We certainly need to end marketing directly to either doctors or patients, but I would like to note to anyone out there struggling that medication can help. Work to develop a relationship with a doctor who works with you and be specific and insistent about what your goals are, but when they suggest medication to help you through the difficult parts of mental illness don’t discount it offhand. Well meaning comments and comics like this kept me away from psychiatrists for years, and that delay cost me a scholarship, a degree, a marriage, and left me with five years of back-breaking labor at a dead-end job. There’s no shame in getting help and medication can play a pivotal role in that.
We certainly need to end marketing directly to either doctors or patients, but I would like to note to anyone out there struggling that medication can help. Work to develop a relationship with a doctor who works with you and be specific and insistent about what your goals are, but when they suggest medication to help you through the difficult parts of mental illness don’t discount it offhand. Well meaning comments and comics like this kept me away from psychiatrists for years, and that delay cost me a scholarship, a degree, a marriage, and left me with five years of back-breaking labor at a dead-end job. There’s no shame in getting help and medication can play a pivotal role in that.