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I had been addicted to numerous substances since the age of 12. I was treated as a juvenile for depression and hospitalized as a teen for a suicide attempt! I never stayed on a medication longer than a week then. As time went by the combination of drugs and lack of mental health care, I became isolated due to paranoia. I lost the desire to function as a normal person. I tried holding down jobs but never could keep them, Most common employment issue was the constant mental infatuation of being somewhere else at any given time! I truly felt I was a prisoner of my mind!