What are your thoughts on psych drugs, such as antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilisers, etc?
Doctors love to prescribe these drugs. But they have very bad side effects, based on what I’ve read. And they can give you strong withdrawals when you try to come off them. Also, should we really be medicalising emotions and taking drugs to emotionally cope with the world? Maybe we need things like friends, family, social connections, to make the world more enjoyable.
What do you think?
My meds are a tool to help make it possible for me to cope with my emotions in a healthy way. For some people, all the friends, family, and social connections in the world can’t fix their mental health struggles. Some people really do NEED medication. A great support system and healthy coping strategies are absolutely vital as well, but it can’t fix everything. Meds cant fix everything either. It’s multifaceted
I had been on citalopram many years ago and eventually went off it because I thought I could deal with my lifelong depression and anxiety by myself. Sure, I had a good multiyear run with no meds but going to therapy, then it all came creeping back. I’ve been on a different medication for almost 2 years now after accepting the fact that it’s a condition that I can’t beat by myself. If I had a heart condition that required medication I wouldn’t bat an eye at that. Sure, the meds aren’t perfect but at the rate I was going I have no idea whether nor not I would be here typing this out right now. Also, I wouldn’t want my mom to be sad if I had offed myself.
I’m bipolar, my condition and a lot of other mental illnesses are physical in nature, as in our brains are literally different. Without medication I would have probably committed suicide.
They save livesBut
In my experience anti depressants and anti anxiety medication don’t really work, they just turn off your emotions with varying side effects.
The best way to help yourself is self care and therapy IMHO nothing else will be a permanent fix.
Although doctor prescribed medications do have their use, they should be reserved only for extremely ill patients who are detached from their ego or reality itself.
