This week we have explored my personal journey that lead to my taking medication for depression and anxiety and contemplated some stereotypes associated with using medication to control your mood...

Yesterday I shared the big moments in my journey to finding the right medication. Today we will look at some stereotypes regarding taking medication for mental health issues.

Knowing when to medicate your mental health problems can be; unclear, dependent on the situation, polarizing, and scary…

Gains and Losses day here at Careless in the Care of God...where I will review what I have gained and lost during the last two weeks of my journey to health...

O.K., so we have reflected on my story...contemplated some hard questions...now, it is time to apply what we have discovered... 

As I shared in yesterday's post after receiving the results from my psychological testing there was a freedom in being 'found out.'

In January 2008 my story to wholeness began. I drove to Wheaton IL to begin a journey to treatment and healing. Healing from a lifetime of struggling with this thing we so readily acknowledge as depression and his best friend anxiety. 

I spent three weeks in INTENSIVE outpatient treatment at the Meier Clinic. This included medication management, group therapy, individual therapy, and psychological testing, it was also faith based. 

Four months prior I began preparing emotionally and spiritually to lift myself out of the life that wasn't working for me and place myself into a 3 week intensive treatment program for depression and debilitating anxiety.

I have decided for mental health reasons to only do Gains and Losses every OTHER Monday...I am getting too tied into the number and need to allow myself more time between weighing-in...

Also, I attended a life changing conference over the weekend...I received more quality instruction than my head could ever hold and was encouraged by a new friend to make a few changes in my current plan...so I have committed myself to make changes both in my real life and in here on the blog...I am clarifying, and identifying steps that need to be taken to achieve what I believe to be God's purpose in my life...

Carelessly,

April