Corrina RawlinsonFounder of She's Honeslty Mental

How Medication Saved My Mental Health | Healing After Hospitalization & Burnout

2 Oct 2025

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A first-person monologue (YouTube) by Corrina Rawlinson describing her hospitalization in December and discharge just before Christmas. She recounts being heavily medicated and feeling dulled and unable to function, but frames medication as necessary for her brain and body's reset during recovery—comparing it to keeping a cast on a broken leg until healed.

I was hospitalized in December, and I was home just before Christmas. And that was just feel like I was in an alternate universe. I was so heavily medicated, I wasn't functioning like I could do the things. But I just didn't have a lot of brain capacity because the medication had really dulled me out, which is what my body needed at the time. It's like when you break your leg, you put the cast on, you leave the cast on until the leg is healed. At that time, my brain and my body really needed to reset. And that's where the use of medication was so amazing, because it was able to help my body reset.