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Getting help again
I've been diagnosed with a mood disorder, and nearly 2 months ago I came off my medication due to pressure from my mother. I was feeling better, I was going through a pretty good patch, but ended up giving in to her. Since then, I've just got worse and worse. I'm hallucinating worse than ever, and my moods are getting more extreme. It's sort of an overarching depression, with periods of mania. I'm developing sound sensitivity, I can't sleep, and disordered thoughts around eating are getting worse. I've been cutting myself and purging again.
I decided to go to the GP to go back on medication, and I told my mother, because there are certain things she needs to be aware of. She didn't exactly have a good reaction. I told her I needed to go back on tablets, and the first thing she said was "No you don't". She's a yoga practitioner and doesn't believe in psychiatric medication. Does anyone know of anything I can do to stop her putting this pressure on me? Anything I can show her? She doesn't really understand that mental illness is a real thing and I've not been able to find a way of getting through to her.
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