I see a ton of these types of posts. I’ve gotta be honest. I struggled for 6 years and tried everything. I worked as a server at a restaurant in college and was able to turn that into a character version of myself that I acted out. Could only do it like 10% of the time off of work for a while and when I switched jobs that went away really quick.

The ONLY improvement I’ve had has been since I started Effexor just under a year ago. I only got treatment because it was easy to sign up on with one of those online prescription services and set an appointment that I couldn’t bring myself to cancel. I did it while drunk one night. I trapped myself into doing it. I had no motivation or ability to get help any other way.

You have to do it eventually. When there is something actually wrong with your brain you can not just “fake it till you make it” or anything like that.