Tzofit Grant attacked: "Stupid, you convinced your brother not to take medication"
Tzofit Grant-Rand shared her reaction to the online backlash following her confession about her health condition and clarified the controversy regarding her refusal of medication: "I am not against medication, but in my case, I know that when I enter crises, I have a lot of tools."
Media personality Tzofit Grant-Rand, wife of musician and actor Shuli Rand, makes sure to share her personal life with her followers on social media. In a TikTok video she posted last night (Monday), the TV presenter shared the harsh reactions she received from readers who were exposed to an article published about her that dealt with her personal confession about her health condition.
Recall that Grant-Rand was a guest on the podcast "Things I Learned from Successful Women" hosted by Inbal Matzliach, and shared her coping with crises. During the conversation, Tzofit Grant-Rand said that in the last year she was offered more than once to turn to medication to ease the emotional burden.
"I have been sitting with a cardiologist for the last year and every time she tells me 'Tzofit, maybe you should consider a psychiatric pill after all?'", she recalled. Grant explained that she chose to refuse the offer out of a desire to experience the emotion in full: "I tell her but why? Look what an amazing student I am. Every day of crisis is a day of pleasure. Why do you want to close my emotions now? Or why do you want to make it easier for me?".
Since she was exposed to particularly negative reactions from people who became aware of her personal story, Tzofit decided to set things straight and clarify her words. "A headline popped up for me in the newspaper following a podcast I did that was very interesting. One of the things that came up in it is all my last three years in the health aspect. I told that I went through a trauma because my mother at her age of 58, had a severe heart attack and she died in my hands. They revived her with electric shocks. For many long years she was very sick. She had heart attacks and strokes. I would always look at her and say: 'I will not live like her, I will live differently and take care of my health'. That is what I did, I am not like my mother".
Despite the important decision she took upon herself, the veteran media personality faced health problems at the age of 58. "I felt unwell, it was on her birthday. I arrived at the hospital and it turns out I had two blocked arteries and I underwent a catheterization. This catheterization created a very, very strong post-trauma for me.
I entered a kind of uncontrollable depression, too long, hard and painful. Those who were around me and felt what I was going through and experiencing, including a wonderful cardiologist who accompanies me. She told me: 'You know, you don't have to deal with everything alone. You can take a pill, you can calm your fears and anxieties about this whole thing'. I strongly resisted and my resistance came from a very specific place because in my own way, within worlds of crises, I use a crisis to listen to it".
Tzofit Grant-Rand clarified that she believes that one should act in other ways in order to deal with crises in life and with health problems, and not necessarily always need to use medication. "I listen to the crises, I listen to my sadness. I am not in a hurry to silence my anxiety or my fear or my confusion. I listen to them and act with them. I do sports, I go swimming, I try to be on a proper diet, I listen to music, I conduct conversations. I read, I perform actions and I develop. That's how I get out of crises.
I am not in a hurry, I do not use mind-altering substances. I have nothing against it. I am in favor, if a person feels the need for it... Every person in their own way solves their problems for themselves. I just shared how I deal with things".
Later in her words, Tzofit Grant-Rand said that she was exposed to the harsh reactions published against her on social media following her controversial position. "Suddenly I realized that it made noise on the network because of course they took a headline that I am against medication and put the ugliest picture they found. Fine, I got used to this pathetic media piece. I see reactions there. Someone wrote to me: 'You are so stupid. You probably managed to convince your brother not to take medication and that's why he is in such a state'. No dear, no. You are wrong. On the contrary, my brother is a medication refuser and he suffers from very severe schizophrenia.
That you cursed, it was completely unnecessary. I am not against medication but in my case I know that when I enter crises I have a lot of tools. These tools serve me. I have been learning for many years to use them. I have many difficult moments and I use them every time anew".
Towards the end of the video, the TV presenter turned to her followers and delivered a sharp and clear message: "The headline does not reflect anything of what was said in the podcast. Whoever listened to it to the end only benefited from it. Know that I am not against medication. When it happened, three years ago, I did everything I could to find another way to treat myself. I did fasts. Actually in the last year I am on the conventional path and I do take what I need to take for the heart. I went through the crisis in my own way, in my usual way, in the way of sports, of volunteering, in the way of doing. The crisis has passed and I am no longer there".
