I can’t begin to count the number of good things I’ve lost because I was sad.
A couple of months ago, I had to stop taking all my medications to get some minor surgery to remove a small cyst in my eyelid that was causing the vision in my left eye to go blurry for months. The doctor’s office asked me to hold off because of bleeding risks and I honestly didn’t think my antidepressant would have any kind of bleeding risk side effect. But sure enough, it was a minor one, and knowing my luck, it would become a full-blown bleed-out. So I decided to forgo my medication for just one week.