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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope you help him get help. He needs it. I have a friend whose husband tried multiple times. He was even revived from a suicide. The Doc told him next time he might be successful and he was.  He may need meds and he may need to stay on them long term, which can be hard for people to do.  I am thinking of you and hope that he gets help.[/quote]

What makes it hard for people to stay on meds (besides side effects)?[/quote]

When they’re for mental health, a lot of people stop taking them after a long time of feeling normal and well - because of the mess. Thinking they don’t need them anymore. But then they go off the meds and things go haywire again because it’s always been the meds regulating and normalizing them. [/quote]

And because the side effects can be awful.

I'm diagnosed bipolar. I am non-compliant because the side effects of the medication that works for me are intolerable. They're fine if I'm in dire need and it's meds or die. But I cannot be a functional person and be medicated. Unfortunately, the mental health profession cannot cope with unmedicated patients. I understand it makes us a risk. But I wish there was more understanding about how intolerable some side effects are. People who take medicine for high blood pressure get more sympathy for not being able to maintain an erection than people who take meds for mental health do about some of their side effects. [/quote]

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