‘I can’t, I don’t know her, I don’t know what she wants, I’ll drop her, she doesn’t like me, I’m dirty, she’ll get poorly from me’, the rapid cycling thoughts shot through my head and I froze. My bundle had arrived, but the joy hadn’t.

From Prozac at 18 to therapy years later-my honest experience with mental-health medication, side effects, and why therapy finally changed everything.

I always wonder how many psychiatrists have lived experience. It takes a long time to train as a psychiatrist, and it’s tough going, which doesn’t leave much time for lived experience in my opinion. And these are the doctors dishing out the medication