It’s usually very tough for me to share this kind of personal stuff with others but it has been helping me out a lot most recently so here goes.
I suffer from an anxiety disorder and have been on medication for it for about 21 years now. I’ve been interested in trying to come off of the medication for quite some time. Over the past several months I have tried weening myself off of it very slowly. Things seemed to have been going pretty well. The first month and a half being off the medication wasn’t too bad but several weeks ago I could feel the anxiety coming back and knew I had to get back on it again. Have been back on it for almost two weeks and it has quite literally been hell with my anxiety this past couple of weeks as the medication does it’s thing and gets me back to where I was before.
The good news is that I am really starting to feel like I’m getting there finally. Probably going to take another couple of weeks to fully get there but I’m definitely better off today then I was previously. Am definitely working with my doctor through all this and talking with a bunch of people around me has helped tremendously well also. Just wanted to share with all of you because I consider you all friends.
Anyway thanks for taking to read this, if you did, and always take care of yourselves.
Me too friend, me too.
Thanks for sharing. If taking some meds helps you out, that's not the end of the world. And while getting off of them didn't work out for you this time, you could always try it again further down the road.
Yeah for sure. Talking about this definitely helps. I’ve always been someone who likes to be independent and having a need for medication kind of feels like a ball and chain for me but the anxiety I can get without it can be absolutely crippling. Perhaps I should reverse my thinking and look at my anxiety as the ball and chain and the medication as something that frees me of that. Anyway it’s nice to talk about this and I’m grateful that I’m getting back to feeling much better.
I came in to say this. All of us have issues that we are working through. I'm on meds right now and will gladly stay on them forever if it helps me. I applaud you for wanting to get off the medication, maybe one day soon. There's certainly a stigma regarding people who rely on meds but I think it's time to move past those.
Thanks for the support bud, greatly appreciated. Definitely wishing you the best as well.
Yeah I can definitely agree with that sentiment for sure. For me it’s more of a wish that I wasn’t reliant on them. My silly brain starts thinking that this is just another thing I’ll have to hunt and scavenger for when the worldwide apocalypse arrives.
Do the meds have any bad side effects? If not, there is absolutely nothing wrong with taking medicine to treat a medical condition! That's what it's there for, after all.
Of course, I definitely understand that it also comes with stigma and also just how annoying and frustrating it is to have to rely on something external just to be able to function more "normally", so don't get me wrong: it's definitely not easy.
Nor is sharing this with us, so thank you for that, as well. As Supreme said, the more people open up about these sort of things, the better it is for everyone!
But hey, all those people who seem to not rely on external things to survive actually do. Unless they're the unabomber. And in his case, the dude was so desperate for external validation he blew other people up to get it! So fuck normal people, is all I'm saying. They're probably terrorists.
But in reality this is not news to many of us because so many of us have anxiety to some level, and probably mores than the general population which is why we are drawn to the escapism of games.
For my own personal experience, given my addictive nature I have found psychotropic medications to be radically dangerous and suicide enducing. That is also due to not having doctors who understand anything other than what there pharma rep tells them.
But if you have good care and do your own research I've witnessed others benefit from altering thier chemistry.
To get to the point, I care about you and if you need to talk reach out to me any time, you are by nature a thoughtful person and if your brain is capable of anxiety it is also capable of being confident.