This is a dangerous thing to spread, in my opinion. I have struggled with depression and anxiety for years, but during COVID it hit me like nothing I have ever experienced before. I would have probably died during COVID without finding a doctor to prescribe me medicine. And I don't think it would have been suicide. I would have probably become dehydrated and/or starved or become mal-nutritioned because it was a literal war to eat. I was having to wash down food with water after chewing it enough to swallow. (Note that I never had COVID, which would have been impossible having barely left my house during the first 9 months of 2020.) I couldn't sleep and would wake up wide awake and stressed at 4-5am. I couldn't relax. Was having panic attacks. It was pure and quite literal torture. My body and mind was literally on fire with stress activity. I honestly probably should have been hospitalized long before I finally got help.
While not fun working through the gamut of medicines, some of them finally pulled me through it all. It took almost a year to fully recover with dedication to the medicine and modifications of it and therapy.
If I didn't have a good family and primary care doctor, I guarantee I would have died in some manner unless hospitalized.
People need to realize there is danger to their words. Psychiatry is nowhere near perfect, but people are trying. It is an incredibly difficult thing to understand. But I feel people who speak against medicine have never truly experienced deep depression or anxiety. A panic attack can hit you sitting on the couch, and then by literally doing nothing, your heart rate can reach 200bpm and massive amounts of hormones making your chest and skin feel like it's burning, and next thing you're calling an ambulance because you think you aren't breathing.
While not fun working through the gamut of medicines, some of them finally pulled me through it all. It took almost a year to fully recover with dedication to the medicine and modifications of it and therapy.
If I didn't have a good family and primary care doctor, I guarantee I would have died in some manner unless hospitalized.
People need to realize there is danger to their words. Psychiatry is nowhere near perfect, but people are trying. It is an incredibly difficult thing to understand. But I feel people who speak against medicine have never truly experienced deep depression or anxiety. A panic attack can hit you sitting on the couch, and then by literally doing nothing, your heart rate can reach 200bpm and massive amounts of hormones making your chest and skin feel like it's burning, and next thing you're calling an ambulance because you think you aren't breathing.