I come back and re-watch your videos when withdrawal gets hard and no one quite "gets it". Thanks for sharing your experience Russel, makes it feel less lonely!
Have you ever heard about niacine flush (b3) and vitamin C together as a treatment. You can do your own research Dr Abraham Hoffer cure schizophrenia patients with that treatment.
I’d like to say hi to you in real life someday because you have kept me alive and I think you for that. It would be awesome to have like a big conference of all us injured med people and recovered people meet up and just be there to say hi and give everyone hugs
That’s a great idea! I don’t know if I currently have the conference cachet to pull something like that off without some help Lol, but where there’s a will, there’s a way. Through some means or another, someday, it could surely be done. Thank you for sharing how much I’ve helped :) But I know my help would’ve amounted to very little if not for your own inner strength and resolve to keep pushing ahead. Whatever you do, don’t give up. It will get better. Much love to you.
You're such an inspiration Russell! Thank you for being so caring, vulnerable, and for helping me understand myself better in this tapering/healing chaos. You've got me feeling a little less alone🤗 God bless you!
I’ve been on psychiatric medicine for 8 years and it’s not been well for my confidence or self image both mentally and physically. Weight gain is a major issue I’ve gained 40 lbs taking antipsychotics this past year. My goal is to live a financially independent life so that I can come off medication without the threat of being homeless. It’s good to see someone share their experience with these issues that many of us unfortunately experience for ourselves. Thanks for these videos and keep moving forward.
Hi! :) I am now since 2 weeks on my n-th taper, therefore a little faster, from Amisulpride and Sertaline. Previously I was able to reduce Quetiapine for sleep substantially and withdraw completely from Pregabaline. Now I take really small doses of the remaining drugs, plus I am treated with dopamine agonists from my endocrynologist. I hope to be off those drugs completely by the end of the year. I prepared myself theoretically by reading books and watching channels such as yours. I am tapering by myself, because Doctors aren't trained and willing to supervise this process IMO. I feel really for now that I am not sure if I am making any progress, I have better and worse days. Good therapy helps with the darker days. Cheers:)!
Hey Bonnie, Support Calls are currently on hiatus, but if you’d like you can send me an email at RussellBYT@gmail.com requesting to be added to the notification list. It’s nothing _too_ special; you would just be notified whenever more calls are being scheduled. It isn’t necessary to do this. TH-cam makes it hard to post important info in a way that everyone will see it, so it’s just an extra bit of insurance should the need arise. Speaking of TH-cam: I replied to this comment yesterday but TH-cam sometimes glitches out and doesn’t actually post the reply, so I’m sorry for the delay!
I’m so glad you have done these video. My Son is near your age born in 86. Schizoaffective disorder and has stopped his invega sustaina now 2 times in the last year. All during COVID! Things feel very not hopeless but definitely uncomfortable for me as his roommate and Mom. I’m neutral on medication because I’ve seen Sean in psychosis and on medication where I’ve actually had a son I can relate to and talk to him he can describe and talk about memories that were completely covered by the medications he was on when he was younger at the same time going through this process of getting off the medications is so traumatic for me for other family members that it is it is ripping our family apart and I am seeking advice and help and I’m thankful that youAre sharing with the world what you were going through thank you
Can you possibly have the support calls on a Saturday or Sunday? I'm really interested in speaking with you on a virtual visit. I work during the week.
Hi Russel. I have adhd and stopped taking antipsychotic two months ago. The adhd medication is still not working properly. I exercise and eat healthy. Any idea when the dopamine receptors will start working again? Best regards from Trond
@@russellbyt Thanks for the reply! It's really wierd. The last week i have been trying to monitor when i get a release of dopamine like i used to: Cigarettes, chocolate, nicotine pouches, ritalin, hiit running, and eating so i feel full. It does not react. It actually reminds me of the symptoms i was feeling on olanzapine when I felt no energy after consuming sugar. As you know the meds can often cause diabetes. But yeah! All the things i used as tools to get stuff done and study are now not activating the pathways they used to. It is truly depressing. Starting gym teacher study in two weeks. Wondering if i should just postphone it. I would get a chance to loose some serious though. Was not expecting this. At least im never going back to the sleepwalking zombie they made me into at the hospital. Misdiagnosed and badly medicated. Horrible people 😞
@@russellbyt Okay. I was maybe expecting things to happen a bit too fast. Defintely noticing runners high now after two week of running. Also decided too quit my adhd-drugs, snus, smoke and the casual drink for a period wich is now resulting in a more relaxed day overall. Still missing the superfocus, but the benefits so far clearly outweighs the missing focus. Thinking ill start on a low dose of adhd meds in a week or so. Some say that help.
Hi Russell have you experienced akathsia? I went cold turkey out off Olanzapine and it got so bad they put me on an antidepressant Mirtazapine. Now I am tapering that...
@@russellbyt Thank you and how long did it take you to get off the drugs? I have read about 10% rule and my taper will last 1.5 year with it. I am super scared of akathisia coming back once I lower the doses...
@@russellbyt i quit Risperidone cold turkey and it gave me a psychotic episode this year in january 2022 I am 16 ,never had any health problem related to the brain or nervous system I was fine the way i was ,my familly doesnt have a history of illness ,my grandma died at 87 and my grandpa died at 70 i think The psychiatrist prescribed them to me just because i told her i was stressed ,i took them from december 22 2021, till 31 of december 2021 and quit cold turkey for 2 days 1 and 2 of january ,on the 3 i went to highschool and everthing was normal ,and on the 4 th i started to have the episode ,i kept taking it till 2 february 2022 now i feel so bad with the brain and i can barely talk ,i suffer so much ,and its just not worth it ,i never needed literally poison for my brain ,the doctor just prescribed it like it was candy ,i suffered and i still suffer for nothing ,i don t even know if i will ever be just like i was again ,i never needed them and now i suffer because of them My right hand feels wierd and a little paralysed and my brain is literally in pain The side effects started after a month I quit it 2 feb 2022 and at the end of the month i started to feel very bad i started crying in early february for no reason in march stuff got really really bad
@@russellbyt i also forgot to mention my vision ,its been blured for a few weeks now , i see blured while looking at thing that are far ,and sometimes this happens even at close things such as screens ,the writing gets a little blurry when i look at things on my phone
I have taken the Invega Sustenna shots for six months in dec. 2018 to June 2019. It has been a tough journey for me so far. I am having cognitive impairments and I am wondering how long it takes to heal roughly from this. Does this healing take years?
how do i sleep i’ve got a lot happening really fast and it’s hard for me i don’t want a pill just please you have been a rock when i felt i was dead and now i’m coming back but i’m haunted by almost everything i try coping mechanisms but every night harder and harder your amazing just if you can spare a second please reply
@@russellbyt thank you so much for your reply i’ve been listening to rain sounds was in a mood and knocked one out and eventually passed out honestly though the weight has just fallen off i feel light emotions motivation is up and i watched every one of your videos a lot of times after a while it was hard to believe you because you where so animated but i see the pain in your eyes it looked like you cried prior to your first video and i felt that you keep doing what your doing and i will scour through this advice you are a legend and the only true recovery guy on youtube thank you for everything
Have you tried a natural herbal medicine like nytol or kalms to help you sleep cos that’s what l use sometimes and it works a treat for me. You can buy it over the counter.
Bruh... can you post resources you know about that are encouraging to all people getting off psychiatric drugs? You can post studies, research papers, books, blogs, influencers. Just an idea. Would really help me :)
Hi. How long do you think it should take for someone when the person is on 4.5 mg of Invega and 15 mg of propranolol? It is not funny time because you are aware and it seems like you were aware what you were doing. Here the example is more difficult. We are scared to get into psychosis. He is not ready for a social life yet but in my native country people with a mental illness ...which is more like lock of nutrition nobody was for life on meds. Here it is abnormal to feed people with poison and expecting them to be alive. Thank you so much for giving us hope and one day we may contact you. We need to come out of darkness a bit more. God bless your path for continuous healing.
Hi Miriam, I can’t say exactly how long it will take because it depends on a number of things. The most important thing is that we taper the right way and at the right speed. You can read more about that on this page: www.survivingantidepressants.org/topic/7101-tips-for-tapering-off-invega-paliperidone/ The social life part takes time. We start doing these things when we’re ready and we are far enough into our healing and recovery process - and we do reach this point eventually. I know how hard all of this is, but we can get through it. Much love to you and your family!
@@russellbyt Thank you It is still not easy. The Invega is long release so you cannot chip it. But from 12 to 6 to 4.5 we made with those couch days and sign of light psychosis...Not Er yet Hopefully never I described a pinch to someone as a reply what happened . It is God will You have in you the light of God He guided you through your suffering. Have faith Russell He is with you today and forever and what you lost here on this Earth He will return to you at least twice. Be you Don't look for greediness and harm. You are a wonderful human being and YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD...always remember that. Thank you for your warm advice. May God bless you ALWAYS
@@russellbyt I am happy to hear that ☺️ I just wonder was your akathisia more like inner restlessness or involuntary movements? How long it took to resolve?
Hello Russell B Did you experienced sexual side effects while you were on drugs? And when you stopped drugs did these go away or persisted? And if persisted for how long?
If a person is really delusional Rather than taking psychiatrist treatment? (Because psychiatrist drugs have side effects )What His/her guardian do? Can you answer i mean what is the solution?
This is something I won’t pretend to have all the answers for. Delusional thinking was never one of my symptoms so I also lack experience dealing with it firsthand. Though I do have people close to me who struggle with this, so it’s not a complete unknown to me. This secondhand experience is why I don’t have a very favorable view of psych drugs as a useful way of “treating” delusional thinking. Too many people are shut down by the meds. I’m actually interested in talking to others who have non-psych med solutions, maybe as content for the channel. Those people are definitely out there. If you come across any, feel free to let me know!
HELPP!!!! PLEASE HELP!! GOD, PLEASE READ THIS I NEED HELP!!! I'm a 19 year old who had a temporary anxiety. My physician offered another anxiety medication like it was nothing, (i've previously been on chlonodine hcl which helps for both hypetension and anxiety). I found out it was a psychiatric(Buspar/Buspirone) :/ No talk about how to use it, side-effects, how it works. And never told me it mitigates the brain. Never said it was a psychiatric drug. The first time I took it, I definitely noticed a decline in cognitive-faculties. As I kept taking it however, I seemed to regain the ability to think, however, my memory and the way I read (I tend to be VERY high in IQ, and read chunks ultra fast instead of slowly linearly from left to right) were downgraded. I will admit I took them all over the place. I tried to stick with taking it at morning (4am when I wake up) and then another in the afternoon. But honestly sometimes I'd forget and only ingest one. I made a follow up with my doctor once after the prescription and he told me it's until my brain adjusts. He had some point in there because i did kind of start seeing to regain my ability to think creatively but my way of reading was still changed from fast to slow and my memory was still bad. I had a realization realizing wtf I was taking and realizing it alters my brain and noticing my memory not as good and reading linearly instead of how I normally read. I then decided to search this thing up. I found out it's a psychiatric drug that mitigates the brain and I just got so fucking scared. I started searching up "buspar lowers intelligence." I've read some posts on quora about people feeling as smart as they were before and on when going on even more powerful things such as SSRI's (but then everyone is different). And other people saying "well if we define intelligence as the neurochemistry which is impacted by these drugs..." you get the point. Generally I'm hyper-aware with my eyes always looking everywhere and ever since this medicine, it has gone away. Also, I stumbled upon these videos claiming that psychiatric medicatinos can be the devil for some people: th-cam.com/video/qTfuhKWWbGU/w-d-xo.html They say that it impedes cognitivie abilities, but what makes me think I can stay this sane is because my very High IQ (Stanford Binet 149) took the hit and I'm still able to cognitively function. I quit cold turkey. 10 days ago was the last time I took it, after taking it for 3weeks/month. However, I did not know that quitting cold turkey was a bad thing. No one ever had these conversations with me, and I really do feel like a victim :( I'm scared that quitting Cold Turkey will do brain damage, but I searched it just lists the withdrawal side effects as more severe. I just don't know what to do man. Please someone just tell me what to do to get out of this mess. I don't want to feel hopeless. Please don't put any blame on me, I admit that I was ignorant. In fact, I grew up in a bubble of my ethnic community (Mexican) and didn't really find out the difference between an entree and an appetizer til like a month ago or two. I've also seen other posts on reddit about brainfog on buspirone/buspar, and no one believing them. But I do. I'm just so scared.
Hey I was wondering how are you feeling now that you quit cold turkey ? Did you have a lot of withdrawal symptoms?? I’m scared too I took lexapro for a week and I was having memory problems while I was taking it so I stopped cold turkey after that week …. and I’m scared as well of not feeling like myself again it sucks ,, some of my withdrawal that I’m experiencing is a little dizzynes,ringing in right ear ,dry mouth,insomnia,increased anxiety,diarrhea ,trouble concentrating ,irritability I been off of lexapro for 7 days and at least the dry mouth is gone I’m hoping everything is going well for you now
@@reynagonzalez8983 Please take some deep breaths for what I’m about to say, and please remember, be kind to yourself because you did not deserve any of this ❤️ You took an ssri, I took a non-benzo anti anxiety(buspar), although we both took psych meds, the type of psych drugs we took are different. The mechanism of action is different (mechanism of action means how the it affects our brains with the new chemicals). Mine works w dopamine and serotonin and depressed the central nervous system w/o GABA receptors (gaba receptors are in central nervous system, waiting for gaba chemicals, that work to relax) Now please relax ur breath and trust, for what I’m about to say, it might sound scary❤️ (Sorry if being creepy, I would’ve loved to have someone talk to me like that) It may be because I’m sensible to drugs, but 2 weeks after quitting was when I experienced the worst side effect possible: emotional blunting/no empathy, and anti-anxiety drugs are NOT supposed to give you that, only SSRI’s. I felt like a sociopath, or worse. I also had no background feeling in life, I will explain. I had no feelings of happiness, or sadness, in respect to myself. I floored 110 on the highway because I wanted to feel something, I did not feel human. The mechanism for feeling emotion, was mostly shut off. Thr mechanism responsible for detecting other humans and feeling empathy for them also shut off. Even though I saw other humans around, my brain didn’t recognize the presence. Each day I went to school, even though I saw cars on the highway, my brain felt no human presence. It felt like when you step outside your house and see nothing and get this eerie feeling, that’s how it felt, but the thing was... there were other people, my mechanism for detecting human presence was just shut off. Also, you know the background feelings in life such as “it’s a sunny day” “it’s night time” “it’s a special occasion”? Yeah, that went away, it felt like cardboard. Everything felt like cardboard. I felt like an organism just existing. All of this went away for the most part after 2 weeks. However, you took an SSRI, and those are officially know to cause emotional blunting. Let me hold your hand my love, while I say this ❤️. But cold turkeying an SSRI only increases the probability of you developing emotional blunting. Please be kind to yourself, you are a beautiful human being 💜 I’m not saying this to scare you, but because there might be a probability/chance of you being able to reinstate your dose to reduce the damage, I would go on to reddit and search for the community “PSSD” as they might know. All the rest of my side effects were as follows: trembling, empty head, slowness, slurred speech, hallucinations, no more happiness, loss of sensation of tickling. In reality, anything can happen because psych meds are just like carpet bombing your brain. Even the exact mechanism of action for my medication is unknown. Now I’m not against medication, but I’m all for educating people. I’m feeling great right now, although I don’t experience as much happiness//smiling. (I’m somewhat autistic and smile uncontrollably because I naturally have more dopamine, or at least that was the case.) I feel slower because it depressed my CNS, and turning my eyes as I speedread, I definitely notice a difference. Especially because intelligence inhabits every cornerstone of my life, I easily noticed a difference. The rapid eye movement uses the same mechanism that my visualization uses. I typically visualize while reading, and that’s become somewhat, although on a minuscule level, hampered., however, I now need to our more work in. I think that mechanism tats responsible for rapid eye movement and visualization is hampered becaus in less alert. One of the withdrawal symptoms is being unusually sedated/tired. I’m hoping this will subside with time. PLEASE REMEMBER YOU ARE LOVED, AT LEAST WITHIN THE PSCYH MED COMMUNITY ♥️ YOU ARE A BEAUTIFUL HUMAN BEING WITH THE RIGHT TO EXPERIENCE LIFE TO THE FULLEST 💜💜💜(I’m army too lol) 3 weeks ago I was just telling myself “if I can feel love at least, that will be fine” but now I genuinely feel like I’m getting my life back. please talk to your loved ones and spend more time with them, that may sound cliche, but that’s what worked for me 😂. If they don’t believe you, that’s okay, I believe you ❤️. If you doctors don’t believe you, it’s okay, I believe you ❤️. My GP didn’t believe me because supposedly my medication goes out in 2 hours, but I recuperating most of my rapid eye movement after 4 days of leaving it... see? Haha, they don’t believe us. Please be gentle with yourself, my lovely human being, you are a precious thing of the universe and deserve every fruitful interaction that we humans are capable of experiencing. Often time I locked myself in my room and cried, and it was the most beautiful thing because that was the second emotion I got back, after being happy. Please love yourself, and if you have no one to talk to, you can shoot me a message, and I will try to respond here or anywhere else you’d like. Please be kind you yourself, my fellow sister ❤️
@@reynagonzalez8983 not to scare you, but rather because you might probably be able to reinstate your dose to minimize effects, but my auntie still has memory problems after taking SSRI’s. :/ Sorry if my speech made you uncomfortable, I’m just talking to you like I wish someone would’ve talked to me and held me while I locked myself in my rooms cried to God. I love you as a human being ❤️. Please take care of yourself man. I had days where i didn’t feel human, but I prospered ❤️💚💚💚💙💙💚💛🧡🖤🖤💜
I’m so glad you have done these video. My Son is near your age born in 86. Schizoaffective disorder and has stopped his invega sustaina now 2 times in the last year. All during COVID! Things feel very not hopeless but definitely uncomfortable for me as his roommate and Mom. I’m neutral on medication because I’ve seen Sean in psychosis and on medication where I’ve actually had a son I can relate to and talk to him he can describe and talk about memories that were completely covered by the medications he was on when he was younger at the same time going through this process of getting off the medications is so traumatic for me for other family members that it is it is ripping our family apart and I am seeking advice and help and I’m thankful that youAre sharing with the world what you were going through thank you
It is horrible when your loved one got the problem...but the real problem starts when you cannot help because the others think they know your son better then you do. My son was never violent Very loving and compassionate person and he got lost on a field not remember where he was. He had a lot physical issues before Chronic sinusitis tonsillitis pancreatitis severe acne on his back urinary tract infections with the bladder etc...and many others. And being vaccinated esp for MMR His body used all the fuel to fight those nasty infections and puberty hits and that was not enough of the fuel to make all the storm of hormones he needed...And the stranger admitted him to ER . He called his brother and his 14 y/o went there with his not knowing English father and said...so he was acting like schizophrenic??? and then the so called medical authority grasped to the huge name SCHIZOPHRENIC...They without my knowledge...his father didn't care...send him to behavioral center...a young innocent not violent ....to that center. I still believed USA was a heaven on earth and learned my English as a sec language. I didn't understand at that time what was going on. I went to visit the place It looked like for the serial killers. Many locked doors Controlled environment Checking me as I was smuggling a coke...or something worse. Trauma began. He begged me. Mom take me from here...I wanted At this point they told me I'm not his mom anymore...he belonged to them. I was crying He was crying. Helpless...The mr doc called a court...they didn't let him to force the meds...then he kept him against his will waiting for another court and another...and finally the judge signed the paper to put my son on the path to a hell. They find him violent because he being a young boy trapped by 3 security was spitting left and right the meds he didn't want. Then they approaches him with the injection so he was kicking bc he said Mom I know what this medication can do to your brain...then Judge who know s...h..it about somebody's life did it to satisfy the mr doc. Hope God will bring a justice upon him. And they forced and forced and forced...they dont let you to go after 2 weeks. They keep you there to damage your brain enough so you could never get off of that legally prescribed torture for life. I have been there with my son since. We were trying....and landed in the same place. You have to pull your child out of the "merciful...full of sh..i.t system" and be strong and brave enough to help your loved once. I hope the hell has a special place for all those PSYCHIATRISTS and their helpers who are seeing suffering are still harming the innocent life
BTW(2nd replay) at some point he was in a hospital without drugs and coming back to normal I was talking to him I was happy He was having memory problems. I thought they will let him go because he was 98% healthy...Yes they let him go with the syringe of abilify for one month in his body. Only God knows what was happening to my son How much he suffered and lock of sleep excessive shopping Restlessness ...and they let him go out right away after injection. ...Just like that I called to a hospital I begged for help They said that was not their problem He is not their patient anymore There are services I could look for and leave them alone you crazy mother. One day my son was almost my son again...and next I had a manic person not attached to reality...Finally I got to talk to the doctor because my son couldn't stay out of hospital So again ER again smiling personnel again the b...sh..testing for the blood stuff...and again for 6 weeks in the psyche unit. The doc said I 'm NOT allowed let a person go out from this unit without the meds. THIS IS OUR PROTOCOL...oh...Protocols are more important then people? Damage after damage Who is going to pay for it? if that had happened to Paris Hilton...oh no...if they crack her nail she would received 35 mil of $$$. What about people like our loved ones? Where is the law and justice and equally treating all of us. No there are the chosen ones..ant those whom they are living of
I come back and re-watch your videos when withdrawal gets hard and no one quite "gets it". Thanks for sharing your experience Russel, makes it feel less lonely!
Have you ever heard about niacine flush (b3) and vitamin C together as a treatment. You can do your own research Dr Abraham Hoffer cure schizophrenia patients with that treatment.
How are you now?
I’d like to say hi to you in real life someday because you have kept me alive and I think you for that. It would be awesome to have like a big conference of all us injured med people and recovered people meet up and just be there to say hi and give everyone hugs
That’s a great idea! I don’t know if I currently have the conference cachet to pull something like that off without some help Lol, but where there’s a will, there’s a way. Through some means or another, someday, it could surely be done.
Thank you for sharing how much I’ve helped :) But I know my help would’ve amounted to very little if not for your own inner strength and resolve to keep pushing ahead. Whatever you do, don’t give up. It will get better. Much love to you.
You're such an inspiration Russell! Thank you for being so caring, vulnerable, and for helping me understand myself better in this tapering/healing chaos. You've got me feeling a little less alone🤗 God bless you!
@@russellbyt did u feel depersonalization in ur withdrawl.
For nutrition, i have found that making a big pot of vegetable soup, weekly, and having a bowl each day, without having to think about it, has helped.
I’ve been on psychiatric medicine for 8 years and it’s not been well for my confidence or self image both mentally and physically. Weight gain is a major issue I’ve gained 40 lbs taking antipsychotics this past year. My goal is to live a financially independent life so that I can come off medication without the threat of being homeless. It’s good to see someone share their experience with these issues that many of us unfortunately experience for ourselves. Thanks for these videos and keep moving forward.
Waves and windows. As time goes on, the waves get shorter and the windows get bigger. Great videos man! 👍
Thank you! 🙏
Great video, thanks for your testimony
Nice video man, I love it, from the editing to the message :)
you look healthy, not a single wrinkle under eyes, keep going!
Hi! :) I am now since 2 weeks on my n-th taper, therefore a little faster, from Amisulpride and Sertaline. Previously I was able to reduce Quetiapine for sleep substantially and withdraw completely from Pregabaline. Now I take really small doses of the remaining drugs, plus I am treated with dopamine agonists from my endocrynologist. I hope to be off those drugs completely by the end of the year. I prepared myself theoretically by reading books and watching channels such as yours. I am tapering by myself, because Doctors aren't trained and willing to supervise this process IMO. I feel really for now that I am not sure if I am making any progress, I have better and worse days. Good therapy helps with the darker days. Cheers:)!
Thank you:)
I'm off for 8yrs.and 2 months i used klonopin for 13years still have mild anxiety and depression now i'm taking niacin.
Miss you!!
Hope to be back soon!
I don’t see the calendar link you mentioned. Would love to schedule a time to chat! Thanks.
Hey Bonnie, Support Calls are currently on hiatus, but if you’d like you can send me an email at RussellBYT@gmail.com requesting to be added to the notification list. It’s nothing _too_ special; you would just be notified whenever more calls are being scheduled.
It isn’t necessary to do this. TH-cam makes it hard to post important info in a way that everyone will see it, so it’s just an extra bit of insurance should the need arise.
Speaking of TH-cam: I replied to this comment yesterday but TH-cam sometimes glitches out and doesn’t actually post the reply, so I’m sorry for the delay!
I’m so glad you have done these video. My Son is near your age born in 86. Schizoaffective disorder and has stopped his invega sustaina now 2 times in the last year. All during COVID!
Things feel very not hopeless but definitely uncomfortable for me as his roommate and Mom. I’m neutral on medication because I’ve seen Sean in psychosis and on medication where I’ve actually had a son I can relate to and talk to him he can describe and talk about memories that were completely covered by the medications he was on when he was younger at the same time going through this process of getting off the medications is so traumatic for me for other family members that it is it is ripping our family apart and I am seeking advice and help and I’m thankful that youAre sharing with the world what you were going through thank you
It is the WORSE not being able to read... its been 15 years now. I can only read non fiction
@@russellbyt Thanks Russell, me too :)) What sources can you recommend? Thanks
Magdalene k How do you feel now that you are off medication?
Can you possibly have the support calls on a Saturday or Sunday? I'm really interested in speaking with you on a virtual visit. I work during the week.
Hey Russel, have you use something integrators to heal?
Hi Russel. I have adhd and stopped taking antipsychotic two months ago. The adhd medication is still not working properly. I exercise and eat healthy. Any idea when the dopamine receptors will start working again? Best regards from Trond
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Thanks for the reply!
It's really wierd. The last week i have been trying to monitor when i get a release of dopamine like i used to: Cigarettes, chocolate, nicotine pouches, ritalin, hiit running, and eating so i feel full. It does not react.
It actually reminds me of the symptoms i was feeling on olanzapine when I felt no energy after consuming sugar. As you know the meds can often cause diabetes.
But yeah! All the things i used as tools to get stuff done and study are now not activating the pathways they used to. It is truly depressing. Starting gym teacher study in two weeks. Wondering if i should just postphone it. I would get a chance to loose some serious though.
Was not expecting this. At least im never going back to the sleepwalking zombie they made me into at the hospital. Misdiagnosed and badly medicated. Horrible people 😞
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Okay. I was maybe expecting things to happen a bit too fast. Defintely noticing runners high now after two week of running. Also decided too quit my adhd-drugs, snus, smoke and the casual drink for a period wich is now resulting in a more relaxed day overall. Still missing the superfocus, but the benefits so far clearly outweighs the missing focus. Thinking ill start on a low dose of adhd meds in a week or so. Some say that help.
Hi Russell have you experienced akathsia? I went cold turkey out off Olanzapine and it got so bad they put me on an antidepressant Mirtazapine. Now I am tapering that...
@@russellbyt Thank you and how long did it take you to get off the drugs? I have read about 10% rule and my taper will last 1.5 year with it. I am super scared of akathisia coming back once I lower the doses...
@@russellbyt did u quit beta blocker also
@@russellbyt i quit Risperidone cold turkey and it gave me a psychotic episode this year in january 2022
I am 16 ,never had any health problem related to the brain or nervous system
I was fine the way i was ,my familly doesnt have a history of illness ,my grandma died at 87 and my grandpa died at 70 i think
The psychiatrist prescribed them to me just because i told her i was stressed ,i took them from december 22 2021, till 31 of december 2021 and quit cold turkey for 2 days 1 and 2 of january ,on the 3 i went to highschool and everthing was normal ,and on the 4 th i started to have the episode ,i kept taking it till 2 february 2022 now i feel so bad with the brain and i can barely talk ,i suffer so much ,and its just not worth it ,i never needed literally poison for my brain ,the doctor just prescribed it like it was candy ,i suffered and i still suffer for nothing ,i don t even know if i will ever be just like i was again ,i never needed them and now i suffer because of them
My right hand feels wierd and a little paralysed and my brain is literally in pain
The side effects started after a month
I quit it 2 feb 2022 and at the end of the month i started to feel very bad i started crying in early february for no reason in march stuff got really really bad
@@russellbyt i also forgot to mention my vision ,its been blured for a few weeks now , i see blured while looking at thing that are far ,and sometimes this happens even at close things such as screens ,the writing gets a little blurry when i look at things on my phone
@@gabrielsiberianrifleman7358 Hey man, how do you feel now?
Bad insomnia what's helps with sleep ???
Will cigarettes and alcohol effect healing process .
Did you take risperidone and abilify and did sex drive return ..please help
is antidepressant withdrawal the same as antipsychotic withdrawal? i didnt even have much paliperidone in me, two shots...
Did you have DPDR? Mine is so severe and insufferable.
I did, and thankfully it improved with time. Hopefully yours will too!
I have taken the Invega Sustenna shots for six months in dec. 2018 to June 2019. It has been a tough journey for me so far. I am having cognitive impairments and I am wondering how long it takes to heal roughly from this. Does this healing take years?
update
I want to get off my seroquel i feel nothing dull numb .also do you know anything about depcote just started it and i hear horror stories about it
how do i sleep i’ve got a lot happening really fast and it’s hard for me i don’t want a pill just please you have been a rock when i felt i was dead and now i’m coming back but i’m haunted by almost everything i try coping mechanisms but every night harder and harder your amazing just if you can spare a second please reply
@@russellbyt thank you so much for your reply i’ve been listening to rain sounds was in a mood and knocked one out and eventually passed out honestly though the weight has just fallen off i feel light emotions motivation is up and i watched every one of your videos a lot of times after a while it was hard to believe you because you where so animated but i see the pain in your eyes it looked like you cried prior to your first video and i felt that you keep doing what your doing and i will scour through this advice you are a legend and the only true recovery guy on youtube thank you for everything
Have you tried a natural herbal medicine like nytol or kalms to help you sleep cos that’s what l use sometimes and it works a treat for me. You can buy it over the counter.
Bruh... can you post resources you know about that are encouraging to all people getting off psychiatric drugs? You can post studies, research papers, books, blogs, influencers. Just an idea. Would really help me :)
ChristianCoder; Listen here, "bruh". Stop saying "Bruh".
Hi. How long do you think it should take for someone when the person is on 4.5 mg of Invega and 15 mg of propranolol? It is not funny time because you are aware and it seems like you were aware what you were doing. Here the example is more difficult. We are scared to get into psychosis. He is not ready for a social life yet but in my native country people with a mental illness ...which is more like lock of nutrition nobody was for life on meds. Here it is abnormal to feed people with poison and expecting them to be alive. Thank you so much for giving us hope and one day we may contact you. We need to come out of darkness a bit more. God bless your path for continuous healing.
Hi Miriam, I can’t say exactly how long it will take because it depends on a number of things. The most important thing is that we taper the right way and at the right speed.
You can read more about that on this page:
www.survivingantidepressants.org/topic/7101-tips-for-tapering-off-invega-paliperidone/
The social life part takes time. We start doing these things when we’re ready and we are far enough into our healing and recovery process - and we do reach this point eventually.
I know how hard all of this is, but we can get through it. Much love to you and your family!
@@russellbyt Thank you It is still not easy. The Invega is long release so you cannot chip it. But from 12 to 6 to 4.5 we made with those couch days and sign of light psychosis...Not Er yet Hopefully never I described a pinch to someone as a reply what happened . It is God will You have in you the light of God He guided you through your suffering. Have faith Russell He is with you today and forever and what you lost here on this Earth He will return to you at least twice. Be you Don't look for greediness and harm. You are a wonderful human being and YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD...always remember that. Thank you for your warm advice. May God bless you ALWAYS
Hi Russell
Do you still feel anxiety and restlessness??
@@russellbyt but is akathisia and restlessness cause by meds resolved??
@@russellbyt “better” OMG don’t tell me you still feel it after that many years 😭😭
I am scared for myself
@@russellbyt I am happy to hear that ☺️ I just wonder was your akathisia more like inner restlessness or involuntary movements?
How long it took to resolve?
Hello Russell B
Did you experienced sexual side effects while you were on drugs?
And when you stopped drugs did these go away or persisted?
And if persisted for how long?
can you recommend any one to help people come off meds
@@russellbyt would you be able to work with me
Did you suffer from anhedonia and emotional numbness?
@@russellbyt Thank you for replying 🙏🏼 I’m glad that has passed for you!
@mizumijumaru are you better?
If a person is really delusional Rather than taking psychiatrist treatment? (Because psychiatrist drugs have side effects )What His/her guardian do? Can you answer i mean what is the solution?
This is something I won’t pretend to have all the answers for. Delusional thinking was never one of my symptoms so I also lack experience dealing with it firsthand. Though I do have people close to me who struggle with this, so it’s not a complete unknown to me.
This secondhand experience is why I don’t have a very favorable view of psych drugs as a useful way of “treating” delusional thinking. Too many people are shut down by the meds.
I’m actually interested in talking to others who have non-psych med solutions, maybe as content for the channel. Those people are definitely out there. If you come across any, feel free to let me know!
Hello russel I left you a e-mail. I hope you will see it And answer.
Love
Is it for free to talk
@@russellbyt do you still provide support calls?
HELPP!!!! PLEASE HELP!! GOD, PLEASE READ THIS I NEED HELP!!!
I'm a 19 year old who had a temporary anxiety. My physician offered another anxiety medication like it was nothing, (i've previously been on chlonodine hcl which helps for both hypetension and anxiety). I found out it was a psychiatric(Buspar/Buspirone) :/
No talk about how to use it, side-effects, how it works. And never told me it mitigates the brain. Never said it was a psychiatric drug.
The first time I took it, I definitely noticed a decline in cognitive-faculties. As I kept taking it however, I seemed to regain the ability to think, however, my memory
and the way I read (I tend to be VERY high in IQ, and read chunks ultra fast instead of slowly linearly from left to right) were downgraded.
I will admit I took them all over the place. I tried to stick with taking it at morning (4am when I wake up) and then another in the afternoon. But honestly sometimes I'd
forget and only ingest one. I made a follow up with my doctor once after the prescription and he told me it's until my brain adjusts. He had some point in there because i did kind of start seeing to regain my ability to think creatively but my way of reading was still changed from fast to slow and my memory was still bad.
I had a realization realizing wtf I was taking and realizing it alters my brain and noticing my memory not as good and reading linearly instead of how I normally read. I then decided to search this thing up. I found out it's a psychiatric drug that mitigates the brain and I just got
so fucking scared. I started searching up "buspar lowers intelligence." I've read some posts on quora about people feeling as smart as they were before and on when going on even more powerful
things such as SSRI's (but then everyone is different). And other people saying "well if we define intelligence as the neurochemistry which is impacted by these drugs..." you get the point.
Generally I'm hyper-aware with my eyes always looking everywhere and ever since this medicine, it has gone away. Also, I stumbled upon these videos claiming that psychiatric medicatinos can be the devil for some
people: th-cam.com/video/qTfuhKWWbGU/w-d-xo.html
They say that it impedes cognitivie abilities, but what makes me think I can stay this sane is because my very High IQ (Stanford Binet 149) took the hit and I'm still
able to cognitively function.
I quit cold turkey. 10 days ago was the last time I took it, after taking it for 3weeks/month. However, I did not know that quitting cold turkey was a bad thing. No one ever had these conversations
with me, and I really do feel like a victim :(
I'm scared that quitting Cold Turkey will do brain damage, but I searched it just lists the withdrawal side effects as more severe. I just don't know what to do man. Please someone just tell me what to do to get out of this mess.
I don't want to feel hopeless. Please don't put any blame on me, I admit that I was ignorant. In fact, I grew up in a bubble of my ethnic community (Mexican) and
didn't really find out the difference between an entree and an appetizer til like a month ago or two.
I've also seen other posts on reddit about brainfog on buspirone/buspar, and no one believing them. But I do.
I'm just so scared.
Hey I was wondering how are you feeling now that you quit cold turkey ? Did you have a lot of withdrawal symptoms?? I’m scared too I took lexapro for a week and I was having memory problems while I was taking it so I stopped cold turkey after that week …. and I’m scared as well of not feeling like myself again it sucks ,, some of my withdrawal that I’m experiencing is a little dizzynes,ringing in right ear ,dry mouth,insomnia,increased anxiety,diarrhea ,trouble concentrating ,irritability I been off of lexapro for 7 days and at least the dry mouth is gone I’m hoping everything is going well for you now
@@reynagonzalez8983
Please take some deep breaths for what I’m about to say, and please remember, be kind to yourself because you did not deserve any of this ❤️
You took an ssri, I took a non-benzo anti anxiety(buspar), although we both took psych meds, the type of psych drugs we took are different. The mechanism of action is different (mechanism of action means how the it affects our brains with the new chemicals). Mine works w dopamine and serotonin and depressed the central nervous system w/o GABA receptors (gaba receptors are in central nervous system, waiting for gaba chemicals, that work to relax)
Now please relax ur breath and trust, for what I’m about to say, it might sound scary❤️ (Sorry if being creepy, I would’ve loved to have someone talk to me like that)
It may be because I’m sensible to drugs, but 2 weeks after quitting was when I experienced the worst side effect possible: emotional blunting/no empathy, and anti-anxiety drugs are NOT supposed to give you that, only SSRI’s. I felt like a sociopath, or worse. I also had no background feeling in life, I will explain.
I had no feelings of happiness, or sadness, in respect to myself. I floored 110 on the highway because I wanted to feel something, I did not feel human. The mechanism for feeling emotion, was mostly shut off.
Thr mechanism responsible for detecting other humans and feeling empathy for them also shut off. Even though I saw other humans around, my brain didn’t recognize the presence. Each day I went to school, even though I saw cars on the highway, my brain felt no human presence. It felt like when you step outside your house and see nothing and get this eerie feeling, that’s how it felt, but the thing was... there were other people, my mechanism for detecting human presence was just shut off.
Also, you know the background feelings in life such as “it’s a sunny day” “it’s night time” “it’s a special occasion”?
Yeah, that went away, it felt like cardboard.
Everything felt like cardboard.
I felt like an organism just existing.
All of this went away for the most part after 2 weeks.
However, you took an SSRI, and those are officially know to cause emotional blunting.
Let me hold your hand my love, while I say this ❤️. But cold turkeying an SSRI only increases the probability of you developing emotional blunting. Please be kind to yourself, you are a beautiful human being 💜
I’m not saying this to scare you, but because there might be a probability/chance of you being able to reinstate your dose to reduce the damage, I would go on to reddit and search for the community “PSSD” as they might know.
All the rest of my side effects were as follows: trembling, empty head, slowness, slurred speech, hallucinations, no more happiness, loss of sensation of tickling. In reality, anything can happen because psych meds are just like carpet bombing your brain. Even the exact mechanism of action for my medication is unknown.
Now I’m not against medication, but I’m all for educating people.
I’m feeling great right now, although I don’t experience as much happiness//smiling. (I’m somewhat autistic and smile uncontrollably because I naturally have more dopamine, or at least that was the case.) I feel slower because it depressed my CNS, and turning my eyes as I speedread, I definitely notice a difference. Especially because intelligence inhabits every cornerstone of my life, I easily noticed a difference. The rapid eye movement uses the same mechanism that my visualization uses. I typically visualize while reading, and that’s become somewhat, although on a minuscule level, hampered., however, I now need to our more work in. I think that mechanism tats responsible for rapid eye movement and visualization is hampered becaus in less alert. One of the withdrawal symptoms is being unusually sedated/tired. I’m hoping this will subside with time.
PLEASE REMEMBER YOU ARE LOVED, AT LEAST WITHIN THE PSCYH MED COMMUNITY ♥️
YOU ARE A BEAUTIFUL HUMAN BEING WITH THE RIGHT TO EXPERIENCE LIFE TO THE FULLEST 💜💜💜(I’m army too lol)
3 weeks ago I was just telling myself “if I can feel love at least, that will be fine” but now I genuinely feel like I’m getting my life back.
please talk to your loved ones and spend more time with them, that may sound cliche, but that’s what worked for me 😂.
If they don’t believe you, that’s okay, I believe you ❤️. If you doctors don’t believe you, it’s okay, I believe you ❤️.
My GP didn’t believe me because supposedly my medication goes out in 2 hours, but I recuperating most of my rapid eye movement after 4 days of leaving it... see? Haha, they don’t believe us.
Please be gentle with yourself, my lovely human being, you are a precious thing of the universe and deserve every fruitful interaction that we humans are capable of experiencing. Often time I locked myself in my room and cried, and it was the most beautiful thing because that was the second emotion I got back, after being happy.
Please love yourself, and if you have no one to talk to, you can shoot me a message, and I will try to respond here or anywhere else you’d like.
Please be kind you yourself, my fellow sister ❤️
@@reynagonzalez8983 not to scare you, but rather because you might probably be able to reinstate your dose to minimize effects, but my auntie still has memory problems after taking SSRI’s. :/
Sorry if my speech made you uncomfortable, I’m just talking to you like I wish someone would’ve talked to me and held me while I locked myself in my rooms cried to God. I love you as a human being ❤️. Please take care of yourself man. I had days where i didn’t feel human, but I prospered ❤️💚💚💚💙💙💚💛🧡🖤🖤💜
I’m so glad you have done these video. My Son is near your age born in 86. Schizoaffective disorder and has stopped his invega sustaina now 2 times in the last year. All during COVID!
Things feel very not hopeless but definitely uncomfortable for me as his roommate and Mom. I’m neutral on medication because I’ve seen Sean in psychosis and on medication where I’ve actually had a son I can relate to and talk to him he can describe and talk about memories that were completely covered by the medications he was on when he was younger at the same time going through this process of getting off the medications is so traumatic for me for other family members that it is it is ripping our family apart and I am seeking advice and help and I’m thankful that youAre sharing with the world what you were going through thank you
It is horrible when your loved one got the problem...but the real problem starts when you cannot help because the others think they know your son better then you do. My son was never violent Very loving and compassionate person and he got lost on a field not remember where he was. He had a lot physical issues before Chronic sinusitis tonsillitis pancreatitis severe acne on his back urinary tract infections with the bladder etc...and many others. And being vaccinated esp for MMR His body used all the fuel to fight those nasty infections and puberty hits and that was not enough of the fuel to make all the storm of hormones he needed...And the stranger admitted him to ER . He called his brother and his 14 y/o went there with his not knowing English father and said...so he was acting like schizophrenic??? and then the so called medical authority grasped to the huge name SCHIZOPHRENIC...They without my knowledge...his father didn't care...send him to behavioral center...a young innocent not violent ....to that center. I still believed USA was a heaven on earth and learned my English as a sec language. I didn't understand at that time what was going on. I went to visit the place It looked like for the serial killers. Many locked doors Controlled environment Checking me as I was smuggling a coke...or something worse. Trauma began. He begged me. Mom take me from here...I wanted At this point they told me I'm not his mom anymore...he belonged to them. I was crying He was crying. Helpless...The mr doc called a court...they didn't let him to force the meds...then he kept him against his will waiting for another court and another...and finally the judge signed the paper to put my son on the path to a hell. They find him violent because he being a young boy trapped by 3 security was spitting left and right the meds he didn't want. Then they approaches him with the injection so he was kicking bc he said Mom I know what this medication can do to your brain...then Judge who know s...h..it about somebody's life did it to satisfy the mr doc. Hope God will bring a justice upon him. And they forced and forced and forced...they dont let you to go after 2 weeks. They keep you there to damage your brain enough so you could never get off of that legally prescribed torture for life. I have been there with my son since. We were trying....and landed in the same place. You have to pull your child out of the "merciful...full of sh..i.t system" and be strong and brave enough to help your loved once. I hope the hell has a special place for all those PSYCHIATRISTS and their helpers who are seeing suffering are still harming the innocent life
BTW(2nd replay) at some point he was in a hospital without drugs and coming back to normal I was talking to him I was happy He was having memory problems. I thought they will let him go because he was 98% healthy...Yes they let him go with the syringe of abilify for one month in his body. Only God knows what was happening to my son How much he suffered and lock of sleep excessive shopping Restlessness ...and they let him go out right away after injection. ...Just like that I called to a hospital I begged for help They said that was not their problem He is not their patient anymore There are services I could look for and leave them alone you crazy mother. One day my son was almost my son again...and next I had a manic person not attached to reality...Finally I got to talk to the doctor because my son couldn't stay out of hospital So again ER again smiling personnel again the b...sh..testing for the blood stuff...and again for 6 weeks in the psyche unit. The doc said I 'm NOT allowed let a person go out from this unit without the meds. THIS IS OUR PROTOCOL...oh...Protocols are more important then people? Damage after damage Who is going to pay for it? if that had happened to Paris Hilton...oh no...if they crack her nail she would received 35 mil of $$$. What about people like our loved ones? Where is the law and justice and equally treating all of us. No there are the chosen ones..ant those whom they are living of