HAWMC #27 - Medications and Poetry for World Health Day

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves. Anthony Hopkins World Health Day was April 7, but I'm always writing about mental health, so I feel like I celebrate it every day. Recently, The American Recall Center inspired me to talk about medication for world health day, so here are my two cents. No one wants to be on medication and there is a stigma to taking medication, but I have found that some people need it anyway. I do. Medication helps control my depression, anxiety, mood swings, the amount of sleep I get and psychosis. I've tried going without, but then I don't sleep as well and within a few days I start decompensating, so meds are for me. Some think that patients should not talk about their side effects or drugs with others since everyone reacts to them different