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Matt, you don't get withdrawal from binge drinking once on the weekends, you get hang overs from dehydration, so what would be more accurate would be you are very easily dehydrated. I really hope you are doing better, and I sympathize with you 100% these medications are over prescribed and the dangers of the medications are under sold by the drs prescribing them. Especially SSRI and Benzo medications, Benzo being the most damaging and protracted withdrawals.

Congratulations Matt and thank you for sharing!

God bless you Matt

Matt don't take anything! It will only make the Hell worse!

THEY KNOW. THE REASON THEY DON'T ADMIT IT IS THEY ARE AFRAID OF LAWSUITS. IT'S VERY SIMPLE!

You have to do some/more Magnesium! Give it a try!

Hey.. I have been listening to your videos for the past 2 days... I found myself in your story so deeply...Benzo belly, akathisia, hypersensitivity...Overthinking, oh my god rumination is killing me. I was opssesed with 2d illustration for a while and it was a bliss....now I dont know what to do next and it is hell in my head.. I need to take my time and gently listen to my inner self to find one subject of interested so i can release my self from rumination... I am 2 years Benzo-free (have been taking Xanax for 7 years), and unfortunately 4 years drug-free (I was heavily addicted in one point)... I am having a setback right now.. I quit job that I had been working for past year and I ended my relationship because I started to feel overwhelmed.. I was blaming myself so hard and than I listened to your videos and remembered what hell did I went through... I will try to be more gentle with myself....

Why do people taper off if the drug helps? I take 20 mg of Prozac and .1 mg Klonapin a night. Been on it for 30 years. My anxiety, panic disorder and insomnia is crippling, why suffer? I panic hearing these horrific stories of getting off the meds.

If you have a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, antidepressants can cause mania, hypomania or a mixed state and anxiety and insomnia can start as a result. it can be very difficult to diagnose bipolar 2 because the hypomanias can feel like a very good day and nobody goes to the doctor to complain about a very good day.

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Hey Matt!🌞🌵🌹I hope you’re doing okay. If you ever get time do you think you could do a video on the difference from living in the United States and moving to an island? Maybe cost-of-living and your whole relocation experience with finding place to live?

What do u recommend I can eat?..I'm currently going thru severe withdrawals from benzos I was prescribed 20 plus yrs ago now..anything I eat hurts literally and I'm loosing alot of weight I'm currently in aphasia dizzy severly dizzy ughhhh nd i will not go to the hospital bcuz of what happened once b4 ☆ Thank you for ur videos ☆

You are helping me stay alive, because of how vulnerable and brave you are. The horror you live on pills is something worse than hell, there's not a word for it yet. It is not human, but I have accepted it somehow. Psych meds have destroyed what I believed to be life.

Matt i absolutely agree with the fact that i kept asking my psychiatrists to stop and i always got the same answer not the right time ... I was on on ssri and antipsychotics and i quit them CT plus from 0.5 klono jumped to 0.25 and kept on the .25 for 3 years not knowing i was on servere tolerance when I asked my doc to remove that 0.25 and me getting stubborn i wanted to quit i got the answer you will die and never come to my office again i had no option to quit that .25 pill CT too .. well i reinstated two times in these 5 months but i won't say that it destroyed my healing yea it did put me in a huge wave but I'm definitely not that severe case like i was in dec 2023 thanks a lot your videos helps a lot and yea the gut thing i think it was the worst part and these drugs hit gut the worst

Your smile is so beautiful

Matt, Not sure if you’ve heard of “setbacks”, but benzo damaged folks can have a reoccurrence of withdrawal symptoms years after supposedly healing. Some substances like Antibiotics (not just quinolones), anesthesia (local and general) and many supplements and vitamins can throw us back into acute. I took doxycycline and had nitrous for a tooth infection six weeks after having covid and all hell broke loose. The doxycycline and nitrous threw me back into acute for four torturous months. I had severe Akathisia where i paced for 16 hours a day, chemical anxiety through the roof, insomnia, benzo belly and unbelievable fear of pretty much everything. This happened 33 months after finishing an 18-month taper from Klonopin which I was only on for 6 months. I thought and felt fully healed before the doxy and nitrous. Needless to say, I will never take another antibiotic again. I’d rather die than go through it again. I’ll take my chances with a possible infection. I’m finally coming out the other side now and I’m stunned I survived it a second time. Please be careful with ANYTHING you put in your body even after your protracted withdrawal is over. Even seemingly benign things like cough drops (menthol is a stimulant, who knew?) can add to the agony. Much love! ❤

😭😭😭 I am sleeping more but I wake up with severe anguish. So much stuff.

I hope you know that you are destined for greatness, Sir. I mean that with all of my heart. Continue your truth, your kindness and your journey to full wellness. Can’t wait for your book. 😉

Thank you so much for that extremely articulate and heartfelt story. I’m truly sorry for your former suffering and your suffering as of late as I know only too well. Take care of yourself Matt❤

The comment about having to take our healing into our own hands and medication not being the answer to trauma was the most validating thing I've heard in a long time. Thank you! I call it 'going rogue'. 😬 I can recommend Dr Jessica Taylor's work for a non-medical perspective on mental health. She's written an excellent bestselling book Sexy but Psycho for example. It's not about Benzo withdrawal (and i don't suffer from that myself thank god - I have cptsd and depression) but it's a criticism of psychiatry from a feminist perspective.

thanks for sharing

Hope you’re doing better. Understand you are taking a break from ALzl this. Just love ya and miss ya. Love P in San Diego. Aloha gorgeous. ❤. I’m still upside down. 🙃

This seems like war raging on the inside and being helpless to save yourself. To onlookers, it looks like they just can't be still. On rare occasions,people underwent surgery with only the paralyzing meds but not the pain relief (fentanyl) part. You are completely conscious but can't move, open your eyes, or scream in pain. You may look normal to observers, but you are in your own hell and can't scream for help. After the patient wakes up, he can tell you exactly what the doctors talked about and every step of the operation. It's your own private torture and hell. I can't imagine what that must be like. So sorry that any medication can do this to people. Meanwhile, the pharmaceutical industry and doctors prescribing it getting rich, making people suffer.

I love how you show your gratitude for the simple pleasures. I have been weaning off for years and just learning about Benzo belly. This video is inspiring and hopeful. Thank you so very much! You have given me more information about this issue than any doctor has.

Thank you keep doing these videos !!! God bless you!!❤

Thank you for your videos.i dont have no family at all .I'm so alone with this except for my twin sister were both struggling trying to taper off 2mg xan 2times aday.iv had seizures .went into acoma paralyzed. I think I told u before but sorry my brain .😢I wanted to know did you have seizures and hear voices? This is a living hell. All the people going through this is crazy! We need a medication for xanax benzodiazepines withdrawls. ❤❤❤

Oh wow im so glad your doing better!!!! I have been on xanax 30yrs.i tried to get off them i went into acoma blind paralyzed. 2 months on hospital. Had to get back on them .i get seizutes .i need to get off these saftley .😢

Great video. From my years working in healthcare and then becoming a neuro patient, and now tapered off klonopin- really goes to show and remind me how the stomach is connected to the brain. Doctors neglect to inform many of us that. Sucks but we live and learn- all the best as you heal!

6 months off Klonopin. I started taking it for anxiety over 3 years ago and my doctor decided I was done with it 6 months ago.

Hi matt did you have stomach pains when pressed... During withdrawal

That's where I am right now 😭 literally starving to death while eating. Every time I eat my gut shuts down. 😭

Hey just wanted to let you know that I’ve done two 18 hour dry fasts in the past month. They sent me into terrible waves that opened up into amazing windows . I’ve been able to take naps again, I’m sleeping 9 hours a night, the muscle jerking is gone. Planning on working my way up to a 24hr dry fast once a week

I got NO ONE. In november i CT Antipsychotiks and an SSRI. I took both for years and still had it when I took it but it wasnt that bad because I took a lot of benzos. Now I went much too fast from 150 mg Diazepam to 4mg, updosed to 30 mg, doesn't help. I got akasthisia and vertigo 24/7 and Panic attacks and cramps I cant swallow my Depression is over the top I ruined my whole life 😢

How are you?

God bless you.

Hey buddy. I have also had massive gut damage due to Valium use, particularly around high histamine foods. Eating any amount of histamine would ratchet my withdrawal symptoms through the roof. It resolved after 2.5 years. I went down the SIBO rabbit hole for a while but ultimately decided to concentrate on my benzodiazepine injury and will address SIBO soon.

Thanks for sharing! you're helping more people than you could ever imagine.

Going through my withdrawal (which I still am) I found myself losing so much weight that I had to eat when I could and basically all comfort food. I was ketonic before I started in this journey though. I need to go back to it. I love carbs too. From what you've said, it sounds like I need to be in ketosis. I also found that carbs (that are sugar) ramped up my anxiety and inner akathesia. Right now I'm doing moderated ketosis. I'm having some decent success with this. At minute 37, you mention your gratitude you have now. I have this for everything now. I get what you're speaking of. How great is it when you lay your head down and realize you are ok or are going to be ok. I just went through a very tough wave. Weeks of just feeling so ill. Three days ago I started feeling really great and it hasn't stopped. I'm praying I've gotten through some wave and it will stick. I have NEVER gone backwards in my recovery. Only forward. Thanks for posting this video. You're doing really great. I've watched your other stuff and you were just like I was. Lost and in pain. Now, you are doing well. Thank GOD. (I'm 10 1/2 months in) Time heals everything. I am in need of getting employment. I need some money. I'm not ready yet though and through this withdrawal I realize I need to wait as I will know when it is the right time for me to go back to work. I am thankful and I'm patient.

I HAVE BEEN SIX MONTHS OFF ZOLOFT AND STILL LIVING IN HELL!

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Yes, I'm going on 7 years clean from Xanax and lm just now feeling myself again. Hope you okay.

I genuinely appreciate your candor and 'TMI'. Gut issues were one of my biggest symptoms and I also lost tons of weight, had the painful fissures you talked about. Thank you for sharing your experience.

Thank you for this. Side note your eyes and hair are amazing. Hope you're well!

Once in a while I feel an emotion type thing again and get a tear in my eye. Then a few minutes later I'm blank again. Thanks for the reminder. I'm still in here somewhere. Hugs to all. Hang in there. <3

Ugh never in a million years thought this would be my life right now im in the thick of it thanks for this.

Sending love and peace back at ya ❤❤❤

I’ve been following your story for the first time. I’ve shed tears. I’m one of the ones that got akathisia from coming off of SSRIs and benzos…. You described it very well. Your videos are very calming. Thank you.

sometimes in a real "anxiety wave" it helped me to take a small amount of Aspirin because it calms a bit down, this is one thing that helped me without too much side effects, but also no answer to this extreme anxiety. does anyone know something else or has made similar experiences?

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