To calm them down? You mean to remind them that yelling at a customer might get them fired and they will no longer be able to provide for their family?

Thanks comrade, I appreciate the solidarity and knowing others also went through this. It was tough for me when the vaccines started rolling out. Every single day I delayed getting the vaccine, the more like a piece of shit I felt doing nothing. All the while I was helplessly watching the chud antivax movement grow. It got to the point I was seriously considering becoming a recluse over it.

Truly, I don't know how it didn't occur to me sooner that I ought to just show up for my vaccine extremely high on illegal drugs.

Yes, I've always fantasized about telling doctors exactly this.

Like, "Hey doc, you can either prescribe me clean, regulated, cheap pharma dope, or I am going to walk out the door and buy laced, stepped on, expensive cartel dope off a street corner. Which course of treatment do you see having better health outcomes?"

But I'm certain it would not help lmao

In my experience, children getting stimulants isn't usually a big deal for doctors because it's unlikely for children to have a preexisting history of drug addiction. It's young adults, especially people of color, requiring controlled substances that sets off their cop brain worms

I can relate to this so much. I have a severe needle phobia as a result of autism plus extreme childhood trauma, and doctors used to give me a single dose benzo prescription of Ativan when I needed to do bloodwork and get vaccines. That all stopped, forever, the moment my history of opioid addiction made it into my medical record. Makes sense, opioid+benzo is likely to equal dead, right? Well, come covid I was several years clean, and still got denied any sort of sedatives.

I made it as clear to the doctor as possible that without heavy sedation, I would not be able to get the covid vaccine because in a sober state of mind I cannot control myself at all when someone is about to puncture my flesh with a needle. I will try to exit the room as fast as possible, and I will get violent if someone tries to stop me. Doctor wouldn't budge, somehow they came to the conclusion that taking a single dose of a benzo is more of a danger to me than catching fucking covid unvaccinated.

In the end, I had to buy illegal Xanax off the DNM. I showed up for my covid vaccine obviously barred the fuck out. Since then I've realized how perfect of a microcosm this situation was for how the war on drugs has severely hurt patient outcomes in situations calling for controlled substances. Do doctors not realize that denying people prescriptions doesn't mean their patients just give up on trying to source them? That it's possible that we'll just get it ourselves at the cost of using unregulated drugs that are far more dangerous? I hope to god they start to notice and factor this into their decision making soon. Shit's fucked out there.

ADHD comes with its own little horror in that seeking the most effective treatment instantly makes you a criminal in the eyes of pharmacists, doctors, and lawmakers.

"Congrats on your ADHD diagnosis! The most effective treatment for this condition is stimulant medication."

Thanks doc, can I be prescribed stimulant medication to treat my ADHD?

Doctor types "drug seeker" into your chart, offers SNRI instead, acts like you're faking it a month later when you don't respond well to the treatment

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So fucking close yet so far.

That tracks. A forum where most people speak English but have political views in alignment with a lot of the global south is nigh unheard of. Lately I've been thinking that we might start getting attention for it from the wider internet just because of how unique this place is

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Things like this make me feel bummed out in a very similar way. Not mad at your employer for caring about such petty shit, you already expected that from these hogs. It's just a deep disappointment that your coworker would stoop so low, like come on do better, don't sell your humanity over some chips

I appreciate it, thank you!

Thank you, that's very helpful!

I really appreciate the offer and will keep that in mind in case I can't put together enough money. I'm on 16mg daily and I don't need to refill until the end of the week.

And also thanks for the perspective. It's difficult because money is also extremely tight for her as well, but she doesn't seem to have any kind of solidarity for other working people and it really breaks my heart.

I set up a Venmo account and added that to my original post. I also set up paypal and zelle accounts, but I'm not sure how to use those without doxing myself.

Good thinking, I'll get that going

Getting away with a bank robbery is a lot more likely than you'd think, I think only about 60% of cases are solved by the police. That's not great, you're betting the farm on slightly worse odds than a coin toss. But if I did win said coin toss, I seriously cannot fathom immediately tossing not one but two more coins.

oh fucking christ the chuds are going to blame Mexicans for this aren't they

Sorry, I'm really stoned and was just spitballing there. Is what I said reactionary or adjacent to the way reactionaries use the term male socialization?

Let me know if I'm off the mark about any of this, but my guess is that we'd see a significant bump in cis women if the polling were anonymous. Things are getting lot better now as the internet becomes increasingly diverse, but early on it was dominated by white, cishet techbros who suddenly found themselves with their own anonymous soapbox with endless reach.

Cis women learn from an early age that outing their gender on the internet results in creeps crawling out of the woodwork to harass them, so they don't do it. Transwomen face the same misogyny, but are far more comfortable on the internet owing to their experience of using it before hatching.