How and When to Use Mental Health Medications

Mental health medications are misused and misunderstood by patients, myself included. Here is a guide on what I have learned about them from experience.

During COVID, I was in a mental health rut. I was extremely depressed, living in fear, had no purpose, and had no direction. I ended up having a panic attack because I thought my spleen had burst after weeks of fearing that I must have had mono despite negative test results. Why was my spleen in so much pain? It turned out to be stomach pain from chroni…