Meds are the best and you should use them if you need them

Medication! Another key factor in the wellness cocktail! I’m on meds and a vitamin D pill that I take every day and no one can make me feel bad about it. I’ve had a lot of people who love me express the idea that my antidepressants are just a con by the pharmaceutical industry. I don’t know if it is or not but my meds make me feel better. I hope that in the next year or two, I’ll be able to reduce the dose until I don’t need them at all anymore but I’ll use them as long as I need to. When someone breaks their leg they use a crutch until they can walk without pain anymore. My meds help me live without the pain my stupid brain thinks is necessary. You wouldn’t tell a kid with a broken leg that he should get off his crutches because they aren’t helping him. Sure, he could probably live without it but it would be painful and he wouldn’t heal as quickly as he would with it. My meds are the same way for me. I found the meds that worked for me pretty easily, (mostly because of my eating disorder-y past, I needed to be on a weight-neutral antidepressant otherwise my antidepressants would make me gain weight and I already have a shitty body image so we’re trying not to exacerbate the problem) but you should keep trying until you’re happy. You should feel like a person, a real whole one without a weight around your neck. If you feel better but not good on your meds, ask to have them upped. My meds helped me feel better but I was more stressed out when I went away to school so I had them upped so I could be happy. Happy is a vague concept but you’ll know it when it’s happening. Suddenly, you won’t feel like you’re a bother to everyone around you. You’ll wake up and get out of bed without issue (without the usual issue. I will never be a morning person). It’ll feel okay again. That’s when you’ll know. Some meds take longer than others and your psychiatrist will be far more equipped to answer questions and make decisions for you than I will. Again, speaking merely from experience not from any form of training.