You Don't Look Medicated

(AKA: The Time I Got Complimented for Passing as Palatable)

There I was — sat across from the psychiatrist, trying not to roll my eyes hard enough to trigger another medication review — when he hit me with it:

“If I was on a bus with you… I wouldn’t know you were taking antipsychotics.”

Ah. The classic psychiatric compliment.

Translation:

“You don’t look too much like the thing we said you were.”

Apparently, the goal is now to survive chemical flattening with just enough sparkle left to impress the men with the discharge papers.

Anyway — I took the compliment, took the meds, took the exit.

And then I wrote about it.

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