Still No Shame In It...
I know someone who has been through quite a bit in the last few years and this morning I saw a post she made showing her medications last year she needed with an uplifting post about how much better she's doing now and urging people to get help if they need it. I'm estatic for her, she deserves all the happiness she can find in life.
Someoen made a comment that her picture looked like their medicine cabinet now and her reply kinda threw me, she replied to them that it didn't have to always look that way. But I wonder what about if it does?
Is it only worthy of celebration if in the getting of help you no longer need as many or any meds to get you through the day? What about the fact that you are getting through the day period? What about all the people who reached out, got help and are doing well on their many meds? Have they somehow failed or stalled? I doubt seriously that was her meaning but I know if I can read it that way so can someone else who isn't secure in the fact that their lives simply require pharmacuetical assistance and will for the foreseeable future and that's ok. They are doing all they can to take care of themselves and haven't someonehow let themselves or anyone else down by not facing the world unmedicated.
It's that type of thinking that have people with mental health issues that generally require some sort of medication for life to keep an even keel, stopping their meds. They feel better therefore they don't need to keep taking them or they don't think they should need them if they are doing well because the definition of doing well ends in being unmedicated. For some it does for some it doesn't but sometimes it's hard to say you're one of the unlucky ones who needs multiple meds when you see testimony after testimony of people who overcame their conditions and shed that need. This society in general implies weakness and laziness in people who reach out for mental health issues. Lets not add to that in our celebrations. Lets let everyone know that no matter what your getting/got help looks like, medicated or not there is still no shame in it.
Someoen made a comment that her picture looked like their medicine cabinet now and her reply kinda threw me, she replied to them that it didn't have to always look that way. But I wonder what about if it does?
Is it only worthy of celebration if in the getting of help you no longer need as many or any meds to get you through the day? What about the fact that you are getting through the day period? What about all the people who reached out, got help and are doing well on their many meds? Have they somehow failed or stalled? I doubt seriously that was her meaning but I know if I can read it that way so can someone else who isn't secure in the fact that their lives simply require pharmacuetical assistance and will for the foreseeable future and that's ok. They are doing all they can to take care of themselves and haven't someonehow let themselves or anyone else down by not facing the world unmedicated.
It's that type of thinking that have people with mental health issues that generally require some sort of medication for life to keep an even keel, stopping their meds. They feel better therefore they don't need to keep taking them or they don't think they should need them if they are doing well because the definition of doing well ends in being unmedicated. For some it does for some it doesn't but sometimes it's hard to say you're one of the unlucky ones who needs multiple meds when you see testimony after testimony of people who overcame their conditions and shed that need. This society in general implies weakness and laziness in people who reach out for mental health issues. Lets not add to that in our celebrations. Lets let everyone know that no matter what your getting/got help looks like, medicated or not there is still no shame in it.
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