In life, even with taking care of the basics of my mental health with things such as taking medication for my challenges, it doesn’t necessarily make them go away, rather it makes managing them much more effective and easier to cope with the challenges that can be uncertain in life. It is being able to know how to cope with the challenges that cross my path with the appropriate course of action by responding to the situation appropriately rather than reacting to it in a negative manner which by not taking care of my mental health can create a great sense of uncertainty.

There is no doubt as we are having the unofficial start to summer in a year where I have been mostly medication adherent that I now fully understand the seriousness of needing to have psychotropic medication in my life, that it helps take the edges and uncertainty of how I may react to situations that I am not in control or find ease in.

This has taken me a long time to discover within myself, but eventually due to the multitude of uncertainty in my life now provides, I now realize how important psychotropic medication is as a treatment to my mental health as well as a tool in my mental health recovery. There should never be any shame in doing so. It is also realized that the many times when things were not well with me were the times when I was not taking my medication and as such it was not only challenging for me to cope with challenging moments as the arrived but for those who also had to go through them with me as well.

I do have moments still where things can be hard, but that is where I rely on the other coping tools in my wellness toolbox to cope with the challenges that I have on my plate and deal with them in the way that is best for me to handle them so they do not become a bother for me and others. For far too long I have seen the effect of the damage that I have done because of me not doing what I needed to do to take care of myself along with the concern that many had in the process. I had long thought that they were ganging up on me because I was not being someone that I liked. But what I did not realize was that I was on the verge of being to the point where further measures would be necessary and that could have only made things worse in the process.

It is because of all of this that I know that things like medications are crucial to ensuring that I am my best self whenever I am around others or just doing what I need to do to be well at a time in my life where nothing is certain to be in place. Yes, there is a means to feel the way that I feel about things, but there needs to be healthy ways in which to manage those challenges as they come by learning to cope with them in the ways that seem to work best for them to cease happening that makes life challenging in the moment that they are happening. At the right time I will find out better ways to make things happen for me in the way that I need to. Doing things like not taking my medication only kicks the can down the road at increasing my potential at being able to do more things in my life that I enjoy.