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Psych med withdrawal 101: (That your doctor probably won’t tell you) -go slowly   -taper one drug at a time. Wait at least 2 weeks between each reduction   -if withdrawal effects are too intense, slow down or go back up   -any extreme symptoms you have from withdrawal are NOT your diagnosis, baseline or Read More

One problematic thing about psych meds for people with post traumatic stress is that they make it harder to regulate the brain over time. Clearly psychiatric drug withdrawal causes extreme dysregulation for many people and is a trauma in itself, but let’s look at the meds themselves. Any substance that numbs emotions or disconnects us Read More

Recently I desired to work more with my dreams, which I tend to remember in detail most nights and have for a lot of my life. Kim Harrison, a dream coach who I call “The Life Coach For Dreamers” I started working with a few weeks ago. One of the first dreams I shared with Read More

For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a fear of being a scapegoat. Perhaps it started in 4th grade when I was cancelled by all of my friends, before cancelling was a term. Or maybe the Holocaust because I get this life or death feeling frequently about being an outcast or turned on Read More

Realizing I’ve been lacking consistency in sharing what people withdrawing from psych meds are going through. Most of my clients who are in psych med withdrawal (if not all of them) are not on Facebook or social media. Who could blame them? But ever since psych meds nearly killed me 18 years ago, and I Read More

Yesterday I shed a few tears, thinking this might be the first time in my life I wouldn’t celebrate Passover. In a clubhouse Shabbat service, I had the opportunity to share my sadness as well as my prayer to be open to having a spontaneous last minute Passover, and having a meaningful celebration in person Read More

During this lockdown, a lot of us may have had a taste of what it feels like to be forgotten. To feel unseen and like there has not been a safety net to catch us or recognize when we need something. If I’ve needed anything, or any extra support, I’ve had to reach out more Read More

Many of you and many of my clients ask for success stories from people who have come off psych meds after being on them for a long time. People ask this because they want some hope that it is possible. It can feel impossible. Here are some links to success stories.   Please comment with Read More

If you’re reading this, you probably don’t need to be convinced that psychiatric meds can be dangerous and hard to come off of. Even in normal circumstances, there is not adequate medical care available for people seeking to come off psych meds. Now that most “non-essential” medical care is harder to access, if available at Read More

Guest post by my friend who wishes to remain anonymous. Note: this is one person’s anecdotal experience and not meant to be any kind of blanket statement. It is certainly not being presented as “science” or research. My friend writes: I actually got the coronavirus and I realized some things about it, which might possibly Read More