Accepting where my mental health is at

[1078]

Hi everyone, hope you're having a good day. Not feeling good and feeling stupid as I halved my medication last week because it was making my drowsy and now I am back feeling rotten again. I know I will work my way back to where I was at. Before my 40s, I never had any mental health issues so I have been fighting my reality. I need to accept that I need to continue to take medication just like I would for any other health condition. I am sure there are plenty of people on here who take medication so I hope this post doesn't sound really stupid.

[tyme]

I'm totally hearing you @1078 . What you have done is not uncommon. I know I've also reduced meds due to side effects, but in the long run I realised that if I wanted to be well, I'd have to stay on the meds.

But that's just my story. If you feel the side effects are really impacting you, have your doc check it out to see if there are any alternatives.

All the best with it!

[1078]

Hi Tyme, thanks for your thoughts.

Hope you have a good day ahead.

[Tessy]

Yep totally hear you 1078! I’ve had mental health issues mos of my life, but was recently hit with a massive curve-ball in discovering that all my amnesia, confusion etc. on top of my regular long-term mental health issues is the result of DID from multiple trauma events. I’m not on medication now, but have been in the past. Unfortunately, there can sometimes be a bit of trial and error involved in finding a good fit, either with the medication itself, or even just the dosage. Given you feel quite poorly when you’re off it, I think there are absolutely benefits to be had remaining with them for the time-being at least. Sharing your issues with your doctor, and explain the drowsiness and any other things that feel off. The info will help them tweak things for you, and hopefully get you sorted.

Hope all goes well 😊

[lf]

I hope this week has been a little better @1048! I have been feeling this for sure. I recently thought I was doing well enough to come off my medication (was the first and only medication I had tried and was on a relatively small dose) and it went terribly! Completely burnt myself out at work and subsequently had the worst bout of anxiety I've ever had and feel like I've almost ruined my relationship. Been a couple weeks on a different medication and hoping the adjustment period will settle down soon. So frustrating that things can be so different even though only a small thing changed. I get alot of unhelpful thoughts that maybe all the work I put into the other things (ie, therapy/exercise/sleep hygiene etc) don't help unless I have this medication that comes with the payoff of sideffects. So it has been very hard for me to accept that even though I was feeling good its ok to get this extra help from medication to manage.