Going off meds
Am I taking medication simply because everyone else is, because I’m just caught up in a fad, a decades-long fad, or because I really need them? Had I been born in a different time, would I be considered mentally unwell? I think so, yes, but that doesn’t stop me wondering what life would be like off meds again. And then I get a warm, protective feeling in my heart for these meds; I miss them already at just the thought of leaving them behind. How many people would I horrify if I went off the medications? Everyone who knows me. This is how I know that I should stay on medications — because saner people recognize a need for them in me.
I just posted about needing medications on my blog. I often think about what it would be like to go off of them, but I also have that “warm protective feeling” about them. I try to look at all of the progress I’ve made in my life while on them, and then I can see that they are a good thing. They are making my life easier.
at 60 yrs old have, over the years, come of the meds. several times. Trust me it may seem great for the first couple of weeks but the long term consequences are not worth it. Each time I have had to pick myself up from the depths of panic, pain, paranoia and each time its been worse. So take my advise do not go there