Thoughts on prevalent use of behavior modifying drugs?

@OggggO I’d rather keep my ADD and creativity but maybe it’s not as bad and distracting as others that need to focus ??

Everyone keeps saying it's not a bandaid but some things are hard to change. @OggggO

@2cool4school They don't stop people from being creative.

@OggggO and if they do, what good is creativity without focus?

@OggggO they stopped mine once.

@NoahB it depends what you are doing in life. It’s hard for me to describe. It’s like the difference between linear thinking and the randomness of inspirational creativity. But that may just be for me. Every brain has a different chemistry. @OggggO

@2cool4school Like any medication, different people react differently, and some people have problems with specific ones. There was one that made me intensely paranoid. But that's not a general effect, and doesn't happen to most people, and none of the others I've been on have done so. It's very likely that if you tried a different one from the one you had been on, you'd get a different result.

@OggggO oh I definitely agree. I had to take Prozac after too many head injuries in a short period of time left me without my sense of taste and smell. It made me feel sorta robotic. I just wasn’t myself. I read books newspaper and magazines from cover I felt like I was just robotic and not in a good way. I can see why it works to keep people from having big swings from high to low moods and in my case it was actually to get my weight back up. I dropped to 110 lbs from 145 and in such a short period of time I was told that I couldn’t let it happen again because of the health issues that can arise. But it did happened again at one my lowest points in my life ever. I was just so depressed about my chronic pain syndrome and my anxiety was out of control because my spinal fusion surgery was termed a failure because it helped regain the structural integrity of my lower lumbar but the pain never went away from post op to today. I’m now a little less than a month away from finding out if my newest doctor wants me to get surgery again because he’s seen an area on my latest MRI where I broke my fusion. I’m so pissed at myself for breaking myself again.