{"id":940,"date":"2009-07-04T11:13:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T10:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/?p=940"},"modified":"2009-07-04T11:16:19","modified_gmt":"2009-07-04T10:16:19","slug":"this-is-why-ill-never-be-ashamed-of-taking-anti-depressants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/07\/04\/this-is-why-ill-never-be-ashamed-of-taking-anti-depressants\/","title":{"rendered":"This is why I&#8217;ll never be ashamed of taking anti-depressants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life has been throwing all sorts of shit at me recently (family, health, job, flat), and two weeks ago I seriously had no idea how I was going to survive the next weeks. All of these things are still there (although I&#8217;m happy to report the flathunt has been going well), but after starting back on my meds the future is daunting but I am confident that I&#8217;ll master it. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, I was happy to be off the meds, to be able to cope with two winters in a row with only the help of St. John&#8217;s Wort. But after spending several weeks sliding steadily downwards, *this* close to reaching breaking point, doing acupuncture and going back on anti-depressants has pulled me back to the surface. I am still tired and struggling (and still dizzy at times, but only for short periods, not whole days anymore) but I can also breathe and see the sun again. So to the people that still think that mental illness is &#8220;only in your head&#8221; and requires nothing more than &#8220;pulling yourself together&#8221; to overcome it: I kindly ask you to FUCK OFF. I don&#8217;t need you in my life.<\/p>\n<p>As always, though, the biggest thanks to my friends and family for sticking with me. Seriously. I know it&#8217;s not always easy.  And <b>happy Fourth of July to everyone in the States!<\/b> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life has been throwing all sorts of shit at me recently (family, health, job, flat), and two weeks ago I seriously had no idea how I was going to survive the next weeks. All of these things are still there (although I&#8217;m happy to report the flathunt has been going well), but after starting back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}