/sci/ - Science & Math

OP, I'm gonna tell you a little tale that most here won't beleive, but it fucking worked for me.

>diagnosed schizophrenic in college after a mental break (extremely shitty living situation) and because my great uncle was diagnosed with it back in the day
>took pills for a while, they say they are supposed to help but I don't feel normal at all
>getting fat, lazy, totally mind numbing, I'm an artist and my creativity was broken
>decide that this is fucked
>slowly am able to wean myself back into smoking weed (CAUTION: this is very very iffy, but can be done right)
>read up on esoterics and continue to study them to this day
>at the same time, try and stop taking the pills by slowly weaning myself off of them. I attempt this several times over the course of a few years, but get caught and am literally forced to go back on them despite feeling fine without them
>finally at some point am able to take shrooms again without any negative feelings during the trip, can smoke weed as much as I please (with moderation)
>have been off the pills for a long time without telling anyone, finally after a few visits to my therapist and him saying each time "this is the best I've ever seen you" I drop it on him I hadn't been taking my meds for about 4 months
>he agrees that I must not need them
>present day: fit as a fiddle, no meds needed or taken, but I now realize how much psychiatry is fucked.

>"The schizophrenic drowns where the mystic swims"

That's my basic point here. Schizophrenia is not real, I think what helped me the most is that I never accepted that I had a "mental illness". I knew that the concepts I wrote in and drew in my sketchbook were just over the head of the psychiatrist when I showed her.

Don't even get me started on the Brave New World of Big Pharma.