The Mental Wellness Thread. 🦋

3 months ago, I went through a very dark time… I was just coming out of a pretty bad mental health episode and had a very traumatic life event. Desperation apparently led to inspiration, as I was so low that I finally got real honest with my psychiatrist, and let him know just how close to a full psychotic break I was. He decided we should look at my main psych med as maybe it wasn’t working. He decided a newer med might work better. In all reality, the one I was on never worked all that well but it had barely made things manageable and I was scared of going back to a long term ward, so I would just lie to them. That was just over two months ago and what a difference it has made. I’m not gonna say it fixed me, my problems are the forever kind, but they are truly manageable now. I very rarely have to take as needed Benzo’s now, and my quality of life has improved so much. I have not self harmed or starved myself for over two months now. That may not seem like much but to someone like me it’s a big deal and a very good start. Here’s me wishing the best of luck and success to all of you in your journeys towards Mental Wellness, but just know that if you are still in the dark… there is a still a light, and things can get better even if they feel hopeless and you feel helpless now. Please keep fighting. We can’t afford to lose any more of us to this horrible disease.