Comment by hirvi74

I'm in the same boat -- same age of diagnosis, same qualms, etc..

I am at the point in my life, a decade later, where I couldn't care less if there are longterm harmful effects.

1. I'm sure my unmedicated life would have continued to be equally unhealthy in different ways.

2. It's not like old age is sunshine in rainbows. I rather die in my 60s or 70s from a heart attack, with dignity, than live long enough to slowly watch everything and everyone I ever experienced dissipate from my mind until I am husk of a human being due Alzheimer's or Dementia.