(November 20, 2015 at 4:38 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: How do these meds make the symptoms bearable? A cast is on the outside of my body, but meds are inside changing the way my body works.
You could just as easily ask "how does this cast make my broken leg bearable? It's on the outside of my body, but the bones are inside. Similar to the way a painkiller masks a headache, or period pains, by relieving the person of the distress of the symptoms, the body can then get on with the task of sorting itself out. In the case of anti-anxiety medication, that sorting out might come in the form of therapy.
Make no mistake: were it not for my medication and therapy at the time I had them, I would most definitely have continued my suicide attempts until - well, I don't have to spell it out.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
