Candace describes how difficult early days gradually got better after starting medications.

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I would say there were about five days, the five days when I was with my parents that I didn’t know how I was going to make it through. I just sort of put my head down and tried to sleep as much as possible and just nurse when I could because I couldn’t really do anything else. And so, yes, that thought had crossed my mind. Like, ‘Why am I doing this?’ But I believed in the doctor and the research that it should start to get better. So I would slowly have, you know, a better hour and that I’d have, you know, I’d still have often when the medication was still at its earlier stages, I would have a really tough day, until about noon to three o’clock. And then my night would be quite lovely. And so, that was something to get used to, too, where, you know, my mornings kind of a struggle. And then, I was able … And then I would feel better in the afternoon. And so, those days they started, started to get longer and longer. I’d have longer periods of feeling quite lovely.

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