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[TRIGGER] So to start, I was purchased as a baby from a different country by a woman who could not have her own kids in Canada. At about 2 the man she married left her and I've seen him once a year for 19 years, I'm 21 now. When I was younger I was locked in my room from the outside, verbally abused and at times physically. I was the kind of kid that understood it was not just, so I would try to make things more "fair". I didn't have it too bad before 12, I was typical but after that I was tricked into being locked up for a week to be released without a diagnosis and to be medicated as if I were tranqualized. I had trouble expressing myself as a kid and with all of this going on I was a child without a voice really. I would be threatened to be kicked out into a group home daily, or to be medicated more. I was force fed medications for many years and within the past year I met the love of my life and she got me off of any medication. I have to this day NO diagnosis and NO real reasoning to be medicated except that my adoptive mother feels I should be.

Here's the problem with this picture, the woman showers once a month and hasn't said I love you for over 10 years. I don't remember the last time she came to hug me or wanted to go and spend time with me. I currently am working in the field of mental health as a professional worker with children and I must admit I'm very good at my job and I've got job offers lined up already for when I finish school based on my placement experience at reputable treatment centres and schools.

This woman goes around telling people I can afford to support myself and buy myself things because I've been a drug dealer for many years. She also goes around saying I can snap at any moment because I'm BiPolar. (I haven't raised my voice in 5 years, or hit anyone or anything since grade 9) so this obviously is not true.

Anyways, to continue she keeps threatening me and telling me she will medicate me but I'm an adult with no diagnosis so I refuse to be medicated as there is no reason to, I function normally. I have a perfect relationship with a girl at one of the best schools in the world, she's beautiful, smart and ideal. My mother on the other hand is single, doesn't keep herself well, is an alcaholic by her words and smokes. She is not exactly in the right state of mind to be offering advice to medicate any child, nevermind that she has lied to doctors about me to get the medications.

I have been driven to the hospital 3 or 4 times in my life randomly when she says we are going to have a "mother/son day" and they talk to me for 20 minutes and say there is nothing wrong with me and send me home.

I'm in a situation where as I learn more in the field I'm questioning how I've been raised. I was purchased for 10,000 dollars, drugged for many years against my will and with no probable cause and mentally abused for my whole life. My question to the doctors here is how was it possible that I was prescribed medication without a diagnosis since I was 12?

What grounds do they have to medicate me? ( I was put on Schizophrenia medications at 12, which is illigal in Canada) and there was no proof of a diagnosis in my lifetime.

Why are parents allowed to by their word, medicate a child or is this as a whole illigal activity?

What do I do about this as I currently live in her home and pretty much am nice, but I ask for nothing, expect nothing and say Hi, How are you kind of thing daily.

For my future in the field I'd love to have these questions resolved so that I at least have answers to why I was so screwed over as a child and not listened to or heard. I'd love to know these things just so it eases my thoughts and takes away the questions I have regarding my past.

Thanks a lot for any replies.