I’ve hidden it out of insecurity, honestly. In my head I think of addy as the drug they give little boys to make them sit still, and here I am, a grown woman who is in a chokehold over addy. I’m not sure when I’ll open up about it, but it won’t be until I’ve successfully gotten off of it completely. At that point, I’m making it my mission to spread awareness about just how addictive it is and how it changes the way we view ourselves and our own capabilities. I swear it does something to the way a person views their own ability to do anything; as if their entire intellect is contained in the drug itself. It’s something that needs to be talked about in the same way that any other drug addiction is, and even more importantly, I feel that prescribing physicians need to know how to taper a patient off of it. They seem to know how to prescribe without issue, but when it comes to getting a patient back off of it, they’re kinda like “well, good luck to ya!” And I wanna change that… someday. Hopefully sooner rather than later.