If I were wealthy I would never need meds.
I’m barely, *barely* diagnosable as bipolar 2. I’m definitely diagnosable as moderate ADHD. I’ve gone about twenty years now with both diagnoses. I’ve been on all the meds, all combinations, and I’ve been on nothing at all. Each for significant enough time that I’ve learned myself and what I need to function in various environments.
If I were a wealthy homesteader, with an affluent family, and an abundance of home project and community volunteer engagements, and I could spend my day in service to friends, family, a loving husband and child, I wouldn’t need a single drug to be the happiest, healthiest, most ideal version of myself imaginable. I’d cook and clean and garden and host and take care of people and things and life. I wouldn’t need a single psychoactive drug. I know, because I’ve experienced glimpses of it. Weekends here or there, a couple months over there, and long stretches of unemployment where I am pretty damn happy, even if I’m broke AF…
But to work in corporate America? For that I have to take ALL the drugs, and constantly rotate them to avoid the inevitable blunting of their efficacy that comes with chronic use. I don’t need drugs, THEY need me to take drugs to even be able to pretend to be able to function in that world. To work for a stranger, for an average salary? To show up to some one else’s schedule? To be inside an ugly industrial building, in a cubicle, away from sun, 5 days a week, just to get a stranger to pay my incredibly expensive health insurance premiums? To have to work on someone else’s boring or fearful ideas? All so that I can have money so that I can buy food I’m too exhausted to cook, pay rent on a home I’m too tired to clean, and pay my way through an outing with friends when I’m too burnt out to show up as my best self.
God save me please. I don’t need meds to be happy, healthy, and functional. I just need abundant wealth.
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P.S. I KNOW this isn’t true for everyone, and there are rich people who are unhappy. I would not be one of those people 😂 I would be VERY happy. Anyone who thinks money can’t buy happiness has never had to sell their soul for back to back jobs they hated with a fiery passion for years on end.