> It’s up to each one individually to decide how much they want to be part of this “normal” or whether they prefer to be “disordered” even if it comes with certain limitations.

I completely agree.

And I've never been on antidepressants but I take Concerta (stimulant) for ADHD and I've heard many say that they feel like zombies on stimulants.

I've never felt like a zombie, it just takes the "edge" off by making it easier to get started and get things done, makes me slightly better organized, etc.

I think it sucks that some people don't respond well to medication. It's also a given that the freedom to decide on what to do with your body is an enshrined, essential human right.

The problem I have is this: Just like I don't tell them what to do, I expect that they wouldn't berate me for taking the treatment, and for asking for better ones.. yet they do.

When I cheer on the research for a cure, because I want it, for myself, I always get antagonized by the "superpower" crowd, get interrogated under the presumption I'm the second coming of Hitler, get told that I don't really want it, it's just the society making me say that (1. not true; 2. Gee, thanks)... It just never ends and I'm officially out of patience entertaining it. The other responses to my comments in this thread are a good example of that