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Ode to my (big) feet
I have big feet. Very big. A full size 11. Some years ago I realized that while I should hate my feet. I did not. Us women are very hard on our bodies and from a young age we learn to hate most of our...
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Psychiatric drug withdrawal and protracted withdrawal syndrome round-up
In the course of my work with those coming off psych meds I've learned that there are few people, even among critics of psychiatry that have a clue at the potential severity of psychiatric drug...
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Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs – video and info with Will Hall
How can anti-psychotics, anti-depressants, mood stabilizers, and other drugs be used wisely? What are the risks and benefits? How can we collaborate effectively with prescribers, and what about...
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You know we shouldn’t tell anyone about the grave harm psych drugs cause so...
You know we shouldn't tell anyone about the grave harm psych drugs cause so many of us because heaven forbid someone who *should* take meds hears us...That's the message one gets in response from...
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Benzodiazepine withdrawal —“it really is that bad”
"Unless you've been through it, it's impossible to know how bad it is." What Matt Samet talks about in this video is sadly the truth. Those of us who get protracted withdrawal issues come to know an...
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The unbearable heaviness of protracted psychiatric drug withdrawal
Last week Matt Samet posted about a setback he's recently had. The withdrawal ugliness which had largely abated came crashing back after several years of wellness. I made some comments about that in a...
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Silencing psychiatric survivors: let us count the ways
Someone in a linked in group responded to this post on the nature of withdrawal syndrome with what I call an "aggressive positivity" comment. They suggested those harmed by drugs are doing no one a...
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Restorative yoga
I've been practicing aspects of restorative yoga since the beginning of my rehabilitation. To be clear, however, at the height of the protracted withdrawal issues and for a couple of years I could not...
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Antidepressants can cause long term chronic, debilitating physical illnesses
It's always nice when national newspapers dare to tell the truth about psychiatric drugs. The below article is about antidepressants. The fact is all the psych drugs cause such issues in a large...
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The final visit to the psychiatrist (part 2 of Goodbye psychiatry)
I hadn't seen this psychiatrist or any other now in several years. I chose to make this visit to the man who prescribed the drugs for my 6 year long psychiatric drug withdrawal for several reasons....
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Tips, hope and transformation during psych drug withdrawal
Laura's been there and she knows. LEARNING HOW TO BE IN IT -- her relationship to the unknown. Thanks for sharing your journey with us Laura. This video offers tips, suggestions, and hope for those in...
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Hallucinations (it gets better!)
This might amuse some of you...or alternately relieve others as well... When I was at the height of acute psychiatric drug withdrawal hell I once hallucinated a green fairy princess flying through my...
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Emotional “dysregulation” is plasticity
My favorite MD is an unusual man of great insight who is also a scientist and researcher. This is a man who has never told me what to do and only supported my process by being witness and offering...
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What I looked like during psych drug withdrawal
I really don't know what I looked like during that time. Honestly, I didn't have the energy to consider such things. I can still often feel shitty these days, but at this point when I feel like crap I...
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One Nation, Under Sedation
The title from the ProPublica article from the other day was too good to not highlight and share. What does it mean that we are, indeed, a nation under sedation? I think it means we are not awake to...
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Befriending fear
The practice of being with all that arises within. Fear here can be translated to "anxiety," which is the clinical term for fear which everyone at one time or another experiences with or without a...
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Advanced adventures in healing the gut: biofilm eradication
Having this information BEFORE coming off psych drugs might actually help one heal enough to not do as much damage in that process. I don't know this for certain but I intuit that it's likely. Healing...
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while the healing process may sometimes be radical and even violent as well as time consuming, ultimately when we've healed, we've also transformed in profound ways. Indeed, this is becoming my...
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