Sometimes you have to quit thinking and just do! Quit thinking about whether medications for you is a choice or not, and just take them.

If you wish to continue thinking about it though, think on this: when a medicine works it means that it is correcting your body's improper or nonexistent response. Our bodies have natural medicines to keep in balance, imo. When the body quits making something we need, or the body quits being able to use it... then taking a medicine to counteract that just doesn't fall into the "being dependant" upon it term imo.

It's quite common to not wish to rely upon a drug... but all our bodies rely upon drugs... usually we don't notice because the body makes them for us, and we don't need them in pill form. Once the med begins to balance us, then it takes accepting that, and give it time to rebalance the system, and not go off it too soon. Thinking that you will be on a drug forever is black and white thinking... and just not correct.

(((DSF)))))

BTW... sometimes ppl have trouble taking a medicine because it DOES help them... and they think it should make everything workable in life. So they don't take it because they can't handle the pressure of having to straighten out the rest of their life. Just because a medicine works doesn't mean that at all... we often need therapy to help us learn to adjust for the changes in our lives that caused the imbalance in the first place... and it's ok to not have all the answers, just because of the medicine