i think i might be getting better
i take an array of medications right now. i recently started a medication called aripiprazole, an antipsychotic medicine for my intrusive thoughts and mood swings. that's a scary word, antipsychotic. definitely one of the darker parts of the hollywood dilemma is that when they run out of ideas, they use mental illness as a motive for their villian. i wish mental illnesses were not reduced down to plot points and causes for paranoia in our everyday life, where we fear some psychopath come into our house and chop us into bits. yet psychosis is a real illness, as is psychopathy, and sociopathy, and schizophrenia. people who have these conditions need support and medication and therapy to help, not villainization. they, like me, simply have the unfortunate luck to possess a brain with altered chemistry, causing them deep suffering. but we do love a good villain. we adore a scapegoat, one person to blame when all goes wrong. but more often than not, the person who we'd blame is simp