Have you ever been so depressed that you couldn't breathe? Like an elephant on your chest in a sauna? I just experienced that feeling this weekend, and I barely survived it honestly. It all started about 3-4 weeks ago when my insurance was stopped all of a sudden and I could no longer get my meds, any of them. My clinic was able to supply me with my HIV meds, and I had a small supply of hormones, but my depression meds were just stopped completely. Now I had been for some time considering coming off my meds. I've been taking them for many years and I wanted to see how I could do without them now - perhaps things were better and maybe I didn't need them. I've also been having trouble with my memory for a while and I wanted to see what side effects from the depression medicine might clear up, I wanted to see if my memory improved. And for the first two weeks I felt fine, but then last Friday one of my dogs got out of the fence and disappeared. I haven't been able to find her and I hit an emotional moment that honestly nearly killed me. My dogs are my whole world, my children, my babies, and now I don't know the fate of one of them. It's been killing me. Continue reading...
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