I find medication to be an extremely loaded issue for most everyone, even those that have never been on psychotropics.
My experience is the psychiatrist is everything. I've been with the same one since 2007. He's a great pharmacologist and truly believes mental illness is biochemical and medications work. He is an older but researches constantly, updating his methods of prescribing with changes. I trust him implicitly.
Most psychiatrists are equally judgmental about meds as the general population. But, I firmly believe there is no difference between physical and mental illness except the lack of research, development and innovation from the medical community. So since I believe ptsd, depression, add, etc are not a matter of decision or choice, like I would take medication for heart problems, I take them for mood problems.
There is huge money in not curing mental illness and in a society that views it as a character flaw, there’s no pressure to change approaches.
I decided to go on medication even though my past experience was not great. Antidepressants induce bi-polar disorder, making me incredibly manic at times. (I am not bi-polar unmedicated, although I do have some of the tendencies.) For me the choice was simple - If I wanted to continue to live, I had to be medicated. This has remained true until very recently.
I'm on zoloft, adderral xr and amphetamine mixed salts. I have an rx for Xanax but take it very rarely. I am also on handfuls of other medications for chronic, tertiary Lyme. Interestingly, the numerous antibiotics and malaria meds I take for Lyme, first exacerbated my mental health crisis enormously. I have never been so unstable as the first 10 months on these meds.
But, as I reached the full doses (that were given gradually) for many months, my mood began stabilizing. I've had the first feelings of joy for no reason in a decade. Even my narcolepsy has lessened significantly. I still have a long while to go on Lyme meds and no medication has cured me of anything at this point. But, it's all I can do to remember to take my meds, as such I cannot trust myself to follow difficult regimes of any kind. So medicated I remain.
Lastly, the meds you mention are vastly different and are for completely varying disorders. They also combine to create specific affects. They won’t work and may worsen matters, depending on the pharmacologist successfully targeting your exact issues.
I wish you well on the journey toward your truth.
My experience is the psychiatrist is everything. I've been with the same one since 2007. He's a great pharmacologist and truly believes mental illness is biochemical and medications work. He is an older but researches constantly, updating his methods of prescribing with changes. I trust him implicitly.
Most psychiatrists are equally judgmental about meds as the general population. But, I firmly believe there is no difference between physical and mental illness except the lack of research, development and innovation from the medical community. So since I believe ptsd, depression, add, etc are not a matter of decision or choice, like I would take medication for heart problems, I take them for mood problems.
There is huge money in not curing mental illness and in a society that views it as a character flaw, there’s no pressure to change approaches.
I decided to go on medication even though my past experience was not great. Antidepressants induce bi-polar disorder, making me incredibly manic at times. (I am not bi-polar unmedicated, although I do have some of the tendencies.) For me the choice was simple - If I wanted to continue to live, I had to be medicated. This has remained true until very recently.
I'm on zoloft, adderral xr and amphetamine mixed salts. I have an rx for Xanax but take it very rarely. I am also on handfuls of other medications for chronic, tertiary Lyme. Interestingly, the numerous antibiotics and malaria meds I take for Lyme, first exacerbated my mental health crisis enormously. I have never been so unstable as the first 10 months on these meds.
But, as I reached the full doses (that were given gradually) for many months, my mood began stabilizing. I've had the first feelings of joy for no reason in a decade. Even my narcolepsy has lessened significantly. I still have a long while to go on Lyme meds and no medication has cured me of anything at this point. But, it's all I can do to remember to take my meds, as such I cannot trust myself to follow difficult regimes of any kind. So medicated I remain.
Lastly, the meds you mention are vastly different and are for completely varying disorders. They also combine to create specific affects. They won’t work and may worsen matters, depending on the pharmacologist successfully targeting your exact issues.
I wish you well on the journey toward your truth.
