It gives me a sense of control when someone, especially a diagnosed schizophrenic, says so articulately that you can use tools other than pills to control your anxiety, depression, etc. Kind of ironic that I just quit my job at the pharmacy yesterday.
Mr. C. What was your position in pharmacy you worked before before you quit...? Are you licensed pharmacist or just a delivery boy...? If you are diagnosed as schizophrenic then we have a problem here. Do you have any useful hobby...? Anxiety, restlessness, panic attacs, fear, anger, stupor, thinking agitation, imaginary interpretations of ordinary reality, feelings of being followed by CIA or FBI, drowsiness, apathy, lack of energy, loss of sex drive, hopelessness, suspecting some people to be Jesus Christ or Krishna in disguise, or some devills or demons going after you, seeing television hallucinations, getting strange messages from TV or radio, difficulties with memory, or with concentration, physical paralyzes or sudden ticks, having many funny thoughts without any reason, homosidal tendencies, becoming suicidal, exploding with sudden anger, hatred to the world, feelings of being persecuted by other people, people talking to you in the bus or subway, these are many symptoms indicating your brain is not working correctly and malfunctioning. You must know that outer reality is always neutral and nothing really is happening. But our thinking mind projects interpretations of outer reality and when we making some our interpretation then reality starts looking like our view colors it. Then it is called paranoia. There are as many paranoia as there are human beings because each one of us is making his or her reality according of our thoughts. Thoughts are the most powerful tool we possess. Thoughts can help you but also may harm you. Thoughts may hurt you badly and other people. Everything is created by our thoughts alone. Make an experiment. Your native language is English. So your thinking is in English. But start to think in Korean or Chinese....? Make your projections in Korean or Chinese. You can't say a word. So is for a Korean or a Chinese man. He cannot say anything in English. So if you want to communicate with Korean or Chinese man you must know their native languages. Otherwise you never meet in conversation. It is impossible. Now. If language decides about communication and our views then language is words and words are thoughts and thoughts are what...? You don't know. I don't know too. If you don't know what is a thought how can you believe your thought exists....? Did you see a thought...? No. Did you know where thought comes from...? No. Do you know where the thought goes...? No. No. No. No. You don't know. In fact nobody ever saw any thought nor know what is a thought. But everybody is thinking. Thinking is natural working of brain. But sometime we are thinking too much and became prisoners of our thinking. Then thinking presents us with a problem. Thinking is the key to mental health. Understand this...??? Thinking is making your problems and thinking takes problems away. Who are you? You don't know. Where are you coming from to this world...? You don't know. Where you go when dead...? You don't know. What do you want....? You don't know. I don't know ether. So DON'T KNOW. ONLY DON'T KNOW. Keep this DON'T KNOW. Why to keep don't know...? DON'T KNOW. if you keep this don't know then you are only relaxing in don't know. When reading a book. Only don't know. When watching TV. Only don't know. When talking to doctor. Only don't know. This DON'T KNOW is TRUE YOU. TRUE ME. TRUE MAN. DON'T KNOW IS TRUE HEALTH AND SANITY. OK. Then what color is sky...? Blue. What color is the moon...? White. What the dog says...? Woof, woof! What the friend says...? Hello How are you today? Then your consciousness becomes clearer, clearer, clearer and finally becomes clear like space. Then you will be sane and healthy 100%. Then even if in meds your consciousness will work correctly and you will feel good. So rest only in DON'T KNOW. Always and everywhere. Then you become doc of your shrink. And you can help him. You can help all people. You can help this world. Also your world become peace and safe. That means you are living in harmony with energies of cosmos. The name of this is DON'T KNOW.
Can't believe I found you and these videos. 15 years on so many psych meds. Gave me diabetes I'm now obese, extremely depressed and severely anxious. Chronic insomniac. I NEVER leave my house unless I must. I only want to be alone.Anti social. I used to work, since I was 15(now 40 and on disability)was very healthy was an athlete even. In school I was also a cheerleading,prom queen,homecoming queen etc;...That person is dead it seems. Since I've been diagnosed bipolar and put on meds my life went down hill and I'm literally not the same person. Mentally,physically,even spiritually. That's why I feel like that girl died and I'm a different person 100%. In a bad way. ALL BC OF MEDS!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been trying to get off meds for over 5 years. Been to a handful of rehabs and detox centers with people who were trying to get off hard core street drugs! They had MUCH more success than me trying to come off RX drugs!!!! It's insane!!!!!!!! I lost my husband even. We are separated maybe getting a divorce. I am devastated. I am now on my own at home trying to just SLOWLY wean off and start to exercise and eat very healthy. Also I am a Christian so I am praying and meditating for healing. Basically asking God for a miracle. Also I've been hospitalized more times than I can count. Going into 2020 I know I will have to suffer but I am going to keep on my own wean off and get healthy and change my lifestyle trying to stay positive that I will one day be healed and we'll and healthy again. I found you by accident on Christmas Eve. But actually I don't think it was an accident at all. It is horrifying doctors and pharmacies have done this to people,literally ruining lives. But to know I am not alone and also that others like you have even got off meds and gotten well again is a MIRACLE and gives me HOPE. So THANK YOU for speaking out and giving hope and encouragement. GOD bless you greatly.👍👏
I'm glad you are finding hope and starting steps to improve what sounds like a really difficult situation. And yes psych meds can sometimes be even harder to come off than street drugs, for a lot of reasons, one being daily use and two being the crisis or altered states or emotional overwhelm that the meds might be keeping a lid on. I personally also find spirituality really key for moving forward in my life.
OXYZEPAM is safe drug to help you sleep. You take 15 to 30 mg before going to bed for night rest. It works for longer time of taking it without side effects.
My 39 y.o. son was on all of the mentioned plus many others...a genius IQ... with two MA degrees but never got the degrees b/c his last quarter led him to overdosing, then several seizures...University basically booted him out. He could not cope knowing he lost his degrees. For 10 years he lived with us, he was like my best friend and he adored me. April 26,2019 he took his life😭 My daughter found ALL his files from grade school to University...he was a stickler for details and had requested & kept but never shared with us. His diagnosis was about as sad as anyone’s..and he was on 5 or 6 psych drugs at time of his suicide. I feel so guilty because I did not put it all together... my only son, gone...His funeral was the day before Mother’s Day 2019. I miss his caring & kind, sweet ways. I will never be ‘okay,...but if anyone asks, I say I am...
I have dealt with mental illness and psychiatric medication for many years and I have to say this presentation is the best I've ever seen on the subject. This video should be shown to all medical students and medical professionals. It amazes me how clueless so many doctors are when it comes to psychotropic drugs and mental health.
Are you suffering from lingering toxins in your body due to someone with enlabelment disorder. Here are a few things to consider from a man with experience. Cleavers tea stimulates the lymphatic system. Panax ginseng has cortisol blocking chemicals so it can be a bit strong but it does relax the liver enough to flush toxins from the liver especially within the first day of use. You can get a kettle bell and stimulate serotonin to relax yourself by lifting the kettle bell from behind your shoulder to in front of your shoulder 12 times with each arm. You can also stimulate your kidneys by lifting the kettle bell from by your legs to under your arm pits with a bit of a stretch 15 times quickly with both arms. If you are looking for things that help the mind glycine Silver needle white tea and high dha algae oil might be worth investigating. You see everything in science follows benfords law accept the mathematical nature of mental pathology's according to psychiatry. This means that Psychiatry is a racket committing intellectual fraud standing in the way of discovery in the real science behind mental illness which is currently not fully been mapped although genetics points to stress related dna switching to be an identifier of mental disorder thus the issue is more complex and more like one single diagnoses that has many biological and psychological aspects relating to stress I would say a person is struggling to cope with stress and screw the label my self. I know I'm talking the raw science of the biological mind here and not the pretty looking pathological categorization idea but real scientific data researched with real science doesn't always fit our pretty presuppositions. If psychiatry moved forward and embraced the real science they would find that they hit a higher optimal with people and would require the use of force only in extreme circumstances and not commonly. The thing is dealing with stress and the problems relating to it has been a topic of study long before psychiatry and is a well adverse field so most of the time people would be better helped too adapt to stress in more tried and tested ways. I think it's wise to remember that some behaviors are not poor adaptions to stress they are mealy harmless personal quirks and often don't require any adjustment and quirks are simply a part and parcel of natural progress.
I get sick to my stomach thinking about all the innocent people who were searching for help and instead were used as lab rats by unscrupulous doctors while they and their families suffered the consecuences. Pray they find restoration from everything lost.
Run...? Where...? There is nowhere to run. They will catch you. You run from hospital then police will bring you back. Run from your problem. That's better advice. Fix your problem then meds are not necessary. But you need to fix your problem first then running not necessary either.
Will, you rock! I love your gentle, almost lassaiz faire approach to diversity - and yet - coupled with support, desire, and discipline you bring together all the components and ingredients for people to take charge of their prescriptions and mental well being. This video was my first introduction to tapering information, and following it to Surviving Antidepressants, I have successfully come off my antidepressants, and 88% of my lithium. I'm comfortable on low-dose lithium and may stay there awhile. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, I'm so glad to "be myself" again.
This video was spot on! Lack of sleep and trauma have been my main problems. I still take medications, but have reduced from 6 to 4 and I'm working on decreasing from 4 to 2. It takes time to decrease, the slower the better. You'll have less withdrawal symptoms.
@@onesai5555 Eventually, yes. Everybody's time will be different. I've had the best results with a slow taper. If the withdrawal symptoms persist, stop tapering until they are gone.
@@LeoDragonite I went off cold turkey which is probably why I'm suffering so much, took for about 6 weeks, been of for 1 month and 3 weeks now, I just want reassurance that fully recovery is possible and that I'll feel normal and like myself again 😔
@@LeoDragonite how long did it take for you to feel normal after getting of meds? I still have anhedonia, brain fog, and residual akathisia, although it's gotten better over the past few weeks
I am an avid #MentalHealthAwareness advocate and performer, and I love this so much. I travel the country trying to bring that awareness on stages, in classrooms, hospitals, and on my TH-cam channel, so I get excited when I see other advocates. 💙❤
Kathleen Wippel awesome! L you think you fully recovered and are as smart/quick and can feel the same range of emotions and motivation you had before. I'm still recovering and wondering if I'll get it back
I'm currently doing my masters in medical neurosciences and I have medical background. I personally think the problem is not in science, but more in medical and public health field, also involving insurance companies. I was lucky enough myself to have a doctor with deep knowledge who looked into my specific situation, from my family dynamics to my lifestyle, and she tapered me off as soon as crisis was gone. But I'm astounded by the gap between science and medical fields, as I've been in both. Medical doctors don't know the science behind what they are prescribing, they are just choosing safe options according to guidelines and insurance/pharma company interests. You are doing a nice job, maybe I do my future research on this topic, who knows.
This is wonderful information and presentation. I found you from your audiobooks of RD Laing. I really appreciate your compassionate and constructive perspective.
@@clairenj8751Feed it green vegetables, especially cruciferous vegetables (cabbage, brocoli etc.), alium species (garlic and onions) and fermented vegetables (kimchi, sauerkraut). Half of them raw (marinate them with vinegar and olive oil). You can also take Lactobacillus especially Lactobacillus plantarum.
Personally I have seen many people benefit from nutrition and food changes, but not all. It's really worth paying attention to though - meds withdrawal and reduction often involves lifestyle changes.
Hi Will ,you may not know me but your approach to this harm reduction has saved my future life. I watched most of your article and post from which i gained the courage and will to come off my psych meds. Now i am sober for one and half year. Thank you for your noble step up on this issue and for giving hope even where the medical science has failed to provide mostly.
Great information....even though this was from 2012. I wish we lived near you....we live in an area that not only diagnosis's too quickly, but pumps people up so quickly on the drugs! Your video was a breath of fresh air!
I was going thru withdrawal when I commented, now i watched this! Ha! Very good video. It was hell, took about 6 weeks to 8. I am 4 months out now, never felt better in my life! I was misdiagnosed, I had PTSD, thru severe trauma, drs never once talked to me about past. Im happier now and can think! Those drugs r evil to the brain
Pollyanna hello how are you doing? I wanted to ask you a few questions, I was put on 6 different antidepressants within 2 months, I stopped cold turkey 4 weeks ago, I know going cold turkey isn’t the west to go, I’m experiencing daily headaches, head pressure, fatigue, did you experience any of these symptoms? Will the brain recover? Thank you
@BuzzmFrog I'm sure you've heard this plenty before, but from someone who's been on both sides of that bridge you're looking to cross, the anxiety and other mental health issues get way better when you're off of them. For the longest time I thought my anxiety was getting worse and worse, so I kept upping my dose of Klonopin. It just kept getting worse, and finally after I got off of them, my anxiety went way down. Don't get me wrong, it's still there, but it's not crippling like it was. Getting off of them and getting through withdrawal is going to suck, it's going to be one of the worst experiences of your life, I'm not going to lie to you, it's hell. But the freedom, that feeling when you wake up and realize you're free, it's the greatest feeling in the world.
I am weaning off, too! My doctor told me it is not possible for people over 50 to get off of Venlafaxine. I quickly and respectfully reminded him that in FACT, we, as patients are always in control of our own health decisions. LEGALLY and ETHICALLY.
May the Universe and Arch angel St. Michael continue guiding you on your journey into healthy natural states of living consciousness and clairaudience! Universal namaste and best!
..and protect your civil rights! Make sure they give you clean record! Their opinions are too quick to judge and most of these experiences have documented by anthropologists in many cultures as simply spiritual. Shamans are bit outdated but the routine to just let the trances pass over were totally healthy and natural for varied metaphysical phenomenon. So hurtful nomenclature should not follow you for the rest of your life every time you need a doctor. Have you seen the paragraph in the DSM in the front that says they should not over diagnose people in countries that observe spiritual causes? It's in the introduction stuff. Why don't they observe this in America?????? Just sharing and Universal good luck! ~ PsychicSuesie - yt - fb
@@susankerkhoff1233 Absolutely and 100%. Benzo's throw us into a kind of shamanic journey but instead of peyote or ayahuasca, and being prepared by wise elders who've been through it - we are thrown into it like a bad acid trip. The drugs CAUSE the "mania" or whatever they dub it as - then they prescribe more drugs, which worsens any anxiety or insomnia or whatever problem you first took them for - times 10 (or 100).
Thank you so much for making this video to help others. I will be returning to it again and again for moral support as I continue to slowly reduce my meds. I have tried before without professional help and ended up back in hospital on more drugs and a new diagnosis. I cannot expect any support from family as they have never accepted me for who I really am and prefer me to be sedate-ed. I have never been violent or aggressive, they just like to control me. Not any more. I have recently spent hours and hours learning about ‘empaths’ and narcissists and feel I can now understand how to relate
Controlling freaks. That’s your family. They put you on dopes to get rid of responsibility for your suffering they caused you. They told you are sick mentally and need help. Getting rid of the problem is not easy now. You are ambushed from all sides. No way out. Find a hobby, art, music, yoga, meditation, cat or dog, enjoy what is left for you in this life. Talk the truth. Truth will set you free. Be positive. See good in people. Some people are nasty but not all. There are plenty of good people and good doctors.
can i tapper of both clonazepam (0.5 mg) & vortioxetin (10mg) have been using for 3 weeks only.. I don't want to stay on these pills which cannot give me relef rather more I'll feeling.. Please advice me n ur support needed 🙏 iam eagerly waiting for ur reply, I don't want to regret in future help meme.
I knew a girl that was medicated for 10 years, it sounded to me she was just prescribed drugs and then, by chance, they saw if she improved or not. She was diagnosed with many different things and her behavior never improved for long.
You leave out the personal bias that many doctors have. It isn't just the drugs. Many professionals are so busy that they don't have the time (or you don't have the money) to be thoroughly examined. Misdiagnosis is common and leads to improper administration of medications.
Thank you very much Will for sharing this information. I've been diagnosed with Bipolar depression at the age of 16 and had 13 psychiatric admissions ever since. I'm 26 now and I've been off all my medication for the last 2 months and I'm going through some withdrawal symptoms - mainly oversleeping. But I feel my body is healing so I know I need this sleep. I've always been against medication from day one but my family and doctors over persuaded and sometimes forced me to take the meds. This has been extremely traumatic in itself. Good nutrition, exercise and have helped me but mostly trusting yourself and don't buy into what other people say. Only you know what's best..
How are you feeling now...? Are you all right...? 13 times in a nut house That's a record. I was 6 times in 16 years. Last time in 1996. Never hospitalized for last 24 years. I've been on meds for over 40 years diagnosed with schizophrenia. These meds helped me and also harmed me. I got diabetes and are sweating like a pig for last 13 years. Maybe liver failure or kidneys got off. You are 26 or something. Young. Depression is hard. I had depression for 16 years. Only when put on RISPERIDONE I got rid of depression almost in 6 months. My energy became strong but I gained much weight. From 155 pounds in 1984 I landed 295 pounds in 1999 after 3 years on RISPERIDONE. But managed to beat it to 220 pounds till 2020. You are in the middle of wasps nest now. Have bad feeling and are afraid of taking meds. Your symptoms worsen and you suspect meds aren't helping. Who is your doctor...? Do you know him well enough...? Well enough to trust him...? Can he help your problems go away or you think it is loss of time...? How did you feel before you found yourself in hospital...? We're you feeling well enough...? Or your state was painfully bad and you were suffering...? Why so many times hospitalized...? We're you violent...? Talking too much...? What are you gonna do now...? Will you manage your problems without drugs on your own...? What will be the outcome of getting off dopes...? Do you expect full recovery from depression or otherwise...? Those doctors are carrying between themselves. Wrong doc may do much harm. But correct doc may be helpful. Consider this. Meds also are working in many ways. Some are useless some are useful. Good meds can put you on your feet in 1 to 3 years. Then doc may reduce dose. If you Don't know anything about psychiatric drugs then you have no map to navigate unknown terrain of your psyche. They are studying for 12 years psychiatry alone. After 5 years of general medicine. So they must know something useful. Once more. If you meet a good doc then your state will improve in no time. Quack will treat you for decades and you get no better. I know people who are on meds for 30 or 40 years and they move like zombies. But my state of depression, fears and anxieties disappeared gradually during my long term therapy. Had 20 shrinks. Only 2 of them were helpful and picked me up. Today I am illness free and reduced my ZELDOX from 240mg to 80mg. I am only on this dose of Zyprexa for 4 months. Before I was on 160 mg for 5 months. I reduced dope by myself. Not seeing shrink for 14 months. Intend to go out of drugs completely in 12 months or earlier 6 to 8 months. My feeling is good. I function correctly. For last 6 years taking care of aging mother and 2 cats. Doing shopping, pharmacy, bank, lease for apartment, working as a translator for my mother for last 35 years in clinics and many hospitals she goes to see her doctors. Was 4 times on ER in 4 different hospitals with her. Was waiting there from 11 to 13 hours and escorting her home by cabbies. Yes I am functioning well enough to be able to take care of myself and my family. If you are functioning also well enough then there is no need for meds and you may be looking for a job instead. If you are feeling not so well then stay on meds and on welfare cheques.
the medications are simply tranquillisers, if you shoot a charging elephant with a tranquilliser have you cured it of rage? And, if you continue to drip tranquilliser fluid into it's brain is it helping the elephant with aggression issues or unresolved childhood trauma? I would be weary of anybody who thinks medications including sleeping pills have their uses as medications are recommended by those who in almost every case support an absence of knowledge.
Looking at your message I suspect you were put on tranquillizers right away after your caretakers put you into a hospital....? Unsolved childhood trauma. That’s the reason of all mental problems people experience in adult life. You remember your lessons. And doc taught you next lessons giving you his magic dopes. I am sure shrink gave you no useful advice how to solve your painful past experiences other than saying when you have an anxiety blow into a paper bag, huh...? Dopes you are on helped nothing no improvement. Docs changed dosage or brand of meds, sometime they put you on pills sometime on injections. And magic didn’t happen. You feel like crap and life sucks still. I know the feeling. Being on dopes for 40 years myself I can say one thing. Only positive effect of so many dopes my body endured is a welfare cheque coming to my mailbox each month. You can try meditation. Or relaxation or Yoga. That will be more helpful than years of doping you with tranquilizer to make you tranquil.
First off I want to say that Will Hall's video presentation is very honest. I have been on psychiatric drugs for many years and I must happily say I have never really had a problem with be on quite a few different types of medications. Including Anti-psychotic drugs and Anti-Anxiety drugs. I am still taking a small amount of Anti-psychotic now. But overall I find out that taking the medications worked. Also I find out that when it comes to Psychiatry one cannot be ignorant of the fact that they may have an illness and that they need to be patient and give the Psychiatrist and the system of Psychiatry and Pharmaceutical companys the benefit of a doubt. Thanks!
Was put on ssri’s at 17 for OCD. 22 now and went off cold turkey. They never helped me. All they did was shut off my brain and led to a severe depression. I’m struggling through now and my brain chemistry feels off. I can’t really think anymore man...
Dying to get off Seroquel :( Slowly tapered from 800mg to 150mg over about 3 years. Then down to 125mg at home by myself. Then down to about 115mg by myself but rushed down to 100mg... couldnt sleep the 2nd night. Went back to 125mg and going to try to go slower. UPDATE: Down to 0mg as of February 2019. Slow 10% taper worked for me. Instructions in the comments. Slow is key!
Seroquel is not bad. You cannot sleep...?That surprises me. When on seroquel I was sleeping like a baby. When doc took away my 200mg dosage I got sleep deprivation for a year now. I am on Zeldox 240mg too. Reduced it yo 80mg for last 11 months and I sleep not badly for last 5 months. If you reduce meds reduce them gradually. Your brain must use to lower dosage. If you jumping from dosage to dosage it will bring disturbances and you gonna feel not so good.
Update: this February will be 2 years off meds for me 😊 The slow, very slow tapering method worked for me. Now managing anxiety with exercise and mindfulness meditation. Depression was bad due to covid. I still struggle with low energy and low motivation but honestly Seroquel never did anything for that either. I can sleep without pills and didn't have any crazy withdrawal symptoms. It was daunting bc at the time there was not much info out there on how to do it. Get a grams scale. Weigh your pill. Calculate 10% of the total weight. Subtract that 10% from the total pill weight to get your target weight for the next 2-4 weeks. Next, cut or scrape ypur pill until you get to that target weight. Stay at the target weight for 2-4 weeks until feeling confident to go down another 10%. Repeat. Start at the target weight and do the same process. Calculate and subtract 10% from that. Now you have ypur new target weight. Repeat the reduction after 2-4 weeks. I found the best gauge of whether I was going too fast was the ability to sleep. If I couldn't sleep after reducing a dose, I'd go back up to the last target weight and stay there for a couple more weeks before trying again. I found as I got closer to my 0mgs target, I had to taper even slower, like 5% at a time. In the final weeks I literally was just taking a shaving or crumbled piece at night. Did that until down to nothing. Prepare backup methods to deal with whatever symptoms caused you to take Seroquel in the first place. Get nutrition in order. Food intolerance has a surprising affect on your serotonin production and gut health. Don't stretch yourself too thin with too many obligations or stressful people. Lay off the booze and marijuana. Exercise. Just move. Go for a walk - anything that geta your heart rate going. Doesn't have to be a gym membership. Good luck and if your symptoms are active right now (schizophrenia & bipolar patients especially), you just might have to be on medication right now temporarily. Don't just cold turkey and risk doing harm.
@@Marixpress2 Your new drug free therapy is too much complicated. Way of subtracting according to percentage and body weight seems odd. One might dig himself into a hole with that process and it takes too much work. Simply if you have 200 mg pill cut it into 4 pieces and you take 150mg for 3 months, 100mg for next 3 months and stay on 50mg for at least 5 months. Then you might reduce to 25mg for next 3 months and put it off completely after that process. Altogether it takes 14 months to put Seroquel off for good without experiencing gruesome side effects or remission towards illness. My shrink put it off in 2 months , 200mg, to 0mg, and I experienced sleep deprivation for at least 6 to 8 months. I was sleeping for 4 to 6 h every night and only occasionally 7 to 9 hours. If you go out of any psychotropes do it gradually. Otherwise there will be problems
If you are put on meds that was for a reason. Psychotropes are addictive dopes and taking them off the system too quickly may cause health problems. If you recovered from your illness symptoms you may try to reduce drugs gradually for 2 to 3 years. If you put them off suddenly then watch out yourself, you may become confused and feeling sick, not because you became sick but because drugs are addictive and your brain is telling you a message, I need that dope, or I will get worse. And situation may get out of the handle. It's dangerous to put off psychiatric drugs too fast. May become even fatal for your life. When my mother locked me up in a nut house 40 years ago I was thinking something wrong must be with me and these doctors promised to cure me 100% so I was taking drugs clean and neat. I trusted their judgement and I was wrong. Drugs poisoned my body, to this degree I am sweating like a pig for last 13 years and my liver took off probably because the body removes toxins through skin with sweat. I got diabetes 17 years ago and my mental state was not altered into better because of drugs but because of meditation successful practices. I was on many drugs. Recently on Zeldox 240mg daily dose for last 10 years. I March last year I reduced dose to 160mg daily and in September to 80mg daily. I am taking 80mg daily already for 3 months and I don't feel any changes for worse but for better. My sleep was bad for last year and Oxyzepam stopped working completely for giving me sleep. Gradually I recovered my sleep, falling asleep faster and sleeping at least 6 to 7 hours each night. I'm gonna put it off completely in couple of months, i mean Zeldox thing. Feeling no changes for my self feeling I am without symptoms of illness for about 20 years. Last time I visited hospitalization in 1996 and I am feeling same as before treatment. Becoming truly yourself without meds is health. That's difficult if you are under psychiatrist control but my shrink got pneumonia last November and disappeared ever since. That was my blessing more than his curse.
You are an angel Will! Hoping that one day my family will let go of their fear and support me in coming off lithium. Thank you for all you are doing💕 Sarah Beattie @Walk2Heal 🥾🌏
What an angel you are Will! I just hope my family who are so entrenched in fear after I had a 6 month stay in hospital for psychosis will one day see the light and support me in coming off lithium. They couldn’t get me better in hospital because anti-psychotics make me higher so every time they tried some new drug I got more psychotic! The first time it happened 30 years ago I was out in a month no meds. Keep up the good work and hope to meet you one day💕 Sarah Beattie @ Walk2Heal
This is so helpful. I’m coming off of seroquel. Was at 600 mg for over 12 years. Have tapered down very slowly and am now at 200 mg. It’s Taken me about 1 1/2 years so far. This is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done but have no choice. The side effects from this drug have been debilitating.
Afura33 jan 8 I withdrew, took 6-8 weeks . Im 5 months out now! Absolutely great!!! Awful withdrawal! But Im a Worship Christ. Praying alot. Had all symptoms except hallucinations. No damage. Did it alone. Not recommended. Im medical professional
Thx for your answer Pollyanna. You have been 20 years on those psychiatric meds you mentioned and no brain damage from it or any weird muscle mouvements? Sorry for the questions
Great idea to share your expierence with psychiatric drugs, this is very helpful and adding to my own knowledge with them and to help with that others who are struggling with this.
I'm starting coming off my antipsychotics, I have been on antipsychotics or antidepressants since I was 12 and sleeping tablets since I was 20. I'm scared but know I'm so much of a zombie I forget what I did yesterday, If I can remember that long. Thing is I still see things even more so when I'm stressed.
Don't be scared you Don't remember things done yesterday. That's unimportant. What counts is now. How do you feel now? Or how are you feeling now...? Live in here and now. Things come and go. No reason to remember everything. Nobody remembers what has happened yesterday or last week completely. Maybe some glimpses. But That's all. Focus on present moment. What's going on in the present time. Are you alert and awake...?if yes. Then all right. You have no problem. If not quietly then pay more attention to What's going now where you are living.
I’ve been in different mental illness support groups on facebook. I’ve left them. In this reply thread I’m finding more similarities and relatable experiences.
You are right. Medical professionals do exaggerate the risk of psychiatric symptoms and downplay the risk of psychiatric medications. Even still, in this age of information. I believe this is a sort of systemic wilful ignorance.
They do it deliberately, they know their drugs cause the mental illness its just an excuse to blame the patient so they cannot be held accountable for their abuses and fraud.
You wanna save your friend. That's good. Are you saved yourself...? if yes then That's good too. To be really saved you need enlightenment. Not any enlightenment but Buddha Enlightenment. Then you are awake Buddha and your psycho works without hindrances. Then you are sane and can help other people. Making people sane is possible for Buddha because we all have Buddha Nature that means we all are Buddha. But some know what does it mean others don't know. Maybe you Don't know. If you Don't know then go only straight with this don't know mind. Keep it always everywhere. Then this Don't know becomes strong. Your energy is strong and you can control your mind and environment. You can control your destiny and become free from Birth and Death cycles. Then your friend with a problem can become sama as you and can put his problem all down. Then he can live his life sane and healthy. When tired he can sleep. When hungry he can eat. When somebody suffers he is able to help. Then you helped your buddy already.
Are you suffering from lingering toxins in your body due to someone with enlabelment disorder. Here are a few things to consider from a man with experience. Cleavers tea stimulates the lymphatic system. Panax ginseng has cortisol blocking chemicals so it can be a bit strong but it does relax the liver enough to flush toxins from the liver especially within the first day of use. You can get a kettle bell and stimulate serotonin to relax yourself by lifting the kettle bell from behind your shoulder to in front of your shoulder 12 times with each arm. You can also stimulate your kidneys by lifting the kettle bell from by your legs to under your arm pits with a bit of a stretch 15 times quickly with both arms. If you are looking for things that help the mind glycine Silver needle white tea and high dha algae oil might be worth investigating. You see everything in science follows benfords law accept the mathematical nature of mental pathology's according to psychiatry. This means that Psychiatry is a racket committing intellectual fraud standing in the way of discovery in the real science behind mental illness which is currently not fully been mapped although genetics points to stress related dna switching to be an identifier of mental disorder thus the issue is more complex and more like one single diagnoses that has many biological and psychological aspects relating to stress I would say a person is struggling to cope with stress and screw the label my self. I know I'm talking the raw science of the biological mind here and not the pretty looking pathological categorization idea but real scientific data researched with real science doesn't always fit our pretty presuppositions. If psychiatry moved forward and embraced the real science they would find that they hit a higher optimal with people and would require the use of force only in extreme circumstances and not commonly. The thing is dealing with stress and the problems relating to it has been a topic of study long before psychiatry and is a well adverse field so most of the time people would be better helped too adapt to stress in more tried and tested ways. I think it's wise to remember that some behaviors are not poor adaptions to stress they are mealy harmless personal quirks and often don't require any adjustment and quirks are simply a part and parcel of natural progress.
How do we assess the original illness that got us on meds? Going through withdrawals with a worse version of the original feels like a recipe for disaster.
Had you the original illness on the outset of your therapy or it was a misunderstanding your mind by a guiding doc...? If you were feeling bad it doesn’t mean you are mentally ill or something that you need dopes to feel better. I assume you got on meds and the Kingdom didn’t come...? How long have you taken those miracle drugs and why wizard doc magic didn’t work for you...? Did you put off drugs and felt much worse than before help arrived...? Have you fallen into a hole when off dopes...? Are you off meds now....? How are you doing today...?
Are you suffering from lingering toxins in your body due to someone with enlabelment disorder. Here are a few things to consider from a man with experience. Cleavers tea stimulates the lymphatic system. Panax ginseng has cortisol blocking chemicals so it can be a bit strong but it does relax the liver enough to flush toxins from the liver especially within the first day of use. You can get a kettle bell and stimulate serotonin to relax yourself by lifting the kettle bell from behind your shoulder to in front of your shoulder 12 times with each arm. You can also stimulate your kidneys by lifting the kettle bell from by your legs to under your arm pits with a bit of a stretch 15 times quickly with both arms. If you are looking for things that help the mind glycine Silver needle white tea and high dha algae oil might be worth investigating. You see everything in science follows benfords law accept the mathematical nature of mental pathology's according to psychiatry. This means that Psychiatry is a racket committing intellectual fraud standing in the way of discovery in the real science behind mental illness which is currently not fully been mapped although genetics points to stress related dna switching to be an identifier of mental disorder thus the issue is more complex and more like one single diagnoses that has many biological and psychological aspects relating to stress I would say a person is struggling to cope with stress and screw the label my self. I know I'm talking the raw science of the biological mind here and not the pretty looking pathological categorization idea but real scientific data researched with real science doesn't always fit our pretty presuppositions. If psychiatry moved forward and embraced the real science they would find that they hit a higher optimal with people and would require the use of force only in extreme circumstances and not commonly. The thing is dealing with stress and the problems relating to it has been a topic of study long before psychiatry and is a well adverse field so most of the time people would be better helped too adapt to stress in more tried and tested ways. I think it's wise to remember that some behaviors are not poor adaptions to stress they are mealy harmless personal quirks and often don't require any adjustment and quirks are simply a part and parcel of natural progress.
Medicines I think are good for crisis and stabilizing but overall I agree that they don’t make sense long term. It’s just that much more difficult to slowly get off the medicines once you’re stable on them, it’s gotta be a slow titration cause of the brain chemistry like you were saying.
I didn't want to live when on meds...if something happened to me, noone would have known it was because of antidepressants and klonopin. Antidepressants worsened my condition but I was told: "Your depression got worse"...I wasn't warned it could be a very serious side effect of these drugs. After two years of treatment I was so depressed that I sought another doctor and begged for help. He gave me klonopin. And hell on earth began.
Hell on Wheels. Maybe you Don't need meds to deal with your problem. Depression is hard to beat and doc usually prescribes some meds. You have to take them for long time. Maybe 5 to 10 years to feel better. If meds are wrong and your depression worsens then meds Don't work and you need to change them. Healing depression on your own is difficult and won't work. Professional help is possible and often helpful if you gonna pay the price and take meds for longer time. Be patient. Work with your doc not against doc. If there is no improvement and side effects of meds are bagging you too much then reduce meds to get finally rid of them. Psychologist sometime can help you with psychotherapy without using drugs. Psychiatrists rely only on neuroleptic drugs and they intend to put you on them definitely for many years. You taking the risk. Take meds and feel better or take meds and feel worse. Good medication can heal your depression. Wrong medication will not help.
So for those of us who have been on a myriad of psych meds over a couple decades...are some of us too far gone to risk getting off and not ending up with a worse relapse that might not be survivable???
I say no. ( neurogenesis. Brain plasticity. Diet . Slow reduction. Plus positivity in the darkness. ). It is far from easy but if it was easy then everyone would do it ). All i know is i want off this ride and i stand a better chance off it than on it. Peace
First get correct diagnosis. Then if needed correct medicine. If you feeling bad then medicine makes you feeling good. But must be taken for longer time. Maybe 10 or 20 years. Then you may become well and medicine can be gradually reduced. No risks. When you feeling bad with medicine then medicine doesn't work. Then should be replaced into new medicine which will work right way. Then you need to take it. Then you may become normally functioning. One or two correct medicines. Now. If you start playing your own doc then you will be experimenting with medicines. So called putting off medicine after 2 or 3 years do you more harm than good and you feeling not different than before you started medicine. If you like that the go ahead, knock yourself out. Don't take any medicines and put off medicines you already took. Then look what is happening to you. There are the whole bunch of mental health workers and bunch of amateurs, former patients or self taught doctors, witch doctors, herbalists, massaging, Reiki masters, Auroveda practitioners, Zen Masters, Yoga teachers, Hare Krishnas, Native American Shamans, bioenergotherapists, clearvoyants, Ufologists, Scientologists, Tibetan Lamas, Muslim brothers, Jewish Kabala men, Neo Nazis, Skin Heads, Modern Hippies, Mormons, Jehova Witnesses, Satanists, Goths, Witches, Zodiac Experts, you name them. If shrink doesn't fit your expectations maybe you will find healing for yourself there among those people. Try what is the best for you. Even vacations on Cuba.
21:15 COST AND BENEFITS vs RISK AND ASSOCIATIONS.......IF you are a complete shut in and have no life or are in constant pain then the medication IS WORTH IT!
Time is your best friend ib getting off and staying off psych drugs. If you have the financial means and wish to get off these drugs, take it easy, go in trips with a trusted friend, and give it at least 2-3 years. Your brain and body will heal and go back to normal. Simply be patient and give it time.
I'm coming off this for depression however, 1 week off and my middle low back is hurting so bad no doctor seems to know why. X-Rays are great, MRI is scheduled because I'm in so much pain I'm about ready to jump off a building 10 stories high. The MRI better show something or else I don't know what else to do. If it's because I'm coming off this drug going on 10 years I will sue the shit out of the maker because this is life threatening for me!
After many years on psychiatric meds, including the dreaded quetiapine, I’m finally almost off them. I have found that a good-quality CBD oil is helpful for withdrawals in my case - it’s worth a try.
Do you know about peer support on the web ? I live in Argentina and here isnt any kind of holistic or critical treatments . I went of meds Risperidol but I need talk with people who has same issues. I had psycosys I feel fine now but Im trying to find that...peers
Where is your group. I don't believe I am sick never did. i was in late 40 when i went to a person after asking a nurse a question because I had interrupted twice or so a person. Raised very strong manners. I three days later, after seeing person she had directed me to put me on lithium told me I was bipolar Whats that/ depressed then mania I said I have never been depressed I worked full time went ot College full time and have Med. I took shaking tremors, went off told put on Depoke.
Will, Im happy you’re in California I need your help,my son was misdiagnosed same story as yours,he’s still suffering I wanted to help him by decreasing his medicines slowly not even %10 less than it would mess him up,he’s very sensitive and can’t handle these meds but doctors keep pushing them in his body.. He’s in the hospital now,since the end of March 😞 I’ll contact you as soon as he leaves the hospital I hope you can help us!
i am 32, was diagnosed after doing very badly at uni after doing well, having quit smoking and drugs the year before. But nowadays I think i had problems from a teenager. I remeber watching a movie about and then being asked by a girl in my class if i knew what schizophrenia was. I was uncomfortable, condemned, but not for that long. I think i have just thought about it (maybe if we dont like the truth) more lately since stopping medicine in 2005
Will, you certainly know your stuff! Question for you, I am four months detoxing from Seroquel. I have many of the common side effects such as muscle cramping, blisters etc but I what I have noticed that tachycardia has become an issue over the last two months of the detox. I find catching my breath sometimes is a challenge. Do you have any thoughts on this symptom?
Thanks for the video. I need a help. I have my friend who is in crisis. He is diagnosed as schizophrenia almost 20 years ago and suffering from overloaded medication over years and has been hospitalized. But the hospital never tries to reduce his medication and he is becoming insane. He takes like 30 pills a day and never got better. However he kept going bad. He can't even blush his teeth by himself. So, his parents took him home to take care of. But he is still being insane and sometimes violentaly. Maybe it's a withdrawal. They looked for all over Japan to find a good doctor and hospital that can deal with this and reduce his pills, but none... Now this family thought about driving into the ocean, three of them. But my friend mom thouht of sending him back to the hospital. But it means killing him slowly. Abandoning her own son... I wanna help them, but don't know how...
Please look for that. I have no clue if it works. But I have a family member and we might try. www.suicideprevention-schizophrenia.com/B.E.A.M.-Alternative-Treatments.html
Are you talking about your friend or about yourself...? Situation is grim. No kidding. Your friend has a problem. Don't know what is the reason. But all is the working of his karma. Bad karma makes him incapacitated and he is not contacting with normal reality so his life is abnormal. Nobody knows what to do. I would tell you what to do but you won't do it and your friend is raw meat destined to even more suffering. His present life is much ignorance, living like an animal. Animal doesn't understand it's condition and situation. Stuffing him with dopes is not helping. Putting him off meds makes him worse. Family is helpless and you wanna help. How...? How you gonna help the situation get better or how you fix him for good...? It is possible. It takes time and commitment. But you Aren't able to do it. Neither his parents. Nor his psychiatrist. Neither he himself although only he can help himself here. But how can you talk to a Dog...? You can give him a bone or a piece of meat. That will make him happy. But to take correct process of healing is beyond his ability to comprehend. So I Don't even bother to mention ways of healing the problem. It's better to leave it as it is and let the karma takes an effect. For better or for worse. You can do nothing. Start sending cheques to PETA or UNHCR or MSF/DWB for 20 years regularly each month $50.00 to $100.00. Start cracking with Mahayana prostrations, 3 in the morning, 3 in the evening for at least 5 to 10 years. Do meditation on mind's nature according to Mahamudra for 10 years or for 30 years. The best would be if the process was being done by whole family and by interested fellow, your friend. Then you may succeed to a certain degree. Then merit can avert trouble and your bro may recover and get sanity. But I know you Don't move a pinky to help him so the only option remaining is long term hospitalization in psychiatric institution and strong psychiatrist who has nerve to speak turkey to his patient and telling him the truth. He needs good meds who are helpful not harmful for his brain and slowly he can feel better. But for total recovery he needs to take care of himself. Positive thinking and will to helping others is essential in here.
My child you are sane as I am and no drug can take away rejection problem from you. Find out what you are good in and try that. Do your job. Enjoy your life. Don't be nervous and relax with loving yourself. If you love yourself you will love all beings and if people reject you or accept you That's their business. Your business is to love yourself. Find something you are good in. Develop it and enjoy our life to the full. You are not crazy or psycho so why are you on psychotropes...? Doctor doesn't give a rat shit for your well being. His interests are monetary gain and reputation of a big time doctor! His sensitivity for human suffering is so small that it's makes me laugh. But if you are dependent on others opinions about you then you will have a problem with other people. Then doctors can lie to your face telling you are very ill and need help. And they are helping you. You see how you are feeling with their help. No hope for anything. That's their help. They cannot even help themselves. How can they help you...?
I have a son with schizophrenia and OCD , who has been on psychiatric drugs since 1997. For instance, he has been on Clonazepam for that whole time, and is also on Prozac and Invega for his schizophrenia. Getting him off of those drugs would probably take years, and reducing dosages at the proper rate for his own safety seems like a crap shoot. Plus anywhere you look for help among professionals all you find is more "pill pushers", certainly no one who understands and would actually help him.
Are you suffering from lingering toxins in your body due to someone with enlabelment disorder. Here are a few things to consider from a man with experience. Cleavers tea stimulates the lymphatic system. Panax ginseng has cortisol blocking chemicals so it can be a bit strong but it does relax the liver enough to flush toxins from the liver especially within the first day of use. You can get a kettle bell and stimulate serotonin to relax yourself by lifting the kettle bell from behind your shoulder to in front of your shoulder 12 times with each arm. You can also stimulate your kidneys by lifting the kettle bell from by your legs to under your arm pits with a bit of a stretch 15 times quickly with both arms. If you are looking for things that help the mind glycine Silver needle white tea and high dha algae oil might be worth investigating. You see everything in science follows benfords law accept the mathematical nature of mental pathology's according to psychiatry. This means that Psychiatry is a racket committing intellectual fraud standing in the way of discovery in the real science behind mental illness which is currently not fully been mapped although genetics points to stress related dna switching to be an identifier of mental disorder thus the issue is more complex and more like one single diagnoses that has many biological and psychological aspects relating to stress I would say a person is struggling to cope with stress and screw the label my self. I know I'm talking the raw science of the biological mind here and not the pretty looking pathological categorization idea but real scientific data researched with real science doesn't always fit our pretty presuppositions. If psychiatry moved forward and embraced the real science they would find that they hit a higher optimal with people and would require the use of force only in extreme circumstances and not commonly. The thing is dealing with stress and the problems relating to it has been a topic of study long before psychiatry and is a well adverse field so most of the time people would be better helped too adapt to stress in more tried and tested ways. I think it's wise to remember that some behaviors are not poor adaptions to stress they are mealy harmless personal quirks and often don't require any adjustment and quirks are simply a part and parcel of natural progress.
If you are going to wean yourself off, you need to be very careful not to get an instant gratification mindset. Depending on the drug(s), you may need to taper off over the course of several years. I tapered off Cymbalta too quickly and ruined my life.
Are you on drugs now...? You said 4 years off. ..? Meditation and Chi Gong exercises would bring your system to balance in 2 to 3 years. EIGHT PIECES OF BROCADE is a simple Chinese Taoist exercises set. You can practice it sitting and standing forms. They helped me after my encounter with 36 years of drug therapies and they might be helpful for you at this time.
@@CREEKSTx3 Abilify I Don't know. RISPERIDONE has some side effects. You gain lots of weight on it fast. I was 155 pounds and after 3 years I was 295 pounds. Must admitt I got an appetite on RISPERIDONE. Your sex drive will get compromised seriously. You stop ejaculating and your erections will go away. It will make you an impotent man.
Mr. Hong. What is your diagnosis...? Who diagnosed you and how the diagnosis was established in the first place...? Did you have many blood tests, EEG tests or CT of your brain or MRI testing...? If doctors conducted thorough testing which last for one or two months, my blood tests lasted for three years, 6 tubes of blood every three months, then you are diagnosed correctly because your system was checked out. If doc's put you on meds it was for a reason. Meds are expensive and not everybody is put on them for financial reasons. If you got a shrink and are able to communicate to your doc about everything you want to then therapy will work. When meds are correctly administrated then after longer time you will feel better. If meds are wrong, tell you doc that you feeling worse on these drugs and he or she will change meds into something better. Then talk to your doctors about your feelings and side effects. About your imaginations and fantasies. About your sex life and domestic situation. About your dreams and plans for the future. Don't be afraid. Just talk to your shrink about everything. If doc interrups you or is not willing to listen and speaking to you in a manner of superiority and demagogy, then this doc is not for you and you have all civil rights to tell him he is belittling you and treating you carelessly and you don't like it. Tell him you want another doctor because there is bad communication here between professional health worker and a patient. You will feel the best way how some shrinks are simply quacks or real doctors who can help you. You have legal rights to talk to many shrinks and choosing a good one for yourself. Remember, you chose doctor not doctor choses you. That's the rule! Remember this. Now. You are off meds for 4 years and are in hell. Maybe you feeling worse than before you started medicine....? If this is the case then you need to undergo some tests, blood tests and CT scan of your brain and let specialist deal with the results. Then you will be put on new medication. You must give it a try. There is no guarantee you will feel better very soon but after 6 months you can tell if new medication working for you or not working for you. If working for you and you are coming out of hell then good. Right choice. Then stay on that medicine for longer time cooperating with your doctors. Then after 5 or 10 years you will change hell into earth. Maybe heaven. That I don't know. It depends if your medication is fitting your diagnosis.
I believe I am very sensitve to medication so I think it's better to gradually come off Solian. One more question would be. How long does a withdrawal take place? 1 or 2 weeks, maybe it's different for everyone..Maybe it might take a longer time for my brain to readjust to stopping a medication than other people.
but i wasnt well for a while before being put in a clinic. I havent been that way in awhile. Wanting to live so to speak and seeing things like my dad where he wasnt. OK i was on holiday on some island trying to travel alone again. I shall continue to live. Maybe blind. But back then i think i remeber and can worry about stopping again, how i really believed my mum wasnt honest when she told me i had lost a friend. And i was young
Yeah, but when people are using it for debilitating states then the drugs HELP. NOT ALL DRUGS ARE BAD ALL THE TIME. There are so many puritans on here that think they know better. I would love to see the same people go through the pain that many are getting help with from these drugs!
Could some one advise me, I was put on olanzapine 4 weeks ago, but now want to come of it, 5mg, after reading some horrific withdrawal symptoms, am I likely to also get them.
Usually the withdrawals of a drug produce the exact opposite of it. For heavy cocaine users that lack lot of sleep they will just sleep for a couple days and crave in their bed when they don't sleep. My mom use to work in a rehab center and she told me the worst withdrawal you can encounter is the alcohol even more then the heroin.
You probably was taken to mental hospital by police or locked up by your parent. That's why you are diagnosed with schizophrenia or maniac depressive and put on meds. That's fine. If you felt bad meds can be helpful. But if you felt all right before doping you with psychotropes then drugs you are on may be not needed. If you are feeling well now then you aren't sick so no meds is necessary. Maybe a little herbal tea or some meditation or yoga would be more helpful. But if your mental state is anger or jealousy and you have lots of grudges then psychotropes will not take it away. Work on positive side of life. Think positive thoughts and help other people and animals. Then you will feel good and drugs you can put down. You can fix your problems with positive attitude to adopt and cultivate. Many doctors are simply quacks and they Don't know what they are doing themselves. If this is the case you need to change doctor or get rid of them completely. Rely on your good heart and your mental state will be good too.
It gives me a sense of control when someone, especially a diagnosed schizophrenic, says so articulately that you can use tools other than pills to control your anxiety, depression, etc.
Kind of ironic that I just quit my job at the pharmacy yesterday.
Yes. Writing has been shown to help. a lot. Gives an outlet to thoughts & feelings you may not feel able to share.
Mr. C. What was your position in pharmacy you worked before before you quit...? Are you licensed pharmacist or just a delivery boy...? If you are diagnosed as schizophrenic then we have a problem here. Do you have any useful hobby...? Anxiety, restlessness, panic attacs, fear, anger, stupor, thinking agitation, imaginary interpretations of ordinary reality, feelings of being followed by CIA or FBI, drowsiness, apathy, lack of energy, loss of sex drive, hopelessness, suspecting some people to be Jesus Christ or Krishna in disguise, or some devills or demons going after you, seeing television hallucinations, getting strange messages from TV or radio, difficulties with memory, or with concentration, physical paralyzes or sudden ticks, having many funny thoughts without any reason, homosidal tendencies, becoming suicidal, exploding with sudden anger, hatred to the world, feelings of being persecuted by other people, people talking to you in the bus or subway, these are many symptoms indicating your brain is not working correctly and malfunctioning. You must know that outer reality is always neutral and nothing really is happening. But our thinking mind projects interpretations of outer reality and when we making some our interpretation then reality starts looking like our view colors it. Then it is called paranoia. There are as many paranoia as there are human beings because each one of us is making his or her reality according of our thoughts. Thoughts are the most powerful tool we possess. Thoughts can help you but also may harm you. Thoughts may hurt you badly and other people. Everything is created by our thoughts alone. Make an experiment. Your native language is English. So your thinking is in English. But start to think in Korean or Chinese....? Make your projections in Korean or Chinese. You can't say a word. So is for a Korean or a Chinese man. He cannot say anything in English. So if you want to communicate with Korean or Chinese man you must know their native languages. Otherwise you never meet in conversation. It is impossible.
Now. If language decides about communication and our views then language is words and words are thoughts and thoughts are what...? You don't know. I don't know too. If you don't know what is a thought how can you believe your thought exists....? Did you see a thought...? No. Did you know where thought comes from...? No. Do you know where the thought goes...? No. No. No. No. You don't know. In fact nobody ever saw any thought nor know what is a thought. But everybody is thinking. Thinking is natural working of brain. But sometime we are thinking too much and became prisoners of our thinking. Then thinking presents us with a problem. Thinking is the key to mental health. Understand this...??? Thinking is making your problems and thinking takes problems away. Who are you? You don't know. Where are you coming from to this world...? You don't know. Where you go when dead...? You don't know. What do you want....? You don't know. I don't know ether. So DON'T KNOW. ONLY DON'T KNOW. Keep this DON'T KNOW. Why to keep don't know...? DON'T KNOW. if you keep this don't know then you are only relaxing in don't know. When reading a book. Only don't know. When watching TV. Only don't know. When talking to doctor. Only don't know. This DON'T KNOW is TRUE YOU. TRUE ME. TRUE MAN. DON'T KNOW IS TRUE HEALTH AND SANITY. OK.
Then what color is sky...? Blue. What color is the moon...? White. What the dog says...? Woof, woof! What the friend says...? Hello How are you today? Then your consciousness becomes clearer, clearer, clearer and finally becomes clear like space. Then you will be sane and healthy 100%. Then even if in meds your consciousness will work correctly and you will feel good. So rest only in DON'T KNOW. Always and everywhere. Then you become doc of your shrink. And you can help him. You can help all people. You can help this world. Also your world become peace and safe. That means you are living in harmony with energies of cosmos. The name of this is DON'T KNOW.
Can't believe I found you and these videos. 15 years on so many psych meds. Gave me diabetes I'm now obese, extremely depressed and severely anxious. Chronic insomniac. I NEVER leave my house unless I must. I only want to be alone.Anti social. I used to work, since I was 15(now 40 and on disability)was very healthy was an athlete even. In school I was also a cheerleading,prom queen,homecoming queen etc;...That person is dead it seems. Since I've been diagnosed bipolar and put on meds my life went down hill and I'm literally not the same person. Mentally,physically,even spiritually. That's why I feel like that girl died and I'm a different person 100%. In a bad way. ALL BC OF MEDS!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been trying to get off meds for over 5 years. Been to a handful of rehabs and detox centers with people who were trying to get off hard core street drugs! They had MUCH more success than me trying to come off RX drugs!!!! It's insane!!!!!!!! I lost my husband even. We are separated maybe getting a divorce. I am devastated. I am now on my own at home trying to just SLOWLY wean off and start to exercise and eat very healthy. Also I am a Christian so I am praying and meditating for healing. Basically asking God for a miracle. Also I've been hospitalized more times than I can count. Going into 2020 I know I will have to suffer but I am going to keep on my own wean off and get healthy and change my lifestyle trying to stay positive that I will one day be healed and we'll and healthy again. I found you by accident on Christmas Eve. But actually I don't think it was an accident at all. It is horrifying doctors and pharmacies have done this to people,literally ruining lives. But to know I am not alone and also that others like you have even got off meds and gotten well again is a MIRACLE and gives me HOPE. So THANK YOU for speaking out and giving hope and encouragement. GOD bless you greatly.👍👏
I'm glad you are finding hope and starting steps to improve what sounds like a really difficult situation. And yes psych meds can sometimes be even harder to come off than street drugs, for a lot of reasons, one being daily use and two being the crisis or altered states or emotional overwhelm that the meds might be keeping a lid on. I personally also find spirituality really key for moving forward in my life.
I also got diabetes after 33 years on psychotropics.
OXYZEPAM is safe drug to help you sleep. You take 15 to 30 mg before going to bed for night rest. It works for longer time of taking it without side effects.
Meditation and yoga is also good.
Savasana relaxation is the best yoga exercise for you. Read about it.
My 39 y.o. son was on all of the mentioned plus many others...a genius IQ... with two MA degrees but never got the degrees b/c his last quarter led him to overdosing, then several seizures...University basically booted him out. He could not cope knowing he lost his degrees. For 10 years he lived with us, he was like my best friend and he adored me. April 26,2019 he took his life😭 My daughter found ALL his files from grade school to University...he was a stickler for details and had requested & kept but never shared with us. His diagnosis was about as sad as anyone’s..and he was on 5 or 6 psych drugs at time of his suicide. I feel so guilty because I did not put it all together... my only son, gone...His funeral was the day before Mother’s Day 2019. I miss his caring & kind, sweet ways. I will never be ‘okay,...but if anyone asks, I say I am...
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I have dealt with mental illness and psychiatric medication for many years and I have to say this presentation is the best I've ever seen on the subject. This video should be shown to all medical students and medical professionals. It amazes me how clueless so many doctors are when it comes to psychotropic drugs and mental health.
They are not. Its a business an evil business
Are you suffering from lingering toxins in your body due to someone with enlabelment disorder.
Here are a few things to consider from a man with experience.
Cleavers tea stimulates the lymphatic system.
Panax ginseng has cortisol blocking chemicals so it can be a bit strong but it does relax the liver enough to flush toxins from the liver especially within the first day of use.
You can get a kettle bell and stimulate serotonin to relax yourself by lifting the kettle bell from behind your shoulder to in front of your shoulder 12 times with each arm.
You can also stimulate your kidneys by lifting the kettle bell from by your legs to under your arm pits with a bit of a stretch 15 times quickly with both arms.
If you are looking for things that help the mind
glycine
Silver needle white tea
and high dha algae oil
might be worth investigating.
You see everything in science follows benfords law accept the mathematical nature of mental pathology's according to psychiatry. This means that Psychiatry is a racket committing intellectual fraud standing in the way of discovery in the real science behind mental illness which is currently not fully been mapped although genetics points to stress related dna switching to be an identifier of mental disorder thus the issue is more complex and more like one single diagnoses that has many biological and psychological aspects relating to stress I would say a person is struggling to cope with stress and screw the label my self. I know I'm talking the raw science of the biological mind here and not the pretty looking pathological categorization idea but real scientific data researched with real science doesn't always fit our pretty presuppositions.
If psychiatry moved forward and embraced the real science they would find that they hit a higher optimal with people and would require the use of force only in extreme circumstances and not commonly.
The thing is dealing with stress and the problems relating to it has been a topic of study long before psychiatry and is a well adverse field so most of the time people would be better helped too adapt to stress in more tried and tested ways.
I think it's wise to remember that some behaviors are not poor adaptions to stress they are mealy harmless personal quirks and often don't require any adjustment and quirks are simply a part and parcel of natural progress.
I get sick to my stomach thinking about all the innocent people who were searching for help and instead were used as lab rats by unscrupulous doctors while they and their families suffered the consecuences. Pray they find restoration from everything lost.
I tried to get help. Noone listened.
I’m a doctor and here to help.......run
Run...? Where...? There is nowhere to run. They will catch you. You run from hospital then police will bring you back. Run from your problem. That's better advice. Fix your problem then meds are not necessary. But you need to fix your problem first then running not necessary either.
the fact that 85.794 people saw this video is great news... so far. HOPE
Will, you rock! I love your gentle, almost lassaiz faire approach to diversity - and yet - coupled with support, desire, and discipline you bring together all the components and ingredients for people to take charge of their prescriptions and mental well being. This video was my first introduction to tapering information, and following it to Surviving Antidepressants, I have successfully come off my antidepressants, and 88% of my lithium. I'm comfortable on low-dose lithium and may stay there awhile. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, I'm so glad to "be myself" again.
Hi there, how did you successfully come off 88% of your lithium? Would love to hear more
This video was spot on! Lack of sleep and trauma have been my main problems. I still take medications, but have reduced from 6 to 4 and I'm working on decreasing from 4 to 2. It takes time to decrease, the slower the better. You'll have less withdrawal symptoms.
Awesome! That's great to hear that you cut out 2 meds!
Hey I'm going through withdrawal symptoms from risperidone, were you able to fully recover and feel normal
@@onesai5555 Eventually, yes. Everybody's time will be different. I've had the best results with a slow taper. If the withdrawal symptoms persist, stop tapering until they are gone.
@@LeoDragonite I went off cold turkey which is probably why I'm suffering so much, took for about 6 weeks, been of for 1 month and 3 weeks now, I just want reassurance that fully recovery is possible and that I'll feel normal and like myself again 😔
@@LeoDragonite how long did it take for you to feel normal after getting of meds? I still have anhedonia, brain fog, and residual akathisia, although it's gotten better over the past few weeks
I am an avid #MentalHealthAwareness advocate and performer, and I love this so much. I travel the country trying to bring that awareness on stages, in classrooms, hospitals, and on my TH-cam channel, so I get excited when I see other advocates. 💙❤
Thank you - the World needs more people like you.
So...... now what do I do ?????
Anyone ???
I went off psych meds with the help of a neuropsychologist. Withdrawl is hell but it was worth it in the long run.
Kathleen Wippel awesome! L you think you fully recovered and are as smart/quick and can feel the same range of emotions and motivation you had before. I'm still recovering and wondering if I'll get it back
I am in the process of reduction and have to say that you have been an awesome resource of information because it truly is a scary journey alone.
Hey @Will Hall, you should do a TEdTalk!
Thank you, so much!
I'm currently doing my masters in medical neurosciences and I have medical background. I personally think the problem is not in science, but more in medical and public health field, also involving insurance companies. I was lucky enough myself to have a doctor with deep knowledge who looked into my specific situation, from my family dynamics to my lifestyle, and she tapered me off as soon as crisis was gone. But I'm astounded by the gap between science and medical fields, as I've been in both. Medical doctors don't know the science behind what they are prescribing, they are just choosing safe options according to guidelines and insurance/pharma company interests. You are doing a nice job, maybe I do my future research on this topic, who knows.
Meds are cheaper than therapy for the insurance company. Especially with a restricted drug formulary
This is wonderful information and presentation. I found you from your audiobooks of RD Laing. I really appreciate your compassionate and constructive perspective.
A very realistic and cautious look at the medication with great insights. Thank you very much for this.
Work on the gut. The gut and the brain are very connected.
Nancy happycamper how to work on the gut????
@@clairenj8751Feed it green vegetables, especially cruciferous vegetables (cabbage, brocoli etc.), alium species (garlic and onions) and fermented vegetables (kimchi, sauerkraut). Half of them raw (marinate them with vinegar and olive oil). You can also take Lactobacillus especially Lactobacillus plantarum.
Yeh Men Thank you !
Personally I have seen many people benefit from nutrition and food changes, but not all. It's really worth paying attention to though - meds withdrawal and reduction often involves lifestyle changes.
Yeeeeeees! Thank you. Gut to brain. But also food allergies too. Soy makes my back feel like its about to break. Cheese makes me suicidal.
Very well explained. This must be seen by much more people. Thanks
Hi Will ,you may not know me but your approach to this harm reduction has saved my future life. I watched most of your article and post from which i gained the courage and will to come off my psych meds. Now i am sober for one and half year. Thank you for your noble step up on this issue and for giving hope even where the medical science has failed to provide mostly.
How u feeling? Did memory and sex drive return
Hey ive i was taking risperidone for like 6 weeks, were you able to fully recover and feel normal again?
@losangeles54655 hey did you fully recover?
Great information....even though this was from 2012. I wish we lived near you....we live in an area that not only diagnosis's too quickly, but pumps people up so quickly on the drugs! Your video was a breath of fresh air!
Very good. Balanced information. People need to be very careful coming off these drugs
I was going thru withdrawal when I commented, now i watched this! Ha! Very good video. It was hell, took about 6 weeks to 8. I am 4 months out now, never felt better in my life! I was misdiagnosed, I had PTSD, thru severe trauma, drs never once talked to me about past. Im happier now and can think! Those drugs r evil to the brain
Pollyanna which med were u on?
Can I ask you for tips about getting through your withdrawal? How did you convince yourself that you didn't need to go back to the drugs
Pollyanna hello how are you doing? I wanted to ask you a few questions, I was put on 6 different antidepressants within 2 months, I stopped cold turkey 4 weeks ago, I know going cold turkey isn’t the west to go, I’m experiencing daily headaches, head pressure, fatigue, did you experience any of these symptoms? Will the brain recover? Thank you
Did ur sex drive return?
Will, you're doing a great job. This video is so very useful to many people out there that need help. I hope they find this video. Thanks again.
I am 6 months into my withdrawal from SSRIs and Benzos for over 10 years. Took 2 1/2 years to wean off with doctors.
how are you? do you have ticks (tongue movements, nose twitches, chewing motion with mouth)
Have a happy and peaceful life!
J.S V How are you sleeping?
@BuzzmFrog I'm sure you've heard this plenty before, but from someone who's been on both sides of that bridge you're looking to cross, the anxiety and other mental health issues get way better when you're off of them. For the longest time I thought my anxiety was getting worse and worse, so I kept upping my dose of Klonopin. It just kept getting worse, and finally after I got off of them, my anxiety went way down. Don't get me wrong, it's still there, but it's not crippling like it was. Getting off of them and getting through withdrawal is going to suck, it's going to be one of the worst experiences of your life, I'm not going to lie to you, it's hell. But the freedom, that feeling when you wake up and realize you're free, it's the greatest feeling in the world.
I am weaning off, too! My doctor told me it is not possible for people over 50 to get off of Venlafaxine. I quickly and respectfully reminded him that in FACT, we, as patients are always in control of our own health decisions. LEGALLY and ETHICALLY.
One of the best Psychiatric videos Ive seen very helpful thank you
This guy is awesome!!!! What a good soul.
May the Universe and Arch angel St. Michael continue guiding you on your journey into healthy natural states of living consciousness and clairaudience! Universal namaste and best!
..and protect your civil rights! Make sure they give you clean record! Their opinions are too quick to judge and most of these experiences have documented by anthropologists in many cultures as simply spiritual. Shamans are bit outdated but the routine to just let the trances pass over were totally healthy and natural for varied metaphysical phenomenon.
So hurtful nomenclature should not follow you for the rest of your life every time you need a doctor. Have you seen the paragraph in the DSM in the front that says they should not over diagnose people in countries that observe spiritual causes? It's in the introduction stuff. Why don't they observe this in America??????
Just sharing and Universal good luck!
~ PsychicSuesie - yt - fb
@@susankerkhoff1233 Absolutely and 100%. Benzo's throw us into a kind of shamanic journey but instead of peyote or ayahuasca, and being prepared by wise elders who've been through it - we are thrown into it like a bad acid trip. The drugs CAUSE the "mania" or whatever they dub it as - then they prescribe more drugs, which worsens any anxiety or insomnia or whatever problem you first took them for - times 10 (or 100).
You were excellent in this video! God bless you abundantly!!!!❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much for making this video to help others. I will be returning to it again and again for moral support as I continue to slowly reduce my meds. I have tried before without professional help and ended up back in hospital on more drugs and a new diagnosis. I cannot expect any support from family as they have never accepted me for who I really am and prefer me to be sedate-ed. I have never been violent or aggressive, they just like to control me. Not any more. I have recently spent hours and hours learning about ‘empaths’ and narcissists and feel I can now understand how to relate
Good luck getting off your meds!
Controlling freaks. That’s your family. They put you on dopes to get rid of responsibility for your suffering they caused you. They told you are sick mentally and need help. Getting rid of the problem is not easy now. You are ambushed from all sides. No way out. Find a hobby, art, music, yoga, meditation, cat or dog, enjoy what is left for you in this life. Talk the truth. Truth will set you free. Be positive. See good in people. Some people are nasty but not all. There are plenty of good people and good doctors.
can i tapper of both clonazepam (0.5 mg) & vortioxetin (10mg) have been using for 3 weeks only.. I don't want to stay on these pills which cannot give me relef rather more I'll feeling.. Please advice me n ur support needed 🙏 iam eagerly waiting for ur reply, I don't want to regret in future help meme.
I knew a girl that was medicated for 10 years, it sounded to me she was just prescribed drugs and then, by chance, they saw if she improved or not. She was diagnosed with many different things and her behavior never improved for long.
You leave out the personal bias that many doctors have. It isn't just the drugs. Many professionals are so busy that they don't have the time (or you don't have the money) to be thoroughly examined. Misdiagnosis is common and leads to improper administration of medications.
So true. They are not gods. They are often not even very smart. Often just indoctrinated puppets of the pharma industry.
Best thing i ve seen since long.
Thank you very much Will for sharing this information. I've been diagnosed with Bipolar depression at the age of 16 and had 13 psychiatric admissions ever since. I'm 26 now and I've been off all my medication for the last 2 months and I'm going through some withdrawal symptoms - mainly oversleeping. But I feel my body is healing so I know I need this sleep. I've always been against medication from day one but my family and doctors over persuaded and sometimes forced me to take the meds. This has been extremely traumatic in itself. Good nutrition, exercise and have helped me but mostly trusting yourself and don't buy into what other people say. Only you know what's best..
How are you feeling now...? Are you all right...? 13 times in a nut house That's a record. I was 6 times in 16 years. Last time in 1996. Never hospitalized for last 24 years. I've been on meds for over 40 years diagnosed with schizophrenia. These meds helped me and also harmed me. I got diabetes and are sweating like a pig for last 13 years. Maybe liver failure or kidneys got off.
You are 26 or something. Young. Depression is hard. I had depression for 16 years. Only when put on RISPERIDONE I got rid of depression almost in 6 months. My energy became strong but I gained much weight. From 155 pounds in 1984 I landed 295 pounds in 1999 after 3 years on RISPERIDONE. But managed to beat it to 220 pounds till 2020.
You are in the middle of wasps nest now. Have bad feeling and are afraid of taking meds. Your symptoms worsen and you suspect meds aren't helping. Who is your doctor...? Do you know him well enough...? Well enough to trust him...? Can he help your problems go away or you think it is loss of time...? How did you feel before you found yourself in hospital...? We're you feeling well enough...? Or your state was painfully bad and you were suffering...? Why so many times hospitalized...? We're you violent...? Talking too much...?
What are you gonna do now...? Will you manage your problems without drugs on your own...? What will be the outcome of getting off dopes...? Do you expect full recovery from depression or otherwise...?
Those doctors are carrying between themselves. Wrong doc may do much harm. But correct doc may be helpful. Consider this. Meds also are working in many ways. Some are useless some are useful. Good meds can put you on your feet in 1 to 3 years. Then doc may reduce dose. If you Don't know anything about psychiatric drugs then you have no map to navigate unknown terrain of your psyche. They are studying for 12 years psychiatry alone. After 5 years of general medicine. So they must know something useful. Once more. If you meet a good doc then your state will improve in no time. Quack will treat you for decades and you get no better. I know people who are on meds for 30 or 40 years and they move like zombies. But my state of depression, fears and anxieties disappeared gradually during my long term therapy. Had 20 shrinks. Only 2 of them were helpful and picked me up. Today I am illness free and reduced my ZELDOX from 240mg to 80mg. I am only on this dose of Zyprexa for 4 months. Before I was on 160 mg for 5 months. I reduced dope by myself. Not seeing shrink for 14 months. Intend to go out of drugs completely in 12 months or earlier 6 to 8 months. My feeling is good. I function correctly. For last 6 years taking care of aging mother and 2 cats. Doing shopping, pharmacy, bank, lease for apartment, working as a translator for my mother for last 35 years in clinics and many hospitals she goes to see her doctors. Was 4 times on ER in 4 different hospitals with her. Was waiting there from 11 to 13 hours and escorting her home by cabbies. Yes I am functioning well enough to be able to take care of myself and my family.
If you are functioning also well enough then there is no need for meds and you may be looking for a job instead. If you are feeling not so well then stay on meds and on welfare cheques.
@@dtseringdorje did u lose sex drive and did it return?
@@CREEKSTx3 Must admit Respirdal removes people from the list for sex almost permanently.
@@dtseringdorje some people said it returns ur statement may be false
@@CREEKSTx3 They maybe right.
the medications are simply tranquillisers, if you shoot a charging elephant with a tranquilliser have you cured it of rage? And, if you continue to drip tranquilliser fluid into it's brain is it helping the elephant with aggression issues or unresolved childhood trauma? I would be weary of anybody who thinks medications including sleeping pills have their uses as medications are recommended by those who in almost every case support an absence of knowledge.
Looking at your message I suspect you were put on tranquillizers right away after your caretakers put you into a hospital....? Unsolved childhood trauma. That’s the reason of all mental problems people experience in adult life. You remember your lessons. And doc taught you next lessons giving you his magic dopes. I am sure shrink gave you no useful advice how to solve your painful past experiences other than saying when you have an anxiety blow into a paper bag, huh...? Dopes you are on helped nothing no improvement. Docs changed dosage or brand of meds, sometime they put you on pills sometime on injections. And magic didn’t happen. You feel like crap and life sucks still. I know the feeling. Being on dopes for 40 years myself I can say one thing. Only positive effect of so many dopes my body endured is a welfare cheque coming to my mailbox each month. You can try meditation. Or relaxation or Yoga. That will be more helpful than years of doping you with tranquilizer to make you tranquil.
Great video with lots of good advice! You can tell it was coming from the heart ::-)
Thanks!
First off I want to say that Will Hall's video presentation is very honest.
I have been on psychiatric drugs for many years and I must happily say I have never really had a problem with be on quite a few different types of medications. Including Anti-psychotic drugs and Anti-Anxiety drugs. I am still taking a small amount of Anti-psychotic now.
But overall I find out that taking the medications worked.
Also I find out that when it comes to Psychiatry one cannot be ignorant of the fact that they may have an illness and that they need to be patient and give the Psychiatrist and the system of Psychiatry and Pharmaceutical companys the benefit of a doubt.
Thanks!
Thx for sharing your story William
Did u take abilify n risperidone and did sex drive return to normal ?
Was put on ssri’s at 17 for OCD. 22 now and went off cold turkey. They never helped me. All they did was shut off my brain and led to a severe depression. I’m struggling through now and my brain chemistry feels off. I can’t really think anymore man...
It will get better with time. Do everything you can to heal yourself.
Dying to get off Seroquel :( Slowly tapered from 800mg to 150mg over about 3 years. Then down to 125mg at home by myself. Then down to about 115mg by myself but rushed down to 100mg... couldnt sleep the 2nd night. Went back to 125mg and going to try to go slower.
UPDATE: Down to 0mg as of February 2019. Slow 10% taper worked for me. Instructions in the comments. Slow is key!
Keep going ! I’m doing the same and am down to 50mg at night from very high doses over the years. It will be worth it 👍
How did you do it?
Did you cut pills?
Please someone explain in details
Seroquel is not bad. You cannot sleep...?That surprises me. When on seroquel I was sleeping like a baby. When doc took away my 200mg dosage I got sleep deprivation for a year now. I am on Zeldox 240mg too. Reduced it yo 80mg for last 11 months and I sleep not badly for last 5 months. If you reduce meds reduce them gradually. Your brain must use to lower dosage. If you jumping from dosage to dosage it will bring disturbances and you gonna feel not so good.
Update: this February will be 2 years off meds for me 😊 The slow, very slow tapering method worked for me. Now managing anxiety with exercise and mindfulness meditation. Depression was bad due to covid. I still struggle with low energy and low motivation but honestly Seroquel never did anything for that either. I can sleep without pills and didn't have any crazy withdrawal symptoms. It was daunting bc at the time there was not much info out there on how to do it.
Get a grams scale. Weigh your pill. Calculate 10% of the total weight. Subtract that 10% from the total pill weight to get your target weight for the next 2-4 weeks. Next, cut or scrape ypur pill until you get to that target weight. Stay at the target weight for 2-4 weeks until feeling confident to go down another 10%. Repeat.
Start at the target weight and do the same process. Calculate and subtract 10% from that. Now you have ypur new target weight. Repeat the reduction after 2-4 weeks.
I found the best gauge of whether I was going too fast was the ability to sleep. If I couldn't sleep after reducing a dose, I'd go back up to the last target weight and stay there for a couple more weeks before trying again. I found as I got closer to my 0mgs target, I had to taper even slower, like 5% at a time. In the final weeks I literally was just taking a shaving or crumbled piece at night. Did that until down to nothing.
Prepare backup methods to deal with whatever symptoms caused you to take Seroquel in the first place. Get nutrition in order. Food intolerance has a surprising affect on your serotonin production and gut health. Don't stretch yourself too thin with too many obligations or stressful people. Lay off the booze and marijuana. Exercise. Just move. Go for a walk - anything that geta your heart rate going. Doesn't have to be a gym membership.
Good luck and if your symptoms are active right now (schizophrenia & bipolar patients especially), you just might have to be on medication right now temporarily. Don't just cold turkey and risk doing harm.
@@Marixpress2 Your new drug free therapy is too much complicated. Way of subtracting according to percentage and body weight seems odd. One might dig himself into a hole with that process and it takes too much work. Simply if you have 200 mg pill cut it into 4 pieces and you take 150mg for 3 months, 100mg for next 3 months and stay on 50mg for at least 5 months. Then you might reduce to 25mg for next 3 months and put it off completely after that process. Altogether it takes 14 months to put Seroquel off for good without experiencing gruesome side effects or remission towards illness. My shrink put it off in 2 months , 200mg, to 0mg, and I experienced sleep deprivation for at least 6 to 8 months. I was sleeping for 4 to 6 h every night and only occasionally 7 to 9 hours. If you go out of any psychotropes do it gradually. Otherwise there will be problems
So many people don't know the right way to taper off of medications or that it is even possible.
If you are put on meds that was for a reason. Psychotropes are addictive dopes and taking them off the system too quickly may cause health problems. If you recovered from your illness symptoms you may try to reduce drugs gradually for 2 to 3 years. If you put them off suddenly then watch out yourself, you may become confused and feeling sick, not because you became sick but because drugs are addictive and your brain is telling you a message, I need that dope, or I will get worse. And situation may get out of the handle. It's dangerous to put off psychiatric drugs too fast. May become even fatal for your life. When my mother locked me up in a nut house 40 years ago I was thinking something wrong must be with me and these doctors promised to cure me 100% so I was taking drugs clean and neat. I trusted their judgement and I was wrong. Drugs poisoned my body, to this degree I am sweating like a pig for last 13 years and my liver took off probably because the body removes toxins through skin with sweat. I got diabetes 17 years ago and my mental state was not altered into better because of drugs but because of meditation successful practices. I was on many drugs. Recently on Zeldox 240mg daily dose for last 10 years. I March last year I reduced dose to 160mg daily and in September to 80mg daily. I am taking 80mg daily already for 3 months and I don't feel any changes for worse but for better. My sleep was bad for last year and Oxyzepam stopped working completely for giving me sleep. Gradually I recovered my sleep, falling asleep faster and sleeping at least 6 to 7 hours each night. I'm gonna put it off completely in couple of months, i mean Zeldox thing. Feeling no changes for my self feeling I am without symptoms of illness for about 20 years. Last time I visited hospitalization in 1996 and I am feeling same as before treatment. Becoming truly yourself without meds is health. That's difficult if you are under psychiatrist control but my shrink got pneumonia last November and disappeared ever since. That was my blessing more than his curse.
Beautiful discourse. Thank you, sincerely!
You are an angel Will! Hoping that one day my family will let go of their fear and support me in coming off lithium. Thank you for all you are doing💕 Sarah Beattie @Walk2Heal 🥾🌏
very good video. This was really good. Lots of good information all the way through.
This video is so helpful!
What an angel you are Will! I just hope my family who are so entrenched in fear after I had a 6 month stay in hospital for psychosis will one day see the light and support me in coming off lithium. They couldn’t get me better in hospital because anti-psychotics make me higher so every time they tried some new drug I got more psychotic! The first time it happened 30 years ago I was out in a month no meds. Keep up the good work and hope to meet you one day💕 Sarah Beattie @ Walk2Heal
I've been on antipsyhotics for two years and am now tapering off them. I just hope I get my libido and erections back
What is your opinion about lithium orotate?
Very wise man, thank you very much for this video ❤
thanks! Lots of really good info from a broad range of perspectives.
This is so helpful. I’m coming off of seroquel. Was at 600 mg for over 12 years. Have tapered down very slowly and am now at 200 mg. It’s Taken me about 1 1/2 years so far. This is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done but have no choice. The side effects from this drug have been debilitating.
I came off Cymbalta, Ambien, 20 years plus Xanex PRN cold turkey, thru God’s help. ❤️❤️❤️
When did you come off of them? How are you feeling? Any withdrawals?
Pollyanna needed this. please contact me. I felt like I was going to die but God saved me. I pray that my family one day will believe that im ok
Afura33 jan 8 I withdrew, took 6-8 weeks . Im 5 months out now! Absolutely great!!! Awful withdrawal! But Im a Worship Christ. Praying alot. Had all symptoms except hallucinations. No damage. Did it alone. Not recommended. Im medical professional
K_Renee_I_Am Loved I don’t know how to contact u! How? How can I help!?
Thx for your answer Pollyanna. You have been 20 years on those psychiatric meds you mentioned and no brain damage from it or any weird muscle mouvements? Sorry for the questions
Great idea to share your expierence with psychiatric drugs, this is very helpful and adding to my own knowledge with them and to help with that others who are struggling with this.
Excellent presentation! Thank you. Have you ever noticed a correlation between the presence of EMFs and schizophrenic symptomology?
What are EMF's?
ANYONE !give tips about insomnia and constant thoughts at night .Please guys .
I'm starting coming off my antipsychotics, I have been on antipsychotics or antidepressants since I was 12 and sleeping tablets since I was 20. I'm scared but know I'm so much of a zombie I forget what I did yesterday, If I can remember that long. Thing is I still see things even more so when I'm stressed.
Don't be scared you Don't remember things done yesterday. That's unimportant. What counts is now. How do you feel now? Or how are you feeling now...? Live in here and now. Things come and go. No reason to remember everything. Nobody remembers what has happened yesterday or last week completely. Maybe some glimpses. But That's all. Focus on present moment. What's going on in the present time. Are you alert and awake...?if yes. Then all right. You have no problem. If not quietly then pay more attention to What's going now where you are living.
I just got off my medication like a week and a half ago and I am up at 1 AM shaking
Keep going ❤️
How going??
Hope it's gotten better for you!
For me, at my worst, was when I was in christianity. Leaving religion helped a lot. I finally have peace, joy, and a whole sense of wellbeing.
I’ve been in different mental illness support groups on facebook. I’ve left them. In this reply thread I’m finding more similarities and relatable experiences.
Glad to hear it Tim, one of my goals is to create a space for the missing voices to be heard.
You are right. Medical professionals do exaggerate the risk of psychiatric symptoms and downplay the risk of psychiatric medications. Even still, in this age of information. I believe this is a sort of systemic wilful ignorance.
They do it deliberately, they know their drugs cause the mental illness its just an excuse to blame the patient so they cannot be held accountable for their abuses and fraud.
My friend is going through it and I will help save my friend love you steve
You wanna save your friend. That's good. Are you saved yourself...? if yes then That's good too. To be really saved you need enlightenment. Not any enlightenment but Buddha Enlightenment. Then you are awake Buddha and your psycho works without hindrances. Then you are sane and can help other people. Making people sane is possible for Buddha because we all have Buddha Nature that means we all are Buddha. But some know what does it mean others don't know.
Maybe you Don't know. If you Don't know then go only straight with this don't know mind. Keep it always everywhere. Then this Don't know becomes strong. Your energy is strong and you can control your mind and environment. You can control your destiny and become free from Birth and Death cycles. Then your friend with a problem can become sama as you and can put his problem all down. Then he can live his life sane and healthy. When tired he can sleep. When hungry he can eat. When somebody suffers he is able to help. Then you helped your buddy already.
Are you suffering from lingering toxins in your body due to someone with enlabelment disorder.
Here are a few things to consider from a man with experience.
Cleavers tea stimulates the lymphatic system.
Panax ginseng has cortisol blocking chemicals so it can be a bit strong but it does relax the liver enough to flush toxins from the liver especially within the first day of use.
You can get a kettle bell and stimulate serotonin to relax yourself by lifting the kettle bell from behind your shoulder to in front of your shoulder 12 times with each arm.
You can also stimulate your kidneys by lifting the kettle bell from by your legs to under your arm pits with a bit of a stretch 15 times quickly with both arms.
If you are looking for things that help the mind
glycine
Silver needle white tea
and high dha algae oil
might be worth investigating.
You see everything in science follows benfords law accept the mathematical nature of mental pathology's according to psychiatry. This means that Psychiatry is a racket committing intellectual fraud standing in the way of discovery in the real science behind mental illness which is currently not fully been mapped although genetics points to stress related dna switching to be an identifier of mental disorder thus the issue is more complex and more like one single diagnoses that has many biological and psychological aspects relating to stress I would say a person is struggling to cope with stress and screw the label my self. I know I'm talking the raw science of the biological mind here and not the pretty looking pathological categorization idea but real scientific data researched with real science doesn't always fit our pretty presuppositions.
If psychiatry moved forward and embraced the real science they would find that they hit a higher optimal with people and would require the use of force only in extreme circumstances and not commonly.
The thing is dealing with stress and the problems relating to it has been a topic of study long before psychiatry and is a well adverse field so most of the time people would be better helped too adapt to stress in more tried and tested ways.
I think it's wise to remember that some behaviors are not poor adaptions to stress they are mealy harmless personal quirks and often don't require any adjustment and quirks are simply a part and parcel of natural progress.
How do we assess the original illness that got us on meds? Going through withdrawals with a worse version of the original feels like a recipe for disaster.
The best, latest addiction study shows the more positive family and friend support the better your chances in succeeding
Had you the original illness on the outset of your therapy or it was a misunderstanding your mind by a guiding doc...? If you were feeling bad it doesn’t mean you are mentally ill or something that you need dopes to feel better. I assume you got on meds and the Kingdom didn’t come...? How long have you taken those miracle drugs and why wizard doc magic didn’t work for you...? Did you put off drugs and felt much worse than before help arrived...? Have you fallen into a hole when off dopes...? Are you off meds now....? How are you doing today...?
Are you suffering from lingering toxins in your body due to someone with enlabelment disorder.
Here are a few things to consider from a man with experience.
Cleavers tea stimulates the lymphatic system.
Panax ginseng has cortisol blocking chemicals so it can be a bit strong but it does relax the liver enough to flush toxins from the liver especially within the first day of use.
You can get a kettle bell and stimulate serotonin to relax yourself by lifting the kettle bell from behind your shoulder to in front of your shoulder 12 times with each arm.
You can also stimulate your kidneys by lifting the kettle bell from by your legs to under your arm pits with a bit of a stretch 15 times quickly with both arms.
If you are looking for things that help the mind
glycine
Silver needle white tea
and high dha algae oil
might be worth investigating.
You see everything in science follows benfords law accept the mathematical nature of mental pathology's according to psychiatry. This means that Psychiatry is a racket committing intellectual fraud standing in the way of discovery in the real science behind mental illness which is currently not fully been mapped although genetics points to stress related dna switching to be an identifier of mental disorder thus the issue is more complex and more like one single diagnoses that has many biological and psychological aspects relating to stress I would say a person is struggling to cope with stress and screw the label my self. I know I'm talking the raw science of the biological mind here and not the pretty looking pathological categorization idea but real scientific data researched with real science doesn't always fit our pretty presuppositions.
If psychiatry moved forward and embraced the real science they would find that they hit a higher optimal with people and would require the use of force only in extreme circumstances and not commonly.
The thing is dealing with stress and the problems relating to it has been a topic of study long before psychiatry and is a well adverse field so most of the time people would be better helped too adapt to stress in more tried and tested ways.
I think it's wise to remember that some behaviors are not poor adaptions to stress they are mealy harmless personal quirks and often don't require any adjustment and quirks are simply a part and parcel of natural progress.
Medicines I think are good for crisis and stabilizing but overall I agree that they don’t make sense long term. It’s just that much more difficult to slowly get off the medicines once you’re stable on them, it’s gotta be a slow titration cause of the brain chemistry like you were saying.
I didn't want to live when on meds...if something happened to me, noone would have known it was because of antidepressants and klonopin. Antidepressants worsened my condition but I was told: "Your depression got worse"...I wasn't warned it could be a very serious side effect of these drugs. After two years of treatment I was so depressed that I sought another doctor and begged for help. He gave me klonopin. And hell on earth began.
Hell on Wheels. Maybe you Don't need meds to deal with your problem. Depression is hard to beat and doc usually prescribes some meds. You have to take them for long time. Maybe 5 to 10 years to feel better. If meds are wrong and your depression worsens then meds Don't work and you need to change them. Healing depression on your own is difficult and won't work. Professional help is possible and often helpful if you gonna pay the price and take meds for longer time. Be patient. Work with your doc not against doc. If there is no improvement and side effects of meds are bagging you too much then reduce meds to get finally rid of them. Psychologist sometime can help you with psychotherapy without using drugs. Psychiatrists rely only on neuroleptic drugs and they intend to put you on them definitely for many years. You taking the risk. Take meds and feel better or take meds and feel worse. Good medication can heal your depression. Wrong medication will not help.
Thank you so much for this amazing information, it is a real eye-opener!
So for those of us who have been on a myriad of psych meds over a couple decades...are some of us too far gone to risk getting off and not ending up with a worse relapse that might not be survivable???
slow slow and slow...
I say no. ( neurogenesis. Brain plasticity. Diet . Slow reduction. Plus positivity in the darkness. ). It is far from easy but if it was easy then everyone would do it ). All i know is i want off this ride and i stand a better chance off it than on it. Peace
First get correct diagnosis. Then if needed correct medicine. If you feeling bad then medicine makes you feeling good. But must be taken for longer time. Maybe 10 or 20 years. Then you may become well and medicine can be gradually reduced. No risks. When you feeling bad with medicine then medicine doesn't work. Then should be replaced into new medicine which will work right way. Then you need to take it. Then you may become normally functioning. One or two correct medicines.
Now. If you start playing your own doc then you will be experimenting with medicines. So called putting off medicine after 2 or 3 years do you more harm than good and you feeling not different than before you started medicine. If you like that the go ahead, knock yourself out. Don't take any medicines and put off medicines you already took. Then look what is happening to you.
There are the whole bunch of mental health workers and bunch of amateurs, former patients or self taught doctors, witch doctors, herbalists, massaging, Reiki masters, Auroveda practitioners, Zen Masters, Yoga teachers, Hare Krishnas, Native American Shamans, bioenergotherapists, clearvoyants, Ufologists, Scientologists, Tibetan Lamas, Muslim brothers, Jewish Kabala men, Neo Nazis, Skin Heads, Modern Hippies, Mormons, Jehova Witnesses, Satanists, Goths, Witches, Zodiac Experts, you name them. If shrink doesn't fit your expectations maybe you will find healing for yourself there among those people. Try what is the best for you. Even vacations on Cuba.
21:15 COST AND BENEFITS vs RISK AND ASSOCIATIONS.......IF you are a complete shut in and have no life or are in constant pain then the medication IS WORTH IT!
Thank you for this. Very informative and balanced.
Seroquel nearly killed me , evil drug
how?
remeron nearly killed me
Paul Flint yes, that is a bad one.
I'm on it now trying to get off it. Nasty stuff
Neurons and Life thanks buddy I appreciate that, did you do it with a doctors supervision?
Really informative video..great info for all
Time is your best friend ib getting off and staying off psych drugs. If you have the financial means and wish to get off these drugs, take it easy, go in trips with a trusted friend, and give it at least 2-3 years. Your brain and body will heal and go back to normal. Simply be patient and give it time.
I was on risperidone and abilify for 3 weeks hope I heal 🙏
I'm coming off this for depression however, 1 week off and my middle low back is hurting so bad no doctor seems to know why. X-Rays are great, MRI is scheduled because I'm in so much pain I'm about ready to jump off a building 10 stories high. The MRI better show something or else I don't know what else to do. If it's because I'm coming off this drug going on 10 years I will sue the shit out of the maker because this is life threatening for me!
Thank you Will. This video and your book may be a valuable instrument in liberating my grossly over medicated good friend. God bless you!
I am going to treatment in 3 months to get off migraine meds because of de dangers of side effects first
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very well done!
After many years on psychiatric meds, including the dreaded quetiapine, I’m finally almost off them. I have found that a good-quality CBD oil is helpful for withdrawals in my case - it’s worth a try.
How do we know if it’s good quality or not?
@Jared McDaniel how did you manage getting thru the Seroquel withdrawal.
Did you get akasthisia or Tardive dyskinesia?
Do you know about peer support on the web ? I live in Argentina and here isnt any kind of holistic or critical treatments . I went of meds Risperidol but I need talk with people who has same issues. I had psycosys I feel fine now but Im trying to find that...peers
Where is your group. I don't believe I am sick never did. i was in late 40 when i went to a person after asking a nurse a question because I had interrupted twice or so a person. Raised very strong manners. I three days later, after seeing person she had directed me to put me on lithium told me I was bipolar Whats that/ depressed then mania I said I have never been depressed I worked full time went ot College full time and have Med. I took shaking tremors, went off told put on Depoke.
Thanks for sharing. Important message.
Will,
Im happy you’re in California
I need your help,my son was misdiagnosed same story as yours,he’s still suffering
I wanted to help him by decreasing his medicines slowly not even %10 less than it would mess him up,he’s very sensitive and can’t handle these meds but doctors keep pushing them in his body..
He’s in the hospital now,since the end of March 😞
I’ll contact you as soon as he leaves the hospital
I hope you can help us!
SSRIs and antipsychotic drugs helps me a lot..
i am 32, was diagnosed after doing very badly at uni after doing well, having quit smoking and drugs the year before. But nowadays I think i had problems from a teenager. I remeber watching a movie about and then being asked by a girl in my class if i knew what schizophrenia was. I was uncomfortable, condemned, but not for that long. I think i have just thought about it (maybe if we dont like the truth) more lately since stopping medicine in 2005
Please add Lyme Disease to the list of antagonists that can cause memory loss, brain fog, dementia and wide mood swings - such as rage.
Being on seroquel sucks.
After so many years on meds it’s difficult and age
Also afects
Several doctors tell me to
Go back to my original doctors
Will, you certainly know your stuff! Question for you, I am four months detoxing from Seroquel. I have many of the common side effects such as muscle cramping, blisters etc but I what I have noticed that tachycardia has become an issue over the last two months of the detox. I find catching my breath sometimes is a challenge. Do you have any thoughts on this symptom?
Scott Wood Oh God, this is terrifying
Thanks for the video. I need a help. I have my friend who is in crisis. He is diagnosed as schizophrenia almost 20 years ago and suffering from overloaded medication over years and has been hospitalized. But the hospital never tries to reduce his medication and he is becoming insane. He takes like 30 pills a day and never got better. However he kept going bad. He can't even blush his teeth by himself. So, his parents took him home to take care of. But he is still being insane and sometimes violentaly. Maybe it's a withdrawal. They looked for all over Japan to find a good doctor and hospital that can deal with this and reduce his pills, but none... Now this family thought about driving into the ocean, three of them. But my friend mom thouht of sending him back to the hospital. But it means killing him slowly. Abandoning her own son... I wanna help them, but don't know how...
Read this posting
www.dr-bob.org/babble/alter/20131226/msgs/1059755.html
Have you heard of Yoga? Iyengar Yoga?
ramjp they should of never got him on meds in the first place
Please look for that. I have no clue if it works. But I have a family member and we might try. www.suicideprevention-schizophrenia.com/B.E.A.M.-Alternative-Treatments.html
Shane Clauer I agree they can be causing him great distress
Are you talking about your friend or about yourself...? Situation is grim. No kidding. Your friend has a problem. Don't know what is the reason. But all is the working of his karma. Bad karma makes him incapacitated and he is not contacting with normal reality so his life is abnormal. Nobody knows what to do. I would tell you what to do but you won't do it and your friend is raw meat destined to even more suffering. His present life is much ignorance, living like an animal. Animal doesn't understand it's condition and situation. Stuffing him with dopes is not helping. Putting him off meds makes him worse. Family is helpless and you wanna help. How...? How you gonna help the situation get better or how you fix him for good...? It is possible. It takes time and commitment. But you Aren't able to do it. Neither his parents. Nor his psychiatrist. Neither he himself although only he can help himself here. But how can you talk to a Dog...? You can give him a bone or a piece of meat. That will make him happy. But to take correct process of healing is beyond his ability to comprehend. So I Don't even bother to mention ways of healing the problem. It's better to leave it as it is and let the karma takes an effect. For better or for worse. You can do nothing. Start sending cheques to PETA or UNHCR or MSF/DWB for 20 years regularly each month $50.00 to $100.00. Start cracking with Mahayana prostrations, 3 in the morning, 3 in the evening for at least 5 to 10 years. Do meditation on mind's nature according to Mahamudra for 10 years or for 30 years. The best would be if the process was being done by whole family and by interested fellow, your friend. Then you may succeed to a certain degree. Then merit can avert trouble and your bro may recover and get sanity. But I know you Don't move a pinky to help him so the only option remaining is long term hospitalization in psychiatric institution and strong psychiatrist who has nerve to speak turkey to his patient and telling him the truth. He needs good meds who are helpful not harmful for his brain and slowly he can feel better. But for total recovery he needs to take care of himself. Positive thinking and will to helping others is essential in here.
I was sensitive to rejection
And they drugged me because of that
My child you are sane as I am and no drug can take away rejection problem from you. Find out what you are good in and try that. Do your job. Enjoy your life. Don't be nervous and relax with loving yourself. If you love yourself you will love all beings and if people reject you or accept you That's their business. Your business is to love yourself. Find something you are good in. Develop it and enjoy our life to the full. You are not crazy or psycho so why are you on psychotropes...? Doctor doesn't give a rat shit for your well being. His interests are monetary gain and reputation of a big time doctor! His sensitivity for human suffering is so small that it's makes me laugh. But if you are dependent on others opinions about you then you will have a problem with other people. Then doctors can lie to your face telling you are very ill and need help. And they are helping you. You see how you are feeling with their help. No hope for anything. That's their help. They cannot even help themselves. How can they help you...?
I have a son with schizophrenia and OCD , who has been on psychiatric drugs since 1997. For instance, he has been on Clonazepam for that whole time, and is also on Prozac and Invega for his schizophrenia. Getting him off of those drugs would probably take years, and reducing dosages at the proper rate for his own safety seems like a crap shoot. Plus anywhere you look for help among professionals all you find is more "pill pushers", certainly no one who understands and would actually help him.
many clinicians are more invested in their fear based responses than are their clients
Are you suffering from lingering toxins in your body due to someone with enlabelment disorder.
Here are a few things to consider from a man with experience.
Cleavers tea stimulates the lymphatic system.
Panax ginseng has cortisol blocking chemicals so it can be a bit strong but it does relax the liver enough to flush toxins from the liver especially within the first day of use.
You can get a kettle bell and stimulate serotonin to relax yourself by lifting the kettle bell from behind your shoulder to in front of your shoulder 12 times with each arm.
You can also stimulate your kidneys by lifting the kettle bell from by your legs to under your arm pits with a bit of a stretch 15 times quickly with both arms.
If you are looking for things that help the mind
glycine
Silver needle white tea
and high dha algae oil
might be worth investigating.
You see everything in science follows benfords law accept the mathematical nature of mental pathology's according to psychiatry. This means that Psychiatry is a racket committing intellectual fraud standing in the way of discovery in the real science behind mental illness which is currently not fully been mapped although genetics points to stress related dna switching to be an identifier of mental disorder thus the issue is more complex and more like one single diagnoses that has many biological and psychological aspects relating to stress I would say a person is struggling to cope with stress and screw the label my self. I know I'm talking the raw science of the biological mind here and not the pretty looking pathological categorization idea but real scientific data researched with real science doesn't always fit our pretty presuppositions.
If psychiatry moved forward and embraced the real science they would find that they hit a higher optimal with people and would require the use of force only in extreme circumstances and not commonly.
The thing is dealing with stress and the problems relating to it has been a topic of study long before psychiatry and is a well adverse field so most of the time people would be better helped too adapt to stress in more tried and tested ways.
I think it's wise to remember that some behaviors are not poor adaptions to stress they are mealy harmless personal quirks and often don't require any adjustment and quirks are simply a part and parcel of natural progress.
If you are going to wean yourself off, you need to be very careful not to get an instant gratification mindset. Depending on the drug(s), you may need to taper off over the course of several years. I tapered off Cymbalta too quickly and ruined my life.
I heard the brain does heal completely...It just may take a long long time.I'm 4 years off and feels like hell.
Are you on drugs now...? You said 4 years off. ..? Meditation and Chi Gong exercises would bring your system to balance in 2 to 3 years. EIGHT PIECES OF BROCADE is a simple Chinese Taoist exercises set. You can practice it sitting and standing forms. They helped me after my encounter with 36 years of drug therapies and they might be helpful for you at this time.
@@dtseringdorje will my sex drive return after taking abilify n risperidone for 3 weeks..
@@CREEKSTx3 Abilify I Don't know. RISPERIDONE has some side effects. You gain lots of weight on it fast. I was 155 pounds and after 3 years I was 295 pounds. Must admitt I got an appetite on RISPERIDONE. Your sex drive will get compromised seriously. You stop ejaculating and your erections will go away. It will make you an impotent man.
@Ferenc Baglyas What do you wanna say...?
Mr. Hong. What is your diagnosis...? Who diagnosed you and how the diagnosis was established in the first place...? Did you have many blood tests, EEG tests or CT of your brain or MRI testing...? If doctors conducted thorough testing which last for one or two months, my blood tests lasted for three years, 6 tubes of blood every three months, then you are diagnosed correctly because your system was checked out. If doc's put you on meds it was for a reason. Meds are expensive and not everybody is put on them for financial reasons. If you got a shrink and are able to communicate to your doc about everything you want to then therapy will work. When meds are correctly administrated then after longer time you will feel better. If meds are wrong, tell you doc that you feeling worse on these drugs and he or she will change meds into something better. Then talk to your doctors about your feelings and side effects. About your imaginations and fantasies. About your sex life and domestic situation. About your dreams and plans for the future. Don't be afraid. Just talk to your shrink about everything. If doc interrups you or is not willing to listen and speaking to you in a manner of superiority and demagogy, then this doc is not for you and you have all civil rights to tell him he is belittling you and treating you carelessly and you don't like it. Tell him you want another doctor because there is bad communication here between professional health worker and a patient. You will feel the best way how some shrinks are simply quacks or real doctors who can help you. You have legal rights to talk to many shrinks and choosing a good one for yourself. Remember, you chose doctor not doctor choses you. That's the rule! Remember this.
Now. You are off meds for 4 years and are in hell. Maybe you feeling worse than before you started medicine....? If this is the case then you need to undergo some tests, blood tests and CT scan of your brain and let specialist deal with the results. Then you will be put on new medication. You must give it a try. There is no guarantee you will feel better very soon but after 6 months you can tell if new medication working for you or not working for you. If working for you and you are coming out of hell then good. Right choice. Then stay on that medicine for longer time cooperating with your doctors. Then after 5 or 10 years you will change hell into earth. Maybe heaven. That I don't know. It depends if your medication is fitting your diagnosis.
Terima kasih kawan, sukses selalu
great video.
Great video!
I believe I am very sensitve to medication so I think it's better to gradually come off Solian. One more question would be. How long does a withdrawal take place? 1 or 2 weeks, maybe it's different for everyone..Maybe it might take a longer time for my brain to readjust to stopping a medication than other people.
soul pain needs to be listening with the heart; and improving you health is always good; being seek makes you feel sad;
but i wasnt well for a while before being put in a clinic. I havent been that way in awhile. Wanting to live so to speak and seeing things like my dad where he wasnt. OK i was on holiday on some island trying to travel alone again. I shall continue to live. Maybe blind. But back then i think i remeber and can worry about stopping again, how i really believed my mum wasnt honest when she told me i had lost a friend. And i was young
Yeah, but when people are using it for debilitating states then the drugs HELP. NOT ALL DRUGS ARE BAD ALL THE TIME.
There are so many puritans on here that think they know better. I would love to see the same people go through the pain that many are getting help with from these drugs!
True
Could some one advise me, I was put on olanzapine 4 weeks ago, but now want to come of it, 5mg, after reading some horrific withdrawal symptoms, am I likely to also get them.
Usually the withdrawals of a drug produce the exact opposite of it. For heavy cocaine users that lack lot of sleep they will just sleep for a couple days and crave in their bed when they don't sleep. My mom use to work in a rehab center and she told me the worst withdrawal you can encounter is the alcohol even more then the heroin.
help me, help me
i've been druged by psychytric medication in Portugal
Forced by law.
help me, help me
get off from medications it is your personal right to take or not to take drugs.
You probably was taken to mental hospital by police or locked up by your parent. That's why you are diagnosed with schizophrenia or maniac depressive and put on meds. That's fine. If you felt bad meds can be helpful. But if you felt all right before doping you with psychotropes then drugs you are on may be not needed. If you are feeling well now then you aren't sick so no meds is necessary. Maybe a little herbal tea or some meditation or yoga would be more helpful. But if your mental state is anger or jealousy and you have lots of grudges then psychotropes will not take it away. Work on positive side of life. Think positive thoughts and help other people and animals. Then you will feel good and drugs you can put down. You can fix your problems with positive attitude to adopt and cultivate. Many doctors are simply quacks and they Don't know what they are doing themselves. If this is the case you need to change doctor or get rid of them completely. Rely on your good heart and your mental state will be good too.
I will definitely pray for you .please hold on .You will get off them .Please don't dispair and dont be afraid
@@dtseringdorje wow how dis you know people get in that type situation?