Hello so I was recently diagnosed with autism as an adult and while I never suspected it I til recently it does explain some of things zI have struggled with for as long as I can remember. One my sensitivities is anything relating to medical/medicine and I know I would have trouble with eating the food if I had to be admitted to a hospital.becausr it would make me gag and such. Another part of this sensitivity extends to taking medication and while I can do it sometimes it is something that is really hard to keep up on. As an example a couple of years back I was put on medication which I thought was supposed to be for ADHD but was better suited for depression. I was already unhappy about taking this medication because of my issues but tried to push myself to see if it would help.
When I first started taking the medication I had horrible side effects like extreme anxiety and insomnia and some other things but I eventually stabilized and returned to baseline. This was was my first time taking any real medication beside something short term like an antibiotic and I was able to keep taking for about a month and a half. Then one day I went to take it and I just couldn't get my mind to do it and stopped after that. As most of you probably know stopping cold turkey on antidepressants can have serious side effects and for me it was no different and I went through two more weeks of hell including several attempts to CTB with partial hanging. Now I'm going through bad period of depression but I am too scared to take medication for it because I don't trust myself to be able to reliably keep taking it.
So I'm just curious if anyone here has an issues like this with taking medications and how you deal with it?
Thanks
When I first started taking the medication I had horrible side effects like extreme anxiety and insomnia and some other things but I eventually stabilized and returned to baseline. This was was my first time taking any real medication beside something short term like an antibiotic and I was able to keep taking for about a month and a half. Then one day I went to take it and I just couldn't get my mind to do it and stopped after that. As most of you probably know stopping cold turkey on antidepressants can have serious side effects and for me it was no different and I went through two more weeks of hell including several attempts to CTB with partial hanging. Now I'm going through bad period of depression but I am too scared to take medication for it because I don't trust myself to be able to reliably keep taking it.
So I'm just curious if anyone here has an issues like this with taking medications and how you deal with it?
Thanks
