How Medication Can Help

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Coach Mandy-Marie

Master Your Mind. Master Your Life.

I will forever be grateful that in the year 2000 when I went to my doctor and said, “I have so much to be grateful for but I feel so alone, so sad, so angry, so lost…” that he suggested that I might have clinical depression.  I am grateful that he saw the signs and suggested an antidepressant.  I will be forever grateful that this medication helped me to get to a point of feeling “level,” of being able to carry on with life in such a way that most people had no idea I was dealing with depression.  Side effects aside, medication enabled me to get to the point where I could look into the possibility of there being a different answer–even though it would be years before this came about.

 

Now that it is 15 years later, do I wish I had never taken the medication?  That is a difficult question to answer.  In my coaching with those who struggle with depression, I never tell them to go off their medication.  Medication can truly be a gateway to begin thinking more rationally or even more logically.  It can be a gateway to looking at life from a more balanced perspective.  It can provide the avenue to find lasting healing.  Medication was this gateway for me.

 

The goal of my life coaching is to help people–no matter their challenge–to identify the answers in their own life that move them from chaos to order to creation.  I highly recommend a combination of coaching (through a mentor or life coach or a psychologist) and medication when needed if you are struggling with depression and anxiety.

 

I really like how Decker and Chatlin put it:  “Many psychiatrists treat severe depression with medication because they have found that the medication takes some of the ‘edge’ from the sufferer’s anguish.  Medication may be necessary to restore sufficient bodily and cognitive ability so that the depressed person has enough energy to change the thinking errors which accompany the illness.” (Reaching for Hope: An LDS Perspective on Recovering from Depression. Salt Lake City, UT: Bookcraft, 2000. Print.)

 

So whether or not you choose medication, please recognize that it has its place.

 

It matters!

 

Learn more about my journey HERE.

 

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I'm Coach Mandy-Marie

In 2010, I felt trapped—overwhelmed by depression, anxious about the future, and stuck in perfectionism. I was constantly searching for answers, but the cycle of striving for flawlessness only deepened my struggle.

After asking, “What if?” I began a journey that has brought resilience, self-compassion, and lasting peace despite very difficult challenges.

Today, I help others break free from those same patterns of overwhelm that used to plague me. I guide them to clarity, confidence, and purpose so they can thrive in their own journeys–
just as I did.

I want the same for you!

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