I'm from Europe and have enjoyed medical free care all my life.

I know we are paying it, nothing is free, but it's a good thing to know no matter what that you will be taken care of. Things are changing though.

Good luck!

The main problem with not being anonymous is that different social circles may clash in a wrong way. I have thoughts that I know would be hardly accepted in many social circles which I may enjoy, why let them have the possibility to form their narrative around me ? I prefer to keep control over what people knows. This allows you to make a specific persona. This is not about being untruthful, but to actually offer what it's of most value in the interaction.

If you maintain the same identity then you have to make a message which will not infuriate any of the groups that are important to you. This limits your life. Anonymity allow self-disclosure, and the possibility of being what it's of most value in all of those groups. Selective disclosure and how you communicate your message are important tools.

I don't have any personal page. I only have a social persona on the Internet under my name for career purposes, littered with some random, but positive, posts, for credibility.

Social networks like Instagram or Facebook have the problem of allowing another persons to form a narrative around my life. I will appear on photos, but I don't have an account myself. I decided not to after I deleted both for the second time. I don't see I lose a lot of social credit because of this, I lose opportunities to start or continue some relationships but I also save myself with having to deal with other persons who I'm not interested in but communicate due to the low cost/risk of the interaction.

The main problem with not being anonymous is that different social circles may clash in a wrong way. I have thoughts that I know would be hardly accepted in many social circles which I may enjoy, why let them have the possibility to form their narrative around me ? I prefer to keep control over what people knows. This allows you to make a specific persona. This is not about being untruthful, but to actually offer what it's of most value in the interaction.

If you maintain the same identity then you have to make a message which will not infuriate any of the groups that are important to you. This limits your life. Anonymity allow self-disclosure, and the possibility of being what it's of most value in all of those groups. Selective disclosure and how you communicate your message are important tools.

I don't have any personal page. I only have a social persona on the Internet under my name for career purposes, littered with some random, but positive, posts, for credibility.

Social networks like Instagram or Facebook have the problem of allowing another persons to form a narrative around my life. I will appear on photos, but I don't have an account myself. I decided not to after I deleted both for the second time. I don't see I lose a lot of social credit because of this, I lose opportunities to start or continue some relationships but I also save myself with having to deal with other persons who I'm not interested in but communicate due to the low cost/risk of the interaction.

Meditation and exercise are my preferred methods to achieve a better mental state of being.

I took a lot of hallucinogens and drugs from 17 to 20. I was one of the unlucky ones and I have been having an altered state of being since then. Hallucinogen Persistent Perception Disorder. This event made me think about what I was doing with my life and now I'm in a lifelong journey of abstinence.

I'm 21 so I can't speak from a detached perspective, I'm still having persistent visuals and I'm only 1 month and a half sober. In any case, all of this was a very humbling experience. From overachiever to underachiever. Depression, brain fog, depersonalization, anxiety.. These symptoms did disappear, the visual distortions are still here.

It has served me well as a experience in life and a way to understand mental illness in first hand. Maybe it was good after all. Time will tell.