Yeah man! I agree 100%. I have swollen up like a blimp on these meds now Im obese! Not once has the doctor asked if thats affecting me, they just suggested I go on a diet! I didnt realise getting into this that it was full of such pseudoscience and all this. There came a point where I just accepted my mental illness and that Id be on pills for life, seeing it as a cure.
Then I realised that its not a cure, but just a drug. I may as well be on cocaine for life! at least Id be high! Its the same health effects long term. For the first time in years, finding this shit out is actually making me feel genuine anger and righteous indignation, making me feel something.
whats worse, I could be past the point of no return now where Im stuck on meds from the chemical imbalance its caused. Only time will tell.

I agree that there are people out there with genuine mental illness but its all psychological reactions to trauma and pain theyve gone through in cases of schizophrenia and all that in my eyes, and even caused by the medications too sometimes!

I think youve made the right choice to go natural with your adhd man, best avoid psychiatry anyway. embrace how and who you are, even if its not perfectly 'normal' and the same as anyone else, that doesnt mean your not epic anyway :D