Posted by whiterabbit on June 11, 2003, at 10:27:18
In reply to filling prescriptions, posted by mmcasey on June 11, 2003, at 9:19:15
Naw, I got over that a long time ago. Part of the reason I waited so long to get any kind of psychiatric help (and even then it was kind of "forced" on me with an involuntary commitment)
was the stigma associated with mental illness, and it nearly killed me. Now I regret not getting help a long, long time ago - I feel like I wasted a lot of years being crazy and miserable. So my attitude towards psychiatric medicine is that I need this stuff for a medical condition just like I need the hypertension medication that I take.But it did take awhile for me to get around to this way of thinking, I'll be the first to admit.
Also, I live in a rather bohemian part of town where everybody does their own thing and minds their own business - if I lived in the suburbs with the WASPs and yuppies, I would be a lot more self-concious about the people around me when I got my prescriptions filled. I guess that's part of the reason for this new "confidentiality" law
which I think is generating a lot of unnecessary paperwork and stupid rules, it's just another example of things being taken too far IMHO (and they call ME crazy - huh).
-Gracie
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