Sure Boss I'd Still Love Ya If You Was A Woim

RIP Yukiko Nikaido (1940 - 2026). Fujiko's Part I voice actor, with her passing, there are no more surviving members of the original 1971 main cast. May she rest in peace ❤️🙏

I honestly think Gen-Z and younger simply does not understand how recent widespread smartphone adoption is.

ok I've already made polls about whether you think you would be a companion and if you'd even want to be a companion (here), but

90s movies: Psychopharmacology is as good as a lobotomy. If you take pills to treat your mental illness it will literally murder your imaginary friends and you will become a boring, lotus-eating conformist drone.

"What were you like before taking the meds tho"

I feel like it's worth mentioning that being on The Wrong Meds can indeed do the 90s movie thing to you.

there is a single pill i can take to immediately live a day as the best version of myself-- not a superhero, not a perfect genius, but a good dude who can read and write and do the dishes. im optimistic and coherent and can plan for the future. i write novels and walk the dog and remember to shower and brush my teeth.

Counterpoint: At least if I spend the remainder of my natural life as a dirty, inept husk, a sad sack of well-meaning but futile intentions just sapient enough to be dimly aware of everything I'm unable to be... at least I'll know I'm me, not a fake version of myself created by medication. Nor do I have to worry about regressing if I run out, the repeat prescription doesn't come in time etc.

Hey, so, this is kind of the attitude that made me afraid to take meds that I really benefit from: the idea that who you are on medication is somehow "not really you."

It's been a year since I went on medication for PTSD and major depressive disorder. I can sleep again. I can taste food and I can cook. I can go back to work. My blood work is no longer dangerously abnormal. I've gained back the 16% of my body weight that I lost. I'm gonna be in a play this spring.

as a counselor and a person who had (until recently) an extremely warped fear of antidepressants-it is okay to accept help. it is okay to accept help from friends, from family, from trusted partners. it is okay to accept help from a therapist, from a social worker, from a doctor. it is okay to accept help from meds, especially if you have tried everything else.