People ask me about taking medications and I tell them my story.
I took many of the meds on the market and saw some of the top shrinks in NYC for 15 years from the age of 35 to 50. I self-medicated for the first 25 years of my life and did a better job then they did.
I gained 100 lbs and lost my libido and still had chronic suicidal depression. It was my last shrinks’s opinion that if I was not suicidal, I was doing OK. I did not know what was me and what was a side effect. When I was diagnosed with ADD and added those meds, I went up to 13 pills in my cocktail for menopause, depression, anxiety, cholesterol and thyroid.
One day I got a migraine from insomnia and preservatives. My family doctor for some ungodly reason gave me a flu shot, my shrink added Ambien and my gynecologist gave me progesterone boost for hot flashes. I had some weird reaction that nearly killed me and was so sick I could not move for 4 days.
I made a decision that Western medicine and medication was not for me. I spent 6 months recovering and getting off meds and began to work with a medical intuitive nutritionist. A year later I did not recognize myself. I lost 75 lbs, my ADD was nearly non-existent, my depression had been sorted out into more manageable diagnoses like autoimmune deficiency, some Asperger’s Syndrome, severe Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and being a Highly Sensitive Person.
Today, instead of the identified patient in my family, I am the healthy, sane, calm one. I still have tons of issues, some health related, many of them spiritual and social, but I can work on these. Once in a while I take an aspirin, but not often, because I do a lot of stress management. When I was depressed, I could not take the care of myself. I do today. It is not easy so I go to a lot of 12-step programs and get a lot of support. So I’m definitely anti-meds not just because they just didn’t work for me but also because they nearly killed me. They can cover symptoms which are the intuitive messages my body wants me to hear and taking medications do not allow me to find the cause. If I treat a symptom, not the cause, eventually the casue will show up as some other symptom.
This is from my post on psychforums.com at http://psychforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=16417&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=10
Filed under: My Healing Journey | Tagged: anti-psychiatry, medication, nutrition
