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    Would you give up years of your life for full recovery?

    Say they invented a medication that completely eradicated your mental health problems with no side effects except that it would cause serious health problems later in life and shorten you life span considerably (10 to 15 years - less or more depending on how much medication you take). Would you still take it? How many years are you comfortable giving up for recovery?

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    I'd agree to live to the age of 25 if it means having no sa and living my life to the fullest.

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    No - my anxiety has made me a better person and I want to life forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    life---> <---me

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    Yes. Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes. I never want things to get bad again like they have before. I don't ever want to feel like utter [BEEP] again and feel totally unable and afraid to leave the house like I have been again. I'd shorten my life for a gurantee that that would never happen again.
    I'M GONNA FIGHT 'EM ALL
    A SEVEN NATION ARMY COULDN'T HOLD ME BACK.......


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    Absolutely. I wouldn't mind having a few years taken off if I was given a cure for my anxiety, depression, and OCD. I would never take another moment of my life for granted. Yes, yes, yes!!!
    I'd only live to the age of 35 or 40 if I could spend the rest of my life without mental health disorders.
    ...If only such a thing actually existed
    "It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

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    In a heartbeat.

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    Yep. I'd for sure be good with shortening my life to age 50 (I'm 43). I would go even sooner than that, but I really want to finish seeing my kids grow up. Wish something like that was out there.
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    Spend every moment like it's your last. Hug her, kiss her, hold her, like it's the last time that you ever will. Because it might be.

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    I hesitated to say yes but only because right now I feel alright. I've never actually felt this good before. But Yes i'd definitely prefer to have a shorter but healthy life than a long shitty one.

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    Yeah, I'd give up the rest of my life if I could live only one more month of my life feeling okay. It sounds so overdramatic but I feel so incredibly worn and without hope. It's just been too much.

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    No doubt. Balls to living like this for the rest of my life.

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    I'd rather live a shorter, more fulfilling life than live longer in agony.

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    Yes.

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    Yes. I'm dangerously close to giving up as it is, so I'd trade years for happiness. Kind of depressing to read what I just typed, but there it is.

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    Yeah, I'd give up the rest of my life if I could live only one more month of my life feeling okay. It sounds so overdramatic but I feel so incredibly worn and without hope. It's just been too much.
    Wouldn't it cause you more anxiety knowing you where dying?
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    time has been the greatest gift I've been given...even though I have suffered from panic and depression horribly my entire life. time has made me more tolerant, more honest, more loving, more wise, more of everything. so i think i'd decline the medication. also i don't like to believe a pill could make me happy. if it could that would seem mighty anticlimactic.

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