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Take Your Meds
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 9 2025
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lila's life is held together by a thin thread-one she pretends isn't fraying. Between anxiety, impulsive choices, and old trauma she never learned how to name, she's constantly balancing on the edge of a breakdown she refuses to acknowledge. When her medication makes her feel too calm, too quiet, too seen, she spirals into old patterns-running from the people who care about her, sabotaging the stability she secretly craves, and disappearing into impulsive decisions that leave real consequences behind.
After losing her job, hurting the one person trying to help her, and watching her life slowly collapse around her, Lila finally does something she's never done before: she asks for help.
Take Your Meds is a raw, intimate portrait of a young woman learning to exist without chaos, choosing herself one fragile step at a time, and discovering that healing doesn't happen all at once-it happens in the small, stubborn moments where you decide not to give up.
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