Mental Health Support

So much as I loathe the pharmaceutical companies, there are pharmaceutical products that keep me and a few members of my family somewhat functional.

We don't need any assholes here in this forum telling us some defect of our political system or society is the root of our problem, and that all we have to do is meditate according to some formula and then all our mental health issues go away. Yes, our political system and society do suck, especially in the ways it deals with mental illness, but this failure of our society does not cause mental illness.

Off my meds I'm a dumpster diving paranoid homeless guy. That's just the way it is. My recent bungee jump testing of the social safety net I've built and maintained has proven once again that this is so. Fuck, fuck, fuck, it's ALL chemistry with me. If I don't take those pills with the irritating side effects I'm screwed.

Some people, even people here in this forum, will benefit by all the variations of talk therapy, they will learn how to avoid the stinkin' thinkin', learn how to break the bad mental habits, or deal with past traumas in their lives in a rational way, but it ain't me. I have to take the medicine, and in doses that make me uncomfortable. If I don't reality gets all shifty and ugly about me. The universe begins to suck.

That's not a political discussion.