Millions of people worldwide are physically dependent on commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs. While these drugs can provide effective short-term relief, pharmaceutical companies have hidden their dangerous side effects, addictive nature, and long-term harm from both doctors and patients.
hiding? People who read old books know this. I know this and am taking medication. They know more than doctors and pharmacists. I know, but I'm on medication.
The psycho Pharmaceutical industry started with severe mental illnesses. They created thorazine. Antipsychotics make big differences in some people's lives. There just isn't a lot of people at that level of need. They make way more money on antidepressants and ADHD drugs. The people with mild issues are there cash cow. Most of the people who have severe mental illnesses can barely afford them. They are hard to treat and it is just easier to go after mostly normal people with some depression.
And to think weed has been demonised for so long. No one overdoses, withdrawing doesn’t come with a risk of death or extreme withdrawals, anyone can grow it. Just a shame how people are pushed onto using coping mechanisms that have the potential to be so harmful.
@@whitneyanders5945 Dr Susan Sissley has done experiments with veterans PTSD and cannabis Big pharma hates these tests , there's no money in a Cure It's just basic greed generated by wall St!! Cannabidiol (CBD) has been proven to be Anti Physcotic But you'll never hear that from any government or medical industry
I'm 76 and take no medications at all. 20 years ago the Veteran's Administration had me on all kinds of medications, for depression, PTSD, high blood pressure and pain. I quit that nonsense as one medication always caused more problems. And in 2013 I left the US and left all my problems behind. My problems were all environmental and situational and no medications will ever correct the causes.
@@stephaniepantalonie Costa Rica nearly 7 years ago. In 2013 Panama, 2014 Ecuador and 2015 to 2016 Nicaragua. All places were far better than life in the US. Far more Freedom and affordable and uncomplicated life.
@@kingmaafa120 Costa Rica nearly 7 years ago. In 2013 Panama, 2014 Ecuador and 2015 to 2016 Nicaragua. All places were far better than life in the US. Far more Freedom and affordable and uncomplicated life. I don't disclose my exact location, as if I did Americans would come here and ruin things. I rent a 7 bedroom/5 bath house with 4 car garage on 23 acres for $153 a month. Where Americans live a house like this on a quarter acre would rent for over $3,000
Was it hard for you to stop all the medications? Did you feel any type of uncomfortable symptoms from stopping? Did you cold turkey them all? Glad you got off everything.
During 2016, when my son died on the road here in the Kingdom of Belgium, I made an appointment with a psy at the flamish hospital close to my house : AZ VUB, asking for help. The psychiatrist told me exactly this : " The less you take chemich drugs, the better you feel. You must grieve". I said,: "what? But doctor, I go in the woods at night and I scream, I run, I scratch the ground, please, help me ! " He answered : "You scratch the ground to find the love you've lost, keep doing it. Don't stop and come back to talk with me any time. I'm here for you. Call me any time but don't start with chem. drugs. You need time to grieve". We talked for an hour and did it every week. What a wonderful doctor. After a cupple of months, we became friends. Thanks God, I met the right psychatrist.
I am so sorry for your loss. I can’t imagine a worse experience. I live in Ixelles and I feel reassured to know there are good psychiatrists in our neighbourhood ❤
Thank you so much. You know, I think it's not a question of country, but of the skills and awareness of psychiatrists. I humbly think that a major reform should be made in this medical environment and it is urgent. God bless you too.@@JosDLM
Thank you so much. Indeed Ixelles is not far from Jette. Only 10kms away. His name is Dr. Ryckaerts and now, his office is at the clinic "Sans Souci" in Jette, not far from the AZ VUB. His father, also psychatrist left for retirement and took over his practice 2 years ago. He even gave me a book about forgiveness to help me stop feeling guilty. @@lolo_bird
That is and should be on top of the list here ! That needs to be repeated every where .However have a look at the toxic additives in everything…..part of the big agenda!
The fact that nobody talks about censored book called The 23 Former Doctor Truths by Lauren Clark really gets to me. Always loved people like Lauren, they open our eyes
So many people have the forest-for-the-trees disorder. They blame pharma but it's not big pharma that tells people to take it. It's doctors that recommend poison to their patients and the last time I heard no pharmacy will fill pharmaceuticals without a doctor's order. The order for poison straight from their doctor and they blame pharma 😂😂😂😂
The fact that messages that start out with "the fact that..." are all spam bots paid to leave these in comments sections per area of interest and hardly no one notices. These books dont exist. Report these type of messages.
Yes! It’s outlawed in other countries and must be outlawed in the USA. A study called “Thick as Thieves: how Big Pharma wields it’s power with the help of government” is worth the read.
People underestimate the power good nutrition has on their health. I suffered from anxiety, panic attacks, acid reflux, headaches, joint pain, and a few skin issues for more than 25 years. All of it went away when I started limiting my sugars and carbohydrates. Food affects mental and physical health. Update: The positive reactions that I've received to such a simple post make me feel good. It makes me think that people are finally waking up to the lies that have been spread by the medical industrial complex for so long. Keep up the good fight and spread the word!
I started the carnivore diet a week ago and I deep cleaned my entire house yesterday and today. I don't even feel like I have adhd and I can't explain it. I'm in much less pain in my joints too!
I am a mental health professional and that psychiatrist that gave her lorazepam 4 times a day for sleep should have his license taken away and put in jail.
@@scarred10 are you being sarcastic I can't tell. But I can tell you that doctors do this kind of thing. After being in the business for 25 years it happens more often than you might think.
My BF takes more than that all day 😂 I don’t understand how she gets everything but I can’t get an iron infusion Iron deficiency can cause anxiety, insomnia and a whole host of other issues when it’s not treated Most doctors don’t even think to check that first 😢
I was an addict for 20 years because of Xanax! I was also given all these psychiatric classifications and just given more and more medication! Made me crazy! Jesus Christ set me free almost 6 years now! I never thought I’d be off of the pills but God said different.
Amen🎉 Hallelujah ❤ Stay stong solider Put on the armour of God everyday, fast and pray you'll be taken care of for the rest of your life here. Jesus is our healer and our redeemer❤
Former nurse here. This is hands down the absolute best documentary I've seen. My own family doctor had prescribed a medication for me and obviously, I immediately asked about possible side effects. She only mentioned one, which would happen with long term use. I took it for a few years then found information on just how dangerous it was if taken long term. I was furious and quit taking it. It infuriates me to see how doctors and Big Pharma treat us, and I deeply feel for everyone who has suffered because of incompetence and greed.
So how do we treat or cure depression? I think ur better off taking medication for yrs on end cuz it's IMPOSSIBLE to cure it. Once that darkness gets a hold of u it will never let go. It will b with u for the rest of ur life. If it doesn't take it along the way. I think long term medication does help some. I know a few people that have taken it for 15 yrs. If it wasn't for that they wud no b here today.
As a former nurse, did you not think to research the side effects of the medication, just by default mode. Just curious. Not that that negates the attending doctors responsibilities, just asking.
I have never heard anyone say that PTSD is grief before. That really resonated. So much that I finally had a good hard cry about everything I went through.
I lost my woman in 2013 in a motorcycle accident. I realized it could destroy me I recognized ptsd and the fact I was grieving. I talked my way through it. I was lucky enough to have some solid older friends around me. 10 years later I am ready to sell my bike I just don't ride like I used to. I have also lost many good people on motorcycles.
As a veteran who has made it through the worst the best I can tell you is what I was told by someone who also made it through. PTSD is not a disorder, it's a sickness that can be overcome with the right help and the right support systems.
I was diagnosed with ptsd ( and many other mental health conditions) when my child passed away. I prefer no meds, I tried that and they made things worse.
The medical establishment has lost ALL credibility. Especially over the past few years. I no longer go to the doctor unless I am in need of stitches or other type of emergency treatment. The system is completely broken and must be replaced with a holistic model.
I agree. For emergencies our medical system is excellent. For long term treatment it sucks. Best to depend on yourself and figure out your health problems on your own.
@@pagosabob10 You're right. I recently required emergency medical attention and it was excellent! But it's a proven fact that the more often you go to the doctor, the more tests they will recommend which often equals medication.
My parents were extremely anti-pharmaceuticals. Like, we had a family homeopath and everything was solved with turmeric, cloves and Acv. I had never considered how people thought. They think they’re getting worse and the medicine isn’t helping rather than recognizing that the medication is the cause. This is an amazing documentary. God bless!
My brother- a life long addict and alcoholic recently went to rehab. After 5 days of detox- they put him on an antidepressant and an antipsychotic. They took him off street drugs to put him on government drugs. Thankfully- he took himself off and is clean and sober 💯
Exactly how methadone works, put me on that after being prescribed by Oxycodone for nerve pain. After being on the one dose on & off for around 20 years & needed the dosing adjusted they refused so just took me straight off it which of course nearly sent me mad. However they had no problems putting me on methadone & adjusting the dose. Even though this is done by the public system they had absolutely no problems asking me to give them my private health information to fund a public hospital, but there is absolutely no difference in treatment.
My brother had some many problems after quitting methadone abruptly. He developed a paranoia that he had bugs under his skin. He self-medicated with cattle antibiotics, bathed in bleach, and went back to street drugs. When he went to doctors for help with the itching, he wasn’t given anything that helped, and his mental state made reasoning with him about it difficult. It ruined his quality of life even worse than the opiates had.
My husband is a fit and healthy man with an elevated cholesterol level. They wanted to prescribe him medication right away and didn’t even talk to him about regulating his levels via food. It’s all so messed up
@samiraschadt8480, plenty of studies have shown that cholesterol levels are NOT.a reliable indictor for heart attacks. We need cholesterol to be healthy which is why our body will make it if we don't get enough thru our diet. And you are correct that doctors will prescribe statins without discussing any other option. I had a very nice doctor want to put my 90 yo mom on statins "just in case". We had a good conversation and I said "No, she is going to die of something and I am not worried about her heart." He did accept my decision but the fact that he suggested it at her age told me a lot.
It's on those papers you get at the pharmacy when you pick up the meds. And there's also google. As soon as I read it could dissolve a fetus was all I needed to know. And cause break down of bones and muscle. Also asked more than one doctor. As adults e have to be proactive.
I was on Adderall for 16 years and have been off of the meds for 14 years. Thank you for sharing this information! I had no help back in 2009. I quit cold turkey and got a certified letter from my doctor to see a psychiatrist. Seeing another doctor was. the last thing I ever wanted. to do. I still have issues with trusting doctors. I have slowly found my way. Thank you for bring awareness. !
@@ProSePlaintiff They wanted to cover there behind. In January 2009 I called the doctor and asked them to not prescribe me any more Adderall. I had to cut off my supply. By this time it was not working like it had and I was taking much more then I should have. I had to save my self.
Psychiatric medications are based upon theory. None of it has ever been proven. And the majority were created to treat other things then used for psychiatry. In Latin America they do not prescribe opioids except extreme and rare measures. Depression remains a big concern, especially among the poor. Everyone needs a good future and purpose in life. Oh, illicit drugs will fetch more than 200 times the price in the US. So wile present there really isn't much unless sold and used to American and Xanadian tourists.
@@riskyron1416 That's not exactly true, in Mexico you can go to pharmacies and just buy opioids like oxycodone over the counter with no prescription. They have no need to prescribe opioids more often because people can already get them freely
superficial and temporary bandaid solutions that don't investigate and address the root cause of the health issues. addressing health is also a holistic approach that includes lifestyle and diet changes.
The world needs to acknowledge the difference between an abnormal person trying to function in a normal, healthy environment vs a normal healthy person trying to function in an abnormal, toxic environment!
💯 and we need to start imploring Pharmacogenomics which is “a field of medicine that investigates how a person's genetic makeup may affect how their body processes certain medications.”. WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY! How are we not using this?!
@@TheJennaMaywell they wont be able to make money if they cure people will they? Its $$$ i have a disease that would be better if i they came out with new antibiotics. The pharm industry doesnt because its not profitable. Lets hope that changes. Its very frusturating.
That lady does not SOUND WELL that is not how benzodiazepines work. WHAT drugs are they taking to have that crazy take BE CAREFUL people that is crazy and insanity out there so BE CAREFUL!
This documentary hit hard. I lost my mom to suicide in February. She was taking multiple psychiatric medications for over a decade and I always knew it wasn’t good for her and was affecting her negatively. I always tried to help her but she refused. I just wish we could hold these pharmaceutical companies accountable for all the lives lost and turmoil and anguish their greed has created. I miss you mom.
😢😢😢 My heart aches for you. I tried suicide many times so I know that we don't want to hurt people, we just want the pain to go away. May your mother be at peace.
I understand you because the same thing happened to my mom 8 years ago. As you move through life it does get easier but you never forget. I'm sorry and it seems like your going through a tough time. Keep your head up and remember your mom for the good of her and putting you here on this earth. Good luck to you and keep moving in the direction your mom guides you, she'll always be with you...
My mom took several medications after my 18 yr old sister died. I was 16 at the time in 1983.She was on over 20 medications. She died from complications of a overdose in 2017 fentanyl and hydrocodone. She was addicted over 34 years. My sister was bedridden from age 1 until she died at 18 so my mom had a lot on her along with having 3 other kids and losing one at 6m pregnant. I was always so worried about my mom because I knew she had been through so much trauma. I tried talking to her doctor and the nursing home she was in a few weeks before she died. They told me she was a grown woman and can make her own decisions in other words take as many pills as she wants. They was helping her to move into a apartment on her own knowing she had a addiction problem. My mom got mad at me because I tried stopping her from moving by talking to the nursing home. 2 weeks living on her own she overdosed and damaged her heart, 2 weeks later she was gone. I got to spend the last 2 weeks with her but I feel robbed when I look at the great grandchildren she now has but didn’t get to meet
At 4 my child was diagnosed with autism and the doctor told me I have 3 choices, we could give meds for depression, anxiety or hyperactivity and asked which I wanted to try first. I said absolutely not, grabbed my child and never went back. 4 years old!
For someone with Asperger's syndrome i was on all sorts of antidepressants and an anxiety medications. Some helped some really changed who I was thanks to my therapist noticing the differences in my personality. I had my dr take me off it. I was on zyprexa prozac other anti depressants. But over a year ago Ive been off my anti depressants and i havent gone back on them since. But ive been on doxepin for my insomnia. I have been on them for 10 years i cant sleep without them.
That's awesome. Autism isn't a thing that can be medically treated inho. It's just a different way of being and it needs understanding. My son was diagnosed at 7.
@@mauriziograndi1750That should read - A patient cured... Americans are so brainwashed, they default into the language of clientelism. Medicine is about science, not sales.
My 26 year old brother committed suicide the weekend after being prescribed Zoloft and Paxil for anxiety. He had just paid off his truck and bought new clothes. He should still be here. RIP Murphy.
So, so sorry. This should never have happened. He should still be here. RIP Murphy. As should be my cousin (also died by prescripticide in similar circumstances). RIP Tyrone.
Zoloft made me hear voices in my head and have extreme panic attacks. I was prescribed it after breaking up with my first boyfriend (just a natural part of life really). I stopped taking it straight away…and really should not have been prescribed it in the first place.
Paxil is known (well, in circles where such things are discussed) as being particularly dangerous coming AND going. Or, as I told my late husband, “If you weren’t already taking it, I wouldn’t want you to start; but since you’ve been taking it for 10 years, it would be just as dangerous for you to stop”. Some dodo-brained psychiatrist suddenly stopped it during his last psychiatric hospitalization, and he spent a week puking and pooping; came back and took 30 minutes to make a 5 minute drive because he kept thinking he’d run over imaginary people… I’d never recommend it to anyone. Prozac is considered the safest of the SSRI’s, mostly because it takes so long to leave your body it creates a gradual ramping-up and ramping-off all on its own, like Valium does for benzos (as explained in the Ashton Manual, available for free online); this effect also makes it helpful for tapering off any SSRI.
I'm sorry for your loss but this is why doctors should be more transparent or at least more knowledgeable on the potential side effects when starting antidepressants. It often gets worse before it gets better and it can take 1-3 months for them to take effect. These negative side effects are temporary until the meds kick in. It's a shame doctors don't talk about this with their patients as it's life saving information.
I'm so glad to have come across this video. I've been on alprazolam for 20 years, initially starting with 10 pills a month to take as needed for panic attacks, then 1mg daily, which turned to 8 to 12mg daily, and I've only just come off. Literally celebrating 30 days clean today, but I don't by any means feel better as yet. I'm still incredibly unsure of myself and I'm still very anxious but I can get there. Many people here have, and so can I. Thank you one and all whi had an involvement in this video. You truly are the veterans of one hang of a war! ❤
Please try diet that has fresh vegetables, , fruits when preferred, meat, whole foods all mainly organic, try growing your own vegetables, it is actually life changing ,u won’t regret.
Find a quality omega 3 supplement that has very high DHA. There are supplements targeted for brain health, but omega 3 high DHA is the best start. You need to feed your brain good stuff to counteract the damage. I'm working through this now. I have a really good naturopath that is helping me.
What Mimi said plus add Rhodiola extract! It can be miraculous on anxiety, just give it 2-3 months (around 500mg of extract on an empty stomach in the morning) ❤
@@paintingwithrosev741If sense was common we wouldn't have had to have the 10 commandments, rules, and laws, etc. Sense isn't as common as your statement.
I lost my leg in a car accident and one night while in the rehab hospital a new medication appeared. The nurse said the doctor (of Physical Medicine) had added an antidepressant (without any discussion). I refused it until I could talk to him. I asked why he’d prescribed it, as I was not feeling depressed, and he said, “We assume you will be.” …..!! I refused the prescription, and then I expedited my withdrawal off of pain medication, which although was very necessary at the beginning, I believe I was also over-prescribed (too many and for too long). I quickly became (and remain, 20 years later) pill free, and as a result, I was clear minded while processing the grief and trauma of the accident. 😩 …. I am so grateful I was raised to question authority!
I lost my leg to cancer but because of fathom pains I take Gabapentin, Fentanyl patches and for those feelings of electrical shocks I'll take Hydrocodone sparingly. There's no way I can get off the pain is bad even when I cut back. Is this possible I'm hooked or does the pain need drug assistance I don't know. It's been 17 years now on these drugs and I'm 67 years old.
My grandmother saw me take Tylenol once and commented: "I'm 92 years old and never took a pill in my life, and you don't need to either". I'll never forget that.
I’m with your grandmother. I used to take Tylenol. Then 40 years ago someone told me, “get out of the habit of putting something in your mouth to take away pain”, as they handed me a sheet of paper with a diagram of how to massage one’s temples to get rid of a headache. It works. I’m 84.
I have never taken meds for a fever, i use 2 cold damp cloth on my forehead and neck, a fan blowing cool air on me and eat chicken noodle soup and drink chicken broth. And in a few days i always feel better. Pills i believe should be a last resort @@rina.2832
@@broadwaysam8405😹 removed "meat" as a "test" during that! lockdown!!...and not had a headache! or migraine!! ever since!🤣...(b.s.e!...there was an report stating the "dip-bath chemicals!!" that was the cause!!😳, ...but what got stated;...protein got supplemented with meat! & bone! meal!.. from the remains of other! animals?!! fed to cows!🤯
@@rina.2832strip clothing and use damp cloths to draw the fever out of the body. If you can in future, keep colloidal silver in your medicine box. Drink a small amount in water or swish around your mouth. It has antibacterial, anti inflammatory. It’s amazing for everything from colds to toothache, cuts and grazes. Castor oil is great to keep in your box for many ailments. Also serrapeptese is a fantastic anti inflammatory. Good luck and read up on natural remedies. 😊
Excellent documentary. Years ago I watched my elderly uncle become completely despondent after being on many different psychiatric drugs. His days were filled with “resting” as my aunt would explain when we’d visit. When he was awake, he would obsess about killing himself, this we learned after he got off the meds. When he tried to explain to his doctor that he thought he was losing his mind (when he stopped taking the drugs cold turkey) his psychiatrist talked him into electric shock treatment. It wiped out his short term memory for years, and he was never the same after that. Many thanks for bringing this epidemic to light.
I left the US 4 years ago to a place where there is a national medical system, which means there aren’t any advertisements for medication because the system isn’t profit based. I look back and can’t believe Americans have to live with advertisements for medication.
ABSOLUTELY!!! 💯 They also need to stop drug reps from going to doctors offices and pushing for doctors to prescribe the drugs they represent. Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe doctors gain some kind of incentive from the pharmaceutical companies if they prescribe their drugs.
As a person who has spent the last 30 years as a person in recovery from narcotic addiction , I was taught that I had to learn how to SIT with the pain ( emotional ) . It's amazing what you can accomplish when you learn that not all days are going to be filled with sunshine and roses . It IS completely "NORMAL " to have a variety of emotions . I agree , we have become a society where we EXPECT to have a MAGIC PILL to FIX something that isn't broken in the first place !!!!
This. People want a pill for every mildly unpleasant feeling nowadays. I blame the internet & social media for setting unrealistic expectations that everyone is entitled to be happy, comfortable, and emotionally validated at all times.
This is true. When I was in high school in the early 90s, the kids I went to school with and myself had some rough times. Some kids would smoke cigarettes, some smoked pot, many like myself just put on some sad music and cried and felt the pain or we'd talk to friends. It was unheard of to get a prescription from a doctor unless a kid had severe mental illness diagnosis like schizophrenia. I went to a birthday party for my friend's daughter not long ago and the parents were talking about the medications their 10 year old kids were all taking.
@@coolbreeze5683 10 years old & medicated !! Why ? Rough day at school ? Or on the playground ? I grew up in the 70's in Bklyn NY . My mother used to say that psychiatrists were for the RICH people . Unfortunately , I and ALL my friends probably would have benefitted from having some COUNSELING . Now the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction . There has GOT TO BE a happy medium in all this , right ?
My mum almost died from blood poisoning following a 30 year dependance on bezodiazepines. She went through detox and rehab something I always thought was reserved for addiction to street drugs. 4 years later she has healed from her addiction and her trauma. We could have sued her GP and Psychiatrist for negligence. Instead we chose to focus on recovering from the ordeal and just grateful she is still here with us. Now healed, drug free and living a happy normal life by the Grace of God. Benzos do not treat the problem, they simply mask it.
I’ve worked in the hospital for a very long time. Once people start taking medicines I watch them get sicker and sicker over the years. I refuse to take any medicines from pharmaceutical companies.
I do think they have a time and place. Especially in acute situations. I wish people that struggle would find "Brain Energy" by Dr Chris Palmer first though. He helped literal schizophrenics come off drugs and stay healthy
@@LuvableAF the adverse effects of any meds are only going to be an issue if youre taking them for a very long time.Antibiotics for acute infections are very safe.
Also a former RN here, I saw so much of this happening, I quit. Not in it to hurt others if i cannot help people i don’t want to be involved. It’s so wrong.
I did the same in my pharmacy career years ago. The age of narcotics woke me up. I realized it's not about helping people and it's all about money. The Covid era has proven how dangerous pharma is. Just say "no".
It's wonderful to see so many people that actually care about others and not just money. Our society has been brainwashed and corrupted for years but more and more are waking up to the deception.
You know what the best cure for insomnia is? Exercise before you have to go to sleep so your body gets tired and take some CBD or melatonin. Forget the pharma drugs. This is coming from someone who is a total night owl and will stay awake until 4am
Now they are doing the same with our animals. Put my dogs on flea, tick heart worm combo meds. Hadn’t used anything for over 5 yrs no issues. All dead within six months of each other all having major seizers after starting it. That and fast moving cancer.
My therapist wanted to put me on Prozac. I asked for how long? She said "forever." So I started taking THC. If I need treatment forever, I'll take a plant. That was 14 years ago. No regrets.
Naturalism is just logical error and fallacy. Nothing is better for you just because it's natural. Most things in nature will kill and eat you or give you poisoning.
This documentary was censored. It was initially published on TH-cam maybe a year ago. Taken down a few days later. Found out because I posted it to Facebook and a friend said the link wasn't working. FB and YT had removed it. So glad it's up again. They censor you for telling the truth, not for lying.
When my daughter was 10, her school counselor recommended I take her to a therapist of their choice due to the fact that she wasn't paying attention in class. The first session ended in us leaving because the therapist wanted to put her on medication. I will never regret making that choice.
It reminds me of an episode of New Amsterdam. The kid in question was only allowed to attend school medicated. The premise was different but again, instead of talking to the child they medicated him into a zombie child.
I am a remedial teacher. That drug they put children on is a gateway drug to addiction. Teachers need to change their teaching methods instead. Classes need to be smaller. Parents are the BEST teachers anyway.
Im elementary school my son had a desk separate from the other kids, they called it Gage island, he knew when he needed a time out and would go sit there when he was being disruptive to the other kids I am so grateful to that teacher. He was always overly social and lacked the ability to pay attention, never medicated, now at 14 he is an honor roll student. In my opinion it was normal boy behavior not something thst we need to medicate
I was a foster kid and starting at age 11 the state of Tennessee placed me on a triad of strong psychiatric medications. By the time I aged out at 18 I had taken over 28 different psychiatric meds. My 18th bday I signed myself out of state care in 2000. It’s no wonder, I succumbed to the opioid epidemic and by 2003 I was on methadone(preferred treatment at that time). I was stuck on that until 2009 when I switched to suboxone. I was a slave to that until may 2023 when I flew to Mexico and detoxed with a sacred plant medicine used for 1000’s of years called Ibogaine. Its a psychedelic that helped me get to the root of my trauma(foster care). I am 10 months clean from being on opioid maintenance medication for the last 20 years and my gratitude overflows.
Your story blows my mind. That is - to my understanding- child abuse. What a journey you’ve had. Thank you for sharing because that must be hard. And for your onward journeys: happiness!
@@carolinewells4355 what you have achieved is so incredibly hard, I hope you know that and are proud. Because you can be. I am rooting for you! With that kind of courage, you can do anything.
Was on Benzos for 15+ years. Was abruptly taken off. My world spiraled to the point I was contemplating suicide. Don't ever start these. Not worth the pain
Was it possible they were helping and you just stopped that caused the extra problems? Benzos and alcohol are the two things that need medical intervention to quit. That's not some secrets.
@cheezykrafts8134 she didn't just stop she was taken off. Most doctors aren't aware of how severe benzo withdrawal is because the pharmacy companies tell them it isn't
Stopping this type of medication should ever be done abruptly. Was that truly recommended to you, or was that your choice? One should always be weaned off a benzodiazepine SLOWLY.
I’m 23 and was put on antidepressants 4 years ago during COVID to help with my depression. I just recently went off them and after watching this I’m so glad I did. It’s so sad how many peoples mental health are destroyed by the very medications that are “meant” to help them. I’m a pharmacy technician now and administer tons of antipsychotics, SSRIs, etc. every day. I wish more people could watch this video
@@aminakhatun854 Please research Dr Ken Berry and Dr. Anthony Chaffee. I did my research with them and im off my high blood pressure medication and down 70lbs. Im so much more healthier now!
I'm 72 stopped taking the pain meds, anti depressants, anti inflammatory, etc 20 years ago. After a lifetime of pain. While I still get pain from arthritis diet helps a lot but not taking the medication has changed my depression and moods. Try it. No carbs, no milk, no coffee, no sugar..
I was prescribed an SSRI because I was withdrawn for a summer as a teenager. The SSRI made me irritable, which then led to a false diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder Type 2. I was then prescribed more drugs which kept me in a drug-induced haze which ruined 16 years of my life. Eventually, I discovered the book Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker and other critical psychiatry books and realized what was happening to me, so I slowly tapered off the psych drugs. I lost years of wages and a social life to these drugs. There has been no justice for what was done to me. Psychiatry and pharma are overdue for a reckoning.
BTW- I am off those drugs but it took years to be balanced. My "drug" of choice is Faith in Jesus. The Bible is amazing and you are in it. People all over the world need to think outside the box- they own the box 📦. Think outside of it. Answers are all in the bible which talks about these drugs as "pharmeokea" or drugs and how they manipulate
Me too. Doctors stole 25 years of my life with quetiapine due to false diagnosis of bipolar II caused by SSRI. It took me 2,5 years of suffering tapering of quetiapine, but I made it. I don't accuse the doctors though because they are brainwashed too to believe to the fraud of Big Pharma.
Pain pill addiction, after a bad car wreck when i was 22, destroyed my life. I just recently at 38, got off benzos and pain pills. Honestly, for me, all i needed was God in my life. Ive been more emotionally and mentally stable in the last 6 months than ever before in my life.
My father in law was on benzos for 18 years. 18 YEARS. Prescribed by the same psychiatrist. He attempted to come off of them at 75 years old. And lost his mind due to the withdrawals. 2 weeks after being released from the hospital for suicidal thoughts, he committed suicide. I 100% blame his psychiatrist.
Yes, and the psychiatrist won't face any punishment for what he/she did to your FIL because he/she didn't break the law. Why not? Because there is no law to break, just how the Am Psych Assn wants the law to remain. It's a giant legal loophole that allows psychiatrists to avoid any kind of punishment for what they do to people. It's crazy and very sad.
I'm so sorry for your loss. I fully understand the nightmare he lived in. I've been on them for about 25 years and my biggest fear is being cut off somehow and die that way.
@@annalieb2075 Anna, look into homeopathy as a way to taper off benzos safely. The DEA says, "Benzodiazepines are depressants that produce sedation and hypnosis, relieve anxiety and muscle spasms, and reduce seizures." There are homeopathic medicines that cure depression and anxiety + others that cure the cause of muscle spasms and seizures + others that are calming. My homeopath is Elaine Lewis, easy to find online. She cured my family member of "incurable" "bipolar with psychosis." I hope you'll read my other posts here on this thread.
As a nurse, i have seen patients check in for benzo withdrawal after years of use. This documentary is amazing and eye opening. Everyone should see this video
I've only been on lorazapam 7 weeks, but weaning down preparation of ECT is difficult. Soon as the lorazapam or gabipentin wears off, the depression comes back in force and my head aches!
I lost my oldest daughter to suicide last year… on her good days she was vibrant, full of life and visions, energetic, smart, beautiful, caring and loving. But on her bad days she was like a zombie 😢. She was on multiple medications for mental health and NONE of them worked. I love you and miss you my Amazing Dez 🥺💔
I’m so sorry for you😓 I’m sorry for your family and for your beautiful beautiful daughter… You are in my prayers🙏🏼🤍🕊️ I hope you don’t mind me saying that….I truly believe, with all my heart, that your daughter is with our Heavenly Father..full of joy, love, happiness and pain free…I truly believe this. God Bless you and you family🤍 Sincerely, Sofia.
That’s tragic, You must be a strong woman to even be able to talk about it. America is a joke especially the medical side of it. Keep us sick and like there pockets off med profits. It’s a crying shame. Condolences for your loss I can’t even fathom that.
Funny thing is this is just the tip of the iceberg of what they really did intentionally to humanity. This is just one of MANY aspects of destruction they employed against us to turn a profit. Its to the point life isnt worth living.
Close - you can willingly choose not to use medications. The food industry however, systemic poisoning with chemicals and the elimination of bacteria from our food, aka ultra processed, which eliminates our gut flora from blooming with healthy bacteria as it should and always has, is the biggest crime against humanity.
@@GymGuyJoe😹...yer! Difficult to run! from that double-edged! sword! with a point!... the food drives you to the pharmaceutical!... notice all the so called " what you need!! foodstuffs!" are heavily priced! out!!.. all the b.s! foodstuffs is cheap asf!
@@GymGuyJoeNot true. I've seen a lot of children forced into taking these drugs at a young age. As a child you have no choice. The parents do. And there are plenty of toxic parents that don't think twice about drugging up their children.
After loosing my mom suddenly. I realized that grief doesn’t go away. There’s no time line because love does not end. You learn to live well with it, but the “missing” will always be there.
Absolutely heart breaking The Government and medical professionals have a lot to answer for. I got serotonin syndrome with antidepressant, I had symptoms of a stroke and had to go cold turkey and it nearly killed me.
When my daughter was 16 she would get very depressed. I took her to a psychiatrist who put her on Zoloft. A week later I called the dr as my daughter lay on the couch sobbing uncontrollably for hours for no particular reason that she could tell me. The dr said to absolutely NOT to take her off the medication. As a concerned mother I used my own judgement and immediately stopped giving her the medication… what do ya know. The next day she was off the couch being a “normal” teenager.
You got lucky. Suicidal thoughts are NOT something to be taken lightly. It worked out but shouldn't be told to everyone, because I nearly lost my wife when she went off her medicine. She is back on it and stable.
As an RN from the "old school", I have always been wary of "new" drugs. Years ago an MD tried to prescribe a drug to lower cholesterol but I refused. I did my own experiment and could basically alter my test numbers with diet. 100 pts. up and down within r 2 weeks. Now I am an elder and just avoid doctors. Due to elder poverty, my diet has gone screwy and I feel lousy. But......the establishment will claim I need some drugs. No damn it...I just need to eat well and not be stressed by constant demands to comply with insane people's rules !!
I’m an RN and I know it’s a bit of hypocrisy in me but I do not go to the doctors at all unless absolutely necessary (ie, broken arm, accidents, etc). I’ve already witnessed what the health system is like. Doctors should only be there for major issues and everyone really should be taking care of their health on a daily basis via diet and exercise and building coping mechanism for stress to prevent chronic issues. Accidents we cannot control, and that is what medicine and doctors should be for. The rest, we can take care of at home living holistically. I’m pregnant with my first child and I will go to the doctor to get checkups but I will not participate in extra drugs or unnecessary procedures. It’s a shame that it has to come to that but I feel the current health system is too profit oriented to be safe
Similar thing here. Often homeless, warehouse jobs, but actually quite healthy for my age, and have been living with cancer with over a decade (I was diagnosed when still in my early 30s, it had spread but the mets were dormant and the cancerologist who seemed the most competent - I saw a few of them - suggested watchful waiting as there wasn't a 'treatment' available, i.e. a molecular target). Osteoarthritis and my eyesight are bigger bothers. I focus on eating well (ie. meat, fish and vegetables, cooking frojm scratch) and getting enough sleep (not that easy when you either sleep in fields or in dorms or in a tent at a camping site). With my existing conditions and my background, I could be on 2 dozens medications, would definitely have a thyroidectomy etc. I wonder about the Princess of Wales who had surgery in January and has been 'focusing on her health' since then. Apparently she is having preventative chemotherapy now. What if she couldn't afford to stop working, like me?
Try intermittent fasting, not only will it improve your health it will also let you spend the money you save on the meals (plus snacking) you don't take, on quality food. And make your own fermented sauerkraut so give your gut a boost! Good luck!
I am a survivor of 17 years of treatment in the U.S. psychiatric system. Usual treatment was an SSRI, Lithium and a Benzo. For me it got to the point that the medicine was lowering my serotonin level and I was gonna die I felt. I have been free of the system for a couple of decades now and and doing much better. I do not drink alcohol or smoke tobacco anymore. I do use medical marijuana now and still drink coffee. I feel so much better now, I also quit eating highly/ultra processed foods and limit my added sugar intake to no more than 25 grams a day. Don't give up you can survive it!
@@whitneyanders5945 Which makes sense when you think about it. A plant that has grown as long or longer than humans that has developed compounds that naturally affect how our bodies behave. Pharmaceutical companies are just trying to copy these types of things things for profit. Makes you wonder what other beneficial things that have been blocked. What natural medicinal remedies have been lost to time and human advancement. Unfortunately this also opens up the potential for scams and placebos.
@@whitneyanders5945 Not for everyone. I personally hate it. Makes me totally worthless. I've tried different kinds in different forms...horrible experience.
I’m a chronic pain doc. I truly believe that most doctors have good intentions. We work with the resources we are giving and these are serious issues. We do our best to
I went to a psych doc and told him my problems. My problems were all coworker related. Never once did he suggest that I find a different job. Instead, he said the new hip and trendy thing is to take an "anti-depressant cocktail". I asked him what that was and he said that it was multiple anti-depressants taken at the same time. I knew in my gut that this was wrong, so I QUIT my job and found a new psych doc who ordered talk therapy twice per week.
As a CA chauffeur I often drove big pharma reps and once while waiting outside a Hotel I heard one senior rep tell a jr. rep that the GOAL is to prescribe one pill that requires another pill that requires another "We Call that a Cocktail, Sell as many of those as possible". These very same greedy salesmen really hit the lottery with the faulty wuhan vaccines raking in Billions with ZERO Accountability and FULL IMMUNITY. Fauci Lied and Millions Died!
@@TheVafa95 I learned this real fast when a psychiatrist told me flat out that if you don't want any drugs I can't help you. Doctors get lobbied just like crooked politicians with great financial kickbacks and incentives.
I stopped wishing I was normal years ago. I was on a lot of mental health meds for years. I did stop cold turkey a few times. It took close to a week where I felt ok to go outside. I've been off of all those medications for close to 8 years now. For sleeplessness, anxiety, stomach issues, I now go to a medical marijuanna dispensary.
you did the right thing. i read Driving Soldiers Crazy on Psych Meds by Dr. Breggin and was able to help my veteran b.f. who was pressured to take meds and i saw side effects. I wish he had tried pot.
I went to an NP just for a physical when I was 22. I had just gone through my first breakup and told her I felt depressed and anxious. I walked out after a 10 minute check up with a prescription for Ativan and Prozac. My dad found out within a week what I was taking and made me stop. So thankful that he did
I studied psychology and plan to go into clinical psychology which focuses on the counseling aspect. I wouldn't feel comfortable prescribing drugs to people when there's not enough research to back them up. My sister was going through a difficult break up and went to see a therapist, they immediately wanted to prescribe her medication for anxiety and depression, AFTER ONE APPOINTMENT. I immediately told her not to, I've been aware of the incredibly harmful side effects of these medications for years, thank you to my psychology professor.
The best doctor once said to me, "You are angry, and that is okay. If you were not sad or angry at this, you would not be okay". That was the best pill ever. He said it is not your fault and life has suffering.. Thank you Dr Ho in Queensland, Australia.
My case was I was sad and angry when my life was going wonderfully. My problem tho was diet (like many, many others). None of the pills fixed it but when I got my diet and supplements straight it fixed itself. Many of us are experiencing chemical imbalances and malfunctioning due to toxic exposures and vit/mineral deficiencies.
@@crazyratlady3438 So true! Good to know that road was not for you with lithium etc being prescribed for imbalances of the brain when it is vitamin-related. There's a cool genetic test that tells you what is inherently deficient and what is environmental that can be changed.
My son was in 3rd grade when a cognitive behavioral psychologist said he has ADHD and suggested Vyvanse. I had to mix it in orange juice and call it his "wake up" drink. The nurse called me and told me and said my son was complaining of no taste buds and upset tummy! We change it to.. I can't remember what... and he had a complete loss of appetite and was a complete zombie! Of course schools want your children to be like "ducks in a row". My son doesn't roll like that.. so they wanted him on medication! I was HORRIFIED by what was happening to my little boy, my only child. I took him off all meds and let things fly. Come spring of 5th grade... I pulled him out to homeschool. Things have never been better!
Same thing teacher said about my son. I took him to specialist and asked some questions and then read about ADHD medicine and said no. Because when you give any medication to your kids when they are young then you are responsible for the consequences. ADHD is not a disease and can't be prove with any blood test. The symptom is based on behavioral diagnosis.
It's amazing how they program parents again especially in the land of the debt and not close to free US. They've convinced parents a healthy hyper 7 year old boy is now psychological issue. Unbelievable
@@Hazara26ADHD is most definitely a real desease. It doesn’t mean that everyone is diagnosed correctly, and medicine is overprescribed, but it’s still a real psychiatric disorder.
The same story with my son. I fought the whole idea but eventually succumbed to meds because they wouldn't let him go to school otherwise. I watched him get skinnier and sickler. Eventually took him out of public school but he ended up going into the judicial system. He's been fighting that his whole life. He and so many of his friends fell through the cracks and when they were 18 they were taken off their meds and so many of them searched for meth on the street to mimic the medication they couldn't get anymore. All the systems are so broken. We were all just guinea pigs used and served by a monetary based broken system
The thought just occurred to me. After I birthed my daughter, nearly died from infection, I went into a deep depression. They gave me zoloft, then I had a miscarriage on my daughter's 1st birthday.. then I spirled even deeper. Their solution was more medication.. I stopped taking it because it did nothing, and I was worried about becoming dependent on the medication and I was still numb and still had bad thoughts in my head. Bless my husband, he helped me heal, slowly but surely I came out of the depression. It was hard, but talking about my sadness and grief got me through the other side. My husband gave me a safe place to talk and heal. I dont think i could ever repay him for helping me the way NO ONE has ever done for me before. The more I talked about it, the better I became. Talking to someone who is your safe place will help you. Dont lose hope. God bless you all for sharing your story.
This broke me so bad watching. I related to all of the military veterans as their story is also my story. I weened myself off of Effexor and I thought I was going crazy! Thought I was making it all up and overreacting. The brain zaps lasted for weekkkksssss, the fog was terrible, the mouth numbness was unbearable. But I did it. And I’m never going back! When I told my physiatrist that’s I wanted to come off, she just gave me a dead look in the face. Then when I told her I weened myself off and how bad it felt, I was presented with another death stare. She then put me on Zoloft. I took it three times and never did again. I actually have my follow up appointment with her on Thursday to “see how things are going” with the Zoloft. And I’m going to tell her to shove it! This entire documentary made me so sad and also so seen. Thank you for that ❤
I can totally relate. I had to dig deep to come off antidepressants. It took at least three attempts, and each time the brain zaps, lethargy and nausea was so bad that I gave up and kept taking the medication I finally managed to cope with the intense withdrawal and free myself from antidepressant dependency - and I'm so happy to no longer be taking a medication for the wrong reasons
I see you young man. Bravo ❤ You have done great things already and sit in the chair and gloat at her death stair and when she stands up to usher you out - you just sit and smile and ask her how is she doing with big smile 😂 put your hands behind your head, open your body language and wait for answe r 🥰 ❤️🔥✝️🕊
I am in U.K., when I decided to stop taking equivalent medication, I didn’t inform the practise, I just stopped taking them and threw them away. It seems you can’t really get any sense out of these drs as this is how they make their money. I am not recommending this for PTSD as I have no knowledge of this. Bless you and take care. ❤️
A psychiatrist single handedly ruined my future when I was just 12. I am 33 now. I wonder how I would have turned out if I was never taken to that doctor. It is too painful to think about.
I’m a nurse and went down the rabbit hole with my eldest son when he complained of being “in a funk” at age 19…. 1st was Paxil and within 6 years he was being rx’d Seroquel, zyprexa, Ativan, Valium, geodon to name a few…. It took us almost 5 years to effectively wean him off all of it. I have always felt guilty for even suggesting that he talk to his doctor about any of it. He now finally has a calm, productive life with no meds (or mental illness) but feels robbed of over a dozen years due to the greed of the pharmaceutical co and the sheep of a doctor that just kept blindly prescribing
so sorry for what you and your son went thru, I lost 42 yrs of my life to overprescribing doctor both medical and psychiatric. I lost over 50lbs got off ALL meds and reversed or cured all the different "diseases" they told me I had (some of which I never had) Now drs are scared of me, because I've proved that you can get healthy, that you can heal, and all it took was a good diet, some fresh air and exercise (just walking!) and staying as far away from drs as humanly possible!! unless you break your arm or something like that, I mean. I am grateful that I was able to see my way clear of their nonsense before my life was over, and now I am trying to cram as much joy into each day as I possibly can.
Glad it's working out for ur son. He sounds just like me when I was his age. I'm 52 now. I also kicked Depressions butt for yrs on end and thought that was that. Or so I thought. After being married and having kids it came back and with a vengeance. And for no reason at all. It just came back. It destroyed my marriage and the beautiful life I had do to the loss of my job. Wat I'm saying is that darkness will always b with u. It will leave u alone for yrs on end and come out whenever it wants. Hope that never happens to ur son.
There's a reason why they take the hippocratic oath, do no harm. You should have been able to trust a doctor. God bless, and don't live in guilt, it helps no one.
97% of all health problems can be cured through a proper all Natural Diet. Quit all processed foods, especially Sugar, and go on Keto and you will feel the difference! All my Depression and Anxiety was gone when I changed my diet.
RIP my sweet mother. She was prescribed combos of different psychotropic meds, cholesterol, blood pressure, antidepressants, opioids, restless legs syndrome, benzodiazepines.😢 I miss you Jane with all my heart and soul.
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At 16 was the first time my doctor tried to put me on antidepressants. I was not depressed. Just normal teenage emotions. She tried over the years to get me on them then finally snuck ant iaxiety meds on me for endometriosis pain. I noticed they didnt help my condition but helped me to sleep better, so I looked up what the med treated and it was anxiety. I immediately stopped taking it. And my doc was mad. I am my own doctor now. These doctors work for the big pharm not the well being of the patient. Sad times.
Please don't encourage other people to just jump off of anti anxiety meds. You do know withdrawls cause seizure and death? I'm telling you from personal experience. 100% bet you were not on any benzos for over 2 weeks or you would not irresponsibly and callously be telling people to just jump off , you might as well tell them to jump off a bridge. Granted, your experience is nowhere as deep as mine, on them for a decade and needing extensive medical detox and machines breathing for me, but yea, not cute .
@anonymousalias8111 where was instruction given to others? The comment I read stated personal experience and actions, and did not advise any other person.
My Mom was on antidepressants and anti psychotic drugs for depression since the 1970s. She was never really present. She seemed distant, numb, and bereft of any emotion. I vowed never to alter my own feelings by taking such pills. I want to fully experience life’s ups and downs. As a nurse, I witnessed the effects of poly pharmacy on a daily basis. Taking 30 pills a day was routine for many elderly assisted living residents. Many of these drugs were antidepressants. Falls were quite frequent and prevalent, and the negative outcomes became an endless cycle of decline. Wine was served at meals, and this only enhanced the problem. Ethically, I could no longer participate in such a dangerous mode of operation. I have recently left the profession. It was sick care, not healthcare.
There is responsible taking if meds . They do help . When abused stupidly ..of course they don't. Some people have problems of health that require as needed. Addicts ruin this for they who actually know how to take only as needed for physical problems. !! Not right !
@@suzyj.3389Hmmm, as if addiction doesn't result from extreme powerlessness against it due to extreme abuse on them. Tell people to stop abusing... that'll solve the addiction problem.
Got off Adderall back in September after 18 years of being on it. Best decision I have ever made, it has taken a lot of therapy and work to rewire my brain and get over the anxiety.
I've been on 90 mg a day for 24 years and would love to quit, but every time I try I literally cannot get out of bed. Or if I try to taper off I wreck my car.
I was on 10mgs of Ritalin for a few months but luckily couldn't quit Delta 8, so my shrink wouldn't prescribe it anymore. It was helpful but after just a few months, I was ready to increase the dose. That was alarming to me & I didn't want to get hooked on a controlled substance with such a low tolerance.
A psych yelled at me when I told him I was going off meds. He told me all sorts of terrible things would happen. They didn't. I did it slowly and carefully. I'm fine. Find a doctor who will work with you as an informed patient choosing not to consent to meds. I've had good luck with osteopaths but your mileage may vary.
I just counted the grains in each capsule and slowly decreased until I was off. Then I told my doc what I had done. He just looked at me silently a bit and said, "good for you. You weaned yourself off intelligently." It's very important to be able to separate my feelings from reality. If I wake up feeling down, I step back and tell myself out loud, "My feelings are not the truth." And this helps me choose what to think... which changes my mood!
@@pollyjetix2027 Thank you for your comment! This is an excellent way to help oneself. Eckhart Tolle books are centered around this philosophy. Highly recommended them all! Start with ‘The Power of Now’!
My mother in-law couldn't fall asleep because of some short-term stress. Her doctor prescribed her some meds, at the beginning it seems helps. However, after a couple weeks, she deteriorating in front of our eyes almost become a different person, dysfunction, no one knows what happened. Everyone thought the stress caused it. I observed the situation, thinking the only thing changed was she start the meds. The stress only results her couldn't sleep, not other things. I googled the side affects and read it out to her. We were surprised that everything she experienced was the side affects. She got off the meds and became normal again. Thanks to God that I find it out only after a few weeks that she tooks the meds.
Bravo; you did the right thing; yes these meds are powerful; results are unpredictable and there are so many risks associated with them. God bless you and your family!
It took me a little over a year to taper off of, and finally stop taking the 9 prescription medications i wss on after putting myself through rehab for alcoholism at 33. I was on the meds for just under 4 years. At 39 years old i remember the day that a close friend noted that i seemed so NORMAL now that i had gotten off the meds. Then realizing that between 10 years of alcoholism and the years of pharmaceutical oppression that i no longer knew what that meant. Thats why it had to be pointed out to me. Im 45 now and i still choke back tears when recalling this. Ive been sober ever since, save for a half dozen ibuprofen last year after having a tooth pulled, ha. You can get help. Ask. You can get better. You can get clean. You are loved.
During the covid 19 lockdown had a $22,000 debt, lost a job. I stopped making payments, interest was adding up daily, banks were calling. I couldn't sleep for days. I talked to my grandparents, they gave me some financial advice and a $15,000 check. After i put that check in the bank i slept 😴😴. Debt can kill you 🥺
When you have financial issues living paycheque to paycheque you are always in survival mode. That is a very stressful way to live you are always thinking how you will cover everything and Lord help you if something unforeseen happens.
Watching this... All I can think about is my mother. She physically passed away in 2021. She suffered with depression for as long as I can remember, and in 2014 it really reached a peak. She took many many many medications, and everything described in this documentary is her life. It was tragic to see her deteriorate, to see her disconnect from us emotionally, physically, in every way. She was a shell of the person I knew as a child. I mourned her loss before she was actually gone. What a sad thing to say, but it's true. She died long before her body died. I miss her.
Yes: my mother blessed giving me opportunityto mourn her loss decades before she died. I didn't even cry when her body died as I had already shed all of the tears by then.
Oh dear friend I lost someone who was pressured into taken a whole slew of meds over some twenty years; one feels so helpless and I wish now too late of course that I had known more about what he was enduring from being addicted to medications. I was sympathetic at least but had I known more on the subject I might have been able to do more for him. I think it is the doctors responsibility to check things out before prescribing; I have seen errors; even though I am not a professional the information is easily found on the net; published warnings as to which combinations to avoid and so on.
that is the same for Alzheimer's...the person u knew is gone , you have already processed their spirit passing on even though they are still alive , so when they do actually die the grief can be absent ...
I'm 70 and I don't take any drugs. I eat mostly non-processed foods, take regular long walks, and keep a careful eye on what seemingly innocuous habits are doing to my health.
I am a married woman and i remembered my son played a prank in junior kindergarten… he crawled under the teacher’s table and tied her shoe laces together and she was so upset and asked who did this and because my son wanted to take recognition for his atrocity he claimed it in the most joyous I must say and proud way. Having said that the teacher called me in for a meeting and said that something is wrong with him and she will recommend that he should be put on ADHD MEDS… if I didn’t stand up for my kid that moment my son would’ve been a statistic right now. He ended up graduating high school with honours he graduated college as a certified electrician and working every day now and a productive human being. Most respectful young man I’ve ever seen!
@@kck7238 Good for you. Imagine not being able to see a prank for what it is. If she had that response she had no business being a kindergarten teacher. Seriously. That is unbelievable. And congrats to you and your son. :)
I agree with a lot of this, however, my husband is bipolar and without medication he becomes completely psychotic and manic. Please just understand there are people who absolutely need these meds and will be on them for life. I would hate for people to take from this that all meds are bad. The stories I'm hearing are people who are not under the care of good psychiatrists. No lorazepam or any benzodiazepine ( - apams) should be given as anything more than temporary assistance. I firmly belueve they shouldn't be prescribed as take home meds or, if done so, are given only a small amount, like the pain pills you get post surgery. Also, medications for heart, diabetes or even mental illnesses are only part of the fix. You need to fix the problem, lose weight, eat healthier, exercise, go to therapy or whatever other treatments. Medications are a supplemental therapy. The fact that these doctors treat them like the ultimate fix is a problem. The best psychiatrist I had was one who used to be a psychiatrist/therapist and who was a big promoter of cognitive therapy. He actually listened. It's surprising how many of them do not listen.
Yes, and seeing Dave and how he treats his wife… it reminds me of someone who is truly severely mentally ill and needed psychiatric care. I hope she leaves him, he needs true help and she’s not able to help him without mediation or doctors. He will just end up killing them both.
Well said and I agree. Antidepressants have been life saving for me and all of my doctors have refused to prescribe me benzos whenever I asked which I resented at the time but I'm now thankful in retrospect.
@@rainaa1997I wonder if Dave has autism or antisocial personality disorder. He said that he doesn't feel anything, he doesn't feel any love for his wife or his dog or anyone or anything... He does not have empathy. I don't know how it would be possible to have a relationship with someone who doesn't have empathy.
Not gonna really protect Dave, but we don’t have a baseline of him prior to the medicine. I would assume that there is no clear answer. I would not armchair your way through something. Some people have shown benzo withdrawals that last years. Marriage is about support and trying. If Dave’s wife struggled and had a boundary, that’s here right but I don’t think Dave has problems now that existed prior to psychiatric medicine
Seconding this as the bipolar (and then some!) one - medicine has given me my life and my stability back. The worst thing about medication creep is that it hurts people who don't need these drugs, like in this documentary, and it further stigmatizes and condemns therapeutic uses for people in real need.
This is a very important documentary. Think of all the people we see on the street or in a tough spot in their lives and how society dismisses them as being addicts. It's never talked about how some of those people have their lives fall apart because of something their doctor prescribed them and that they have taken as prescribed. They were once happy high functioning people and their only "mistake" was trusting a doctor.
Or losing a job and not being able to keep up with their rent and so they become homeless . That happened to my mom she was working in the medical field and we became homeless together and slept in her car I was a teenager in highschool To add neither one of us smoke cigarettes nor weed , nor drinks beer nor liquor we don’t even take drinks period 🍹)substances of any sort had absolutely nothing to do with us becoming homeless
This is the most heart-wrenching documentary I have ever watched. I pushed through, even though I wanted to jump to another, more pleasant video. I cannot understand why doctors we look up to for advice, care and expertise, could do this to people.
Listen. I am a therapist and I think everyone needs to watch this. I am often sad for the amount of young people that I have to tell on a daily basis that they are not broken, they’re having a natural response to a traumatic, oppressive experience. There are indigenous & clinical practices that can be used to help people heal. Talk Therapy works. But insurance companies will back those of us who resist in a corner!
so sad that our society sends people to 'therapy' for normal responses to traumatic, oppressive experience. In my mind this is kinda complicit with the problem in that it infers the response is problematic without actually addressing the original harm or harmer. People by and large are very capable of processing trauma and oppression except that systemic harm compounds it with injustice and complicity. More healthy community. Less Therapy. Less trauma trade
I have a psychiatrist and a cognitive behavioral therapist. I’ve been on Klonopin and Effexor and Quetiapine for about 10 years now. My life has normalized and I enjoy it. I now have resiliency and the ability to face difficult situations… I laugh and cry and love my family. Before I was medicated I was a nervous, anxiety crippled and erratic person. I became suicidal whenever I felt trapped and other life ruining emotions and behaviors. I am happy and healthy and engaged with life… no cognitive decline…just completed another BSc ( Cum laude…an A in every class and every test. Not all benzos and psych meds are a horror story.
@@janeharris5568 sincere congratulations on your achievements and success. Now that you are happy and healthy and engaged with life, I am wondering what purpose the ongoing input of a psychiatrist, cognitive behavioural therapist and medications serve for you? Do you regard these inputs as integral to your ongoing wellbeing? Clearly you are grateful to the change they made to your life before and after. And kudos to you for still opening yourself to the unsettling stories of others who have not fared at all well. Benzos and psych meds have not been a horror story for you and I hope they never are. If you ever decide you are resilient enough and wanting to live life without them, please be very careful to taper slowly (hyperbolic taper). As someone with a Bsc it's possible you will understand the ways in which their use undermines, if not devastates, normal homeostatic regulation of gaba and glutamate - one of the reasons why withdrawal transforms into a living nightmare. It takes time for the body to learn to compensate for and repair the damage caused by these meds, which is often only revealed when they are taken away. Klonopin is a benzodiazepine. In 2020 the USA FDA updated the black box warning for benzos with regards to what the dangers of what they mislabel as 'addiction' as well as dangerous withdrawal symptoms: "In order to prevent dependence on benzodizepines, health care providers are advised to limit a prescription to 1-2 week supply". Do you think it is fair for people who are taken medications as prescribed to be labelled as "addicts"? How do you feel about your psychiatrist/prescriber continuing to prescribe drugs to you in a way that dispels the black box warning? Yes Benzos and psych drugs are not always a horror story. Until they become one. Hopefully that will not be your story. And you can continue to celebrate your success.
Two years ago, I was on an anti-depressant, an anti-psychotic, Ritalin, a beta blocker and high blood pressure medicine. A year ago, I started to slowly reduce the dosage of the SSRI and the Ritalin and I am now off of them. I stopped the beta blocker recently. Its slow going but I'm getting there. I'm 53 and will be off all medication soon. I am doing this without telling my doctor. It has been a decision between my husband and I only. I feel much better already.
@@teddibear1850please, this is NOT for everyone! A good friend is still having negative effects from keto! Months after stopping. Terrible muscle/connective tissue pain. Diets too high in animal fat and protein is not healthy and adds visceral fat to your internal system. Proceed with caution. Humans are omnivorous. Cats are carnivorous.
Amazing documentary with heartbreaking testimonies of which mine could have been one. My story of anorexia, erythromelalgia and doctors giving up on me proposing medical assisted dying when I reached the age of 41. No support from my family, I lost everything, job, house, friends and almost my life. Overmedicated, oxycodon, carbermazerpine, gabapentine, and so on... I threw everything away and stopped eating and drinking. Believe it or not, but there is where God saved me. At 45 kg, 1m82, 41 year old woman, fasted for over 20 days and... started to feel better!! I searched on the internet with what to refeed. Red meat. Yes, I became OMAD carnivore and now 4 years into my healing journey, I am writing my autobiography to raise awareness and... I met a supportive partner with whom I have the best relationship ever!! God is good 🙏❤ So grateful!
Good for you, this is awesome, Karine!!! CARNIVORE SAVES AND HEALS!!! Been on it 2 years myself and been healed of several things, also lost 55 pounds effortlessly, wasn't even trying to lose weight!
@@repentjesusiscomingsoon1529 carnivore for me made me gain weight, from 45kg to 60kg! (1m82) so it helps find the "healthy weight" of each individual!! Indeed!! My proportions changed as well, stomach no longer bloated and I developed breasts and buttocks. All the fat on the right places!
Wow, this is THE best doc I’ve seen. It’s unbelievable that a person can still have withdrawal symptoms after so many years. So sad. Thank you so much for this. I’m on cymbalta and on soma (for my muscle spasms) I will be asking my doctor about weaning me off.
I lost 3 members of my immediate family tragically and suddenly. I was on meds for 42 years. Bipolar meds, sleeping pills, omeprazole, 4 B.P. pills, 6-9 pynstop per day, prozac. I had everything wrong with me you can think of. Cancer, hiatus hernia, excema, depression, migraines, arthritis, CONSTANT bladder infections, an ulcer, growth in my bowel, 2 back operations.... The crunch came when i fell and my vertebra slipped 10.8mm. My physiotherapist put me on a health diet, deep breathing, cold showers and exercise. I'm off ALL meds and never felt better. I'm 70 and my 45 year old son said i remind him of his mother when he was a young teenager. I have had no need for one drug and havent had one bladder infection for 2.5 years.
Today is the 8th day without any depression medication. And I haven't felt so alive in a year and a half. And I went to the gym today 😊. Hope it continues.
"I can label you with something that you can never overcome". So many psychiatrists and psychologists should be aware about this, and they don't. Around 30 years ago I asked my psychologist "What do I have?". She explained that she didn't think it was right to give me any diagnosis because it wouldn't be of any help for me. And I overcame whatever I was going through back then and went on with my life. I went to therapy when I felt I needed it. I believed in it. 4 years ago I was having my midlife crisis and I went back. They diagnosed me with bipolar II, prescribed me Zoloft and made me feel so sick, so sad, so unable to get out of that hole I was in, it was so scary. I almost lost my life and my family in the process. I just thank God I could come out without loosing more than those years of my life and I don't have long lasting effects of the treatment. I think that they don't teach them in school anymore about the dangers of their professions.
And how quickly they find a medical label for your feelings nowadays so they can medicate you for life. A win situation for Big Pharma, which is all they wanted.
@@xxxxxxxyyyyyyy huh? It is not. What protocol forbids it? It can trigger mania in some people but there is no law preventing someone diagnosed with bipolar disorder to take zoloft. Some people take it with a mood stabilizer. And what is your point anyway? The doctor talking in this video is not a prescriber, she's a psychologist.
It's weird that they always prescribed people with a midlife crisis as bipolar. I took psychology classes for a bit because I thought that was the route I wanted to take and all you learn is different diagnosis all day long. It's no longer about understanding the human mind and humans think and work.
This is, hands-down, the most fair and comprehensive doc on this subject I have ever seen. You found such articulate and educated people to share their stories. Angie is going to be a great help to other people. Not anti-med, just INFORMED. I think that's peak wisdom.
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Millions of people worldwide are physically dependent on commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs. While these drugs can provide effective short-term relief, pharmaceutical companies have hidden their dangerous side effects, addictive nature, and long-term harm from both doctors and patients.
hiding? People who read old books know this. I know this and am taking medication. They know more than doctors and pharmacists. I know, but I'm on medication.
The psycho Pharmaceutical industry started with severe mental illnesses. They created thorazine. Antipsychotics make big differences in some people's lives. There just isn't a lot of people at that level of need. They make way more money on antidepressants and ADHD drugs. The people with mild issues are there cash cow. Most of the people who have severe mental illnesses can barely afford them. They are hard to treat and it is just easier to go after mostly normal people with some depression.
And to think weed has been demonised for so long. No one overdoses, withdrawing doesn’t come with a risk of death or extreme withdrawals, anyone can grow it. Just a shame how people are pushed onto using coping mechanisms that have the potential to be so harmful.
Millions of people nationwide (US)...*
@@whitneyanders5945 Dr Susan Sissley has done experiments with veterans PTSD and cannabis
Big pharma hates these tests , there's no money in a Cure
It's just basic greed generated by wall St!!
Cannabidiol (CBD) has been proven to be Anti Physcotic
But you'll never hear that from any government or medical industry
I'm 76 and take no medications at all. 20 years ago the Veteran's Administration had me on all kinds of medications, for depression, PTSD, high blood pressure and pain. I quit that nonsense as one medication always caused more problems. And in 2013 I left the US and left all my problems behind. My problems were all environmental and situational and no medications will ever correct the causes.
Where did you move?
God for you where did you. Go
@@stephaniepantalonie Costa Rica nearly 7 years ago. In 2013 Panama, 2014 Ecuador and 2015 to 2016 Nicaragua. All places were far better than life in the US. Far more Freedom and affordable and uncomplicated life.
@@kingmaafa120 Costa Rica nearly 7 years ago. In 2013 Panama, 2014 Ecuador and 2015 to 2016 Nicaragua. All places were far better than life in the US. Far more Freedom and affordable and uncomplicated life. I don't disclose my exact location, as if I did Americans would come here and ruin things. I rent a 7 bedroom/5 bath house with 4 car garage on 23 acres for $153 a month. Where Americans live a house like this on a quarter acre would rent for over $3,000
Was it hard for you to stop all the medications? Did you feel any type of uncomfortable symptoms from stopping? Did you cold turkey them all? Glad you got off everything.
During 2016, when my son died on the road here in the Kingdom of Belgium, I made an appointment with a psy at the flamish hospital close to my house : AZ VUB, asking for help. The psychiatrist told me exactly this : " The less you take chemich drugs, the better you feel. You must grieve". I said,: "what? But doctor, I go in the woods at night and I scream, I run, I scratch the ground, please, help me ! " He answered : "You scratch the ground to find the love you've lost, keep doing it. Don't stop and come back to talk with me any time. I'm here for you. Call me any time but don't start with chem. drugs. You need time to grieve". We talked for an hour and did it every week. What a wonderful doctor. After a cupple of months, we became friends. Thanks God, I met the right psychatrist.
I’m so sorry for your loss 🤍 and what a great doctor! Here in the US they’d never spend that much with you. God bless you.
I am so sorry for your loss. I can’t imagine a worse experience. I live in Ixelles and I feel reassured to know there are good psychiatrists in our neighbourhood ❤
Thank you so much. You know, I think it's not a question of country, but of the skills and awareness of psychiatrists. I humbly think that a major reform should be made in this medical environment and it is urgent. God bless you too.@@JosDLM
Thank you so much. Indeed Ixelles is not far from Jette. Only 10kms away. His name is Dr. Ryckaerts and now, his office is at the clinic "Sans Souci" in Jette, not far from the AZ VUB. His father, also psychatrist left for retirement and took over his practice 2 years ago. He even gave me a book about forgiveness to help me stop feeling guilty. @@lolo_bird
Thank God you found a good one. ❤️ Condolences on your loss❤️🩹
"a pill for every ill and a cure for none"
there is no cure in a pill
YOURE SUCH A POET
They want us sick There is no money in a cure.
That is and should be on top of the list here ! That needs to be repeated every where .However have a look at the toxic additives in everything…..part of the big agenda!
You hit the nail on the head
The fact that nobody talks about censored book called The 23 Former Doctor Truths by Lauren Clark really gets to me. Always loved people like Lauren, they open our eyes
thanks on sharing
So many people have the forest-for-the-trees disorder. They blame pharma but it's not big pharma that tells people to take it. It's doctors that recommend poison to their patients and the last time I heard no pharmacy will fill pharmaceuticals without a doctor's order. The order for poison straight from their doctor and they blame pharma 😂😂😂😂
The fact that messages that start out with "the fact that..." are all spam bots paid to leave these in comments sections per area of interest and hardly no one notices. These books dont exist. Report these type of messages.
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The pharmaceutical industry needs to be banned from marketing to consumers, its a bad thing.
I watched a movie on TV last night and the amount of expensive and dangerous drug commercials is absolutely insane.
It's banned here in the EU, the U.S. is behind on everything.
Yes! It’s outlawed in other countries and must be outlawed in the USA. A study called “Thick as Thieves: how Big Pharma wields it’s power with the help of government” is worth the read.
If I didn't know any better, I'd say they are trying to kill people.
They also shouldn't advertise to doctors
People underestimate the power good nutrition has on their health. I suffered from anxiety, panic attacks, acid reflux, headaches, joint pain, and a few skin issues for more than 25 years. All of it went away when I started limiting my sugars and carbohydrates. Food affects mental and physical health.
Update: The positive reactions that I've received to such a simple post make me feel good. It makes me think that people are finally waking up to the lies that have been spread by the medical industrial complex for so long. Keep up the good fight and spread the word!
Ya it does!
YES...LET THY FOOD BY THY MEDICINE
I started the carnivore diet a week ago and I deep cleaned my entire house yesterday and today. I don't even feel like I have adhd and I can't explain it. I'm in much less pain in my joints too!
Absolutely true. More people need to know this
Very true!
I am a mental health professional and that psychiatrist that gave her lorazepam 4 times a day for sleep should have his license taken away and put in jail.
Thank you for speaking up!!
I wouldn't believe it,no doctor would do that
@@scarred10 are you being sarcastic I can't tell. But I can tell you that doctors do this kind of thing. After being in the business for 25 years it happens more often than you might think.
@@scarred10 lemme guess you either live in a cave or a psychiatrist
My BF takes more than that all day 😂 I don’t understand how she gets everything but I can’t get an iron infusion
Iron deficiency can cause anxiety, insomnia and a whole host of other issues when it’s not treated
Most doctors don’t even think to check that first 😢
I was an addict for 20 years because of Xanax! I was also given all these psychiatric classifications and just given more and more medication! Made me crazy! Jesus Christ set me free almost 6 years now! I never thought I’d be off of the pills but God said different.
Amen🎉 Hallelujah ❤
Stay stong solider
Put on the armour of God everyday, fast and pray you'll be taken care of for the rest of your life here. Jesus is our healer and our redeemer❤
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God set me free from my addiction to adderal!!! Praise our God!
I'm pretty sure years of Xanax screwed up my mom. What a terrible and needlessly over prescribed drug.
@@nataliaxo8053 Amen❤
Former nurse here. This is hands down the absolute best documentary I've seen. My own family doctor had prescribed a medication for me and obviously, I immediately asked about possible side effects. She only mentioned one, which would happen with long term use. I took it for a few years then found information on just how dangerous it was if taken long term. I was furious and quit taking it. It infuriates me to see how doctors and Big Pharma treat us, and I deeply feel for everyone who has suffered because of incompetence and greed.
Doctors are big pharmaceutical dope pushers...
So how do we treat or cure depression? I think ur better off taking medication for yrs on end cuz it's IMPOSSIBLE to cure it. Once that darkness gets a hold of u it will never let go. It will b with u for the rest of ur life. If it doesn't take it along the way. I think long term medication does help some. I know a few people that have taken it for 15 yrs. If it wasn't for that they wud no b here today.
Yes, we do need to read up on subjects and look for better info. :-)
It’s all about the oligarchs and big pharma
As a former nurse, did you not think to research the side effects of the medication, just by default mode. Just curious. Not that that negates the attending doctors responsibilities, just asking.
I have never heard anyone say that PTSD is grief before. That really resonated. So much that I finally had a good hard cry about everything I went through.
hugs from a stranger
Giving grief a name that can be turned into an acronym is how you sell meds.
I lost my woman in 2013 in a motorcycle accident. I realized it could destroy me I recognized ptsd and the fact I was grieving. I talked my way through it. I was lucky enough to have some solid older friends around me.
10 years later I am ready to sell my bike I just don't ride like I used to.
I have also lost many good people on motorcycles.
As a veteran who has made it through the worst the best I can tell you is what I was told by someone who also made it through. PTSD is not a disorder, it's a sickness that can be overcome with the right help and the right support systems.
I was diagnosed with ptsd ( and many other mental health conditions) when my child passed away. I prefer no meds, I tried that and they made things worse.
The medical establishment has lost ALL credibility. Especially over the past few years. I no longer go to the doctor unless I am in need of stitches or other type of emergency treatment. The system is completely broken and must be replaced with a holistic model.
I agree. For emergencies our medical system is excellent. For long term treatment it sucks. Best to depend on yourself and figure out your health problems on your own.
Agreed!!!❤
tbh I've come to this conclusion as well.
Perhaps you're taking it too far? Good MD's are needed often. I trust mine, but i don't think she pays close attention to my questions sometimes.
@@pagosabob10 You're right. I recently required emergency medical attention and it was excellent! But it's a proven fact that the more often you go to the doctor, the more tests they will recommend which often equals medication.
My parents were extremely anti-pharmaceuticals. Like, we had a family homeopath and everything was solved with turmeric, cloves and Acv. I had never considered how people thought. They think they’re getting worse and the medicine isn’t helping rather than recognizing that the medication is the cause. This is an amazing documentary. God bless!
Your parents turned out to be the smart ones.
“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
Mark Twain
I don’t care about what some man who died 100 years ago said. I didn’t recover from my mental illness until I treated it. Period.
Yes my brother is living in that fooled world right now
@@WeekendsOutsideFLfollowing this statement, you still sick
"Worst of times?
Best of times"!
Or both❤
Have a YAHsome rest of the day.
Yep. Take a look at covid and the 💉
My brother- a life long addict and alcoholic recently went to rehab. After 5 days of detox- they put him on an antidepressant and an antipsychotic. They took him off street drugs to put him on government drugs. Thankfully- he took himself off and is clean and sober 💯
This.
Exactly how methadone works, put me on that after being prescribed by Oxycodone for nerve pain. After being on the one dose on & off for around 20 years & needed the dosing adjusted they refused so just took me straight off it which of course nearly sent me mad. However they had no problems putting me on methadone & adjusting the dose. Even though this is done by the public system they had absolutely no problems asking me to give them my private health information to fund a public hospital, but there is absolutely no difference in treatment.
Be careful!!!!!! Some of this meds must be WEANED OFF or else SEIZURES can occur.
My brother had some many problems after quitting methadone abruptly. He developed a paranoia that he had bugs under his skin. He self-medicated with cattle antibiotics, bathed in bleach, and went back to street drugs. When he went to doctors for help with the itching, he wasn’t given anything that helped, and his mental state made reasoning with him about it difficult. It ruined his quality of life even worse than the opiates had.
Good idea, he knows more than medical professionals especially while battling addiction. 🤦🏼♀️
Please don't be surprised if he relapses.
My husband is a fit and healthy man with an elevated cholesterol level. They wanted to prescribe him medication right away and didn’t even talk to him about regulating his levels via food.
It’s all so messed up
@samiraschadt8480, plenty of studies have shown that cholesterol levels are NOT.a reliable indictor for heart attacks. We need cholesterol to be healthy which is why our body will make it if we don't get enough thru our diet. And you are correct that doctors will prescribe statins without discussing any other option. I had a very nice doctor want to put my 90 yo mom on statins "just in case". We had a good conversation and I said "No, she is going to die of something and I am not worried about her heart." He did accept my decision but the fact that he suggested it at her age told me a lot.
It's on those papers you get at the pharmacy when you pick up the meds. And there's also google. As soon as I read it could dissolve a fetus was all I needed to know. And cause break down of bones and muscle. Also asked more than one doctor. As adults e have to be proactive.
Exactly they just see pound signs from this, last thing they want is your husband to change his diet
He can always try and see another doctor, or if he feels strongly about changing his diet, he can see a dietician.
Ive been watching a lot of other physicians say cholesterol isnt the enemy.
I was on Adderall for 16 years and have been off of the meds for 14 years. Thank you for sharing this information! I had no help back in 2009. I quit cold turkey and got a certified letter from my doctor to see a psychiatrist. Seeing another doctor was. the last thing I ever wanted. to do. I still have issues with trusting doctors. I have slowly found my way. Thank you for bring awareness. !
Are you crazy? Why did they send you a certified letter?
@@ProSePlaintiff They wanted to cover there behind. In January 2009 I called the doctor and asked them to not prescribe me any more Adderall. I had to cut off my supply. By this time it was not working like it had and I was taking much more then I should have. I had to save my self.
This documentary should be required viewing material before the prescription of any psychiatric medication.
Absolutely!
Psychiatric medications are based upon theory. None of it has ever been proven. And the majority were created to treat other things then used for psychiatry.
In Latin America they do not prescribe opioids except extreme and rare measures. Depression remains a big concern, especially among the poor. Everyone needs a good future and purpose in life.
Oh, illicit drugs will fetch more than 200 times the price in the US. So wile present there really isn't much unless sold and used to American and Xanadian tourists.
AGREED !!!
Definitely
@@riskyron1416 That's not exactly true, in Mexico you can go to pharmacies and just buy opioids like oxycodone over the counter with no prescription. They have no need to prescribe opioids more often because people can already get them freely
Everyone involved in the making of this film should be proud of their work and contribution to the community.
I'm surprised YT even allowed it to be posted, as they're liberal
superficial and temporary bandaid solutions that don't investigate and address the root cause of the health issues.
addressing health is also a holistic approach that includes lifestyle and diet changes.
Community 😂
The world needs to acknowledge the difference between an abnormal person trying to function in a normal, healthy environment vs a normal healthy person trying to function in an abnormal, toxic environment!
Haha agreed, but that's a catch 22 - the world can't recognize the difference because it is such an abnormal and toxic environment.
💯 and we need to start imploring Pharmacogenomics which is “a field of medicine that investigates how a person's genetic makeup may affect how their body processes certain medications.”. WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY! How are we not using this?!
@@TheJennaMaywell they wont be able to make money if they cure people will they? Its $$$ i have a disease that would be better if i they came out with new antibiotics. The pharm industry doesnt because its not profitable. Lets hope that changes. Its very frusturating.
The latter would be most of us right now, whereas the former would quite aptly describe our Political classes !
That lady does not SOUND WELL that is not how benzodiazepines work. WHAT drugs are they taking to have that crazy take BE CAREFUL people that is crazy and insanity out there so BE CAREFUL!
This documentary hit hard. I lost my mom to suicide in February. She was taking multiple psychiatric medications for over a decade and I always knew it wasn’t good for her and was affecting her negatively. I always tried to help her but she refused. I just wish we could hold these pharmaceutical companies accountable for all the lives lost and turmoil and anguish their greed has created. I miss you mom.
😢😢😢 My heart aches for you. I tried suicide many times so I know that we don't want to hurt people, we just want the pain to go away. May your mother be at peace.
I am so sorry you lost your mom. I hope you see her again in Heaven
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that's right the dead can't testify...
I understand you because the same thing happened to my mom 8 years ago. As you move through life it does get easier but you never forget. I'm sorry and it seems like your going through a tough time. Keep your head up and remember your mom for the good of her and putting you here on this earth. Good luck to you and keep moving in the direction your mom guides you, she'll always be with you...
My mom took several medications after my 18 yr old sister died. I was 16 at the time in 1983.She was on over 20 medications. She died from complications of a overdose in 2017 fentanyl and hydrocodone. She was addicted over 34 years. My sister was bedridden from age 1 until she died at 18 so my mom had a lot on her along with having 3 other kids and losing one at 6m pregnant. I was always so worried about my mom because I knew she had been through so much trauma. I tried talking to her doctor and the nursing home she was in a few weeks before she died. They told me she was a grown woman and can make her own decisions in other words take as many pills as she wants. They was helping her to move into a apartment on her own knowing she had a addiction problem. My mom got mad at me because I tried stopping her from moving by talking to the nursing home. 2 weeks living on her own she overdosed and damaged her heart, 2 weeks later she was gone. I got to spend the last 2 weeks with her but I feel robbed when I look at the great grandchildren she now has but didn’t get to meet
At 4 my child was diagnosed with autism and the doctor told me I have 3 choices, we could give meds for depression, anxiety or hyperactivity and asked which I wanted to try first. I said absolutely not, grabbed my child and never went back. 4 years old!
Good for you
Good!
For someone with Asperger's syndrome i was on all sorts of antidepressants and an anxiety medications. Some helped some really changed who I was thanks to my therapist noticing the differences in my personality. I had my dr take me off it. I was on zyprexa prozac other anti depressants. But over a year ago Ive been off my anti depressants and i havent gone back on them since.
But ive been on doxepin for my insomnia. I have been on them for 10 years i cant sleep without them.
That's awesome. Autism isn't a thing that can be medically treated inho. It's just a different way of being and it needs understanding. My son was diagnosed at 7.
thats insane I'm an adult with autism and i've never been on any kinda meds like that.
"A patient cured is a customer lost."
The best statement I heard from the last 24 years. This statement alone is a healing therapy
@@mauriziograndi1750That should read - A patient cured... Americans are so brainwashed, they default into the language of clientelism. Medicine is about science, not sales.
Hospitals are a business first & every business needs customers….. hospitals & big pharma are an team & go together
That is illegal and unethical they need to be non profit.
@@ana419 Yeah good luck with that buddy
My 26 year old brother committed suicide the weekend after being prescribed Zoloft and Paxil for anxiety. He had just paid off his truck and bought new clothes. He should still be here. RIP Murphy.
So, so sorry. This should never have happened. He should still be here. RIP Murphy. As should be my cousin (also died by prescripticide in similar circumstances). RIP Tyrone.
Zoloft made me hear voices in my head and have extreme panic attacks. I was prescribed it after breaking up with my first boyfriend (just a natural part of life really). I stopped taking it straight away…and really should not have been prescribed it in the first place.
so sorry for your loss.
Paxil is known (well, in circles where such things are discussed) as being particularly dangerous coming AND going. Or, as I told my late husband, “If you weren’t already taking it, I wouldn’t want you to start; but since you’ve been taking it for 10 years, it would be just as dangerous for you to stop”. Some dodo-brained psychiatrist suddenly stopped it during his last psychiatric hospitalization, and he spent a week puking and pooping; came back and took 30 minutes to make a 5 minute drive because he kept thinking he’d run over imaginary people… I’d never recommend it to anyone. Prozac is considered the safest of the SSRI’s, mostly because it takes so long to leave your body it creates a gradual ramping-up and ramping-off all on its own, like Valium does for benzos (as explained in the Ashton Manual, available for free online); this effect also makes it helpful for tapering off any SSRI.
I'm sorry for your loss but this is why doctors should be more transparent or at least more knowledgeable on the potential side effects when starting antidepressants. It often gets worse before it gets better and it can take 1-3 months for them to take effect. These negative side effects are temporary until the meds kick in. It's a shame doctors don't talk about this with their patients as it's life saving information.
I'm so glad to have come across this video. I've been on alprazolam for 20 years, initially starting with 10 pills a month to take as needed for panic attacks, then 1mg daily, which turned to 8 to 12mg daily, and I've only just come off. Literally celebrating 30 days clean today, but I don't by any means feel better as yet. I'm still incredibly unsure of myself and I'm still very anxious but I can get there. Many people here have, and so can I. Thank you one and all whi had an involvement in this video. You truly are the veterans of one hang of a war! ❤
🙏❤️🙏YOU GOT THIS
Please try diet that has fresh vegetables, , fruits when preferred, meat, whole foods all mainly organic, try growing your own vegetables, it is actually life changing ,u won’t regret.
Find a quality omega 3 supplement that has very high DHA. There are supplements targeted for brain health, but omega 3 high DHA is the best start. You need to feed your brain good stuff to counteract the damage. I'm working through this now. I have a really good naturopath that is helping me.
its about you taking care of your body and renewing your mind with Jesus Christ
What Mimi said plus add Rhodiola extract! It can be miraculous on anxiety, just give it 2-3 months (around 500mg of extract on an empty stomach in the morning)
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Never trust a company who has a financial interest in you being sick and with the sickness becoming a more valuable customer.
Common sense
@@paintingwithrosev741If sense was common we wouldn't have had to have the 10 commandments, rules, and laws, etc. Sense isn't as common as your statement.
We wouldn't need doctoring @@user56gghtf
They need to keep you sick, but not dead. Dead people cease to be customers.
big pharma markets drugs to Adults like cereal cos market their brand to kids....
I lost my leg in a car accident and one night while in the rehab hospital a new medication appeared. The nurse said the doctor (of Physical Medicine) had added an antidepressant (without any discussion). I refused it until I could talk to him. I asked why he’d prescribed it, as I was not feeling depressed, and he said, “We assume you will be.” …..!!
I refused the prescription, and then I expedited my withdrawal off of pain medication, which although was very necessary at the beginning, I believe I was also over-prescribed (too many and for too long).
I quickly became (and remain, 20 years later) pill free, and as a result, I was clear minded while processing the grief and trauma of the accident.
😩 …. I am so grateful I was raised to question authority!
Great answer and wisdom! Don't trust authority. All the best to you
Never be the guinea pig on new
pills in particular.
You said it, processing the trauma ...learning to feel our feelings, isn't so hard once u get used to it😉
So proud of you. ❤
I lost my leg to cancer but because of fathom pains I take Gabapentin, Fentanyl patches and for those feelings of electrical shocks I'll take Hydrocodone sparingly. There's no way I can get off the pain is bad even when I cut back. Is this possible I'm hooked or does the pain need drug assistance I don't know. It's been 17 years now on these drugs and I'm 67 years old.
My grandmother saw me take Tylenol once and commented: "I'm 92 years old and never took a pill in my life, and you don't need to either". I'll never forget that.
I’m with your grandmother. I used to take Tylenol. Then 40 years ago someone told me, “get out of the habit of putting something in your mouth to take away pain”, as they handed me a sheet of paper with a diagram of how to massage one’s temples to get rid of a headache. It works. I’m 84.
Ok. What to do with a high fever?! Waiting to 39.9 and go to hospital where they would give you same pills?
I have never taken meds for a fever, i use 2 cold damp cloth on my forehead and neck, a fan blowing cool air on me and eat chicken noodle soup and drink chicken broth. And in a few days i always feel better. Pills i believe should be a last resort @@rina.2832
@@broadwaysam8405😹 removed "meat" as a "test" during that! lockdown!!...and not had a headache! or migraine!! ever since!🤣...(b.s.e!...there was an report stating the "dip-bath chemicals!!" that was the cause!!😳, ...but what got stated;...protein got supplemented with meat! & bone! meal!.. from the remains of other! animals?!! fed to cows!🤯
@@rina.2832strip clothing and use damp cloths to draw the fever out of the body. If you can in future, keep colloidal silver in your medicine box. Drink a small amount in water or swish around your mouth. It has antibacterial, anti inflammatory. It’s amazing for everything from colds to toothache, cuts and grazes. Castor oil is great to keep in your box for many ailments. Also serrapeptese is a fantastic anti inflammatory. Good luck and read up on natural remedies. 😊
Excellent documentary. Years ago I watched my elderly uncle become completely despondent after being on many different psychiatric drugs. His days were filled with “resting” as my aunt would explain when we’d visit. When he was awake, he would obsess about killing himself, this we learned after he got off the meds. When he tried to explain to his doctor that he thought he was losing his mind (when he stopped taking the drugs cold turkey) his psychiatrist talked him into electric shock treatment. It wiped out his short term memory for years, and he was never the same after that. Many thanks for bringing this epidemic to light.
@@russell32784 that’s just sad and tragic for everyone involved. I am so sorry.
It's funny how they banned cigarette commercials and replaced them with a plethora of smiling drug commercials.
I know right? I’m guessing the pharmaceutical companies had the better lobbyists
yes. good point.
Boom!
More dinero pimping drugs, than selling cigarettes.
Wow. You’re adeptly so right and I’d never had that realization but it’s the shocking and disturbing truth.
Advertising prescriptions on public media should be banned!
I left the US 4 years ago to a place where there is a national medical system, which means there aren’t any advertisements for medication because the system isn’t profit based. I look back and can’t believe Americans have to live with advertisements for medication.
Yes! Just like cigarette advertising was banned.......
I AGREE!! They are targeting kids now with the commercials about eczema.
capitalism babyyy, profits over people $$$$$
ABSOLUTELY!!! 💯 They also need to stop drug reps from going to doctors offices and pushing for doctors to prescribe the drugs they represent. Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe doctors gain some kind of incentive from the pharmaceutical companies if they prescribe their drugs.
As a person who has spent the last 30 years as a person in recovery from narcotic addiction , I was taught that I had to learn how to SIT with the pain ( emotional ) . It's amazing what you can accomplish when you learn that not all days are going to be filled with sunshine and roses . It IS completely "NORMAL " to have a variety of emotions . I agree , we have become a society where we EXPECT to have a MAGIC PILL to FIX something that isn't broken in the first place !!!!
Facts. Gonna smoke a blunt to that
This. People want a pill for every mildly unpleasant feeling nowadays. I blame the internet & social media for setting unrealistic expectations that everyone is entitled to be happy, comfortable, and emotionally validated at all times.
This is true. When I was in high school in the early 90s, the kids I went to school with and myself had some rough times. Some kids would smoke cigarettes, some smoked pot, many like myself just put on some sad music and cried and felt the pain or we'd talk to friends. It was unheard of to get a prescription from a doctor unless a kid had severe mental illness diagnosis like schizophrenia.
I went to a birthday party for my friend's daughter not long ago and the parents were talking about the medications their 10 year old kids were all taking.
This exactly!! It’s okay to feel your feelings! It’s okay to react to painful situations!
@@coolbreeze5683 10 years old & medicated !! Why ? Rough day at school ? Or on the playground ? I grew up in the 70's in Bklyn NY . My mother used to say that psychiatrists were for the RICH people . Unfortunately , I and ALL my friends probably would have benefitted from having some COUNSELING . Now the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction . There has GOT TO BE a happy medium in all this , right ?
My mum almost died from blood poisoning following a 30 year dependance on bezodiazepines. She went through detox and rehab something I always thought was reserved for addiction to street drugs.
4 years later she has healed from her addiction and her trauma.
We could have sued her GP and Psychiatrist for negligence. Instead we chose to focus on recovering from the ordeal and just grateful she is still here with us. Now healed, drug free and living a happy normal life by the Grace of God.
Benzos do not treat the problem, they simply mask it.
That applies to all psych drugs
I am on the same road. It is worth the ride.
Praise the Lord, she was able to get off.
@@kristen8329she did all the hard work herself, not the lord.
I’ve worked in the hospital for a very long time. Once people start taking medicines I watch them get sicker and sicker over the years. I refuse to take any medicines from pharmaceutical companies.
Its not the meds making them sick in most cases ,its the underlying disease
I do think they have a time and place. Especially in acute situations.
I wish people that struggle would find "Brain Energy" by Dr Chris Palmer first though. He helped literal schizophrenics come off drugs and stay healthy
Me too. Unless it’s level 10 serious, no pills 💊 in my life…refused to even take meds for strep throat as a kid and it was always a big fight.
@@LuvableAF the adverse effects of any meds are only going to be an issue if youre taking them for a very long time.Antibiotics for acute infections are very safe.
Tell me how a healthy and active individual with HBP can control this without meds?
Also a former RN here, I saw so much of this happening, I quit. Not in it to hurt others if i cannot help people i don’t want to be involved. It’s so wrong.
I went to hospice for this very reason. It was a game changer.
What are doing now beside being a rn?
I did the same in my pharmacy career years ago. The age of narcotics woke me up. I realized it's not about helping people and it's all about money. The Covid era has proven how dangerous pharma is. Just say "no".
It's wonderful to see so many people that actually care about others and not just money. Our society has been brainwashed and corrupted for years but more and more are waking up to the deception.
I feel you,. I don't wanna be a nurse forever..
giving lorazepam 4x a day for insomnia is insane. That's criminal
You know what the best cure for insomnia is? Exercise before you have to go to sleep so your body gets tired and take some CBD or melatonin. Forget the pharma drugs. This is coming from someone who is a total night owl and will stay awake until 4am
I gasped. That poor lady.
Give’s u Dementia r Alzheimer’s.
xanax 2mg is the only medication that i can use for sleep nothing else works at all.
2 MG at that!!
These stories make me sad. What are we doing? The drug companies are killing us. One way or another.
Now they are doing the same with our animals. Put my dogs on flea, tick heart worm combo meds. Hadn’t used anything for over 5 yrs no issues. All dead within six months of each other all having major seizers after starting it. That and fast moving cancer.
My therapist wanted to put me on Prozac. I asked for how long? She said "forever." So I started taking THC. If I need treatment forever, I'll take a plant. That was 14 years ago. No regrets.
That is not safe either ,it's not just a plant .
Just to put it out there - coccaine and heroin are derived from plants
It's more than just "a plant" lol
Is it for real? Forever?
Look for a naturalist or chinese medicines
Naturalism is just logical error and fallacy. Nothing is better for you just because it's natural. Most things in nature will kill and eat you or give you poisoning.
Thank you for being candid and for NOT CENSORING ANY FREE SPEECH OUT OF THIS. VERY IMPORTANT.
@dabzptincess92 ❤great comment... I was thinking the same thing.
This documentary was censored. It was initially published on TH-cam maybe a year ago. Taken down a few days later. Found out because I posted it to Facebook and a friend said the link wasn't working. FB and YT had removed it.
So glad it's up again. They censor you for telling the truth, not for lying.
We never censor free speech. Images were sometimes required to blur but never ever the content.
@@ENDEVRDocs Just another awkward channel preying on paranoia and big pharma conspiracies. Good job.
@ENDEVRDocs happy to see you tube has not taken this down
When my daughter was 10, her school counselor recommended I take her to a therapist of their choice due to the fact that she wasn't paying attention in class. The first session ended in us leaving because the therapist wanted to put her on medication. I will never regret making that choice.
Bravo.
It reminds me of an episode of New Amsterdam. The kid in question was only allowed to attend school medicated. The premise was different but again, instead of talking to the child they medicated him into a zombie child.
I am a remedial teacher. That drug they put children on is a gateway drug to addiction. Teachers need to change their teaching methods instead. Classes need to be smaller. Parents are the BEST teachers anyway.
Im elementary school my son had a desk separate from the other kids, they called it Gage island, he knew when he needed a time out and would go sit there when he was being disruptive to the other kids I am so grateful to that teacher. He was always overly social and lacked the ability to pay attention, never medicated, now at 14 he is an honor roll student. In my opinion it was normal boy behavior not something thst we need to medicate
@@colleenackert5022 exactly right. Awesome story and continued success to you and your son!
Thank you. I took Prozac for 6 months, I realized the "nothing" it left. I stopped and was grateful for stopping that experience.
This is why we seek for knowledge and wisdom on TH-cam instead of going to doctors in 2024.
💯💯💯
The internet is a terrible place to find knowledge and wisdom however sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures.
@KMF3 it offers the opportunity to combine sources so in the end it is rather useful actually,as long as you spend the time to seek
the real truth.
@@KMF3 it’s better than blindly trusting any “expert” these days. At least you can gather many sources and make your own conclusions.
Building its own literacy is a great beginning
I was a foster kid and starting at age 11 the state of Tennessee placed me on a triad of strong psychiatric medications. By the time I aged out at 18 I had taken over 28 different psychiatric meds. My 18th bday I signed myself out of state care in 2000. It’s no wonder, I succumbed to the opioid epidemic and by 2003 I was on methadone(preferred treatment at that time). I was stuck on that until 2009 when I switched to suboxone. I was a slave to that until may 2023 when I flew to Mexico and detoxed with a sacred plant medicine used for 1000’s of years called Ibogaine. Its a psychedelic that helped me get to the root of my trauma(foster care). I am 10 months clean from being on opioid maintenance medication for the last 20 years and my gratitude overflows.
Your story blows my mind. That is - to my understanding- child abuse. What a journey you’ve had. Thank you for sharing because that must be hard. And for your onward journeys: happiness!
@@ENDEVRDocs Thank you for reading my comment. I appreciate it. 🌺
@@carolinewells4355 what you have achieved is so incredibly hard, I hope you know that and are proud. Because you can be. I am rooting for you! With that kind of courage, you can do anything.
May you be blessed every step of the way
@@banarchehab5710 thank you friend 🌺
Was on Benzos for 15+ years. Was abruptly taken off. My world spiraled to the point I was contemplating suicide. Don't ever start these. Not worth the pain
Was it possible they were helping and you just stopped that caused the extra problems? Benzos and alcohol are the two things that need medical intervention to quit. That's not some secrets.
@cheezykrafts8134
No one should ever be on benzos for that long. Weeks, not months, and certainly not years. Unacceptable in any circumstance
@cheezykrafts8134 she didn't just stop she was taken off. Most doctors aren't aware of how severe benzo withdrawal is because the pharmacy companies tell them it isn't
I have a glass of wine with my tea. Sleep like a log...makes me happy. We're all different.
Stopping this type of medication should ever be done abruptly. Was that truly recommended to you, or was that your choice? One should always be weaned off a benzodiazepine SLOWLY.
I’m 23 and was put on antidepressants 4 years ago during COVID to help with my depression. I just recently went off them and after watching this I’m so glad I did. It’s so sad how many peoples mental health are destroyed by the very medications that are “meant” to help them. I’m a pharmacy technician now and administer tons of antipsychotics, SSRIs, etc. every day. I wish more people could watch this video
@@niaholden2498 Thank you for sharing your story. Each shared experience gives more clarity for anyone reading it. You take care of yourself.
I'm 57 and finally got off every medication I was on. I'm healthier than ever!
How?
@@aminakhatun854 Please research Dr Ken Berry and Dr. Anthony Chaffee. I did my research with them and im off my high blood pressure medication and down 70lbs. Im so much more healthier now!
Good for you!
I'm 72 stopped taking the pain meds, anti depressants, anti inflammatory, etc 20 years ago. After a lifetime of pain. While I still get pain from arthritis diet helps a lot but not taking the medication has changed my depression and moods. Try it. No carbs, no milk, no coffee, no sugar..
Be careful. I was off my meds two years. Then had bad reccuring major depression. I will never do that again. I tried all natural. My brain needs meds
What's happening in the US? Fentanyl crisis, benzo crisis, medical bills resulting in bankruptcies, systemic homelessness...
It's not just the US.
War on humans
Yep, it's awful.
It is all of these old horrible, greed driven systems falling apart. We have a real opportunity here to do something different.
Our politicians are only worried about climate change!
I was prescribed an SSRI because I was withdrawn for a summer as a teenager. The SSRI made me irritable, which then led to a false diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder Type 2. I was then prescribed more drugs which kept me in a drug-induced haze which ruined 16 years of my life. Eventually, I discovered the book Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker and other critical psychiatry books and realized what was happening to me, so I slowly tapered off the psych drugs. I lost years of wages and a social life to these drugs. There has been no justice for what was done to me. Psychiatry and pharma are overdue for a reckoning.
BTW- I am off those drugs but it took years to be balanced.
My "drug" of choice is Faith in Jesus.
The Bible is amazing and you are in it.
People all over the world need to think outside the box- they own the box 📦.
Think outside of it.
Answers are all in the bible which talks about these drugs as "pharmeokea" or drugs and how they manipulate
I'm so sorry you went through that.
I have a very similar experience!
Me too. Doctors stole 25 years of my life with quetiapine due to false diagnosis of bipolar II caused by SSRI.
It took me 2,5 years of suffering tapering of quetiapine, but I made it.
I don't accuse the doctors though because they are brainwashed too to believe to the fraud of Big Pharma.
Wasn't that the guy in this video? Robert Whitaker?
Pain pill addiction, after a bad car wreck when i was 22, destroyed my life. I just recently at 38, got off benzos and pain pills. Honestly, for me, all i needed was God in my life. Ive been more emotionally and mentally stable in the last 6 months than ever before in my life.
Jenna, you have found the only cure, God. Welcome home sister!
This video needs to be seen by everyone going through medical school.
I agree!!!! 💯👍👍👍
Medical schools in USA are completely funded by pharmaceutical companies.
Problem is that medical schools likely get a lot of grant funding from big pharma. Doctors are trained drug dealers now, not patient advocates.
TH-cam is going to try to take this down for "false information."
Wait till u find out who builds and runs the med schools 😂 surprise surprise it’s big pharma
My father in law was on benzos for 18 years. 18 YEARS. Prescribed by the same psychiatrist. He attempted to come off of them at 75 years old. And lost his mind due to the withdrawals. 2 weeks after being released from the hospital for suicidal thoughts, he committed suicide. I 100% blame his psychiatrist.
Horrifying... I am so saddened reading this 😢❤
Yes, and the psychiatrist won't face any punishment for what he/she did to your FIL because he/she didn't break the law. Why not? Because there is no law to break, just how the Am Psych Assn wants the law to remain. It's a giant legal loophole that allows psychiatrists to avoid any kind of punishment for what they do to people. It's crazy and very sad.
I'm so sorry for your loss.
I fully understand the nightmare he lived in. I've been on them for about 25 years and my biggest fear is being cut off somehow and die that way.
@@annalieb2075 Anna, look into homeopathy as a way to taper off benzos safely. The DEA says, "Benzodiazepines are depressants that produce sedation and hypnosis, relieve anxiety and muscle spasms, and reduce seizures." There are homeopathic medicines that cure depression and anxiety + others that cure the cause of muscle spasms and seizures + others that are calming. My homeopath is Elaine Lewis, easy to find online. She cured my family member of "incurable" "bipolar with psychosis." I hope you'll read my other posts here on this thread.
I'm sorry that's what scares me coming off these drugs so sad sorry 🙏
As a nurse, i have seen patients check in for benzo withdrawal after years of use. This documentary is amazing and eye opening. Everyone should see this video
I've only been on lorazapam 7 weeks, but weaning down preparation of ECT is difficult. Soon as the lorazapam or gabipentin wears off, the depression comes back in force and my head aches!
@@djenkins555 lorazepam made my eyes blurry in one dose!
I lost my oldest daughter to suicide last year… on her good days she was vibrant, full of life and visions, energetic, smart, beautiful, caring and loving. But on her bad days she was like a zombie 😢. She was on multiple medications for mental health and NONE of them worked. I love you and miss you my Amazing Dez 🥺💔
I have no words to offer except I am so so sorry and I hope you find a way 💜 and good people along the way.
Hope you are doing OK after that horrible event. May she reat in peace
I’m so sorry for you😓 I’m sorry for your family and for your beautiful beautiful daughter…
You are in my prayers🙏🏼🤍🕊️
I hope you don’t mind me saying that….I truly believe, with all my heart, that your daughter is with our Heavenly Father..full of joy, love, happiness and pain free…I truly believe this.
God Bless you and you family🤍
Sincerely,
Sofia.
That’s tragic, You must be a strong woman to even be able to talk about it. America is a joke especially the medical side of it. Keep us sick and like there pockets off med profits. It’s a crying shame. Condolences for your loss I can’t even fathom that.
This is by far the largest crime against humanity. Pure evil
Funny thing is this is just the tip of the iceberg of what they really did intentionally to humanity. This is just one of MANY aspects of destruction they employed against us to turn a profit. Its to the point life isnt worth living.
Close - you can willingly choose not to use medications. The food industry however, systemic poisoning with chemicals and the elimination of bacteria from our food, aka ultra processed, which eliminates our gut flora from blooming with healthy bacteria as it should and always has, is the biggest crime against humanity.
I'm in this evil right now.
@@GymGuyJoe😹...yer! Difficult to run! from that double-edged! sword! with a point!... the food drives you to the pharmaceutical!... notice all the so called " what you need!! foodstuffs!" are heavily priced! out!!.. all the b.s! foodstuffs is cheap asf!
@@GymGuyJoeNot true. I've seen a lot of children forced into taking these drugs at a young age. As a child you have no choice. The parents do. And there are plenty of toxic parents that don't think twice about drugging up their children.
After loosing my mom suddenly. I realized that grief doesn’t go away. There’s no time line because love does not end. You learn to live well with it, but the “missing” will always be there.
I am sorry about your loss, have also been through it. Believing, trusting and preparing for heaven is the way to peace and re-union.
So true
Time to say no to big pharma
@@leanagonzalez467 Yep. I agree with you. It doesn’t.
Yeah I miss my mom everyday 😢
I'm a Nurse. Thank you for this documentary, it's so true.
Absolutely heart breaking
The Government and medical professionals have a lot to answer for.
I got serotonin syndrome with antidepressant, I had symptoms of a stroke and had to go cold turkey and it nearly killed me.
When my daughter was 16 she would get very depressed. I took her to a psychiatrist who put her on Zoloft. A week later I called the dr as my daughter lay on the couch sobbing uncontrollably for hours for no particular reason that she could tell me. The dr said to absolutely NOT to take her off the medication. As a concerned mother I used my own judgement and immediately stopped giving her the medication… what do ya know. The next day she was off the couch being a “normal” teenager.
Thank God!!! Good for you, using your God-given Mama's intuition!!! So glad for the good outcome, God bless you and her.
You got lucky. Suicidal thoughts are NOT something to be taken lightly. It worked out but shouldn't be told to everyone, because I nearly lost my wife when she went off her medicine. She is back on it and stable.
@@James-mr5kbJames thanks for staying by your wife big hugs to you both
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Did you pursue any other types of therapy?
As an RN from the "old school", I have always been wary of "new" drugs. Years ago an MD tried to prescribe a drug to lower cholesterol but I refused. I did my own experiment and could basically alter my test numbers with diet. 100 pts. up and down within r 2 weeks. Now I am an elder and just avoid doctors. Due to elder poverty, my diet has gone screwy and I feel lousy. But......the establishment will claim I need some drugs. No damn it...I just need to eat well and not be stressed by constant demands to comply with insane people's rules !!
I’m an RN and I know it’s a bit of hypocrisy in me but I do not go to the doctors at all unless absolutely necessary (ie, broken arm, accidents, etc). I’ve already witnessed what the health system is like. Doctors should only be there for major issues and everyone really should be taking care of their health on a daily basis via diet and exercise and building coping mechanism for stress to prevent chronic issues. Accidents we cannot control, and that is what medicine and doctors should be for. The rest, we can take care of at home living holistically. I’m pregnant with my first child and I will go to the doctor to get checkups but I will not participate in extra drugs or unnecessary procedures. It’s a shame that it has to come to that but I feel the current health system is too profit oriented to be safe
Very wise. My grandmother lived a healthy 94 years, on no medications; she always refused to go to the doctor unless she had a bone injury.
Similar thing here. Often homeless, warehouse jobs, but actually quite healthy for my age, and have been living with cancer with over a decade (I was diagnosed when still in my early 30s, it had spread but the mets were dormant and the cancerologist who seemed the most competent - I saw a few of them - suggested watchful waiting as there wasn't a 'treatment' available, i.e. a molecular target). Osteoarthritis and my eyesight are bigger bothers. I focus on eating well (ie. meat, fish and vegetables, cooking frojm scratch) and getting enough sleep (not that easy when you either sleep in fields or in dorms or in a tent at a camping site). With my existing conditions and my background, I could be on 2 dozens medications, would definitely have a thyroidectomy etc.
I wonder about the Princess of Wales who had surgery in January and has been 'focusing on her health' since then. Apparently she is having preventative chemotherapy now. What if she couldn't afford to stop working, like me?
Try intermittent fasting, not only will it improve your health it will also let you spend the money you save on the meals (plus snacking) you don't take, on quality food. And make your own fermented sauerkraut so give your gut a boost! Good luck!
CARNIVORE DIET HEALS, IT'S INCREDIBLE!!!!!!
I am a survivor of 17 years of treatment in the U.S. psychiatric system. Usual treatment was an SSRI, Lithium and a Benzo. For me it got to the point that the medicine was lowering my serotonin level and I was gonna die I felt. I have been free of the system for a couple of decades now and and doing much better. I do not drink alcohol or smoke tobacco anymore. I do use medical marijuana now and still drink coffee. I feel so much better now, I also quit eating highly/ultra processed foods and limit my added sugar intake to no more than 25 grams a day. Don't give up you can survive it!
Weed is a wonderful substance.
@@whitneyanders5945 Which makes sense when you think about it. A plant that has grown as long or longer than humans that has developed compounds that naturally affect how our bodies behave. Pharmaceutical companies are just trying to copy these types of things things for profit. Makes you wonder what other beneficial things that have been blocked. What natural medicinal remedies have been lost to time and human advancement. Unfortunately this also opens up the potential for scams and placebos.
Pot causes psych problems
@@whitneyanders5945 Not for everyone. I personally hate it. Makes me totally worthless. I've tried different kinds in different forms...horrible experience.
Thank you!! I've been on psych meds since 2007 and have found what you're saying to be true.
I’m a chronic pain doc. I truly believe that most doctors have good intentions.
We work with the resources we are giving and these are serious issues.
We do our best to
Drug companies hiding 14 week results should be liable for damages. Period
It is more than just the drug companies which should be liable for damages to be paid out.
Good luck with that because everyone who works in Washington praise the Pharm industry. It’s all about making money 💰
Then you should sue them. They have been sued before, and people won
I went to a psych doc and told him my problems. My problems were all coworker related. Never once did he suggest that I find a different job. Instead, he said the new hip and trendy thing is to take an "anti-depressant cocktail". I asked him what that was and he said that it was multiple anti-depressants taken at the same time. I knew in my gut that this was wrong, so I QUIT my job and found a new psych doc who ordered talk therapy twice per week.
Good for you! Thank you for sharing!
Wouldn't it have been better if you had gone to a psychologist?
As a CA chauffeur I often drove big pharma reps and once while waiting outside a Hotel I heard one senior rep tell a jr. rep that the GOAL is to prescribe one pill that requires another pill that requires another "We Call that a Cocktail, Sell as many of those as possible". These very same greedy salesmen really hit the lottery with the faulty wuhan vaccines raking in Billions with ZERO Accountability and FULL IMMUNITY.
Fauci Lied and Millions Died!
@@TheVafa95 I learned this real fast when a psychiatrist told me flat out that if you don't want any drugs I can't help you. Doctors get lobbied just like crooked politicians with great financial kickbacks and incentives.
@@PandaLife-lp8kn Or in our experience you have to see the drug guy BEFORE you can see the psychologist...
I'm so proud of that young black lady for standing up to that doctor. More of us need to do that.
Absolutely they stole our freedom
that doctor was absolutly clueless ... how embarrasing for him his patient knows far more than him, and sadly this is so common.
She was one person, trying to fight back against a billion dollar industry
there were young White lady's doing the same, why not mention them? or why even mention skin color unless you are a racisit?
I stopped wishing I was normal years ago. I was on a lot of mental health meds for years. I did stop cold turkey a few times. It took close to a week where I felt ok to go outside. I've been off of all those medications for close to 8 years now. For sleeplessness, anxiety, stomach issues, I now go to a medical marijuanna dispensary.
tough journey and you made it.
you did the right thing. i read Driving Soldiers Crazy on Psych Meds by Dr. Breggin and was able to help my veteran b.f. who was pressured to take meds and i saw side effects. I wish he had tried pot.
You are still taking drugs
I went to an NP just for a physical when I was 22. I had just gone through my first breakup and told her I felt depressed and anxious. I walked out after a 10 minute check up with a prescription for Ativan and Prozac. My dad found out within a week what I was taking and made me stop. So thankful that he did
Well you just can’t really quit SSRIs benzos can be as needed
Lucky you have a knowledgeable dad.
@@CountryCarReviewshe said he stopped after a week.
God bless your father.
A doc offered me anti depressant drugs after my brother died. I told him, "My brother just died, I'm SUPPOSED TO BE DEPRESSED!!!!"
This docu needs go VIRAL!!!!!! I am a nurse!!! I hear this all the time, I FEEL WORSE FROM THESE MEDS. 😮😮😮
Me too!! Absolutely!!
Why do you think it is that this documentary focuses on blaming the pharmaceutical companies vs. blaming the doctors who should know better?
Thank you for listening! Not many medical professionals do! They can also make you start having seizures too! They are dangerous!
I studied psychology and plan to go into clinical psychology which focuses on the counseling aspect. I wouldn't feel comfortable prescribing drugs to people when there's not enough research to back them up. My sister was going through a difficult break up and went to see a therapist, they immediately wanted to prescribe her medication for anxiety and depression, AFTER ONE APPOINTMENT. I immediately told her not to, I've been aware of the incredibly harmful side effects of these medications for years, thank you to my psychology professor.
The best doctor once said to me, "You are angry, and that is okay. If you were not sad or angry at this, you would not be okay". That was the best pill ever. He said it is not your fault and life has suffering.. Thank you Dr Ho in Queensland, Australia.
thanks for sharing that. It’s so important. Take care of yourself
@@ENDEVRDocs For when the case isn't in the DSM5. A doctor put me on Frisium because apparently they would take it for their medical exams..just wow.
My case was I was sad and angry when my life was going wonderfully. My problem tho was diet (like many, many others). None of the pills fixed it but when I got my diet and supplements straight it fixed itself. Many of us are experiencing chemical imbalances and malfunctioning due to toxic exposures and vit/mineral deficiencies.
@@crazyratlady3438 So true! Good to know that road was not for you with lithium etc being prescribed for imbalances of the brain when it is vitamin-related. There's a cool genetic test that tells you what is inherently deficient and what is environmental that can be changed.
one can argue that doctors who withhold medications that people need are negligent
My son was in 3rd grade when a cognitive behavioral psychologist said he has ADHD and suggested Vyvanse. I had to mix it in orange juice and call it his "wake up" drink. The nurse called me and told me and said my son was complaining of no taste buds and upset tummy! We change it to.. I can't remember what... and he had a complete loss of appetite and was a complete zombie! Of course schools want your children to be like "ducks in a row". My son doesn't roll like that.. so they wanted him on medication! I was HORRIFIED by what was happening to my little boy, my only child. I took him off all meds and let things fly. Come spring of 5th grade... I pulled him out to homeschool. Things have never been better!
Same thing teacher said about my son. I took him to specialist and asked some questions and then read about ADHD medicine and said no. Because when you give any medication to your kids when they are young then you are responsible for the consequences. ADHD is not a disease and can't be prove with any blood test. The symptom is based on behavioral diagnosis.
It's amazing how they program parents again especially in the land of the debt and not close to free US. They've convinced parents a healthy hyper 7 year old boy is now psychological issue. Unbelievable
@@Hazara26ADHD is most definitely a real desease. It doesn’t mean that everyone is diagnosed correctly, and medicine is overprescribed, but it’s still a real psychiatric disorder.
The same story with my son. I fought the whole idea but eventually succumbed to meds because they wouldn't let him go to school otherwise. I watched him get skinnier and sickler. Eventually took him out of public school but he ended up going into the judicial system. He's been fighting that his whole life. He and so many of his friends fell through the cracks and when they were 18 they were taken off their meds and so many of them searched for meth on the street to mimic the medication they couldn't get anymore. All the systems are so broken. We were all just guinea pigs used and served by a monetary based broken system
My mom did the same with my little brother in kindergarten. They wanted him on meds and she said no and home schooled him.
The thought just occurred to me. After I birthed my daughter, nearly died from infection, I went into a deep depression. They gave me zoloft, then I had a miscarriage on my daughter's 1st birthday.. then I spirled even deeper. Their solution was more medication.. I stopped taking it because it did nothing, and I was worried about becoming dependent on the medication and I was still numb and still had bad thoughts in my head. Bless my husband, he helped me heal, slowly but surely I came out of the depression. It was hard, but talking about my sadness and grief got me through the other side. My husband gave me a safe place to talk and heal. I dont think i could ever repay him for helping me the way NO ONE has ever done for me before. The more I talked about it, the better I became. Talking to someone who is your safe place will help you. Dont lose hope. God bless you all for sharing your story.
You can't fix grief with medication.
@silaslizzie43 No, it comes from within and takes practice and patience. Having a good support system helps, even if it's one or 2 people.
Postpartum depression is horrific. I had it too. I'm glad you made it out of that black hole. It's not easy.
So glad for you having the true support and partner, wishing you the best!
@@Gregal9307 thank you for that. I'm truly blessed and thankful.
This broke me so bad watching. I related to all of the military veterans as their story is also my story. I weened myself off of Effexor and I thought I was going crazy! Thought I was making it all up and overreacting. The brain zaps lasted for weekkkksssss, the fog was terrible, the mouth numbness was unbearable. But I did it. And I’m never going back! When I told my physiatrist that’s I wanted to come off, she just gave me a dead look in the face. Then when I told her I weened myself off and how bad it felt, I was presented with another death stare.
She then put me on Zoloft. I took it three times and never did again. I actually have my follow up appointment with her on Thursday to “see how things are going” with the Zoloft. And I’m going to tell her to shove it!
This entire documentary made me so sad and also so seen.
Thank you for that ❤
I can totally relate. I had to dig deep to come off antidepressants. It took at least three attempts, and each time the brain zaps, lethargy and nausea was so bad that I gave up and kept taking the medication
I finally managed to cope with the intense withdrawal and free myself from antidepressant dependency - and I'm so happy to no longer be taking a medication for the wrong reasons
I see you young man. Bravo ❤ You have done great things already and sit in the chair and gloat at her death stair and when she stands up to usher you out - you just sit and smile and ask her how is she doing with big smile 😂 put your hands behind your head, open your body language and wait for answe
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Good on you, i ween myself of Effexor too. Took me 8 month doing slowly but I will never go on antdepressant ever
I am in U.K., when I decided to stop taking equivalent medication, I didn’t inform the practise, I just stopped taking them and threw them away. It seems you can’t really get any sense out of these drs as this is how they make their money. I am not recommending this for PTSD as I have no knowledge of this. Bless you and take care. ❤️
She shouldn't get any more of your money. I wouldn't ever see that person agin.
A psychiatrist single handedly ruined my future when I was just 12. I am 33 now. I wonder how I would have turned out if I was never taken to that doctor. It is too painful to think about.
I hope you are able to pivot towards a new life of your choosing. There is so much living ahead. All the best to you.
I'm sorry you went through that, I can say the same😢 i was prescribed Klonopin at 13, im 32 now. I finally just got sober not long ago.
@@venusflyy1689 13???? Absolute crime. Unconscionable.
Same here. 11 years old and meds after 2 visits. I want her to know she ruined my life.
What meds did you take?
I’m a nurse and went down the rabbit hole with my eldest son when he complained of being “in a funk” at age 19…. 1st was Paxil and within 6 years he was being rx’d Seroquel, zyprexa, Ativan, Valium, geodon to name a few…. It took us almost 5 years to effectively wean him off all of it. I have always felt guilty for even suggesting that he talk to his doctor about any of it. He now finally has a calm, productive life with no meds (or mental illness) but feels robbed of over a dozen years due to the greed of the pharmaceutical co and the sheep of a doctor that just kept blindly prescribing
so sorry for what you and your son went thru, I lost 42 yrs of my life to overprescribing doctor both medical and psychiatric. I lost over 50lbs got off ALL meds and reversed or cured all the different "diseases" they told me I had (some of which I never had) Now drs are scared of me, because I've proved that you can get healthy, that you can heal, and all it took was a good diet, some fresh air and exercise (just walking!) and staying as far away from drs as humanly possible!! unless you break your arm or something like that, I mean. I am grateful that I was able to see my way clear of their nonsense before my life was over, and now I am trying to cram as much joy into each day as I possibly can.
Glad it's working out for ur son. He sounds just like me when I was his age. I'm 52 now. I also kicked Depressions butt for yrs on end and thought that was that. Or so I thought. After being married and having kids it came back and with a vengeance. And for no reason at all. It just came back. It destroyed my marriage and the beautiful life I had do to the loss of my job. Wat I'm saying is that darkness will always b with u. It will leave u alone for yrs on end and come out whenever it wants. Hope that never happens to ur son.
There's a reason why they take the hippocratic oath, do no harm. You should have been able to trust a doctor. God bless, and don't live in guilt, it helps no one.
Srs also get high kick backs from big pharma. This should be Controlled ! But isn't in the U S!! 😮😮
97% of all health problems can be cured through a proper all Natural Diet. Quit all processed foods, especially Sugar, and go on Keto and you will feel the difference! All my Depression and Anxiety was gone when I changed my diet.
RIP my sweet mother. She was prescribed combos of different psychotropic meds, cholesterol, blood pressure, antidepressants, opioids, restless legs syndrome, benzodiazepines.😢 I miss you Jane with all my heart and soul.
@@AngelaMcDermott-p7n I’m sorry 😞
Shame on American medical system. So many lives are lost because of them
It's not just America. It's in Australia too
The withdrawal effect is mind altering
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Its them AND our own government. FDA.
@@ruthbarnes9999And Canada.
At 16 was the first time my doctor tried to put me on antidepressants. I was not depressed. Just normal teenage emotions. She tried over the years to get me on them then finally snuck ant iaxiety meds on me for endometriosis pain. I noticed they didnt help my condition but helped me to sleep better, so I looked up what the med treated and it was anxiety. I immediately stopped taking it. And my doc was mad. I am my own doctor now. These doctors work for the big pharm not the well being of the patient. Sad times.
Please don't encourage other people to just jump off of anti anxiety meds. You do know withdrawls cause seizure and death? I'm telling you from personal experience. 100% bet you were not on any benzos for over 2 weeks or you would not irresponsibly and callously be telling people to just jump off , you might as well tell them to jump off a bridge. Granted, your experience is nowhere as deep as mine, on them for a decade and needing extensive medical detox and machines breathing for me, but yea, not cute .
@@anonymousalias8111they didn’t tell anyone to go off their meds, they just gave their own story and experience.
@anonymousalias8111 where was instruction given to others? The comment I read stated personal experience and actions, and did not advise any other person.
@@anonymousalias8111 no where did she say to 'jump off!' she or he was stating their experience that's all.
medicines are made from plants and food is from plants too.choose medicines that are plantbased and avoid chemicalbased ones.
My Mom was on antidepressants and anti psychotic drugs for depression since the 1970s. She was never really present. She seemed distant, numb, and bereft of any emotion. I vowed never to alter my own feelings by taking such pills. I want to fully experience life’s ups and downs. As a nurse, I witnessed the effects of poly pharmacy on a daily basis. Taking 30 pills a day was routine for many elderly assisted living residents. Many of these drugs were antidepressants. Falls were quite frequent and prevalent, and the negative outcomes became an endless cycle of decline. Wine was served at meals, and this only enhanced the problem. Ethically, I could no longer participate in such a dangerous mode of operation. I have recently left the profession. It was sick care, not healthcare.
Thank you for sharing this information with us! God bless you.
There is responsible taking if meds . They do help . When abused stupidly ..of course they don't. Some people have problems of health that require as needed. Addicts ruin this for they who actually know how to take only as needed for physical problems. !! Not right !
@@suzyj.3389Please stop trolling and follow your advice & comment responsibly. You are a reprehensible person.
@@suzyj.3389Hmmm, as if addiction doesn't result from extreme powerlessness against it due to extreme abuse on them. Tell people to stop abusing... that'll solve the addiction problem.
@@suzyj.3389Why don't you ask for responsible behavior of no wars, abuse, land hoarding by the few, grape, etc....nip all these problems in the bud.
Our country keeps us stressed, depressed and in "need" of medication
This is true
Got off Adderall back in September after 18 years of being on it. Best decision I have ever made, it has taken a lot of therapy and work to rewire my brain and get over the anxiety.
I've been on 90 mg a day for 24 years and would love to quit, but every time I try I literally cannot get out of bed. Or if I try to taper off I wreck my car.
I got off it. But I am still having difficulty after 5yrs. I think does long term damage and hopefully time and natural methods will eventually help
I was on 10mgs of Ritalin for a few months but luckily couldn't quit Delta 8, so my shrink wouldn't prescribe it anymore. It was helpful but after just a few months, I was ready to increase the dose. That was alarming to me & I didn't want to get hooked on a controlled substance with such a low tolerance.
May I ask what methods you used to reside your brain? I’m doing my best to stay off Adderall. Thank you!!
I've been off ritalin for 2 years also after getting it prescribed for 25 years
A psych yelled at me when I told him I was going off meds. He told me all sorts of terrible things would happen.
They didn't. I did it slowly and carefully. I'm fine.
Find a doctor who will work with you as an informed patient choosing not to consent to meds. I've had good luck with osteopaths but your mileage may vary.
Zinc and vitm d minerals magnesium is the best thing for mental health
I just counted the grains in each capsule and slowly decreased until I was off. Then I told my doc what I had done. He just looked at me silently a bit and said, "good for you. You weaned yourself off intelligently."
It's very important to be able to separate my feelings from reality.
If I wake up feeling down, I step back and tell myself out loud, "My feelings are not the truth." And this helps me choose what to think... which changes my mood!
@@pollyjetix2027 Thank you for your comment!
This is an excellent way to help oneself. Eckhart Tolle books are centered around this philosophy. Highly recommended them all! Start with ‘The Power of Now’!
My mother in-law couldn't fall asleep because of some short-term stress. Her doctor prescribed her some meds, at the beginning it seems helps. However, after a couple weeks, she deteriorating in front of our eyes almost become a different person, dysfunction, no one knows what happened. Everyone thought the stress caused it.
I observed the situation, thinking the only thing changed was she start the meds. The stress only results her couldn't sleep, not other things. I googled the side affects and read it out to her. We were surprised that everything she experienced was the side affects. She got off the meds and became normal again. Thanks to God that I find it out only after a few weeks that she tooks the meds.
Exactly what happened to my Mom. Thank goodness I also found out what she was taking and got her off them. Now she’s back to her normal self.
Bravo; you did the right thing; yes these meds are powerful; results are unpredictable and there are so many risks associated with them. God bless you and your family!
It took me a little over a year to taper off of, and finally stop taking the 9 prescription medications i wss on after putting myself through rehab for alcoholism at 33. I was on the meds for just under 4 years. At 39 years old i remember the day that a close friend noted that i seemed so NORMAL now that i had gotten off the meds. Then realizing that between 10 years of alcoholism and the years of pharmaceutical oppression that i no longer knew what that meant. Thats why it had to be pointed out to me. Im 45 now and i still choke back tears when recalling this. Ive been sober ever since, save for a half dozen ibuprofen last year after having a tooth pulled, ha. You can get help. Ask. You can get better. You can get clean. You are loved.
During the covid 19 lockdown had a $22,000 debt, lost a job. I stopped making payments, interest was adding up daily, banks were calling. I couldn't sleep for days. I talked to my grandparents, they gave me some financial advice and a $15,000 check. After i put that check in the bank i slept 😴😴. Debt can kill you 🥺
So true. The worst of my chronic stress ended when i received an inheritance.
@@Jgp4xzdmqnmil congratulations 🎉
Living pay check to pay check can easily cause depression.
When you have financial issues living paycheque to paycheque you are always in survival mode. That is a very stressful way to live you are always thinking how you will cover everything and Lord help you if something unforeseen happens.
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This is real. I’ve felt it before and thank goodness I overcame it.
Watching this... All I can think about is my mother. She physically passed away in 2021. She suffered with depression for as long as I can remember, and in 2014 it really reached a peak. She took many many many medications, and everything described in this documentary is her life. It was tragic to see her deteriorate, to see her disconnect from us emotionally, physically, in every way. She was a shell of the person I knew as a child. I mourned her loss before she was actually gone. What a sad thing to say, but it's true. She died long before her body died. I miss her.
I'm so sorry.May her memory be a solace for you and may God Ease the pain of loss. My condolences to you and your family.
Yes: my mother blessed giving me opportunityto mourn her loss decades before she died. I didn't even cry when her body died as I had already shed all of the tears by then.
Wow that's so heartbreaking. I can't imagine how lonely she felt wanting to connect with y'all but being unable due to medication effects.
Oh dear friend I lost someone who was pressured into taken a whole slew of meds over some twenty years; one feels so helpless and I wish now too late of course that I had known more about what he was enduring from being addicted to medications. I was sympathetic at least but had I known more on the subject I might have been able to do more for him. I think it is the doctors responsibility to check things out before prescribing; I have seen errors; even though I am not a professional the information is easily found on the net; published warnings as to which combinations to avoid and so on.
that is the same for Alzheimer's...the person u knew is gone , you have already processed their spirit passing on even though they are still alive , so when they do actually die the grief can be absent ...
I'm 70 and I don't take any drugs. I eat mostly non-processed foods, take regular long walks, and keep a careful eye on what seemingly innocuous habits are doing to my health.
This is the solution..
I am a married woman and i remembered my son played a prank in junior kindergarten… he crawled under the teacher’s table and tied her shoe laces together and she was so upset and asked who did this and because my son wanted to take recognition for his atrocity he claimed it in the most joyous I must say and proud way. Having said that the teacher called me in for a meeting and said that something is wrong with him and she will recommend that he should be put on ADHD MEDS… if I didn’t stand up for my kid that moment my son would’ve been a statistic right now. He ended up graduating high school with honours he graduated college as a certified electrician and working every day now and a productive human being. Most respectful young man I’ve ever seen!
@@kck7238 Good for you. Imagine not being able to see a prank for what it is. If she had that response she had no business being a kindergarten teacher. Seriously. That is unbelievable. And congrats to you and your son. :)
Thank you much🙏
I agree with a lot of this, however, my husband is bipolar and without medication he becomes completely psychotic and manic. Please just understand there are people who absolutely need these meds and will be on them for life. I would hate for people to take from this that all meds are bad. The stories I'm hearing are people who are not under the care of good psychiatrists. No lorazepam or any benzodiazepine ( - apams) should be given as anything more than temporary assistance. I firmly belueve they shouldn't be prescribed as take home meds or, if done so, are given only a small amount, like the pain pills you get post surgery.
Also, medications for heart, diabetes or even mental illnesses are only part of the fix. You need to fix the problem, lose weight, eat healthier, exercise, go to therapy or whatever other treatments. Medications are a supplemental therapy. The fact that these doctors treat them like the ultimate fix is a problem. The best psychiatrist I had was one who used to be a psychiatrist/therapist and who was a big promoter of cognitive therapy. He actually listened. It's surprising how many of them do not listen.
Yes, and seeing Dave and how he treats his wife… it reminds me of someone who is truly severely mentally ill and needed psychiatric care. I hope she leaves him, he needs true help and she’s not able to help him without mediation or doctors. He will just end up killing them both.
Well said and I agree. Antidepressants have been life saving for me and all of my doctors have refused to prescribe me benzos whenever I asked which I resented at the time but I'm now thankful in retrospect.
@@rainaa1997I wonder if Dave has autism or antisocial personality disorder. He said that he doesn't feel anything, he doesn't feel any love for his wife or his dog or anyone or anything... He does not have empathy. I don't know how it would be possible to have a relationship with someone who doesn't have empathy.
Not gonna really protect Dave, but we don’t have a baseline of him prior to the medicine. I would assume that there is no clear answer. I would not armchair your way through something. Some people have shown benzo withdrawals that last years. Marriage is about support and trying. If Dave’s wife struggled and had a boundary, that’s here right but I don’t think Dave has problems now that existed prior to psychiatric medicine
Seconding this as the bipolar (and then some!) one - medicine has given me my life and my stability back.
The worst thing about medication creep is that it hurts people who don't need these drugs, like in this documentary, and it further stigmatizes and condemns therapeutic uses for people in real need.
This is a very important documentary. Think of all the people we see on the street or in a tough spot in their lives and how society dismisses them as being addicts.
It's never talked about how some of those people have their lives fall apart because of something their doctor prescribed them and that they have taken as prescribed.
They were once happy high functioning people and their only "mistake" was trusting a doctor.
Or losing a job and not being able to keep up with their rent and so they become homeless . That happened to my mom she was working in the medical field and we became homeless together and slept in her car I was a teenager in highschool
To add neither one of us smoke cigarettes nor weed , nor drinks beer nor liquor we don’t even take drinks period 🍹)substances of any sort had absolutely nothing to do with us becoming homeless
Yes shocking to shocking
I work in healthcare and sometimes I’m even shocked at the amount of meds people are on.
I'm shocked it hasn't been a historical standoff situation at a top rated hospital in America. Breaking News: what are they demanding.
Il never use any.
This is the most heart-wrenching documentary I have ever watched. I pushed through, even though I wanted to jump to another, more pleasant video. I cannot understand why doctors we look up to for advice, care and expertise, could do this to people.
Money.
Listen. I am a therapist and I think everyone needs to watch this. I am often sad for the amount of young people that I have to tell on a daily basis that they are not broken, they’re having a natural response to a traumatic, oppressive experience. There are indigenous & clinical practices that can be used to help people heal. Talk Therapy works. But insurance companies will back those of us who resist in a corner!
so sad that our society sends people to 'therapy' for normal responses to traumatic, oppressive experience. In my mind this is kinda complicit with the problem in that it infers the response is problematic without actually addressing the original harm or harmer. People by and large are very capable of processing trauma and oppression except that systemic harm compounds it with injustice and complicity. More healthy community. Less Therapy. Less trauma trade
I have a psychiatrist and a cognitive behavioral therapist. I’ve been on Klonopin and Effexor and Quetiapine for about 10 years now. My life has normalized and I enjoy it. I now have resiliency and the ability to face difficult situations… I laugh and cry and love my family. Before I was medicated I was a nervous, anxiety crippled and erratic person. I became suicidal whenever I felt trapped and other life ruining emotions and behaviors. I am happy and healthy and engaged with life… no cognitive decline…just completed another BSc ( Cum laude…an A in every class and every test.
Not all benzos and psych meds are a horror story.
try getting off those things, but please do it carefully. then come back and tell us how harmless those drugs are @@janeharris5568
@@janeharris5568Glad it’s working for you. I hope it continues to. Unfortunately, this is not the story for many people.
@@janeharris5568 sincere congratulations on your achievements and success. Now that you are happy and healthy and engaged with life, I am wondering what purpose the ongoing input of a psychiatrist, cognitive behavioural therapist and medications serve for you? Do you regard these inputs as integral to your ongoing wellbeing? Clearly you are grateful to the change they made to your life before and after. And kudos to you for still opening yourself to the unsettling stories of others who have not fared at all well. Benzos and psych meds have not been a horror story for you and I hope they never are. If you ever decide you are resilient enough and wanting to live life without them, please be very careful to taper slowly (hyperbolic taper).
As someone with a Bsc it's possible you will understand the ways in which their use undermines, if not devastates, normal homeostatic regulation of gaba and glutamate - one of the reasons why withdrawal transforms into a living nightmare. It takes time for the body to learn to compensate for and repair the damage caused by these meds, which is often only revealed when they are taken away.
Klonopin is a benzodiazepine. In 2020 the USA FDA updated the black box warning for benzos with regards to what the dangers of what they mislabel as 'addiction' as well as dangerous withdrawal symptoms: "In order to prevent dependence on benzodizepines, health care providers are advised to limit a prescription to 1-2 week supply".
Do you think it is fair for people who are taken medications as prescribed to be labelled as "addicts"?
How do you feel about your psychiatrist/prescriber continuing to prescribe drugs to you in a way that dispels the black box warning?
Yes Benzos and psych drugs are not always a horror story. Until they become one. Hopefully that will not be your story. And you can continue to celebrate your success.
Two years ago, I was on an anti-depressant, an anti-psychotic, Ritalin, a beta blocker and high blood pressure medicine. A year ago, I started to slowly reduce the dosage of the SSRI and the Ritalin and I am now off of them. I stopped the beta blocker recently. Its slow going but I'm getting there. I'm 53 and will be off all medication soon. I am doing this without telling my doctor. It has been a decision between my husband and I only. I feel much better already.
Well done!
Are you bipolar or something? Because that can be dangerous
Health is wealth. It is wonderful that your husband is an advocate for better health. Nutrition and exercise help a lot. Best to you.
Another thing that can help is keto and/or carnivore. Changed my life
@@teddibear1850please, this is NOT for everyone! A good friend is still having negative effects from keto! Months after stopping. Terrible muscle/connective tissue pain. Diets too high in animal fat and protein is not healthy and adds visceral fat to your internal system. Proceed with caution. Humans are omnivorous. Cats are carnivorous.
Amazing documentary with heartbreaking testimonies of which mine could have been one. My story of anorexia, erythromelalgia and doctors giving up on me proposing medical assisted dying when I reached the age of 41. No support from my family, I lost everything, job, house, friends and almost my life. Overmedicated, oxycodon, carbermazerpine, gabapentine, and so on... I threw everything away and stopped eating and drinking. Believe it or not, but there is where God saved me. At 45 kg, 1m82, 41 year old woman, fasted for over 20 days and... started to feel better!! I searched on the internet with what to refeed. Red meat. Yes, I became OMAD carnivore and now 4 years into my healing journey, I am writing my autobiography to raise awareness and... I met a supportive partner with whom I have the best relationship ever!! God is good 🙏❤ So grateful!
God is not a dead white man!
That is an awesome story that would be good to tell.
Good for you, this is awesome, Karine!!! CARNIVORE SAVES AND HEALS!!! Been on it 2 years myself and been healed of several things, also lost 55 pounds effortlessly, wasn't even trying to lose weight!
@@repentjesusiscomingsoon1529 carnivore for me made me gain weight, from 45kg to 60kg! (1m82) so it helps find the "healthy weight" of each individual!! Indeed!! My proportions changed as well, stomach no longer bloated and I developed breasts and buttocks. All the fat on the right places!
Wonderful! Great job and I'm so glad you are here with us.
Wow, this is THE best doc I’ve seen. It’s unbelievable that a person can still have withdrawal symptoms after so many years. So sad. Thank you so much for this. I’m on cymbalta and on soma (for my muscle spasms) I will be asking my doctor about weaning me off.
@@nilsanarvaez7947 Let us know how it goes. This thread is here to share how it’s going :)
@@ENDEVRDocs I will! Thank you!
I lost 3 members of my immediate family tragically and suddenly. I was on meds for 42 years. Bipolar meds, sleeping pills, omeprazole, 4 B.P. pills, 6-9 pynstop per day, prozac. I had everything wrong with me you can think of. Cancer, hiatus hernia, excema, depression, migraines, arthritis, CONSTANT bladder infections, an ulcer, growth in my bowel, 2 back operations....
The crunch came when i fell and my vertebra slipped 10.8mm. My physiotherapist put me on a health diet, deep breathing, cold showers and exercise. I'm off ALL meds and never felt better. I'm 70 and my 45 year old son said i remind him of his mother when he was a young teenager. I have had no need for one drug and havent had one bladder infection for 2.5 years.
Thank the Lord you got off of them and are healthier now 😭❤️
Sorry to hear,, stay strong 🙏
Today is the 8th day without any depression medication. And I haven't felt so alive in a year and a half. And I went to the gym today 😊. Hope it continues.
Excellent....keep going
I wish you all the best
Keep up with the gym! That certainly helps me keep my mood stable and makes me more resilient. Good luck to you!
@@K-yp8tb thank you! ❤️
@@CH-in8dm thank you 😊
may you be well forever!
"I can label you with something that you can never overcome".
So many psychiatrists and psychologists should be aware about this, and they don't.
Around 30 years ago I asked my psychologist "What do I have?". She explained that she didn't think it was right to give me any diagnosis because it wouldn't be of any help for me. And I overcame whatever I was going through back then and went on with my life. I went to therapy when I felt I needed it. I believed in it.
4 years ago I was having my midlife crisis and I went back. They diagnosed me with bipolar II, prescribed me Zoloft and made me feel so sick, so sad, so unable to get out of that hole I was in, it was so scary. I almost lost my life and my family in the process. I just thank God I could come out without loosing more than those years of my life and I don't have long lasting effects of the treatment.
I think that they don't teach them in school anymore about the dangers of their professions.
And how quickly they find a medical label for your feelings nowadays so they can medicate you for life. A win situation for Big Pharma, which is all they wanted.
She meant that in the context of the Armed Forces. It does not apply to civilians.
I'm sorry, but a psychiatrist couldn't prescribe you Zoloft if you're bipolar. It's forbidden by their protocols.
@@xxxxxxxyyyyyyy huh? It is not. What protocol forbids it? It can trigger mania in some people but there is no law preventing someone diagnosed with bipolar disorder to take zoloft. Some people take it with a mood stabilizer. And what is your point anyway? The doctor talking in this video is not a prescriber, she's a psychologist.
It's weird that they always prescribed people with a midlife crisis as bipolar. I took psychology classes for a bit because I thought that was the route I wanted to take and all you learn is different diagnosis all day long. It's no longer about understanding the human mind and humans think and work.
"PHARMA should be avoided at all costs"
NOT ALWAYS SO EASY
@@JoSeph-yp5mb Yeah, it actually is. Minus in the tap water. A filtration system is required now unfortunately it is sad.
@@megan_goodvibesonly I LIVE WITH MY THAI FAMILY OUT NEAR THE JUNGLE, WRE LUCKY TO AFFORD WATER . A FILTRATION SYSTEM OUT THE QUESTION
@@JoSeph-yp5mb It is for most even myself. I am just stating facts. It is unfortunate most can't.
@@JoSeph-yp5mb Yeah okay, keep telling yourself that.
This is, hands-down, the most fair and comprehensive doc on this subject I have ever seen. You found such articulate and educated people to share their stories. Angie is going to be a great help to other people. Not anti-med, just INFORMED. I think that's peak wisdom.