> These drugs are very powerful but have really bad side-effects for most people that take them for people that take larger doses and for longer periods, you'r

> These drugs are very powerful but have really bad side-effects for most people that take them for people that take larger doses and for longer periods, you're going to be dealing with that more frequently. It's not quite binary - there's a number of different drugs with different results for different people. By not talking to a doctor you are only keeping yourself in the dark - this is fine, but you are limiting your field of options. If you've got some timeline/end goal where you can define your life as less stressful, you could go on them to buckle down (if alternatives arent working and the duration makes sense), but unless that timeline then results in another change to your whole health situation, you haven't done much but avoid the problem. personal experience: needed them in order to get here, ran out of reasons to take them, dropped them (15~ years)