I'm Still Human: Understanding Depression With Kindness (Expanded Edition - 2021)

overdosing on her antidepressant medicines that she believed
would kill her. She was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU).
Unfortunately, she remained unwell despite all ICU monitoring
showed that she was normal. She only ‘recovered’ when her
psychiatrist told her that she was actually on placebo
antidepressant drugs (a sugar pill with no active medicines).
Kindly remember - If you believe that a medicine or treatment is
effective, the outcome will be better, and vice versa. No doubt,
antidepressants work. But they work even better when:
• The patient believes that it works.
• The patient’s doctor believes that it works.
• There’s a good relationship between the patient and doctor.
Therefore, the next time you take your medicines, say kindly in
your heart,
““I’m so grateful that I get to take this medicine.
It’s so kind of my doctor to give this to me.
May my body be able to adjust to this medicine
and make good use of it for my recovery…
May God bless me and my medicine…
Yes, I’ll be well soon…Yeahhhh!”
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