Category Archives: Anxiety Medication
“The meds don’t work!” I hear it a lot. From rational people. It’s shorthand, a way to tell me that psychiatry has failed them. Unfortunately it’s also used as a vantage point from which to argue that psychiatric medications are … Continue reading
Psychiatric treatment is a relationship between you, your mental illness, your drugs, and your doctor(s). That relationship is what matters most when it comes to ensuring medications treat actual mental health issues. Taking the meds out of clinical practice and … Continue reading
Feel free to question my emotional competence but I’m not insane. For that matter, most people with mental illness are not insane. This may be obvious but for many it’s not. Anyway, how many times have you thought, ‘oh goodness, … Continue reading
Happy is what brings healthy, and viceversa, so it can’t be that much of a surprise anxiety and depression have had some pretty rough consequences on my health; High blood pressure at 25, on-and-off flings with anemia, near-constant sleep deprivation. … Continue reading
On acceptance, anxiety and guilt Life with mental illness isn’t always fun. Not just because I have a real illness, and that real illness really does affect my life but because some folks have trouble accepting this. I’m not entirely … Continue reading
Long story short: there’s a profound difference between where OK is, and wherever I actually sit with my anxiety disorder; Safe is somewhere in between– A no-man’s land I’m searching for because my therapist handed me half a map and … Continue reading
Sometimes anxiety makes it seem perfectly acceptable to throw the baby out with the bathwater, in search of calm and peace. Even if that results in hating myself because it feels like I’m reaching for something I can never have. … Continue reading
It’s hardly a secret that in the mental health field, everyone gets their take; There is no definitive medical test for any mental illness, and most mental health professionals don’t have the time or resources to dig as deep as … Continue reading
What would it be like not to live with anxiety? Most days all I’ve got is a deer in headlights expression to go with the sign that says ‘wrong way, go back!’ so no, I don’t have a cure for … Continue reading
or, why I should’ve gone to Hawaii The amount of time I spend watching films that feature Colin Firth and/or Sandra Bullock to offset the moodiness and irritability ignited by the festive season – whilst paying for wholly unnecessary items … Continue reading
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