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There’s a Twitter hashtag today, #WhyIDidntReport with lots of women coming out about being sexually abused. I’ve thought daily about when R pinched my right butt cheek. I was 19 and wearing tight baby blue pants. It was in the kitchen of his apartment when I was home visiting from college. The sky is clearing, clouds Read More

By Alternative to Meds Center Thanks to the legendary works of Plato, et al, we are still be able to appreciate the innate power in music to evoke profound emotion, instill meaning, and even tame the mind’s chaos, disorder, discontent, and anxiety. Music has a wealth of ancient wisdom and lore connected to it, going Read More

Over a year ago, I created a workbook and meditation for coming off psych meds. The workbook asks questions to help get at what the fears are, but more importantly, what the vision is on a deeper level. This isn’t a WRAP (Working Recovery Action Plan) type of workbook, though I do recommend WRAP to Read More

Something shocking has been going on with the SNRI antidepressant drug Effexor since the drug was listed in the 2015 list of drugs to be banned, published by the European Medicines Agency (1). Equally shocking, there are hundreds more drugs banned in Europe, but not in the US or Canada. Various drugs, about 700 in Read More

For those in Benzodiazepine withdrawal, such as those coming off Xanax, Ativan, Klonopin, or other psychiatric medications, Dr Charles Popper, director of psychiatry at Harvard regularly uses protein isolate with patients interested in tapering off. He especially recommends protein isolate for benzodiazepine withdrawal. Dr. Popper makes it clear that when patients are using specialized treatments, Read More

Why the Phrase “Families Belong Together” Can be Triggering (unrelated to its actual intention, which we support). by Emily Sheera Cutler and Chaya Grossberg Over the past few weeks, numerous human rights activists have rallied against the forcible separation of immigrant families, using the slogan “Families Belong Together.” While we 100% could not agree more Read More

The obvious flaws with the mental illness system point to similar but maybe less obvious issues in physical healthcare. Both say that if you are suffering it is your responsibility to do whatever it takes to relieve your suffering, no matter how much it compromises your integrity. Most of us don’t enjoy physical pain and Read More

Are you interested in learning how to be a non-medical consultant to those coming off psychiatric meds or seeking alternatives? I’m planning to add a few new consultants to my business (maybe more down the line) and am offering you a training course as a preliminary step. Completion of this course will give you a Read More

Yesterday my friend posted on Twitter: “Imagine living in a society that you don’t need therapy to recover from”. It got 399 likes and 101 retweets already. It inspired me to write this. A world we don’t need therapy to recover from is one where everyone is living close to their soul. Everyone is listening Read More

guest blog by the MediBee team Health monitoring through technological devices is becoming popular. Many have scrapped pen and paper when initiating a withdrawal program, and now use excel sheets to track progress and monitor medicine dosages. MediBee is an app for psychiatric med withdrawal. Silvia Meyer, who is based in Denmark, has added an Read More