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i used to be so scared of taking meds, I’d had a history of bad reactions to anti anxiety medication. but my adhd meds have been completely life changing. they are the only thing that has ever helped my ME/CFS and I am the most functioning I have been in 6 years. Don’t be scared to try things that might help, cause if they work boy can they work! I’m so grateful for them this morning!
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Yesterday marked a year of being on adhd meds, and also a year of being sober as I stopped drinking to start my meds and then never went back. That year has been life changing, I can do more than I have been able to in 6 years (I was diagnosed with ME/CFS in 2018). I finished therapy after 5 years. I have a stable loving relationship with our anniversary next month, Im able to help my grandma as her eyesight diminishes, and help my sister with raising my nice and nephew. I finished making the record I’d been trying to make for probably a decade, that’s announced next month. I’ve won poetry prizes. I’m doing part time editing work for my neighbour. I’m happy. I can get out of bed most days. I’ve spent my whole adult life, and most of my childhood, trying to feel better. I wasn’t always sure it was possible, but I keep trying regardless. It took too long, but it worked.
Feb 27, 2024
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I’ve been on and off meds for about a decade now and I have a complicated relationship with them- I am a raging hypochondriac so when Prozac stopped floating my boat and it came time to try something new, my OCD made me too scared of side effects to commit to anything. I also let the stigma kinda get to me and was defiantly off them in college when I needed them the most :-/ but when Covid hit I was like…. Perhaps it’s time to dive back in … and I’m so grateful I did. Absolutely no shame in it I love my lil pills
Feb 14, 2024
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I was really opposed after a bad experience with meds in my teens but I can honestly say I would not be able to do the work in therapy that I’ve been doing without some storebought chemicals. if you don’t like the side effects, tell your doc to take you off! Or try another med! Every body and brain is so different.
(Please note: I live with SEVERE depression and PTSD, your mileage may vary)
Feb 15, 2024
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