I started taking lithium when I was a teen because I was diagnosed bipolar for no good reason.
It made me feel something like nausea the whole day but they insisted it was for the best, that it would pay off.
10 years later I make an experience and quit it and I realize it was making me a worthless zombie.
I get angry with my parents, they freak out and think hey! The lithium was making him good and now he quit it he's all pissed off! He NEEDS MEDS and without them he's worse! They never even gave a fuck about all the fucked up experiences I was having while taking it, and there were MANY.
Next I refuse to take meds for months and, finally, I fucking decide to see another psychiatrist... And because the drugs he gave me didn't give me nausea I trusted him. What I fucking idiot I am. It's kinda cruel to say I deserve to be in Hell and die now, but it wouldn't be totally untrue.
I get TERRIBLY WORSE after taking tons of meds that asshole prescribed me. Does my mother question him? No, she freaked out when I got pissed off when I stopped taking lithium and now stands by whatever the psychiatrists believe no matter how bad I get. Totally irrational.
Now my situation is horrible, I might even die because of what the psychiatrist did to me and my mother will never believe a word I say against him. She'll actually say I'm the idiot if I don't follow what some psychiatrist tells me to. And I have to see a psychiatrist, because I got so disturbed I depend on "meds" to sleep.
My situation only worsens and I feel really angry for not being listened and taken seriously by my mother. If she wasn't so fucking stupid she'd want the fucking psychiatrists' heads on a plate. Instead, I'm considered anti-science for even questioning the psychiatrists and saying they harmed me as much as they have.
You're well into your 20's now. What you take shouldn't be mummy's choice.
Your Mother should learn both perspectives of big Pharma. Though that will probably never happen. Just settle for being smarter than she is, claim your adulthood, and if you have to just move out.
Staying at home does have it's perks though. It's good if you don't have money, and if you decide to do so, be smart about it and resist any altercations with family no matter how ignorant they are. When you're more laid back, they will eventually see you as tolerant and your situation will improve, but if you can't maintain composure during heated confrontation, then just move out. You'll be happier and healthier.
Same thing kinda happened to me. Back when i lived at my mom's house, she thought i was th most rebellious teen to ever live(i wasnt even close) and tried to medicate my behavior with Zoloft, even tho i was never actually depressed. This Zoloft didnt do mich of anything it was supposed to do. At all. Instead, it causes me to turn into an insomniac(still trying to get back to normal) and makes my stomach upset at the slightest amount of food. My stomach still gets upset a lot. Zoloft did well on screwing up my body, but failed at doing anything to my mind. That was the only med i ever went on, and it only lasted 2-3 months. I think my mom mustve lied a lotto the psychiatrist to get it. Moral of story: meds suck.
"That's assuming the meds didn't start in the single digit years of his or her life."
He/she did mention how they started taking lithium in their teens, and it's been 10 years now.
If the situation is dangerous and cannot be manipulated, then getting out is best.
