fla4fun
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Nov 12, 2006
One of the big things we talked about in my psychology classes in college (especially my abnormal pyschology) was medication side effects.
In other words it's not always because their illness makes them believe others don't know what they are talking about essentially. Medication side effects, in general not just about mental illness, can have a big component on our willingness to take them.
We had a young man in his early twenties working at our company. Unbeknownst to anyone, he was on medication for mental illness. One of the side effects of the medication was weight gain. He thought the weight was the reason he didn’t have a girlfriend, and thought he was doing so well that he could go off his medication long enough to lose some weight. He didn’t tell anyone he was doing so. His mom worked in my department, and didn’t know he wasn’t on his meds until he didn’t show up for work one day and she went out looking for him. Fortunately he didn’t harm himself or anyone else, but the the next two years that I worked with his mom, they never did get his meds regulated properly for him to function the way he had been. We all felt so sad about it, and I often wonder how it turned out for him and his family.