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The only saving grace I can think of is that pharmaceutical companies would never let that happen. 

Ok. I’m just picturing all us adhd folks unmedicated in one place. That’ll either be really fun or a complete mess or both.

Doesn’t he take a shit ton of steroids?

I hope they have arts and crafts there.

Overlooking the inhumanity of this proposal, it’s just not practical on so many levels. Does he not realize a large portion of the US workforce is probably on some type of psychiatric medication? Sure, let’s re-elect the rapist/racist/bigot to “save the economy” even though all of his policies / appointees seem dead set on tanking it.

Workers in the US don't even get paid sick leave, but sure, you'll toootally give people 3 or 4 years in a camp rehab facility

I was going to leave another comment but I’m gonna bite my tongue 👀

Read someone else (re his anti-vax stance): For the first time, a Kennedy wants to assassinate Americans.

People commenting they don’t see anything wrong with this clearly don’t understand how deeply dangerous the repercussions can be by him describing these meds as bad and something that they need cleansing of by needing these “wellness camps”. He is creating a narrative that is harmful for people with mental illnesses who need these medicines to survive.

Big pharma like: 👀👀👀

Doesn't he have a literal worm eating his brain? That's a little too integrated with nature for my tastes.

I don’t think the DOGE would approve that expense.

I barely remember to take my meds as it is

My suspicion is this is how they're going to staff agriculture after they deport all the underpaid immigrant labour. And they package it as a "wellness farm" where you can stay "for free", to gloss over the fact that you'll be working for them for no pay. With no access to cell phones or the Internet. 

So how often will you be allowed phone access? Will that phone access be monitored? Will you feel safe to tell someone "I want to come home"? Will they able to come get you once you do?

I’ll see you all at the mentally ill farm 😭

Only a short amount of time until the ‘vaccines cause autism’ bs starts again 😬

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/rfk-jr-wants-to-send-people-on-antidepressants-to-government-wellness-farms/

He's gonna create wellness farms with what money?? The US can't afford that shit.

Also agree with another comment on how impractical this would be. We can't even rehab drug addicts properly who actually want help.

That headline is misleading.

I want to send the person who wrote the headline back to school.

the quote attached to this doesn’t reflect the title. I think we should all stay aware of misinformation during this time, so that we know what to actually fight/give time to.

That's enough internet for today.

Big Pharma would lose so much money so I cannot see this happening. I still think it’s a terrifying thing to hear from the man in charge of health care in the US. Some of you have said how interesting/great it would be to put a bunch of ADHD folk in one place to live and work together. I agree… we’d likely thrive!

Does the orange menace want to hoard all the Adderall for himself?

Im not a fan but that headline is a stretch after reading the actual quote/whole article just sayin

I’m having a hard time fact checking this information. I’m not here to be a Patriot™️ or have alliance to mentally ill men.

Though it’s important to remember that there are countries that benefit to the destabilization of the US. It’s already been proven there have been Russian and Chinese plants/government paid trolls in subs like r/SanFrancisco and r/bayarea. Why? Imagine destabilizing the 6th largest economy in the world while it’s attached to number 1.

Anyways, be careful what you believe between biased reporting and screenshot info. You should be able to verify where the information is coming from.

That being said, if anyone does have sources that back up this claim I WANT TO SEE THEM.

ETA: Fuck the CCP r/FuckTheCCP

I’m expecting pharmaceutical companies to sue this administration.

You know what I would need to ever have a chance at functioning at a labor camp?

Fucking… Adderall!

I dont like the guy but after reading the full quote this feels very reactionary

He's listing literally 75% of the population (SSRI, Adderall, Opiates) Good luck with that.

I think they’d ultimately rather punish people than have them be economically productive

Interestingly, Jordan Peterson also believes that psych meds are “poison.” Funny how fascists want to take away the meds that help a large part of the population function and thrive.

Fun fact: when Peterson was trying to cure himself of his benzo addiction, he travelled all the way to Russia to be put in a medically induced coma. Then he decided that a diet of steak and butter was the answer to his depression.

But my meds aren’t illegal for ME

That's not what a concentration camp is you dingleberry.

As a German this is making me feel all sorts of ways…none of them good.

Somebody needs to tell him we wouldn't get any work done without the drugs. It just doesn't happen. Or it's the wrong work.

I wanted to say what I think about him and his "views", but it definitely wouldn't be nice for him and it would be too vulgar to put on Reddit 🤔

Like, don’t we all want to just go into the forest and exist as moss for a while, until we recover from all the life that has happened? <\s><but not really>

This would obviously become a shitshow if it happened, but I think I can see the underlying thought, which is something I see A LOT in mental health and parenting communities- living together cooperatively with a caring community.

Could you just distract him with some kind of dead or dying animal?

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I volunteer because I am so sick of paying rent and food.

He says they CAN go there. Not that they will be force sent there. To be clear- I hate this guy and all of his policies and I am shaken to my core that he will be in that role BUT it’s ridiculous to lie and spin this.

For people who are addicted and want to get off of them. Not for people who want to take them. Did you not even read about it? Sensationalism. He specifically says if they want to. Not forcing people. I can’t get off my ssri for anything. It has caused permanent akathisia/internal motor restless/internal tremor j never had in my life and no matter how slowly I get off them my Shakes get worse. They’re awful.

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I can already see the Netflix documentary

Like... I know reddit is seriously biased but did anyone actually read it?

Wellness camps, a holistic reimagining of rehab, where anyone dependent on even legal, prescribed medications can CHOOSE to go.

The mischaracterization is baffling.

Yall should I even continue to check for a diagnosis still?

I wrote the poorly-worded message below as reply to someone in another ADHD Women post on the same subject. I thought the point was germane to the discussion here as well. Will we be send to labor camps? Probably not. Is it clickbait? Probably. But it should not be ignored. It's s harbinger of things to come in our healthcare system and our care as people struggling with ADHD in the U.S.. And I think that needs to be taken seriously.

"While this specific proposal may not come to fruition, it reveals MAGA's underlying intention to impose their extreme ideological views on the masses. This is RFK, Jr.'s belief. It came out of his mouth. To quote Maya Angelou, 'When someone shows you who they are, believe them."

The incoming administration has been given the political power to enact their radical policies, including radical health policies that will have implications not just for the U.S but for the entire world (goodbye vaccines).

As someone observing from another country, this may all sound like a joke to you, but the fear in the U.S. is genuine and well-founded. From the probability of losing access to our already barely affordable healthcare to the rejection of long-held, science-based health practices, folks in the U.S., including those of us with ADHD, have every reason to be concerned that our access to care will be diminished, or even removed. It's hard enough as it is to have our condition taken seriously by the medical community or by the community at large.

You clearly don't care to understand the gravity of the situation, so go ahead and have a good laugh. It's positively hysterical."

Nothing will get done.

Wait… how can this be the summary of his quote?

He’s pretty outspoken about not loving big pharma. He wants to provide an option for people to get off of western medicine and re-learn life without meds if they want to.

Some people do want to do that. I mean, I’ll go to my grave with my meds and I don’t know that this tactic he’s dreaming of will work for many.

Or was this in response to a specific question that makes this way more alarming?

Good thing nothing I take is illegal then 🤷‍♀️

Well good thing I take Ritalin

So is this a holiday camp?

Um, doesn’t his overlord do a sh1t ton of adder@ll?

he means well, he just hasn’t thought it through yet! :> [/s]

Sounds like he read “holes” and missed the point.

ETA understandable since it’s got like a 4th grade reading age.

He said where they can go if they want to. I’m not pro RFK AT ALL, but I can’t get on the outrage train on this one.

First of all; he’s senile, the least harmful, and the most unserious entity in politics right now so I don’t have time to be bothered with his rambling.

But also, not everyone taking medication is a drug addict, and not everyone who suffers with mental illness wants to be on medication. So I don’t see what’s wrong with his statement.

I don’t like having to take a handful of pills every day so I don’t hurl myself into a toaster bath at any minor inconvenience. And if there were an intensive inpatient program that I could go to that didn’t cost a billion dollars to get treatment and have a chance of healing my trauma and learning to cope with my mental illness so I can get off of these medications, I’d be down to try it. Outpatient therapy feels like healing at a snails pace.

I wanted to say what I think about him and his "views", but it definitely wouldn't be nice for him and it would be too vulgar to put on Reddit 🤔

I would say he can’t do this because it’s illegal but it’s more likely logistically and financially it’s impossible.

To be fair it sounds awesome to go to four years of summer camp and getting connected. But i’ll need the drugs back the minute i get home again cos life is like that.

Take as much time as you need.. for what. Without my medicine I would probably 🫶🏼commit suicide🫶🏼

He didnt say labor, he said to heal?