Psychriatic drugs definitely fuck with you once you get on them, that is for sure. They have a high risk of dependence, and the physical and mental side effects are apalling.

The fact that doctors are all too eager to prescribe these pills to every person who walks through their doors -- especially teenagers -- is even more apalling.

They say that mental illnesses are on the rise in America, but I don't think that's true; I just think that the diagnosises of these illnesses are up, and so are the precriptions of drugs to treat these various and wide-spanning disorders.

I was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder several years ago. I was given a bottle of pills and was told "take these; they'll make you better". The problem was that I didn't feel sick. I didn't feel that ADD was negatively affected my life. So I refused to take the medicine; in fact, I pretty much fought tooth and nail against them. To this day, I have never taken any medication for my supposed "disorder", and I wouldn't be surprised if my case -- and the cases of many others who have been diagnosed with not only ADD, but any mental disorder -- was a misdiagnosis.

We are the "RX Generation", but it is not our fault.

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