Does Medication make you live a lie?

[Angeleyes7715]

So if you need medication to stop hating everyone around you and accept society and culture the way it is does that mean you would be living a lie?


Isn't taking meds to change the way you feel and your personality the same as getting drunk or substance abuse?

Just wondering because I kinda have this horrible stepford wives vision in my head when I think of taking meds to fix my antisocial attitude and my view of society. It scares me cause I'm like I know me not hating the whole world will make my life easier and everyone else's life easier but do I really want to stop hating the whole world? Afterall everyone and everything sucks and if I change how I feel I'll just be another sheep like everyone else. I dont want to turn into what i hate. This is what my brain frequently tells me which is why fixing my mental health is so hard.

Same with prayer and stuff. I pray and read the Bible and I've been asking to love people and not be negative for a while but I have not been able to change. Ive recentlt started meditation and positive affirmations as well. I have some serious deep seeded hatred and anger issues I think. Like sometimes I just feel insane rage for no reason or like crying for no reason and I just want to fight everyone and everything around me. It's weird.

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

So if you need medication to stop hating everyone around you and accept society and culture the way it is does that mean you would be living a lie?


Isn't taking meds to change the way you feel and your personality the same as getting drunk or substance abuse?

Just wondering because I kinda have this horrible stepford wives vision in my head when I think of taking meds to fix my antisocial attitude and my view of society. It scares me cause I'm like I know me not hating the whole world will make my life easier and everyone else's life easier but do I really want to stop hating the whole world? Afterall everyone and everything sucks and if I change how I feel I'll just be another sheep like everyone else. I dont want to turn into what i hate. This is what my brain frequently tells me which is why fixing my mental health is so hard.

Same with prayer and stuff. I pray and read the Bible and I've been asking to love people and not be negative for a while but I have not been able to change. Ive recentlt started meditation and positive affirmations as well. I have some serious deep seeded hatred and anger issues I think. Like sometimes I just feel insane rage for no reason or like crying for no reason and I just want to fight everyone and everything around me. It's weird.

Like anything else perhaps, it might enable living a lie, until one day , unexpectedly and a big surprise, TRUTH !

For instance, wouldn't one day BEING CONTINUALLY , DAILY, JOYFUL, FULL OF PEACE and RIGHTEOUSNESS FULLY,
be a SURPRISE ! to most people ? Yet in the Bible it is at least if not expected, it is offered. (by Jesus not by men).

(not emotionally, nor by feelings, but in reality and in truth, as written in the NT and OT) ....

 

[Bobber]

I have some serious deep seeded hatred and anger issues I think.

So tell us in a nut shell why you have such as this and no offense but don't go on and on about it BUT just what basically what's this all about?

 

[pgp_protector]

No, no more than wearing a cast for a broken arm is a lie.

 

[Paul of Eugene OR]

So if you need medication to stop hating everyone around you and accept society and culture the way it is does that mean you would be living a lie?


Isn't taking meds to change the way you feel and your personality the same as getting drunk or substance abuse?

Just wondering because I kinda have this horrible stepford wives vision in my head when I think of taking meds to fix my antisocial attitude and my view of society. It scares me cause I'm like I know me not hating the whole world will make my life easier and everyone else's life easier but do I really want to stop hating the whole world? Afterall everyone and everything sucks and if I change how I feel I'll just be another sheep like everyone else. I dont want to turn into what i hate. This is what my brain frequently tells me which is why fixing my mental health is so hard.

Same with prayer and stuff. I pray and read the Bible and I've been asking to love people and not be negative for a while but I have not been able to change. Ive recentlt started meditation and positive affirmations as well. I have some serious deep seeded hatred and anger issues I think. Like sometimes I just feel insane rage for no reason or like crying for no reason and I just want to fight everyone and everything around me. It's weird.

If medication would help tame that roller coaster of bad emotions, why say the medication is allowing you to live a lie? Why not say the medication is freeing you from a lie?

 

[Anguspure]

So if you need medication to stop hating everyone around you and accept society and culture the way it is does that mean you would be living a lie?


Isn't taking meds to change the way you feel and your personality the same as getting drunk or substance abuse?

You are right, but once a person is on them I would not advise them to try coming off them without some significant Loving support and counselling help provided by people who have a real understanding of what is going on.

The way in which medication works is that it steps in to either block or enhance the production of emotionally realted chemicals in the brain. Over a period of time the body compensates for this interference and so a dependancy is created.

A person who comes off a drug without the appropriate measures causes massive imbalances in the brain that are often much worse than the problem that was medicated for.

Just wondering because I kinda have this horrible stepford wives vision in my head when I think of taking meds to fix my antisocial attitude and my view of society. It scares me cause I'm like I know me not hating the whole world will make my life easier and everyone else's life easier but do I really want to stop hating the whole world? Afterall everyone and everything sucks and if I change how I feel I'll just be another sheep like everyone else. I dont want to turn into what i hate. This is what my brain frequently tells me which is why fixing my mental health is so hard.

Same with prayer and stuff. I pray and read the Bible and I've been asking to love people and not be negative for a while but I have not been able to change. Ive recentlt started meditation and positive affirmations as well. I have some serious deep seeded hatred and anger issues I think. Like sometimes I just feel insane rage for no reason or like crying for no reason and I just want to fight everyone and everything around me. It's weird.

Here are 2 professionals who I would strongly recommend as being fantastic in this regard.

Dr. Caroline Leaf
Lives Transformed - A Journey into Emotional Health
Lives Transformed

I have recently been involved with Kathy King, and her work is ground breaking.

 

[Celticroots]

Living a lie? No. If anything, the right type of medication and the right dose, can help people live again. I don't even want to think about where I'd be depression wise if I hadn't found the right medication. With God's help.

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

Living a lie? No. If anything, the right type of medication and the right dose, can help people live again. I don't even want to think about where I'd be depression wise if I hadn't found the right medication. With God's help.

I think you hit upon the key - "the right type ...."
as it
can help so many people;
but also just like mystic krishan haras at the airport
'feel good' groups (religious or other groups) can make someone feel good but lead them way out in left field or even out of the park ...

So test everything, always seek for the best , always seek for the truth and pursue it.

 

[Celticroots]

Medication has helped me tremendously. I am not going off of it nor should anyone if it helps them.

 

[ImAllLikeOkWaitWat]

It's not a lie if you are acting moody because of a health condition. Theres nothing normal about being angry all the time. So think of the medication as a way to be your true self not a lie. Because anger is not who you are, but love and peace.

 

[Jeshu]

No medications don't need to make you live a lie rather they can calm your mind down enough for you to see that you have been heeding depressive lies and bring you the ability to process your personal data truthfully again.

To put our faith in medications is not wise either but i wouldn't reject them, but try if they might help. Mental illness is horrible medication can certainly bring much relief.

The Word says search out all things and hold onto the good. So if medicine work and bring you good life hold onto them, if they don't, try something else.

Peace