20/03/2022
Sertraline/Venlafaxine/citalopram/mirtazapine/fluoxetine/escitalopram/amitriptyline the list goes on.
So if you're unlucky enough to know what these tablets are or know a loved one who takes them, then I don't have to describe to you what this post is regarding. But if you don't I will fill you in.
That medication allows people to deal with a normal day to day life. Although most days it leaves them tired, spaced out and emotionless. Crazy right? 🤷🏼♀️ Why would anyone want to feel like that. Well this is why.
You see some people suffer from depression, anxiety, ocd, ptsd and borderline personality disorder.
In their brain it doesn't sit right, something seems different. They notice little differences that 'normal' people wouldn't notice.
That comment you didn't tag them in, but you tagged other people? They see that, and say to themselves why didn't you tag me?
You read that message they sent and they see that you did, but you didn't reply.. why didn't you reply? And they feel like they have done something to upset you.
You didn't say I love you on the phone.. do you not love them anymore? Do you love someone else instead?
They say sorry all the time. They feel like they annoy everyone. Are you mad at me? Because they feel like you’re mad at them ALL.THE.TIME!
It's not only mental changes, but physical changes.
They don't eat a lot, mainly rubbish, because they need it now and need the energy from lack of sleep.
Insomnia, up all night answering questions to situations that don't even exist, or sleep too much and waste half their day still feeling tired.
But the tablets can help them. They know when they start to feel this way or think this way, they need help.
They know that when their behaviour starts to change, they need guidance. They don't need to be ashamed. They don't need to be understood. They just need to be accepted.
Living with this illness is hard, but trying to understand it, is even harder.
Don't suffer in silence.
