I myself am extremely resistant and very fearful at this time in my life, but that is only because of what I went through in my 20's.

I'm now 36.

I basically lost almost all half of my 20's due to meds and putting all of my trust into 1 doctor from the beginning, which btw I'm not blaming anyone.

I was way over medicated...so much so everytime I went into the hospital they had to legally take me off of one med, but on the outside they were able to Rx the combination. Strange..huh

Due to being over medicated I became catatonic for about a year. Lost my son for 2 and basically have never been the same since.

I fought my way back and slowly got off most of my meds. I would fool myself and say that I wouldn't have ever had a problem had I not been overmedicated and that once off of them I'd be totally fine. Well that wasn't the case.

Once off all but 1 I was able to "get by", but eventually it wasn't working.

To tell you the truth I wasn't even sure psych meds worked at all because of being so over medicated I didn't know what the difference on them was other then being completely out of it.

3 years ago I needed help. I went to a doctor who wanted me to take Lamictal. I was scared to death, but my issues were leaving me w/no choice.

I carried the medicine in my bag for like 3weeks and eventually gave in to try it.

It was amazingly to me cuz it actually helped me. I was shocked and realized that it's true that certain meds are able to help and without it I wouldn't be making it. I have tried and it doesn't work.

I tried believing that I'm ok and this was all brought on by overmedication etc., but the truth of the matter is it went further back before that period of time and maybe the over medicating just made the problem worse. I'll never know.

Too many things happened along the way to say.

I just know I have to be on this medicine or I would not be functioning what so ever.

Eva