Balancing patient autonomy with getting done what needs to be done is difficult in mental health. Them coming to you and pushing you into treatment is seen as unethical by a lot of people. You chose to withdraw treatment, and blaming your worsening of symptoms on the SSRI (which I'm not sure if you're doing that), is misguided. Until you represent a clear danger to yourself or others, they can't come banging down on your door.

Hoya now working for the man. So long as you have time to commish c league then I'm good with it

I don't think I really am doing it backwards, the enticement to do this is that this firm is trying to ESTABLISH - so to speak - a West Coast presence and I get to be foundational in trying to make that happen.

If I don't like, suck and perform badly and feel appropriately bad. Then they'll get rid of me for being bad. But if I'm GOOD this has just way, way, way more upside than my "current" model, though I am proud of the fact that this model did perform well despite my youth.

We'll see, I wouldn't be doing this if I wasn't confident - whether right or wrong - that this move was absolutely awesome for me.

GL to wifeikes

Sure, but like I said, this was a small school, and had what was ostensibly a strong setup for community support, with the "residential college" model and various faculty on hand to serve in that role. None of them contacted me. None of my professors contacted me.

I stand by it being a ****ty counseling center given the number of people who had similar or worse experiences than mine. I also stand by the supposed support system being bull**** given that the primary method of maintaining the school's "happy student" rating was by quietly encouraging unhappy students (including victims of stalker-athletes!) to withdraw (or worse, suggesting they were "mentally unfit" to attend school).

I'm not sure how you can keep saying this given the clear correlation between "taking meds = not caring about basic life responsibilities" and "not taking meds = caring about basic life responsibilities." The entire thing in hindsight just seems like a clear misdiagnosis to me, given that I haven't been on SSRIs since and haven't had any persistent problems with depression.

Best way to put it. Normally when others are experts on something and are dicks about it at least they coat it with a spoonful of sugar.

Good stuff

Thing is, he's not even an expert on anything. He's constantly wrong about even medical stuff.

Hoya,

Seems like a good decision. Do you.

True. Makes it even worse.

Have you ever had goatmeal on weeeeeeeeeeeeeeed?

All of ikewife tests came back normal. Not sure what happened yet but still super glad I'm going there

Ikes occasionally switches into nice guy mode (e.g., 95% of his FACK poasting) but everywhere else, especially politards, he just turns on the ******* condescension switch and is completely unbearable. Which is quite honestly pretty scary and depressing for him, you know, being a person whose JOB will be to care for the well-being of other humans. At least when I'm a miserable ****, there's the fact that I just do the biologies and data computing for a living

Re: earlier, I didn't mean to say "SSRIs ARE BAD DONT EVER DO THEM" because obviously they help many people. I just was providing an account of my own experience which was negative. Sorry if it was taken the wrong way.

Everywhere else is bull****, but that quality in politerds is completely unique to me!

That is not true whatsoever.

Exactly. Given a small opening, he took it and used a not-very-detailed nor informative personal account internet post and used it to be really judgemental. That's basically the opposite of what a medical professional should do. The professional response should be to ask questions and find out more about the situation and why the person feels as though they responded the way they did.

There's a reason I said 95% and not 100% and hey wouldn't you know.

Nah it is.

Nah prolly not

Congratulations, I assume?

What sparked the decision?

I could 100% get into med school if I wanted. (I don't want to)

Damn, best wishes to Mrs. IKES

Shcure you could.

I know you're giving me a hard time, but I could without a doubt. And I have the background for it unlike basically everyone else here except Osis (I'm sure Osis could too)