Fighting to live

Medication roulette, it’s what I call the process I started over a decade ago. It’s the process where you start a medication, wait weeks/months for side effects or benefits from it, inevitably stop because something serious happens, and then the painful, literally, process of coming off only to go to the next. If you’re lucky this process is quick, you try your hand at the roulette wheel and you walk away slightly better than when you stepped up. Or if you’re like me, you play like a gambling addict hoping for the magical win. But what if you found it, then had it taken away?

May 2, 2022 | Categories: 365 Days of Academia - Year three, Mental health | Tags: anxiety, depression, health, major depressive disorder, medication, medicine, Mental health, mental illness, psychiatry, PTSD, suicide, writing | 6 Comments