What's it like not to take medicine every day?

[OldBaldy1701E]

1. Well, for some of us, that has become the question.

Because we are going without, thanks to the rich deciding that they know better than everyone else how to run healthcare as well as everything else.

My mental health issues have been left unaddressed to this day because I am not rich. I cannot even think about trying to go get help... mainly because the non-rich, county mental health center way of 'helping' is to toss pills down my throat without any doctor meeting to even figure out what they should be giving me, and then hoping for the best. There were no doctor meetings except one and the one dude I saw in my five attempts in four states to get help sat around the entire time trying to convince me to go get a job and come to his paid practice, as if I could ignore my issues enough to become a wage slave just to pay him for what he was supposed to be doing at our appointments. I could not afford the meds anyway, so they literally gave them to me via 'samples'. This was not the way to handle this, and the fucking meds made things worse. (I am glad that SSRIs can help some people, but they fucked me up and I will never take another one, ever.)

What I wonder is how it feels to never be seen as anything other than 'normal'. Because that is something I have zero knowledge or experience in.