After an intervention by friends and family where I was given an ultimatum, go to the doctor willingly or be forced, I am now on antidepressants for major depressive disorder and social anxiety. The side effects are currently a bitch but admittedly my head space feels better. I know it’ll take 2-3 weeks to get used to these with the first week being the roughest. My doctor wants me back in 3 weeks to check how things are going and see if I want/need therapy/different medication or whatever.
Seems asking for help wasn’t as bad as I had feared. The conversation with my doctor was quite easy, nothing like my anxiety kept telling me. My mum constantly telling me that asking for help isn’t failure helped as well.
I’m hoping things will only improve from here. So no more cutting, no more excessive video games/anime to escape my suicidal thoughts so I can spend more time with my daughter. It’s only the first day but I’m trying to be positive instead of my usual pessimistic/realistic self.
Edit: Hours later and these things are kicking my ass. Holy shit xD
Couldn’t sleep until 2am because of nausea, woke up at 4:30am with a dry mouth, headache and nausea. It’s now 5:40am and I still have all of the above but now I don’t know if I’m nauseous because of antidepressant or if I’m hungry, I also don’t know if I’m tired or not.
What is functionality? So glad my parents are here because I’m not sure I’m going to be able to look after my daughter properly until my body gets used to these.




