when your body is loaded with benzodiazepines, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers? You can’t think clearly, you can’t react fast, you can’t feel like you used to. Everything is harder. Walking, talking, focusing. These meds are necessary, yes, but they’re also invisible chains that slow you down in everything.

They expect you to work, socialize, smile, and stay out of trouble. But they have no idea what it takes to function like this. It’s not just sedation, it’s losing parts of who you were to become someone “manageable.” This isn’t balance. It’s sacrifice. Is this what they call mental health?