re: How many people you think are on anxiety or ADD meds?

People are not normal today. Seems so many need some type of med.

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At least 50%.

I handle my stress and anxiety the old fashioned way. I self medicate with alcohol.

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Your oversimplification is the lazy statement if anything.

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How? You could easily (or at least I could) lose most of a day reading sh1t that has no bearing on your life in a library. The radio was available, what, 18 hours a day "back in the day" (at least AFN was for us?) There's been 24 hour radio with contests to keep you interested late at night.

*You* choose to pick up the next vintage comic book, watch movies you've seen 10 times before late at night, watch one more episode of Yellowstone to re-watch the whole thing for the finale, *you* choose that. There have been 1,000 articles from everyone from the WSJ to the DailyMail on how to cut your social media addictions, which most people don't pay attention to (see, nearly everyone on Reddit.) But I also addressed this by mentioning that I specifically turn off notifications, which you blew by. Look at your email inbox leading up to Thanksgiving and now. You've been being manipulated for decades by all forms of advertising, push and pull. Do you remember Marketing 3401?

Back on the ADD/anxiety track, self control and self regulation are key to limiting anxiety, with anything. Can you be happy with one line of coke, three beers, or whatever, or can you not resist? That is also social media.

Say we all agree it's the "always on" cycle. That started with CNN in 1990/1991 with the gulf war, fancy graphics, an endless stream of experts at all times of day. What's the excuse? Only a few of us knew what social media took the form of back in that day. Could I have replied endlessly to BBS messages over my modem? Yeah, I could have, but didn't. The person has a choice. When they've been raised by parents that have thrown iPads at them to shut them up, and reinforced feedback loops of colors, flashing lights, catchy songs, can you expect much out of "today's generation?" No, but it's easily preventable and correctable.

Have some agency over your lives, people.

Let me tell you who's not today. All the kids I teach who normally take them.

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My Dr could see I was stressing and put me on Welbutrin, I actually like it and think I had some undiagnosed condition it fixed.

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Wellbutrin is awesome. It also doesn’t have to terrible side effects of most other antidepressants. No weight gain, sexual dysfunction, etc. Glad you found help

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They need chemicals to help them cope. Men from the 1940s would call them an embarrassment.

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Men from the 40s were all addicted to tobacco. If it wasn't for the cancer risk, that would still be the norm.

I travel a fair amount to West Africa, India, etc... I often tell my wife and my mother in law.... there are entire countries where no one is on anything for ADD or anxiety meds or relying on some supplement or special drink to take a shite.

America has the most over medicated/pussified population on this planet.

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I’ve slowly backed up to the lowest dose there is and have been there the last few years.

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I’ve done the same. Actually been on the lowest dose for about five years. I’ve been taking psych meds for right about 30 years, overall. I’ve thought of trying to wean completely, but I’m afraid that my brain chemistry wouldn’t take kindly to it. I haven’t been to a psychiatrist in over four years, but the last time I went, she told me that what I was taking now was really no more than placebo.