Take Your Meds!
You don't get brownie points for rawdogging your mental health
If you need to hear it today; you don’t get brownie points for rawdogging your mental health. It doesn’t make you noble because you choose to forgo conventional medicine. I’m not sure why there’s still a stigma about this, but alas, here we are.
Listen, I get it. I too, am the type who generally doesn’t like to take medication. I’ll lay down in a dark room rather than take an Asprin for a headache. I’ll deep breathe my way through period cramps. But even in these instances, sometimes I’ll curse myself for being a martyr for no reason.
I’m not saying we don’t have reason to be cautious. I mean, look at the opioid crisis. It starts innocently enough; taking some pills here and there for your back pain. Then next thing you know, you’re nodding out on Fentanyl, on the streets, having sold all your earthly possessions. Yes, Big Pharma are bastards. Yes, I do feel as a society we are generally over-medicated and there are a lot of very rich, powerful people making a killing off that.
But when it comes to my brain chemistry though? Yeah, I’m not gonna play with that. There are certain things you can’t box breathe, journal and meditate your way out of.
