Medication does NOT change who you are as a person. It only supplements your life decision to get better. It helps symptoms but that doesn't mean that you're completely changed as a person.

Medication only provides our brains with what everyone else’s supplies naturally.

Without my medications I am not functional. The symptoms I have without my medication are not a part of my personality, nor do I want them to be. I’m much better off with them.

You ≠ Your mental illness 💕

Holy crap this was all super insightful, i never thought of it this way <3

✋ Hi! Yep. I don't feel like I have changed as a person but the world around me has changed and that is scary. I have to navigate it differently which gives me the feeling of I'm different.

Without even 1 day of my meds, I can become the miserable, consistently suicidal person I was for almost 10 years before I got proper help. Medication hasn't changed /me/, it's just made my symptoms manageable so that I can experience life through a slightly better lens. I would be far worse off if I wasn't medicated. Even though I worried about the same exact things you are before I began my meds, I have a much clearer idea of myself now than I ever have before. And that's just due to the fact that my symptoms were so bad that I didn't have the mental energy to have an idea of who I was.

thank you so much for making this post. my doctor prescribed me lexapro and i’ve been wondering the same thing because i’ve never been on meds for my mental illnesses before. wishing you good health 💚

Yeah, I’ve definitely thought about this, I’m kind of scared to know who I’d be without my medication

Your medications job isn't to change who you are, it's meant to give your body what it needs to regulate itself. Ive wondered the same thing, but for me it depends on the medication I'm on. So if it's too strong it might numb my emotions, that just means it's not the right med for me or it's too high. Being happier or having a different outlook doesn't make you a different person. People grow and change as we get older and that's part of life. I often think about how I was when I was younger, compared to how I am now. My thought process and many of my behaviors are the same, but I react to things differently because Ive learned from things in the past. It's hard to put into words, but the most important thing is just being who you want to be right now.