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Angry Oct 11, 2019 at 11:54 AM
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I feel like I've aged 30 years from taking psych drugs. anybody else. I took them 10 years. wheres the trade off
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Default Oct 11, 2019 at 02:29 PM
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There are days when I literally feel like I am at the end of life and that is the very last day. That was yesterday. And then there are days where I feel like I'm in my thirties (I am in my fifties). How much of this is due to my meds and how much is the illness I will never figure out. Bipolar people do have a shorter life expectancy, but most of that is due to cardiac issues. So, who knows? I honestly try not to think about these things and take it one morning, one afternoon, one evening at a time. I couldn't do it otherwise. It's just too overwhelming.

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Default Oct 12, 2019 at 09:47 PM
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I'm grateful for this post. It's a Saturday night and I'm going to be in bed by 8 because I feel horrible and fatigued from med side-effects. All I've done all day was wait until bedtime. I wanted to just lie in bed all day, but I'm literally afraid at this point...afraid I'll just stop living, altogether.

I've been on psych meds for around 30 years (I'm 56) and there are days (today) when I think about how meds have stolen my life...then, of course, it hits me that mental illness has stolen my life.

I don't exactly feel that meds have aged me, so much...more disabled me; I feel that some of them have helped me just enough to get me through...I call it the "49/51." Meds are 49% a failure, 51% a success. So the tiniest bit above breaking even.

I also try not to dwell on the whole thing, though...because, it's just too much. And too, we don't know what exactly to attribute to meds and what not to. I would give a lot to see a movie of my life not on meds, see how it would have been better - or worse.

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