Advice
Anyone else get really super hurt when a friend tries to help them calm down while youâre having an episode/reaction to a medication involving super fast heart rate and increased emotions and they tell you in a really harsh tone to shut up and âyou need to stop thatâ????
You really think I can control this? Really?!?! Hello! Youâve seen me in the ER, youâve seen me doing the medical testing, youâve seen me taking my meds and you have the wherewithal to tell me to just âstop thatâ??? Wow.
Just a newsflash to friends and family of people who might deal with this, we donât control side effects or this any of this stuff. We donât âturn it onâ, therefore we canât simply stop it. So instead of shutting us down when you can clearly see something is wrong, and then later criticizing us for being off the wall, maybe calmly suggest we take a few deep breathes every couple of minutes or sip on some water. But donât isolate us and make us feel like an enemy. Thatâs how you hurt friendships.
