Hundreds of Lindsay Clancy supporters, many wearing pink clothing emblazoned with phrases such as “Believe,” “She Needed Help” and “Peace For Lindsay,” gathered Thursday outside the courthouse where she is on trial in the killings of her three children.
Several of the 300 women, and a few men, said Clancy’s story resonated with them and that they wanted to raise awareness about how the mental health system treats women. Clancy’s lawyer does not dispute that she killed the children, but says she should not be held criminally responsible because she was mentally ill.
You did uncover an important point. One I discuss with doctors commonly. If their treatment plan is something I can’t practically do, then it isn’t a good plan. For example, I have significant adhd. If the treatment plan calls for a midday pill, that just isn’t going to happen consistently. My adhd ensures that. Most of the time they have no other options. The medical system assumes everyone is sane and nuerotypical in the treatments I designs. So now imagine someone with pill anxiety.
So just because she didn’t do what the doctor’s said, doesn’t mean their plan was realistic and transfer all the guilt to her.
Nobody can make you better for you, you have to play a part in your own health care. Not being able to take pills on a schedule is something for children. You’re an adult. From every doctor in the world, to every problem patient, just take the freaking medicine that we prescribed as we prescribed it.
it might seem callous, but you know what else is callous? the fucking disease that your desperately seeking treatment for. The one you tasked us with fighting, and now you make excuses and argue against how we’re fighting it? OK. sure. sounds like you’d rather live with impairment than take the fucking pill, that’s all I hear.
I am with the other ADHD person. This literally is something I cannot do.
Shit, you’re gonna have a rough life then, mate. We all gotta take pills at some point. Either figure it out or… well, die an early and easily avoidable death, I guess. 🤷♂️
Set an alarm or calendar reminder on your phone
And? The alarm goes off. You are in the middle of another activity…
Shit happens, but it’ll cover 99% of the time. Unless you think whatever mundane thing you’re in the middle of is more important than your health and you swipe away.
…or you have ADHD and you don’t take the pill instead? its not that complicated… its a brain thing. It affects your brain.
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I’ll take care of that in a couple of minutes…
Six hours later…
Shit.
F’real tho what does help (for me) is daily pill organizers and keeping routine. Granted sometimes routine gets broke…I’m glad I’m not on any life-or-death meds, for sure.
But I’ve got an AM/PM weekly pill organizer. I take a set of meds in the morning and then I take tylenol and another med pro re nata. The PM slots keep two doses of tyelnol and the other med, to make sure I don’t accidentally overdose (did I take a tylenol earlier?). The organizer stays at my desk where I have breakfast everyday.
I take an oral GLP-1 which stays in my nightstand and I always bring a bottle of water with me to bed to make sure I have it as soon as I wak up in the morning (oral GLP-1’s should be taken on an empty stomach, < 4oz water, and at least half an hour before food or any other med). I haven’t missed a day yet (though I do have quite a collection of water bottles on my nightstand…).
I’m switching to a compounded semaglutide in a few weeks tho, and that’s weekly and I hate needles…so we’ll see how that pans out.
Spoken by someone who has no idea what I am talking about… but great job making my point.