Surviving Benzo and SSRI Withdrawal - My Story Part 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.พ. 2023
- My Tapering Journey
This is part two of my story of surviving psychiatric medication. Please note that I am not a medical practitioner, and cannot offer any kind of medical advice. These are my experiences and what I have learned through my own research and communication with others going through this. I wish you all so much love, light, and healing.
Keep making videos. Your voice is needed in this conversation.
Hi, from Japan. I’ve been taking alprazolam over 15 years by panic attack and depression. My body is affected mentally and physically by drug resistance. I realized this fear is by side effects and withdrawal symptoms. I decided to reduce my medication and I just started tapering from 3 days before. Thank you so much for sharing your story.🙏🧡May you have a lot of joy and happiness✨
Lots of love from down under man 🙏🏻🇦🇺❤️ I’m now 5 years PAWS and getting better every year. I’m not sure how I got this far 😫 I look back at me tucked up in a ball crying in the shower and think how far I’ve come 🥳
Yes , I became a skeleton to & sensitive to food & even Vapor’s from other peoples food !Bed ridden & in migraines all the time . I’m slowly recovering but so much damage to my relationships , family & life . 😢Gosh thanks for sharing! The gaslighting is unbelievable, omg 😳 criminal really!
Thank you for posting! God and people like you are the only way I'm surviving this. 🙏🏾 🙏🏾
Thank you Matt for being brave and sharing your story. I relate so much for wishing I would have gone slow. Tapered three drugs in 11 months and I’m 3.9 years off and still healing. These drugs do damage that takes a long time for some of us. On multiple med cocktail for 16 years. I’m glad that we can support one another.
Felt like this only being on wellbutrin for two weeks. Awful. Zombie like. Worse experience ever. You got this. Stay strong.
Thank you matt you are a great spirit and person
As an anxiety sufferer I salute you for the honesty and the amazing way of describing your story! You painted such a lucid picture of your symptoms which brought back so many memories from my GAD journey!
Thank you so much for sharing your survival experience coming off the ‘medication’ you were on. Gives me hope and I’m sooo happy for you that you survived and finally came off these horrible medications.
Unspeakable, nice work choice bro and nice clip too. I can tell just by listening to you that he really came for you.
Keep preaching Matt. You have a way of describing the journey and def should write a book. Note: i am also a psychiatric survivor and reaching the tail end of protracted withdrawal. I was CT'd from alprazolam (by so-called psychiatrists) 5 years ago. I have experienced spiritual awakenings, fired doctors, gone through psychotic episodes, mania, the list goes on. I am beginning to become fond of those psychotic experiences and embracing them, for i feel i have a lesson to learn :)
Thank you sir
Thank you for sharing your experience
It is exactly that: UNSPEAKABLE 😢
These stories are nuts. I've been on Klonopin for 7 years. Started at 3mg daily. I'm now down to .25mg daily. My Dr. wants me to stack Prozac on top to help with my withdrawl symptoms and I'm like hell no. I'm just gonna push through. The only sides I'm going through are dizzyness and anxiousness. That's about it. It's not too intense, but it's there so I'm hoping once I'm completely off, the sides aren't too bad as they are now. We'll find out I guess.
I feel all your videos man...I'm on Klonopin and Prozac and going through alcohol withdrawal..a lot of what you say sounds real familiar
Thanks
It’s crazy to realize that such a small pill can screw up a person’s life to this degree.
I’m proud of you man! I’m almost 2 months off klonopin and anxious out my mind everyday, but I’m pushing through. The doctor that put me on the klonopin said “I have tons of patients on low doses of benzos everyday”. However, he proceeded to increase my dose by 2x every time I complained about my anxiety. Long story short, it got really out of hand, I ended up on 8mg of klonopin per day, which is not a low dose lol. He ended up sending me to a detox center for 2 weeks because I wasn’t able to get off that dose myself, and here I am now almost 2 months off. Still gotta work on getting off mirtazapine and clonidine, but one thing at a time!