Importance of Prescription Medicines for Domestic Violence Recovery

Importance of Prescription Medicine

For the longest time, I misunderstood the importance of my anti-anxiety medicine. I was concerned that as a daughter of an alcoholic, I was trading my alcohol addiction for prescription medicine addiction. The devil’s voice in my head had a field day convincing me that I was trading one addiction for another. I felt defeated and weak since I was unable to handle this anxiety issue on my own.
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What I now realize is how far from the truth this is. My anti-anxiety medicine restores a chemical imbalance in my brain. Years and years of abuse re-wired my brain’s ability to function. My medicine is required to boost chemical imbalances in my head thus allowing me to function in this world.

With regards to my prescription medicine versus alcohol, it was easy to convince me that these two things were interchangeable. But, as I have grown in my faith, I realize that those years of drinking didn’t provide me with any effective coping mechanisms. None at all. Comparing alcohol to anti-anxiety medicine is not an even comparison; one hurts our mental processing and coping skills, the other improves them.

My anti-anxiety medicine calms my head down enough so I can continue to focus on my recovery, work, or mothering efforts.
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• Too much medication causes me to be lethargic and lazy
• Too small of a dose and my mind is feeling scattered and racing all day
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Finding the right kind of medicine and dosing takes time, open communication with my doctor, and honest assessment. If I really want to know how I am doing, it helps me to listen to my children. They take their cues from me; if they start acting differently towards me, then there might be a chance I have changed; sometimes for the good, sometimes not for the good.