would you try to will yourself to get over a broken leg w/o a cast, crutches and other medical attention?

would you attempt to return to normal life after a major vehicular accident w/ multiple traumas including internal bleeding w/o emergency medicine?

our answer to the above would be resounding nos.

it sounds very hard to be stuck in a place where taking medications is a sign of weakness instead of a sign of healthy acceptance of disease/disorder.

we understand your stance as we come up against it in other ppl from time to time.

best case? they realize their lives can be easier, not as grueling, not as painful, not so overwhelmingly pressured by adequately treating their disease/disorder with prescribed medication.

worst case? they continue to suffer needlessly due to pride or other self placed blocks to well being.

good luck as you revisit this question again. our life/ves wouldn't be possible w/o medications. living with a huge hole in our soul, crying under the desk at work or in the bathroom, struggling through the week so we could collapse on the wknd in an emotionally unstable drained lump......that was life before medication. it was a life but not the one *I* wanted.

now with medications and therapy and other things plugged in to place life has a different quality that we'd never thought possible.

we never thought it was possible as we suffered alone for far too long.

meds are NOT THE ANSWER....they can be one answer for many though

best wishes dsf