u/Pristine_Animal7204

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My brother and some friends of mine are really honest about how they feel with medication. And they always tell me what they think about my use of medication.

For me, I had a hard time with executive function and medication has saved me big time. I would procrastinate so much that I wouldn’t submit university assignments, and now I’m consistently getting high grades. My room is always clean now and I can actually keep my jobs lol.

People have still been putting pressure on me because they don’t like that I’m on ADHD and Anxiety medication.

It makes me feel like I haven’t actually achieved success since I did all my work on meds. Also it makes me feel like I don’t deserve to feel proud of myself because of my medication.

I really do not think they get what it’s like having unmedicated ADHD and trying to do a medicine degree. It’s hard to deal with bc it’s like they’re undermining the success I’ve finally been able to give myself bc of my medication?

It’s like they never saw me as good enough or smart enough when I was younger, and now that I am doing well, they feel the need to discredit it?

I want advice for how to deal with this because it’s getting in my head and making me feel pretty bad about myself.

Also… why are people so weird about medication? U get so many ppl trying to push toxic positivity onto you, telling u it’s not that hard to find initiative, my brother said I should meditate instead of taking my medication ??? But when I read academic literature, there is consistent evidence that validates my experience.