Imagine that you’re standing in a room with a ceiling. Whenever you get scared the floor rises and threatens to crush you against the ceiling. Once you get crushed against the ceiling, that’s it. You can’t function.
Let’s say most people are about 20 feet from the ceiling when at rest. This is how close they are to being crushed by their stress and anxiety at any given average time in their lives. Sometimes in the worst most stressful moments the floor might smush them, but usually it’s whatever.
Previously, I was constantly at 5 feet. At any given moment I was hunched over, one really stressful day away from being crushed completely, never fully able to function normally.
Now, with antidepressants, I’m at like 10 feet. Still closer to completely losing it than the average Joe but really bad days mostly just slow me down now.
Anxiety and depression meds don’t like… make the problem go away. It’s more like they lower the floor a bit. Move you from carrying around 200 pounds to carrying around 50 pounds. Sure, maybe the average person isn’t carrying around any weight but it’s significantly easier to get out of bed when you’ve got less weight to carry around.
Anyways. I bring this up because I wasn’t sure what anxiety meds would actually do before I took them. But in the long term that’s basically it. You get a bit more wiggle room in your day to day. And it’s nice. Nothing about your personality changes and your mental disorder doesn’t even completely go away. It’s just like… a bit easier. That’s it. Just lowering the floor a bit.
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