Chemicals manufactured to alter the brain chemistry are not natural. They do not "correct" anything, and all they do is create dependency. We live in a world ruled by facades, saturated with consumer-oriented imagery, and so we do anything to alter ourselves to fit the norm--even if that means losing grasp of our role on planet earth.

In order to break the paradigm of the role we play as consumers, we must stop buying into the propaganda. First and foremost, we cut out the crap...the fears, the strange moods, the paranoia all are rooted in the self--the self is something that humanity still has yet to understand and grasp, try as we might. And so, schizophrenia, bipolar, ocd, depression, adhd, etc. are just masks for a deep seated issue within ourselves and relation to our culture at large. Why do people outside of these watered down highways live without the burden of the oppression? Because they have freedom over something others do not. Some think that only those in poverty are made mentally ill, when in fact this "mental illness" is a sickness in the way we approach each other every day and not limited to the poor; many of the wealthier have the privilege of being doped up on drugs and their children who are just children. We're creating our own never-ending rabbit holes.

When I was working at a summer camp, I spent every day outside working with animals and being with people. I didn't isolate myself, which is the "norm" that the medications allow me to live. At the summer camp, I stopped taking the medication and continued this for three months. What I experienced could be compared to a sudden trauma-- I couldn't think without feeling pain..it gradually went away. Then later I smoked some marijuana and low and behold...a revelation! The pain was gone, I felt me again. Pure marijuana can heal sickness. If I am supposedly schizophrenic, then why does Marijuana make me feel more integrated and turn down the traumatic noise in my head, the ringing of trauma over years of being society's scapegoat?

Have I been born into a system that shuts out the light, the mind, to trade for a blindfold? As a whole, are we just destroying ourselves for a false utopia? It's exactly how I feel when I take these pills, as some have said it's a little too good to be true that the pill solves everything for you with no side effects. All except for one thing, which is this neurotic obsession with being perfect. My advice is to realize that everything is within you, and you have the power to shape and change your own behavior. Be strong, the mind is not easy to break of a habit...unless we realize that habits are merely functions we engage in when we could be doing something else with our time.

Why get so hung up on behavior, sanity, and perfection when the mind is always changing anyways? Either re-invent yourself for them, or be YOU for YOU.

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