You CAN get someone to help take care of your pets while you do an in patient program. You absolutely can. If you have any friends or family that would be a start. If not your local animal shelter can probably hook you up with a mid term foster parent to help.

My sister has MS and also takes an anti – depressant and she has not gained weight. Different medications cause different side effects. A decent number of epilepsy drugs also treat depression so that might be a two for one situation (valproic acid, lamotrigine, carbamazepine, oxcarbazepine). There are MANY MS drugs that you only take once every 3 months so that would not be a hard protocell to adhere to. MANY diabetes drugs now HELP you lose weight such as valproic acid, lamotrigine, carbamazepine, oxcarbazepine.

Personally I would work with your therapist to see if they will engage with your doctor to FIRST prioritize your physical health problems with a possible combo approach. Stabilizing your physical health could RADICALLY change your mental health. Work with the therapist and doctor to get your an in patient treatment program that stabilizes ALL your medication to get you on the right track. As I pointed out above, you CAN get help in taking care of your pets.

Please dial 988 if you are thinking of hurting or killing yourself. You CAN get better with treatment.

This is you, right? https://dearwendy.com/topic/is-this-psychotic-i-cant-leave-this-relationship/

In that post, you said you couldn’t afford therapy. Now it sounds as though you’ve been seeing both a therapist and a psychiatrist, and you make it sound like you’ve been going for awhile. It’s good that you took that step, but as many people have said in this post and the last one, your problems are serious and go well beyond the kind of thing an advice forum can help you with. It’s hard to imagine any half-decent psychiatrist not getting you into inpatient treatment if they know you’re taking too many pills and jumping in front of cars. Please tell the professionals you are working with what is going on. Tell them you need in-patient help. Reach out to a trusted family member or friend and tell them that you are suicidal. You need to get help and nobody here is going to be able to help you in a meaningful way.

The original poster is clearly struggling with serious issues that aren’t able to be solved here. However, some of the responses are just toxic. Telling someone expressing suicidal tendencies that they should grow up and some of the other nasty comments are just abusive. When a commenter does so repeatedly, perhaps they should be looking in the mirror. I’d hope that people here genuinely wish others well and want to help. Wendy, there is precedent on this site of you asking people who insult others repeatedly not to comment because it’s not just unhelpful, it’s downright mean and in this case, could lead someone to self-harm. I wonder if perhaps there might be some policy about not attacking people who come seeking help. That doesn’t mean people can’t be called out for their behaviour, but repeatedly posting calling struggling people names (or other commenters names, which has also happened) would seem to be outside the spirit of your site.

I read back through this to see where someone called someone a name, and I do see one instance of calling the OP a baby. To me that’s a bit of a gray area, yes it is a name, but saying someone is behaving childishly isn’t necessarily problematic. I think it does become an issue in this thread though because the thought is being repeated over and over. I think the intent is good (take your meds), but the expression gets a bit rough with the repetition and the cursing.

If you would rather not, I understand, but Wendy is not asking you to stop commenting, and neither am I. Canada Goose is all right to ask about forum rules and point out their observations, but don’t let them decide for you whether you want to keep commenting.

Gigi.. I get that your brother may now be in a place with HIS MS that the meds are only helping symptoms, but a TON of MS drugs actually help prevent progression etc. The original LW is so very struggling, that I would hate for them to take your statement as a reason / excuse to NOT be on their medication.