Posted by beardedlady on March 15, 2002, at 17:12:37
Since I started meds for anxiety-induced insomnia, it's been my goal to get off. No one WANTS to be on meds, after all. But why do we often beat ourselves up for being on them? Stigma?
My girlfriend takes Prozac because she has social phobia and depression, stemming from childhood abuse by her stepfather. She feels so much better when she's on it, but she berates herself for having to take it.
My sister is severly asthmatic and has terrible allergies. She doesn't beat herself up for taking a daily inhaler.
My mother has arthritis and takes Vioxx every day. She doesn't beat herself up.
My friends eat asprin like candy because they have stress headaches. They don't beat themselves up.And that's what they tell you when you complain; they say, "But I take this...."
No one is looking at us like we're freaks because we take Prozac or Serzone or Wellbutrin or Zoloft or any other drug, for that matter. (The general public doesn't know what Zyprexa or other anti-psychotics are for, which is why I didn't include them.) In fact, ADs are as popular as Advil now.
So why do WE do it to OURSELVES, especially when it's working?
Just wondering.
beardy : )>
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