What do you guys think of trying to overcome your disorders (if you have one) without the prescribed medications? Was anyone successful with it? In my case, I have had social anxiety disorder and depression since I was young, but I have only taken medication for a short while, when we finally decided to get me some help a year ago. I stopped because I felt that it wasn't doing me any good, rather than I feel like I have to be dependent on it and mask the emotional stress that I'm actually in. When I was on medication for a couple of months, and while I was not, there really wasn't any difference. Rather I found out that what maintained and worsened my disorders were the people around me. There are certain people who were constantly making it worse, but over the years I have met others that helped me improve. My social anxiety disorder was so bad I can't even go to the store without panicking. Now it's not as bad as that. I still have some paranoia going on but it wasn't as grave as it was. I just needed the right people to be there for me and encourage me. So now I feel that in due time I will feel completely fine without taking those pills.
I have generalised anxiety disorder and clinical depression. I took medication for a couple of months at the start of this year but I stopped without telling anybody because I didn't like the effect it had on me (made me zone out and be unable to put thoughts together well) and I haven't noticed much of a difference.
I'm moving away in a couple of days which I think will drastically help it as I'll be in a situation I want to be rather than one which is fairly toxic at the moment.
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one experiencing this. I actually feel quite proud of myself, after all, I have already managed to endure years without medications.. I mean, it was already more than 5 years before I even decided to see someone about it. I'm really grateful to have met the friends and the partner that I have now. It made me realise that the ones I had before, not to mention family issues have been making me worse all these years. I'm gradually getting rid of those bad factors now and I'm really seeing a difference.
I currently manage my anxiety without medication, but I am in therapy and I work with my therapist on the anxiety. I used to be on medication for it, but I am currently doing just fine without medication for my anxiety.
I am still on antipsychotics, however. I would like to learn to manage my so-called "psychosis" without medication, but because I've been hospitalized so many times, my pdoc has told me that I am supposed to be on the antipsychotics indefinitely.
I have heard that it's near impossible to manage psychosis without medication, anyway.
I am on medication and I've to attend a clinic session on Thursday for my anxiety. However, I believe I've really started to become better - I can socialize more, and I can go out, albeit not really at night unless it's at a house party.
I've almost always dealt with my problems by myself. I've never found talking to counselors to help, same for medication. If anything, it just made me worse. Talking led to me dwelling on my problems rather than pushing past them and bettering myself based on that, and the medication doesn't actually fix anything, it just suppresses it. When I came off the meds, everything came flooding back, leading me to believe I would've been better off not bothering.
I suffer from a wide spectrum of issues, but I handle them the best I can. I can function in society, and that's all I really need.
I believe I went through some form of depression and had suicial thoughts. I was never clinically diagnosed as I was too scared to tell anyone but I got out of it on my own without telling a single soul. Nobody knew, I kept it to myself and I eventually have come through much better. Sometimes I go though bouts of feeling depressed, but I think medication would just make it worse. The lack of diagnosis makes it feel less real, I don't feel stuck with a condition. I think if my suicidal tendencies came back though I would seek help.
I also have an anxiety disorder and depression. Mood swings and anger issues too but they aren't too much of an issue at the moment. I'm trying to overcome it without medication, I was given medication but I think it's making me worse so I'm refusing to take it. I think I can over come my problems, you just need to take it one day at a time and tell yourself that everything will be alright in the end. You need a little bit of faith and belief in yourself.
