Medication
Earlier this year I started taking anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medication. I had put off doing so for many years because of the bad experiences of some people close to me on various medications. However, my therapist assured me that some of the newer medications did not have the same awful side effects and that if I did experience prolonged negative side effects I could always go off the medication and be no worse off that I was before. I was at a crisis point in my life, where my depression and anxiety had become too difficult to manage on my own so I finally gave it a try. After two terrible weeks of the initial side effects, the medication worked. I was good. I stopped have panic attacks and only had infrequent and short periods of depression, rather than the weeks on end depressions I'd had before. Aside from that I finally knew what it was like to feel normal. Being on medication didn't put me in a fog, or send me to euphoric heights of bliss. It just let