I had the exact same thing during Benzodiazepine withdrawal (Ativan)..every time I would doze off I was shocked awake by loud gunshots in my head and lightning bolts going through my entire body... My entire vision would also turn white for a second. This was on top of the dozens of other completely disabling mental and physical symptoms....But now at 5 years later ... I am completely healed...praise God.
I heard loud crashes. And a woman's voice screaming my name..."Nicole!" I called her the benzo lady. I also would doze off and be jolted awake - called it 'toxic sleep' bc anytime I fell asleep, I'd wake up feeling horrific like I was poisoned in my sleep. I also smelled things like men's cologne and burning rubber that wasn't there
Glad to hear she was able to come back from this. You have to wonder how many people out there are disabled by psychiatric medicines, but don't know it.
Exactly! It's so important to educate yourself and also for those of us that went through a medication injury to speak out about it. The more we talk about it the more we help others. I can very much relate to the term "burning brain" Melissa uses. Great way to describe the terrifying sensation.
They certainly are, especially the elderly that get put on these mind altering drugs in care home who are rocking back and forwards due to the side effects of these psych meds! 😢
I was one for 27 years. It was only at that point that I was abruptly taken off of them an developed pain so severe that I had to be sent to a neurologist and he diagnosed me with BIND, that looked it up and realized all the symptoms I'd had for years were always from medication. I had gone to umpteenth different doctors who all knew what meds I was on, but none could figure out what was wrong with me and not ONE even suggested it could be medication causing these symptoms.
It is refreshing to have psychiatrists who are interested in learning the truth about these medications. I have been a victim of psychiatry for over 20 years. Multiple meds, ECT, and TMS... I wonder if I'll ever recover. I bought into the idea that I had a chemical imbalance that needed to be medicated. As I became more and more unwell, I assumed it was my mental condition becoming more severe. Now I understand that the medications are a large part of the problem.
The Chemical Imbalance construct was contrived by Gregory Bateson, husband to Margaret Mead - as a credulous and lucrative marketing tool. Psychiatrist Jeffrey A. Schaler cut thru this with: "Show me the Chemical Balance Tests!"
I've watched a number of your videos, and this one was particularly helpful for me because it highlighted an individual who was mostly functional (by societal standards) in the months following tapering who still suffered greatly. This helped to validate my sense that things have been off for the past four months since stopping prozac and intermittent trazodone and klonopin for sleep. Just because I could push myself to show up to work doesn't mean I was healthy...
Wow. I’m amazed by Melissa’s persistence in the face of so many different drugs. It seems to me that this talk took a lot of courage and recovery. I have felt so much shame over my own struggles. Many thanks to you both.
Absolutely LOVE what you're doing Dr! And Melissa your story resonates with me so much. Thanks for sharing your story. This information will be very helpful to so many people. Spreading awareness on these complicated issues with psychiatric drugs is, in my opinion, essential to helping prevent suicides and undue suffering for so many people. ❤
In 2012, the Niagara Falls Reporter published this: "Mass shooters are often on antidepressants, yet this is rarely covered in the media!" They then listed a large number of these!@@taperclinic
Antidepressants caused me to become manic and psychotic. Thankfully I didn’t really experience withdrawal symptoms to bad. I was emotionless and had anxiety which I ended up dealing with anxiety meds. I was on those for over 20 years. I stopped them many times throughout the years and just managed by cutting them slowly. Occasionally I will take one with no issues that I’m aware of. I’ve just learned to coop with life so I don’t have to be medicated. Running and really watching what I eat is enough. I also have a great support system. They let me have my moods and recharge when I need to. I basically have two settings on and off. It is what it is
I learn so much from these interviews and I am so thankful you are doing them. My hope is that the medical Community will start to catch wind of this 🙏🏼
Doctors love to talk about prevention, lifestyle changes, and staying off all medication if possible. Drugs are harmful. But when it comes to psychiatric drugs, supposedly there are no risks.
We wouldn't be having these conversations if governments didn't deprescibed medication. Yes don't put people on it in the first place but stop abandoning those who are already prescribed it. Governments and the medical profession need to step up and do what they took the oath for......to help people not abandon them.
I've taken Zoloft for 17 years and too fast taper. Long term side effects and adverse reaction. After going off severe WD neurological injury. Worst thing ever. Still housebound 1 year off.
Such an interesting and important account! I find it amazing that we often feel more clarity and objectivity before we start taking anything to help mood disorders. Brain chemistry is truly a wonder. Its relationship to the microbiome is strong too. It’s as if the additional chemistry of drugs can place our emotions on hold while we learn to get ourselves in a better place emotionally…but they should probably only be used short term. People should have emotions. We shouldn’t feel unfazed by the whole of life for years at a time.
I ended up having cigarette cravings again after my last recent psych ward visit. I had been off them for about a year and was only vaping but when I came home, I started smoking cigarettes again. I had previously not been craving them once I had initially quit and thought they tasted nasty.
Interesting connection between pssd related to the effects of alcohol. There has been evidence that estrogen plays a large role in feeling the effects of alcohol and emotions in general. Somone in the pssd community has recently written a paper hypothesizing that pssd has its roots in estrogen receptor function which you may find interesting. ER function also plays into the SFN and autoimmune perspectives
Please all these people claiming they are healed, go to their channels, they are not healed, in one way or another they are struggling with something badly. That does not mean healing to me.
100% same with the alcohol. I binged on alcohol and food nightly. Was a HUGE problem I could not get under control. I do neither after stopping Lexapro. I first thought it was because I was so sick from withdrawal but 2.5 years later I don’t drink and no food binging. I now think the binging had something to do with the SSRI.
Toxic heavy metals from pharmaceuticals do get passed down from parents. There's a chance it did or it didn't but ideally, the best idea for anyone and any child is to start the heavy metal detox protocol. Toxic heavy metals in pharmaceuticals cause so many issues from autism, to ADHD, to OCD to eczema and hundreds of other diagnoses that they like to throw more drugs at. Detoxing heavy metals can only help and be preventative. I wish I had started doing it at birth as my family had a lot of toxic heavy metal exposures and then my mom gave me the vaccinations and every demented treatment they came up with in the 70s and 80s, such as fluoride which did nothing but destroy my brain and body. Im finally getting relief for the first time in my life at 48 by detoxing according to Medical Medium protocols in Cleanse To Heal and Brain Saver. Celery juice is another game changer. Best of luck to you and your child
Everything you said is spot on. I read his books and am now working with an MM practitioner to get me out of this mess, I have sexual dysfunction and no emotions. What did you have that his stuff helped with?
@@danielfurzer1753 congratulations! I am so happy for you! You will recover. I had full blown dementia without even a 30 second recall at the end of 2019 in addition to Hashimoto's thyroiditis, lupus, endometriosis, about a dozen new gut issues including ulcerative colitis, food sensitivities to every single food that Medical Medium says to avoid insomnia, depression, panic attacks, anxiety, agoraphobia, psychosis, Reynauds syndrome...the list keeps going. I was one of those people "on mattress island" as he calls it. I had sexual disfunction before taking meds but I'm sure they didn't help. Now that I know about viruses I'm grateful for sexual dysfunction as it saved me from exposure to more strep and viruses. I have plenty of my own to start with. If I knew about Medical Medium when I was in high school, I would've become a nun. Resolving insomnia was my greatest challenge. I've had it since age 13 and the Brain Saver Protocols really reset everything for me. Im 48 and finally sleeping since last January.
Im on mirtazapine and I drink alcohol compulsively, i started drinking because I have blunted emotions so want to "feel something" it also seems to almost elimate a hangover, but ive damaged my liver acording to my blood tests
arent they now learning how aquired experiences / experiences being passed down to children? not sure the science behind it but I know it comes up. and i agree withdrawal is a word we need to replace with a couple of new terms that describe what physically happens and doesnt have a connotation associated with it that blames the patient or victim.
Thank you for sharing your story ! The conclusion is a bit disheartening , so sad she’s still feelings these awful symptoms. I wonder if those occur during certain times of her menstrual cycle?
I drank for over 30 years before P@xil, but lost control after. Drank with antidepressants and stimulants then diagnosed and treated for bipolar disorder. After 7 years and 2 rehabs I quit alcohol. Nothing since has improved my mood so much. Currently tapering Cymb@lta. This story is similar to mine and offers hope. Thanks so much!
At 50 grams of prozac, i developed extreme leg jerking and twitching and i could not stop chewing my tongue, burning going up my neck, my therapist didn't believe me 🙄 A year later im down to 10 mg still trying to get off 🙃
I took Lexapro for a three months but skipped doses.. I had a bad lifestyle but I think it made me into a different person when I quit.. angry impulsive obsessive and less sexual energy.. and flight of thoughts when on it
I enjoy him asking questions. That’s how we know exactly with depth what happened. If not we would be missing many things, for example, what meds people were taken, how her pregnancy affected her along with symptoms, and so on. I need details. Especially since I’m in a similar boat, and need all the info I can get. Of course everyone is different.
I didn't notice, but I only watched this once. Don't see any real issues with these interviews, I think they're great! One of very few doctors willing to talk about these things. Really sad to see the ISSM start denying pssd, they should be ashamed of themselves. Oh, not a pssd video. But all psychiatric drug complications are commonly blamed on the patient.
Thank you so much for letting me tell my story!
Thanks for sharing your story Melissa!
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Thank you so much for sharing it. I am so glad that you are feeling so much better.
thank you i have some similar experiences and this is the first time hearing someone else that has.
How long did it take you to recover? And did you see any particular measures to be helpful? (If I somehow missed it in the interview, I aplogise).
I had the exact same thing during Benzodiazepine withdrawal (Ativan)..every time I would doze off I was shocked awake by loud gunshots in my head and lightning bolts going through my entire body... My entire vision would also turn white for a second. This was on top of the dozens of other completely disabling mental and physical symptoms....But now at 5 years later ... I am completely healed...praise God.
I woke up hearing loud gunshots too! I'm 8 months off. Healing will come for me some day.
@@youghbaby YES it will.... I thought I would never heal..but I did...and you will too!!!
I heard loud crashes. And a woman's voice screaming my name..."Nicole!" I called her the benzo lady. I also would doze off and be jolted awake - called it 'toxic sleep' bc anytime I fell asleep, I'd wake up feeling horrific like I was poisoned in my sleep. I also smelled things like men's cologne and burning rubber that wasn't there
@@nicolelambic Yep...I know all about it ...its HORRIBLE...But I am completely healed and you will be healed also!
@user-gz2cp1or2b glad to hear you healed...how you deal with the whole sleep issue, and no sleep, I assume
Glad to hear she was able to come back from this. You have to wonder how many people out there are disabled by psychiatric medicines, but don't know it.
Exactly! It's so important to educate yourself and also for those of us that went through a medication injury to speak out about it. The more we talk about it the more we help others. I can very much relate to the term "burning brain" Melissa uses. Great way to describe the terrifying sensation.
They certainly are, especially the elderly that get put on these mind altering drugs in care home who are rocking back and forwards due to the side effects of these psych meds! 😢
Disabled from being forced to take neurotoxic drugs, which is 2nd Degree Assault. Even with Tardive Dyskinesia!
Many. Big dark story. Some unfortunately give up which is terrible.
I was one for 27 years. It was only at that point that I was abruptly taken off of them an developed pain so severe that I had to be sent to a neurologist and he diagnosed me with BIND, that looked it up and realized all the symptoms I'd had for years were always from medication. I had gone to umpteenth different doctors who all knew what meds I was on, but none could figure out what was wrong with me and not ONE even suggested it could be medication causing these symptoms.
It is refreshing to have psychiatrists who are interested in learning the truth about these medications. I have been a victim of psychiatry for over 20 years. Multiple meds, ECT, and TMS... I wonder if I'll ever recover. I bought into the idea that I had a chemical imbalance that needed to be medicated. As I became more and more unwell, I assumed it was my mental condition becoming more severe. Now I understand that the medications are a large part of the problem.
The Chemical Imbalance construct was contrived by Gregory Bateson, husband to Margaret Mead - as a credulous and lucrative marketing tool. Psychiatrist Jeffrey A. Schaler cut thru this with: "Show me the Chemical Balance Tests!"
I've watched a number of your videos, and this one was particularly helpful for me because it highlighted an individual who was mostly functional (by societal standards) in the months following tapering who still suffered greatly. This helped to validate my sense that things have been off for the past four months since stopping prozac and intermittent trazodone and klonopin for sleep. Just because I could push myself to show up to work doesn't mean I was healthy...
Thanks for sharing.
Anxiety is a continuous thing you'll have it forever it's a mix of nervous system psychosis you'll be fine
Wow. I’m amazed by Melissa’s persistence in the face of so many different drugs. It seems to me that this talk took a lot of courage and recovery. I have felt so much shame over my own struggles. Many thanks to you both.
yes! powerful story.
Also, ECT from WW1. When a soldier returned to the front lines - he must have charged into machine gun bullets at once!
This story gives a glimpse of hope at least
Wow shared to several places. Awesome conversation This is such an interesting one. Melissa is an excellent speaker. Clear and concise. ♥️👍 Thank you.
Absolutely LOVE what you're doing Dr! And Melissa your story resonates with me so much. Thanks for sharing your story. This information will be very helpful to so many people. Spreading awareness on these complicated issues with psychiatric drugs is, in my opinion, essential to helping prevent suicides and undue suffering for so many people. ❤
Thank you for your comment.
In 2012, the Niagara Falls Reporter published this: "Mass shooters are often on antidepressants, yet this is rarely covered in the media!" They then listed a large number of these!@@taperclinic
Absolutely heroic survival story.
Antidepressants caused me to become manic and psychotic. Thankfully I didn’t really experience withdrawal symptoms to bad. I was emotionless and had anxiety which I ended up dealing with anxiety meds. I was on those for over 20 years. I stopped them many times throughout the years and just managed by cutting them slowly. Occasionally I will take one with no issues that I’m aware of. I’ve just learned to coop with life so I don’t have to be medicated. Running and really watching what I eat is enough. I also have a great support system. They let me have my moods and recharge when I need to. I basically have two settings on and off. It is what it is
I learn so much from these interviews and I am so thankful you are doing them. My hope is that the medical
Community will start to catch wind of this 🙏🏼
Doctors love to talk about prevention, lifestyle changes, and staying off all medication if possible. Drugs are harmful. But when it comes to psychiatric drugs, supposedly there are no risks.
"Psych drugs cause mass shootings" - as stated on T.V. by Allen Francis in 2012!
We wouldn't be having these conversations if governments didn't deprescibed medication. Yes don't put people on it in the first place but stop abandoning those who are already prescribed it. Governments and the medical profession need to step up and do what they took the oath for......to help people not abandon them.
But remember, the interviewer is a medical professional doing the right thing. Hard to find good people in this mess.
Thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you for sharing! You were railroaded. And how many people does this happen to? You’re so brave.
Orwellian cancel culture!
I've taken Zoloft for 17 years and too fast taper. Long term side effects and adverse reaction. After going off severe WD neurological injury. Worst thing ever. Still housebound 1 year off.
Such an interesting and important account! I find it amazing that we often feel more clarity and objectivity before we start taking anything to help mood disorders. Brain chemistry is truly a wonder. Its relationship to the microbiome is strong too.
It’s as if the additional chemistry of drugs can place our emotions on hold while we learn to get ourselves in a better place emotionally…but they should probably only be used short term. People should have emotions. We shouldn’t feel unfazed by the whole of life for years at a time.
I ended up having cigarette cravings again after my last recent psych ward visit. I had been off them for about a year and was only vaping but when I came home, I started smoking cigarettes again. I had previously not been craving them once I had initially quit and thought they tasted nasty.
Thank you for sharing your story
Mental health is the development of a mental + emotional dedication - a cathexis!
Interesting connection between pssd related to the effects of alcohol. There has been evidence that estrogen plays a large role in feeling the effects of alcohol and emotions in general. Somone in the pssd community has recently written a paper hypothesizing that pssd has its roots in estrogen receptor function which you may find interesting. ER function also plays into the SFN and autoimmune perspectives
Neurosteroids
My family member also drank heavily and compulsively on Citalopram - that stuff is evil.
I am overwhelmed by constant irrational fear and anhedonia. I am terrified of how long I will be like this.
You talk to others to LEARN FROM OTHERS !!!!
Please all these people claiming they are healed, go to their channels, they are not healed, in one way or another they are struggling with something badly. That does not mean healing to me.
Love these. Thanks ❤
Glad you like them!
100% same with the alcohol. I binged on alcohol and food nightly. Was a HUGE problem I could not get under control. I do neither after stopping Lexapro. I first thought it was because I was so sick from withdrawal but 2.5 years later I don’t drink and no food binging. I now think the binging had something to do with the SSRI.
Toxic heavy metals from pharmaceuticals do get passed down from parents. There's a chance it did or it didn't but ideally, the best idea for anyone and any child is to start the heavy metal detox protocol.
Toxic heavy metals in pharmaceuticals cause so many issues from autism, to ADHD, to OCD to eczema and hundreds of other diagnoses that they like to throw more drugs at. Detoxing heavy metals can only help and be preventative. I wish I had started doing it at birth as my family had a lot of toxic heavy metal exposures and then my mom gave me the vaccinations and every demented treatment they came up with in the 70s and 80s, such as fluoride which did nothing but destroy my brain and body. Im finally getting relief for the first time in my life at 48 by detoxing according to Medical Medium protocols in Cleanse To Heal and Brain Saver.
Celery juice is another game changer. Best of luck to you and your child
Everything you said is spot on. I read his books and am now working with an MM practitioner to get me out of this mess, I have sexual dysfunction and no emotions. What did you have that his stuff helped with?
@@danielfurzer1753 congratulations! I am so happy for you! You will recover. I had full blown dementia without even a 30 second recall at the end of 2019 in addition to Hashimoto's thyroiditis, lupus, endometriosis, about a dozen new gut issues including ulcerative colitis, food sensitivities to every single food that Medical Medium says to avoid insomnia, depression, panic attacks, anxiety, agoraphobia, psychosis, Reynauds syndrome...the list keeps going. I was one of those people "on mattress island" as he calls it. I had sexual disfunction before taking meds but I'm sure they didn't help. Now that I know about viruses I'm grateful for sexual dysfunction as it saved me from exposure to more strep and viruses. I have plenty of my own to start with.
If I knew about Medical Medium when I was in high school, I would've become a nun.
Resolving insomnia was my greatest challenge. I've had it since age 13 and the Brain Saver Protocols really reset everything for me. Im 48 and finally sleeping since last January.
Im on mirtazapine and I drink alcohol compulsively, i started drinking because I have blunted emotions so want to "feel something" it also seems to almost elimate a hangover, but ive damaged my liver acording to my blood tests
Thank you, I've been on xanax and percolator for too many years to count. After having 2 seizures worki8ng on long taper.Wish you all the best❤
Lol percocet
arent they now learning how aquired experiences / experiences being passed down to children? not sure the science behind it but I know it comes up. and i agree withdrawal is a word we need to replace with a couple of new terms that describe what physically happens and doesnt have a connotation associated with it that blames the patient or victim.
Thank you for sharing your story ! The conclusion is a bit disheartening , so sad she’s still feelings these awful symptoms. I wonder if those occur during certain times of her menstrual cycle?
This story is horrific! 😮
I drank for over 30 years before P@xil, but lost control after. Drank with antidepressants and stimulants then diagnosed and treated for bipolar disorder. After 7 years and 2 rehabs I quit alcohol. Nothing since has improved my mood so much. Currently tapering Cymb@lta. This story is similar to mine and offers hope. Thanks so much!
At 50 grams of prozac, i developed extreme leg jerking and twitching and i could not stop chewing my tongue, burning going up my neck, my therapist didn't believe me 🙄
A year later im down to 10 mg still trying to get off 🙃
I took Lexapro for a three months but skipped doses.. I had a bad lifestyle but I think it made me into a different person when I quit.. angry impulsive obsessive and less sexual energy.. and flight of thoughts when on it
Hi Dr., sorry but it wold be great to not frequently interrupt your interviewee when they talk! Otherwise, good job in bringing these things to light.
I enjoy him asking questions. That’s how we know exactly with depth what happened. If not we would be missing many things, for example, what meds people were taken, how her pregnancy affected her along with symptoms, and so on. I need details. Especially since I’m in a similar boat, and need all the info I can get. Of course everyone is different.
I didn't notice, but I only watched this once. Don't see any real issues with these interviews, I think they're great! One of very few doctors willing to talk about these things. Really sad to see the ISSM start denying pssd, they should be ashamed of themselves. Oh, not a pssd video. But all psychiatric drug complications are commonly blamed on the patient.
I actually appreciate the questions that he asks. They often lead to further clarification of details.
Yes I think many people are. We have a huge crisis on pur world becausr of ADs
True.
This is beyound a study of just goming off ssri etc..
Have you regained your ability to dry? It's healthy to be able to cry.
also addiction. I think this term is not helpful.