Psyc medications have ruined my life

A gateway to harder drugs and abuse of medications not knowing what long term damage I am doing. I see my psyc doc for less than 15 minutes a month. I count the days until the appointment when I can refill the Adderall medication and now I feel dependent on another medication -- Gapapentin. Last month I went without both for a few days, I felt very sick flu like symptoms..

My feeling is that this is a gateway to harder drugs which occasionally I have done while on these medications and lucky I didn't end up getting arrested (driving after several drinks with Adderall) or seriously injured.. I would never have done this before.

Psychiatry did the same to me turning me into a dual diagnosis mental patient "addict + mentally ill diagnosis " when it was all over.

Since the mental health system got you started on medications, it also has a responsibility to help you terminate that treatment as safely as possible if that is your choice. If you have insurance maybe you could goto a fancy rehab for substance abuse with yoga lessons , nice meals , fluffy pillows...

I know that Adderal/alcohol combination feels damb good, and can take you over.

Who is an addict?

Most of us do not have to think twice about this question. We know! Our whole life and thinking was centred in drugs in one form or another – the getting and using and finding ways and means to get more. We lived to use and used to live. Very simply, an addict is a man or woman whose life is controlled by drugs. We are people in the grip of a continuing and progressive illness whose ends are always the same: jails, institutions and death.

We had to have something different and we thought we had found it in drugs. We placed their use ahead of the welfare of our families, our wives, husbands, and our children. We had to have drugs at all costs. We did many people great harm, but most of all we harmed ourselves. Through our inability to accept personal responsibilities we were actually creating our own problems. We seemed to be incapable of facing life on its own terms.

Most of us realised that in our addiction we were slowly committing suicide, but addiction is such a cunning enemy of life that we had lost the power to do anything about it. Many of us ended up in jail, or sought help through medicine, religion, and psychiatry. None of these methods was sufficient for us. Our disease always resurfaced or continued to progress until in desperation, we sought help from each other...

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P.S don't let psychiatry tell you "your taking the wrong meds" and push more, they have totally infected the addiction recovery field with there labels and pills.

you should report all of those side effects and withdrawal symptoms. you should speak out against these people everytime you get a chance [mod edit] https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/medwatch/