0:00 Getting into it 5:11 Growing up in LA 11:36 Clubbing 12:34 Finding stand-up 14:49 Psych ward story 51:30 Weed is all we need 55:39 Exercising regularly 56:29 Specialized education 59:12 Adderall not needed 1:01:28 Psych ward roommates 1:05:00 Twitching girlfriend
Great episode. It’s true, many never think they’d be caught up in a psych ward. From the trauma of toxic relationships to drug abuse, staying grounded and balanced is key. I hope everyone is taking time during this storm we’re all battling to be well. ❤️
I don’t get why people say this one is bad, some women yeah I get haha, and I’m a woman myself - but Shenk is good honestly, she just sounds nervous not as bad as the comments make it sound sheesh
@@cady__ She's not as bad as some of the comments make it out to be, but she like says like every like ten seconds and like it gets like really annoying like really like fast.
I was sure I was not the only one noticing...12 minutes in and almost cant stand it...but she takes it off when gets excited telling a story...but then brings it doooown again to the vocal fry shit...
Fuck yeah Sarah! ❤️ I had a short stint on Adderal as well. And I was in a psych ward for three days too. I had crazy audio and visual hallucinations that drugs could never produce. They were astoundingly real. And I was sort of dissociated for months afterward, but eventually I came back :) This was many years ago now.
8 years. Dozens of withdrawl periods... Not a fun withdrawl but id take it 100x over having to quit smoking cigs again.That was harder to quit than snow. Never knew anyone who had a reaction like you and sara tho. Think that was more lack of sleep? Idk (I would take 30mg before bed so i understand i am not "normal" and each case is dif)
Effexor gave me "brain zaps" when I was trying to get off, I ended up taking prozac for a week until the zaps subsided. I think Paxil is the same. Very scary! Now I try to push my way through the depression/anxiety- can't stand the way SSRIs make me feel.
@@RolandSpecialSauce be kind. If she's not your cup of tea, just skip this episode. None of us know her personally, I don't have it in me to get on a podcast and share my most vulnerable moments with a bunch of strangers.
One minor mental breakdown doesn't really make you a crazy person.....if I had a dime for every time I spent a few days wearing a paper suit.....well I wouldn't be rich, but it's not that Uncommon for fairly normal people to end up in the ward for a few nights.
People really overuse and moreover misuse this phrase "prescribed meth" to prescribe Adderall. I obviously understand the intention, but the problem is that there IS such a thing as legal prescription methamphetamine. It's under the brand name Desoxyn in the US. On the other hand, Adderall is literally a "prescription amphetamine"; and figuratively, the phrase matches the intended connotation. It's a minor nuance, but still... The last thing I'll add is that stimulants are fortunately really easy to get off of in cases when an addict is removed from society and forced into an intervention until the psychosis subsides. Unless there are other factors at play such as length of time of use, and lack of genetic heritability of chronic psychotic illnesses. Relatively speaking, Adderall not hard to detox from at all, especially with the help of antidepressants and anxiolytics and z-drugs with a dedicated confined space for medical observation and monitoring free of societal influence and responsibility and judgment or other feedback. Addicts tend to get obsessive trying to figure out when the psychological neurochemical discomforts of the detox phase will end. But luckily, all these forces are essentially completely free of any and all physical dependencies. Sara may have perceived this change as hard in the moment, because her regular access to neurotransmitters like serotonin, norepinephrine, dopamine, and GABA were interrupted from their regular equilibrium, and temporarily miscalibrated under the influence of the Adderall habit. But since she was free of overdoses, the aforementioned possibility of heritable illness and insomnia, her condition was easily temporary and required no phase of transition in stimulant levels to renew homeostatic equilibrium. Furthermore, her psychosis was short in proportion with her dosage levels, frequencies, and overall duration of use. Point being, if the doses are high enough, for long enough, the brain begins to use its neuroplasticity to adapt the nervous system as best as possible to the presence of these extra chemicals in the system. The Central Nervous System "learns" over time to adjust its behavior in response to the consequences of the repetitious onslaught of these stimulants, specifically to say "Hey - let's stop the endogenous manufacturing of native chemical resources to maintain the regular systemic construction of the main neurotransmitters mentioned earlier, and instead optimize metabolism by allowing the Adderall to work with these chemical channels and optimize the framework of voltage gated ionic channels to activate the access to protein pumps and carbolic sugars faster, and replace the native focus on the background neurotransmitters to the rapid emergence of access to greater proportions of glucocorticoids and digestive enzymes that intensely free these resources from the body, tapping into faster metabolic process than is possible using normal thyroidal feedback loops to establish a fundamental baseline of communication and survival and replicative cellular processes. All these functions, including but not limited to metabolism, digestive traction, the nervous system, musculoskeletal system, cell reproduction and termination, the endocrine system, the Krebs Cycle, Respiration, and to a more limited extent the Circulatory System, all develop these new fundamentally unfounded expectations of free fuel through the drugs that satisfy the body's potential for stimulation to a wild new level, and cannot recalibrate sleep wave cycles quickly or accurately enough to adapt to the drugs as a source of nutrition. So your body has to learn over time that it sucks that it's junk, but at least not opiate or tranquilizer "junk" that can easily kill you and destroy necessary vital processes. Methamphetamine is neurotoxic, and combined with sleep deprivation long-term can turn your brain into sludge. But amphetamines as a drug class are overall very benign and pose little threat to actual life.
When you’re in psychosis you’re not in your right mind , you aren’t cognizant enough to realize how erratic you’re acting /feeling until you’re on the other side. I only know this bc I was stalked and drugged with meth without my knowledge for awhile and was in a constant psychosis snd it wasn’t until my friend took me out of town and the drugs got out of my system that I was able to realize how erratic it had been.
Like, I made it like 13 or 14 minutes. Like, I’m sure she’s like a cool, like girl nstuff, and all but like, this was like the, worst episode, like ever.
Sounds like SNRI withdrawal. 1:05:00 Definitely not a type of drug you want to stop cold turkey ( in my experience with venlafaxine/Effexor at least, yikes!)
I really wish I wasn't so bothered by the upspeak, or that I wasn't counting the likes in my head. I dont like to miss out on Sickle Cells humor and his laugh but I can't finish this one
Sara's voice/delivery is the equivalent of severe constipation or how your car feels when you drive it with the emergency brake on. A judge described her delivery as "dumb" on killtony once. She is as vapid and narcissistic as there is.
just to be clear i quit focalin cold turkey and didn't experience what she did at all. i also did not quit zoloft properly and it was a little weird but nothing like this. everyones' brains are wired differently
Giving heavy meds to kids has never seemed like a good idea to me. It seems like it might have more to do with Big Pharma marketing than proper medical protocol.
