Bh1197

Struggled with depress, anxiety, PTSD and panic disorder for 30 years. Medication can manage it. Learning the cause of it doesn’t really help but learn how to manage it with breathing, mindfulness, self care, medication and exercise. I also work as a Mental Health educator and teach Recovery programs. My best advice to you is don’t fight it. Don’t deny it. Accept it as an illness and take care of it like you would take care of yourself if you were diagnosed with diabetes! Don’t take advice from people in reference to medication who haven’t been on it. There’s a huge stigma attached to people that take mental health medication. Doesn’t mean you’re weird, insane, or any other label people give it. It just means you have a chemical in balance in the brain and the brain cannot reproduce serotonin, endorphins, or any other brain chemical to bring your levels back up.

You will learn to know your good days and your bad days and what to expect on both. You’ll learn what you need to do for self-care on the bad days to keep yourself from plummeting. Just hang in there and educate yourself because the more you know about it the more empowered you are. And most importantly remember you are NOT your illness