I really feel like people who completely dismiss the need for psychiatric medication don’t understand the reality of severe & enduring mental illness. Therapy and lifestyle changes help with my bipolar, but nothing has the impact medication does. Psychosis isn’t cured with yoga. - ThreadSky

caralisette.bsky.social • 21 days ago

I really feel like people who completely dismiss the need for psychiatric medication don’t understand the reality of severe & enduring mental illness. Therapy and lifestyle changes help with my bipolar, but nothing has the impact medication does. Psychosis isn’t cured with yoga.

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lordfuckpuppy.social•20 days ago

without my antipsychotics i cannot sleep. there are so many other benefits ofc, but... sleep... sweet, sweet sleep... i am so lucky to have these magic pills

caralisette.bsky.social•20 days ago

Sleep is glorious

lordfuckpuppy.social•20 days ago

lifes greatest pleasure

breadstick-lover.bsky.social•20 days ago

I've noticed ppl who've dismissed it tend to be the ones who desperately need it and are in DENIAL

bipolarlife-uk.bsky.social•21 days ago

Like many people with bipolar I thought I didn't need meds after 2/3 years on lithium. I persuaded my pdoc to taper down and cease. I had counselling for several years, that then stopped and within 6 months I was back in hospital. I've never stopped lithium since then. Why would I?

debswithcats.bsky.social•21 days ago

I don’t even have SMI but I only came off my antidepressants once in my mid twenties. Within a year my anxiety was so bad I could barely sleep or leave the house. I’ve been on ADs ever since I restarted them then. Some of us have chronic mental illnesses & it’s right to take meds for that forever.

debswithcats.bsky.social•21 days ago

I also had many many years of different types of therapy. In case someone tries to say I am taking the easy route with my anxiety by taking meds.

emmarose90.bsky.social•21 days ago

I don't get it either. I've not got the best relationship with my medication for various reasons but I would never tell other people that it's just bad or doesn't work. I've seen those kind of blanket statements and they can be so dangerous. Let people find what works them personally!

lolin.bsky.social•21 days ago

i'm schizoaffective, i get all the "fun" bits. mental illness is like being pushed down the stairs and getting back up again only to be pushed down the stairs again. i've changed meds so many times and had so much suicidal ideation (and attempts)that i probably shouldn't be alive

kellykatxx.bsky.social•21 days ago

This all day every day

caralisette.bsky.social•21 days ago

A daily walk won’t stop suicidal people wanting to die. Eating disorders aren’t cured with mindfulness. In some instances these things really are enough. In others they aren’t. It doesn’t mean the person has given in or is naive or conned by big pharma. People are just different.

luckyerica3.bsky.social•21 days ago

This! I tried such a lot of treatments that were not medical in the years it took to find the thing that worked. I really wish that thing had been exercise or spirituality because the thing turned out to be Lithium and it's a lot of faff to maintain Lithium treatment safely.

luckyerica3.bsky.social•21 days ago

I hear a lot of people who are anti meds talk about their one (legit) experience of harmful meds early on into their first help seeking process and that is the baseline they measure my choices by. It took me years to arrive at the decisions I did, and I was

luckyerica3.bsky.social•21 days ago

Mad from early childhood (hallucinating, suicidal, self harming kind of mad at a pre school age which runs in my family) and didn't get a correct dx until into my twenties. I'd suffered 10+ years at that point.

luckyerica3.bsky.social•21 days ago

It's just not the same as becoming depressed in ones mid twenties, trying one anti depressant and finding that intolerable. Both experiences are valid but they aren't comparable.

caralisette.bsky.social•21 days ago

Yes totally - I wish yoga and mindfulness cured me but it didn’t! The way I am stable is antipsychotics and a mood stabiliser. Having a 9-5 job and routine 100% helps but doesn’t fix it.

pyritta.bsky.social•21 days ago

In many cases no doubt the lifestyle things are impossible without medication- it's not just an either or .

caralisette.bsky.social•21 days ago

Absolutely

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