World Mental Health Day

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  • ADRskew21
    ADRskew21 Posts: 33 Member
    I'm on 3 different meds for depression...
    mental health is incredibly important to me.
    but sadly it is overlooked so much in this day and age.

    🤔🤔🤔
    though with MFP I've been able to track my eating habits since I can forget to eat....
  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    My brain doesn't make the right chemicals. i look at it like a physical issue. like my stomach makes too much acid. or my achilles is tight. some days are better than others.
    mine doesn't really respond to traditional medication but cymbalta has helped me tremendously
  • slessofme
    slessofme Posts: 7,740 Member
    I'm a crier and I've had a lot of providers automatically assume depression and put me on meds, but I never felt much relief. A new therapist saw right through it: anxiety gets me so wound up and the crying is how I bring myself back down, so antidepressants were working against me every time they were prescribed. Since then I've found that hypnosis and talk therapy has helped me as much as anything else.

    Telling my parents that I see a therapist regularly was the most stressful part of being more open, but it was important to me for my kids to see it. Theres a genetic predisposition on both sides and I dont want them to wait as long as I have to get some help, if they need it.

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