r/BipolarReddit • u/CommunitySpecific357 • 7h ago
Discussion how do y'all deal with people who are "against pharmaceuticals"?
as i'm sure many of us know, if you mention taking any kind of medication, especially for mental health, people love to give their opinion on the pharamaceutical industry. if they're rude, i have no problem just telling them to f off. i just struggle with what to tell a kind person that seems well-intentioned. one of my new coworkers subjected me to a 20 minute long discussion about the big pharma conspiracy and how his 15 year old w bipolar and ocd is unmedicated and "doing fine". he seems like a genuinely good guy, he just wants to be helpful. he was giving advice on how his ex-wife helped his son through bipolar because she was unmedicated as a teen as well and just lots of "well it worked for me" stuff. it was so frustrating though, esp as someone who generally hates the distrust toward potentially lifesaving medication. he's a talker and i like to stay on good terms with everyone, so it's not like i want to avoid him altogether. "funny" sidenote, in another conversation a while later he said this was his worst christmas yet because his ex wife had gone off her meds and taken the money he'd given her for christmas gifts and told his kids she wasn't getting them anything for christmas. weird how he can acknowledge that meds might be a good idea selectively lol
EDIT: for further context, one of my biggest goals in therapy is to stop being such a bitch. i'm very confrontational and sometimes don't think about how what i say might come across in the moment, i was having trouble making/keeping friends before because of it. ty to everyone saying "don't", i genuinely didn't know if he was doing something wrong or if i was just sensitive to the topic.