 Hey what's up you guys welcome back to my channel as you're new here. Hi, hello, I'm Lydia and I'm 23 years old and I make mental health videos here on YouTube and I have to say this, I'm back. I'm back and I'm making videos again. Not just life or date videos, we're back to what this channel was about. We always talk about different topics every few days. Today I decided that we should talk about med shaming and how it needs to end. So what is med shaming? Med shaming is when someone puts someone down because they take a certain medication or because they're on medications or because they use their medications or believe in using medication. Med shaming comes as both physical and mental health. The one argument I have is everyone needs different things and everyone believes different things. Just because you believe that medication shouldn't be used doesn't mean that that's factual. It's an opinion. Just like it's my opinion that medication is a lifesaver. I feel like it's such a toxic community when it comes to medicating people. Personally, I take hella pyridone, vortioxatine, clonazopam, zopichlorin, misoprolone, folic acid, quels and iron supplement. I take these medications because I believe medications are a lifesaver. For me, medication really has to be a life changer. I constantly get people commenting on videos that I've done when I talk about medications saying, oh, it's a bad drug, that's horrific. You shouldn't take it. You should get off it as soon as you can. And all sorts. I did a TikTok a few days ago. I'll insert it here. I just taken my medication, which is sedating so obviously I look sedated. I've got the comments on it either. It's a great drug. I've been on it for years. I don't know if it was like, get off it. It shouldn't, not to prove to be long term use. Get off it. It's not good to be on it. Get off it. It's dangerous. Get off it. You're going to become addicted to it. Now I've taken clonazopam for three years. It's got to be three years. I'm not on the full dose. My dose did get increased. Well, I'm not on the full dose. Okay, one milligram in the morning, one milligram in the afternoon, one milligram in the evening, and two milligrams at night. Even we say that it was going to attract people and be like, it's a dangerous drug. Get off it. I wouldn't take something if I thought there were risks outweigh the benefits. But there's such a toxic community, especially on Twitter, of the so-called advocates saying medications, bad, try to avoid it. Like, yeah, I'm not saying drug up every single person with them and the illness because that's just ridiculous. But the people who need it, write a list of the pros and the cons. Instead, we should all be supportive of each other. We should all support each other's opinions. If someone's dead against medication, then don't argue with them. Just respect their opinion. They're entitled to have an opinion. Pro-med and anti-med are very controversial. So there's pro-med and anti-med. The thing is, when it comes to psychiatric medication, there's more controversy around taking medication for it. And what you say is, would you tell a cancer patient to stop their treatment? No. It's exactly the same. That's all I've got for this video. Let me know your thoughts in the comments down below. Thanks to those who follow me on Patreon. Thanks to those who follow me on Instagram and Twitter. And thank you to those of you who support me over on TikTok. My TikTok will be linked here. And I'll see you guys in the next one. If you've got any video requests, let me know in the comments down below.