Facing the day can be a struggle for any given person. For a person with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) or any other mental illness, facing the day can be an actual battle. Sometimes winning this battle will leave the fighter the entire day. Western medicine, by which I mean medical and healthcare professionals by way of doctor offices and hospitals, is great for a slew of illnesses. I’m not discounting them for mental health issues, either. In fact, in 5 months I will have been in seeing a psychologist and psychiatrist for 7 years.
I’ve been on anti-depressants for 7 years. They are great. But this past spring, I didn’t have enough money to refill my prescription. I don’t know if I had convinced myself that being off them for a few days or weeks would make me spiral or if I spiraled into depression and anxiety because my body was out of balance. To be honest, it was most likely a mixture of the two. Without my roommate lending me money, I would have been off my anti-depressants for a couple weeks, which is a terrifying thought. I still ended up being off my meds for a few days, but that is far better than what the alternative would have been. Those few days taught me that my anti-depressants do have value and a place in my life.
However, even though I am on anti-depressants and have therapy once a week, I still need more help. That’s what this blog is all about. I’m going to try to post as many methods of healing as I can. Eventually, I want to try them all out, but sometimes it takes months to see improvements in your mental health and overlapping healing methods won't allow me to be able to see which ones are truly working.
I'll let you guys know what method (ritual, ceremony, etc.) I am currently trying, and you can decide to join me or try a different method I have posted. If you try a method and it works well for you--or it is complete shit--drop a comment on that post. Hopefully, we can all find a path of healing that works well for us. Remember to not feel discouraged if one method doesn’t work for you. Everyone is different, especially when it comes to how we heal.
I'll let you guys know what method (ritual, ceremony, etc.) I am currently trying, and you can decide to join me or try a different method I have posted. If you try a method and it works well for you--or it is complete shit--drop a comment on that post. Hopefully, we can all find a path of healing that works well for us. Remember to not feel discouraged if one method doesn’t work for you. Everyone is different, especially when it comes to how we heal.
Come back next week to learn about the time that five minutes of a yoga class changed my life.
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