I think we're mostly on the same page. I think we have a tendency to emphasize solutions that give us agency, even if if those solutions are just foam on changing streams. For instance, I can spend the entire day wanting to get out of the house but not doing it. Then for some reason, I get out of the house, and then I start to feel better. Did getting out of the house make me feel better, or was getting out of the house the first thing I do once I had already started feeling better? I think the latter is much more likely.

I think depression meds are mostly placebo, actively disorder your brain, and prolong the depression. This is based on the actual research, not anti-vax Scientology bullshit. And when you do go off most psychotropic meds, the withdrawal induces the exact symptoms it was supposed to treat so it devilishly convinces you you need to be on them. Anti-psychotics do seem to work in the short-term, but recovery rates went from aproximately 66% percent before the intrdocution of medication to 3% today. The whole "psychiatric disease is just like diabetes" is an enormous boondoggle. And again, this isn't RFK, Jr balderdash--Europe is experimenting with short-term protocols for anti-psychotics and the overwheliming evidence from the WHO is outcomes are better in countries that don't have Westernized psychiatry.

Anyway, it's a whole thing.

Unfortunately, AuDHD has a natural recovery rate of 0%, so it seems the best skill to learn is how to not compound your problems by misinterpreting their cause.