Things that make you lose faith in medical science

For five years you're on Adderall XR, the most controlled prescribed medication in the country (Oxycontin is easier to get), and then after spending a lot of time on the Internet, you diagnose yourself with autoimmune thyroiditis rather than unexplained adult ADHD with inattention and start medicating yourself. Then you finally go to the doctor and tell him you've successfully put yourself on thyroid replacement for a month instead of Adderall, he takes your TSH, and you were right.
Five years on amphetamines! Five years!

Oops!

"This is not the 1800s" said NOW President Terry O'Neill of the US general who made a no-pregnancy rule for the soldiers under his command. What do I say? No, this isn't the 1800s—and today pregnancy is an entirely preventable condition. Let's just be honest, even women who've been raped can take emergency contraceptives. Plus, in the 1800s, women were not soldiers.
Women who join the armed forces have made a commitment to serve. They have committed to serve as long and with as much dedication as the men have. If women in the military do not honor their commitment, they close doors for women in the military and the workforce in general. In order to fulfill their commitment, women can prevent pregnancy with abstinence, the Pill, condoms, diaphragms, or any combination of reliable birth control methods. Oops doesn't cut it when you've signed your life away. Women who prefer to play Russian roulette with fertility just plain shouldn't sign on the dotted line.

Dear Departments and Offices of Western Washington University,

Your extensive bureaucracy and lack of communication skills are enough to make me scream and shoot myself in the head at the same time. That's right—a large part of me would rather be dead than deal with you anymore.
Love,
Bethylene

Possible Titles for the Inevitable Tell-All Autobiography after I Become Infamous

• A Frigid Woman
• Don't Believe A Word I Say (I love the paradox.)
• A Child Called Short
• One or Two Rather Large Pieces
  
• I Should Have Gone to Oxford
• My Life on the Streets of Barcelona
• Self-Esteem: A Cautionary Tale
• What Very Possibly May or May Not Have Happened
• I, Space Cadet
• Has Anyone Seen My Pen?
• Books, Brains, and Adderall (Sounds like a zombie tweaker wrote it!)
• Thinking in Italics
  

I should definitely look into applying some of the ways to make my life interesting enough for me to be truly literary before I start writing.