Prescription?

[Cwckifan]

There really isn't a medical way to treat autism. The only thing that helps is self-awareness/reflection and various types of therapy.

And specific diets absolutely do not help either. At least not when you're anywhere above the age of 15.

Was this true for you? I found that a substantial number of issues I had with anxiety, depression, and compulsive tics greatly improved following some major dietary changes I made about a year ago

 

[Green Nidoking]

Well, what you consume can affect you in exactly the same way that taking medication can. It's just a bit more... subtle, I suppose. Your body is affected by what you put in it. HUR HUR HUR

It's mostly "regulating mood and energy levels" again though. The quote there says "There really isn't a medical way to treat autism ... specific diets don't really help either".

I mean, I don't doubt they help. But they don't really "treat" autism. Just some of the (potential) symptoms.

 

[Cwckifan]

Fair enough. It seems like mental disorders and metabolic disorders are fraternal twins at times, so at the very least, a proper diet can help some more notable symptoms (or at least make it easier to willfully overcome them)

 

[DrChristianTroy]

Do we know if Chris is still on any medication? Especially since the nosedive his life has taken the past couple of years.

 

[Dork Of Ages]

Do we know if Chris is still on any medication? Especially since the nosedive his life has taken the past couple of years.

Dunno, maybe Marvin or someone else can comment about it. But it's very likely he will have to start using medications again for the health problems that he is developing by his sedentary, unhealthy lifestyle.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

When Chris is talking about being prescribed antidepressants for "stress" when he was younger, I don't think he's talking about the normal kind of stress (real or invented) as we would think of. I think he's using "stress" as a polite word for tard-raging, which he wants to downplay.

 

[MysticMisty]

When Chris is talking about being prescribed antidepressants for "stress" when he was younger, I don't think he's talking about the normal kind of stress (real or invented) as we would think of. I think he's using "stress" as a polite word for tard-raging, which he wants to downplay.

I'm pretty sure it's this, since his dose was increased after his confrontations with Mary Lee Walsh. So either this treatment is bullshit or we've never properly witnessed his full-blown tard rage.

 

[Henry Bemis]

Do we know if Chris is still on any medication? Especially since the nosedive his life has taken the past couple of years.

Dunno, maybe Marvin or someone else can comment about it. But it's very likely he will have to start using medications for the health problems that he is developing by his sedentary, unhealthy lifestyle.

Is he still on Lipitor?

 

[Pikonic]

According to the father call, he was taken off Lipitor, however given his lifestyle and refusal to change his lifestyle, there's no reason to go off it. Maybe it lowered his cholesterol levels and he thought "they're good now, don't have to get it checked again"

 

[Anchuent Christory]

Isn't Paxil used to treat bipolar? Nonetheless, anxiety/depression/bipolar/whatever the hell Chris has can't be treated by drugs alone. Therapy needs to happen too.

Ding, ding, ding. That's the answer right here folks.

Autism, "stress", obesity, and incontinence are all things that Chris desires to have treated, but he wants the treatment to come in the hassle free, easily swallowed tablet form, not the "make a conscious effort to change your life" form.

 

[EzioCanLeapofFaith]

Do we know if Chris is still on any medication? Especially since the nosedive his life has taken the past couple of years.

Dunno, maybe Marvin or someone else can comment about it. But it's very likely he will have to start using medications for the health problems that he is developing by his sedentary, unhealthy lifestyle.

Is he still on Lipitor?

Considering his diet, one can only hope.

I doubt a doctor would just take away the Lipitor, it seems to be serious stuff, and since Chris makes no effort to improve his condition by eating healthy or exercising, I don't think the doctor took them away.

 

[NobleGreyHorse]

I agree -- either he stopped taking Lipitor because he felt a stigma from some other source, or just wanted "Matthew Devoria" to believe he was the fittest specimen and best breeding stock ever. If it was the first, that was a bad idea.

I was on Paxil ages ago, back when I was married to an abusive husband (who berated me for going to a shrink and then taunted me when it didn't seem to work... well, no shit... the call was coming from inside the house, as it were). It flattened my libido for the first few weeks (which Whiny Abusive Ex said was unfair to him), and I believe that's the "side effect that only hits adults" that Chris mentioned.

Whoever looked it up is totally right. Paxil is just the brand name of paroxetine. However, a lot of patients on psychiatric meds do actually notice a difference between a brand-name drug and a generic, for whatever ungodly chemical reason, and have a decided preference for one or the other. Maybe the doc (who wasn't a psychiatrist, if we believe Fatty, and therefore really shouldn't have been handing out SSRIs in an ideal situation) had heard that the generic was less likely to be a libido-crusher. As Marvin has pointed out many times, though, the rest of his health has probably squashed it pretty thoroughly -- low libido is a symptom of depression in the first place, for example. The difference is that the Paxil-inflicted version does go away after a short while.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

we've never properly witnessed his full-blown tard rage.

He did hit a man with a car and then say to a judge in court while he was on trial for it that his victim shouldn't get a penny from Chris to pay for medical expenses.

That wasn't tard-raging, though. That was just Chris being an awful monster.

Whoever looked it up is totally right. Paxil is just the brand name of paroxetine. However, a lot of patients on psychiatric meds do actually notice a difference between a brand-name drug and a generic, for whatever ungodly chemical reason, and have a decided preference for one or the other. Maybe the doc (who wasn't a psychiatrist, if we believe Fatty, and therefore really shouldn't have been handing out SSRIs in an ideal situation) had heard that the generic was less likely to be a libido-crusher. As Marvin has pointed out many times, though, the rest of his health has probably squashed it pretty thoroughly -- low libido is a symptom of depression in the first place, for example. The difference is that the Paxil-inflicted version does go away after a short while.

Chris can't blame a drug for altering his libido when he hates everything in existence morning, noon, and night. It's his depression, hands down.

 

[Mr. 0]

Chris can't blame a drug for altering his libido when he hates everything in existence morning, noon, and night. It's the trolls, MANOS down.

fixed

 

[MysticMisty]

we've never properly witnessed his full-blown tard rage.

He did hit a man with a car and then say to a judge in court while he was on trial for it that his victim shouldn't get a penny from Chris to pay for medical expenses.

Also, he drew himself murdering people because they made fun of him and/or his webcomic.

It's pretty bad, but that's not what I mean. I mean something along the lines of Chris screaming as loud as he can while throwing chairs and paper and whatever else he can grab, and attacking anybody who gets close to him. I witnessed this once long ago, and this is what I mean by full blown tard rage. This is probably what the Paxil is for. If it works as intended, videos like THAT IS MY HOUSE (excluding the Bob part) are just a preview of his full rage.

 

[GameFreak982928]

According to the father call, he was taken off Lipitor, however given his lifestyle and refusal to change his lifestyle, there's no reason to go off it. Maybe it lowered his cholesterol levels and he thought "they're good now, don't have to get it checked again"

Unfortunately that's likely. It's like I was warned when I was diagnosed with Bipolar, many peeps take their medications until they feel better then they think "Oh it's all better now!" and just drop all their meds. Then they usually end up in a super horrible breakdown and are often hospitalized because of the drastic change of chemical balances in the brain.

While not as immediate I can imagine him being taken off Lipitor will have the same consequences.... He's probably not going to bother getting checked until a serious problem arises...

 

[Cwckifan]

According to the father call, he was taken off Lipitor, however given his lifestyle and refusal to change his lifestyle, there's no reason to go off it. Maybe it lowered his cholesterol levels and he thought "they're good now, don't have to get it checked again"

Well since statins can have some really nasty side-effects, and given that they work by slowly killing the ability of your liver to produce cholesterol, getting off of Lipitor was probably the healthiest decision he's made in his adult life. Now, if only he could work on that bathing thing...