>>316606>drugs to make you numbI wish people would move on from that cliche. It really only applies if you're taking too high a dose or are hardcore schizo. For me and everyone I know, the right meds help you take on the stuff you really want to do instead of sitting on the edge of your bed staring at the wall thinking about all the things that could go wrong. If you have high blood pressure you take medicine to regulate it so you can live a normal life, if your brain always lives in emergency mode then you take medicine to get unstuck from the panic spiral and give you the energy to change what can be changed.
Therapy has different methods but talk therapy is basically explaining how you perceive yourself and the world and issues you keep running into and the therapist helps you work out how to cope with your circumstances or how to avoid making the same mistakes or support you in separating yourself from unhealthy environments (bad family or relationships), making goals and strategies to achieve them and things like that. Of course therapists aren't all good and some of them just suck but overall therapy + meds can be life changing. I grew up in a high-stress environment that made me always watch my back and no matter how much I tried to improve my life I would fall back into panic responses that sabotaged all my progress. It's insane how much the right medication has reshaped how my emotional impulses work. It's like a mental filter that sorts issues into urgency levels instead of making everything a life-threatening emergency.
>>316610>Is it really that addicting?what
