anti-depressants to feel happy, I take them because I can't look after myself when in a depressed state. If you take a drug to feel happy, that is recreational drug use, which is a long way away from treating psychological disorders. (Not that I'm knocking it, I drink beer and used to pop ecstasy and smoke cannabis, I'm fine with recreational drug use!)
@MonsieurQuack I assumed about as much, I just find it important to address because of the misunderstanding many people have with therapeutic drugs and psychological disorders.
