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Why go for medication rather than coaching/therapy to start with? What about feeling squeamish about taking things that might alter your personality?

That's an excellent question, and it is one that is very personal for a lot of people including me, but I'm basically happy to talk about this stuff forever 🙂

Medication mostly fixes hardware problems and counseling mostly fixes software problems. Hardware fixes can help with software problems, eg if someone is depressed for a year initially for a reason and antidepressant gets them back to normal. But software fixes usually can't fix hardware problems. Sometimes they can work around the problem. Sometimes you can grow some brain to compensate for the missing bit. But often you can't, or only can a little bit.

I have the same feeling as you, not wanting an augmentation. But it doesn't feel like that (or look like that to careful consideration). It doesn't feel like it's giving me extra oomph to compensate for not enough oomph. It feels like, I'm doing all the right things that OUGHT to make me able to do things, but the connector is missing, and when I get that fixed physically, then doing those things NOW has an effect.

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