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May 28, 2009, 10:03 PM
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Member Since: Feb 2007
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,611
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I've been on medication for depression, anxiety and PTSD for years. Every several years I think I can go without my meds and stop them, or they stop working and I need new meds. Either one gets me back to crazy. So don't look at what's happening to you as failure, if you had cancer and needed chemo, or were diabetic and needed insulin, would you feel like a failure? No different with meds and therapy for our mental health illness.
When I stop the meds or they stop working I'll be doing okay for a while, but then I get to the can't cope / overwhelmed / suicidal stage. I'm still in the process of accepting the fact that I need to be on meds for the rest of my life and I'll always be broken. I keep learning more ways to cope, and meds get discovered that are better. So that's hope.
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