text: how would you feel if the people you are around all the time tell you need to be on prozac? i am not sure what should i do i feel that they are right but none of them are doctors and they dont know how i feel on the inside but everytime i am around the go into a prozac conversation and im usually named, what would you do? it hurts my feelings and i don't understand why that topic always fills their heads when im there. i think they're rude and insensitive to your feelings.  talk with a counselor first, someone who's skilled in mental health.  the best ones to decide whether you need medication is your doctor and yourself.  speak up for yourself, it's not what you say but how you say it.  let them know it hurts your feelings when they mention prozac, and your name comes up.  there's nothing wrong with getting treatment if you need it.  but there's a stereotype against people with mental illnesses, as though they're nothing.  like they'e totally crazed and don't have feelings, and unaware what's happening.    i know how you feel, because i have a mentally ill parent.  it's tough.  but take a stand for yourself, and people will change their tune around you.  let them know you're not tolerant of being looked down upon.   make sure if you decide to get medicine that it's best for you.  don't get medication just because other people say you need it.  if people feed you negativity long enough you can buy into it, if you're not careful.  it's because words have the power to build and to tear down.