Medication for you?

[mugsydublin]

The build up of the past two weeks and the relentless attacks are taking a toll on me. I do have a therapist, but I won't see her again until July 22. Having conquered anxiety and depression in the past through CBT, I find that at the moment I am exhausted and feelings of hopelessness are creeping in.

Has anyone here gone to a psychiatrist for a prescription to better deal with the stress?

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[Notwendy]

Understandable that it is a lot of stress. I don't have anything against medication when needed- and that would be between you and your doctor, but with stressful situations, the emotions are signals that something is stressing you- the logical solution is to do something about what is stressing you.

It may be that the medicine will help give you a boost to be able to work on the stressful situation- but still- it's the stress that is the concern.

I understand- my mother has BPD. As my father got older, I began to go to his doctor appointments with him to help. I was surprised to learn that he was taking an antidepressent. It seemed to me that it was my mother who should have been medication, not my father. I think now, that he felt he needed this to be able to cope. However, he also could have done therapy to help- but as far as I know, he didn't choose that.

I think other posters have chosen this too. I think one has to do what they feel they need to do- and ultimately this is a choice between you and your medical provider.

[Tangled mangled]

To add to what NW has pointed out, therapy helps but managing the stress is most important.

I went through divorce from  I now understand is ubpd/npd spouse.

When the proverbial sh8t hit the fan there was DV and police involvement and I had to be placed on antidepressants by my doctors, thankfully I also had easy access to a psychiatrist too and they both worked together to place me on a sedative antidepressants.
It has helped but ultimately what helped was distancing myself from my ex. I had PTSD from childhood and the recent DV and would get very awful nightmares that sometimes coincided with my ex husband kicking off.

From my experience, meditations helped calm my brain into a state where I could think logically about the next steps and I sometimes felt detachment from the issues- eg not feeling every feeling especially the negative ones that were being induced by my ex. Mind I lived with him 10 months following the DV before leaving with my children.
I can describe being medicated as taking a mental break from the problems at hand but in a way that allowed me to be effective and still function.
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