Laura Delano on Overcoming Labels and Facing Painful Emotions 

I honestly don’t think I can trust a single doctor ever again after 21 years of being harmed by them. I’m housebound and 4 years into this taper. The whole thing was a lie. Having to process the trauma of all the pills forced down your throat whilst learning you were never mentally ill to begin with. I just don’t know how to do that anymore. I’m happy to see you’re posting again. Speak the truth of what happened to you. It will save others.

It’s so great to see you back on RU-vid. My story is similar to yours, and your 5 videos gave me strength and hope during my withdrawal. I watched them many times. I’ve now made a good recovery, and I am learning how to live again. Thank you for this sixth video - you give so many people hope. ✅

I love the subtleties of each light coming on in the background as she reveals her own stages of enlightenment and her journey out of the abyss of misdiagnosing the human experience. Incredibly powerful!! I just discovered her and am so very grateful for her sharing her hope and experience with others. ♥️

5 years on Seroquel (100 mg/day). I have been drug-free for 3 years and still have muscle twitching, poor balance and motor control and insomnia. I think this posion has damaged me for life, there is no hope. There is not much difference between surgical lobotomy and antipsychotic drugs.

Thank you 🙏

Máte neskutečný posun k lepšímu, ve vzhledu, vystupování. Přijde mi jakoby vám Bůh požehnal. Dáváte lidem naději se uzdravit z psychiatrických drog. Díky 👍

Thank you for posting this powerful new video. How well are you coping emotionally without medication? I am currently withdrawing slowly from Saphris (down to 4.5mg at present) by splitting and weighing wafers and will then taper off clomipramine with a compounded solution. I believe some permanent damage has been done from both 18 years on psychotropic medications and ECT.

THANK YOU.

Thanks to Robert Whitaker, Daniel Mackler, Peter Breggin and you, I am drugs free. For 10 years now. I was getting crazy moods and acatysia on SSRI, for which I was treated with neuroleptics and mood stabilizers. I took 4 drugs at the end. Finally I decided to stop this shit. I found psychiatrist who helped me to taper off. At the end I did it mostly myself. Very slowly, gradually, as is reccomended. Thanks for sharing your story and hope.

I lost over 40 years of my life to being mislabelled and drugged. Now finally off all psych meds, I have a real life with real feelings. I struggle with the loss of all those years but I refuse to lose any more time to bitterness and anger. I try to focus on today.

Sounds just like what happened to me.Psych drugs took me from a little depression about my marriage,to a mental wreck who cut herself/manic and stayed even more depressed and suicidal.those very drugs were what was keeping me worse.I never had anything wrong with me and they should have taught me coping skills instead of pills and misdiagnoses .Worst thing is to think something is wrong with us for life when all we had was normal human emotions!

Thank you SO much Laura! I cried tears of joy when I read your articles and found your channel. I felt so scared and alone when psychiatry failed to “cure” me. Finally after exactly 14 years (teens-30’s) I am relearning how to be a human being with emotions. It is scary and difficult to get out of the habit of labelling myself with a mental disorder. It was terrifying to hear from my shrink of 14 years that my depression and anxiety are “treatment resistant” because I could no longer handle the debilitating drug side effects. I am slowly coming out of it and seeing that I am more than a pill popping depressive- I am human being with ups and downs that dont’ need to be labelled and covered up but rather experienced and learned from. I am 100% drug free and everyday I am getting stronger. Thank you or all that you do, I really look forward to more content!

Dear Laura. I am a psychiatrist and you are my inspiration. At my small scale i try to take “labeled patients” out of the psy system. And it works. I feel your history. I will subscribe on ICI.

Laura's story is inspiring & hopeful, but it's her unique story. Most of us with poor mental health would love to be able to take ownership of our lives without medications, but that is not reality for many. None of us want to take medication, but for some of us, it's imperative just to function

When can we sue docs that did this

I’ve followed your story for a while but am only just seeing this video. My story is so similar… same label, same hospital, very similar experiences only mine started at 17 and took until 50 to get off all the meds. Thank you for all of your work. Going forward I hope to help the next generation.

I am from South Africa and will be turning 72 shortly. I was put on Benzo's when I was about 30 because of anxiaty attacks . I was on this "medication" or should I say , poison, for 2 years and 3 months. 12 mg when I wake up, 12 mg at mid day and 12 mg at bed time. I knew something was'nt right and after 27 months I seeked help. Eventually after 6 and half a week in a hospital under medical care I started my recovery and returning to a "normal" life again. This was the beginning of a long and lonely battle which was now recalled because of your video presentation. I am so gratefull for the medical people who assisted me on my road to recovery and most of all to my Creator GOD , who gave me the strength through His Son Jesus Christ. Through HIS grace and my decision to to make a decisive turn in my life I am enjoying a healthy life, not depending on any, I say again, any chronic medicine what so ever. Thank you for your courage and persistance. I am just adding my penny's worth.

So happy to have found your channel! I will catch up with it, but we founded Everyday Psych Victims Project to empower victims such as yourself. We mainly focus on human and civil rights, discrimination, but we also are of course anti-drugs. I created a Motivationology which has motivation at the center as well as situation, externalize etc which is anti-psych/opp☕️ (Even self defense)

Wonderful. I believe God is using you to be a light in the world. How much could nutrition play important role in "mental illness" ? especially in teenage lives. Where they may have no idea.

There are many, many people we have to thank for exposing this Crime Against Humanity. Speaking for myself, I just didn't know where to look, until it was way too late for me to save myself. I lost most of my life to this horror. I will forever grieve the life that was taken from me.

Here I hear truth. You offer real hope Laura.

PLEASE PLEASE KEEP THE VIDEOS COMING

You’re an inspiration Laura. xo

Woah! Your message has given me chills multiple times. I have had tears try to come out multiple times as well. Thank you. I feel so connected to you. This year has been the biggest turning point of my life. It all started when a trusted doctor phoned me and told me to read Anatomy of an Epidemic. I’m going to finally find freedom after 20 of my 36 years of life. I feel like my life is going to be way more beautiful than I ever could have imagined.

My niece was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 15 yo. She's been taking low dose anti-psychotics since then. She is now 39 yo. She has not been able to carry a conversation. If she does speak, its a few words. Her words are not reliable. i've been trying to get her to tell us how we can help you but to no avail. i am thinking of getting her off AP's and seeing if shrooms can reset her brain.

You are a awesome human being, love

That just brought me to tears. This is exactly my story. Thank you for all you do @LauraDelano. I wish I could contribute to helping the Inner Compass Initiative somehow!

I grieve for the several decades I have lost to this crime. I don 't have a life because of them.

Hi are you OK it’s OK not to be OK sometimes right🤗 with your bipolar diagnosis did you go back on the medication I am currently in abrupt withdrawal from latuda & zyprexa I went to my doctor for help with the insomnia and sleep and she gave me a pill called Buspar. I tried it for pills and I feel even worse no more for me I do still take Ativan Lunesta and Ambien I don’t think I will continue the Ambien it’s not working. Well nothing is really working right now for sleep because of insomnia from the withdrawals I hope it goes away as fast as possible Lord make it so I hope that you were able to titrate to get off of your medication. Thank you for posting the videos for inspiration

Can you update us with how you’re doing Laura ?

Hey Laura! So good to hear from you again!

I'm cold turkey off if seroquel\quetiphine 200mgs for sleep. I have sleep narcolepsy so I didn't need sleep. Each time I went back my dose was upped until it was a wapping 600mgs! I had no idea who I even was. I was too drugged. I was always able to get off of the drug until the past few years it was prescribed for pain so I could sleep. This medication is what caused that pain. The same day I had a pancreas attack was the same day the clinic dropped me as a patient. Hoping I get through this. Pure hell. At my age my heart is concerning me most. I am very scared.

Please keep spreading the word, this happen to me as well.

I promise, it's a game changer for your mental health awareness and psychiatry and most importantly spiritual development. Also watch my latest video on RU-vid for the reasons we have mental health issues. The real reasons.

Read the book - Many lives many masters by Brian - something

👍🏻 👼🏼

Dear Laura, thank you for your work.

Have you fully recovered? And how long did it take?

I was on antidepressants and never had side effects-but I know so many people who are stuck in the diagnose/drug/disable cycle due to “antipsychotics”. The tide is starting to turn, but defeating the psychiatric establishment will be quite the challenge. Keep speaking out! By the way I don’t mean to imply that so-called antidepressants are safe. They have their own side effects and withdrawal issues.

@Lauradelano, I haven't seen any recent videos from you. How are you? I'm in the process of withdrawing from the neurotoxins that I've been prescribed, God willing, I'll be going to an Amen Clinic in 2023, where they do SPECT (Single Photon Emission Completed Tomography). The founder of the clinic Dr. Amen refers to "mental illness" as brain health issues. Through the scan they are able to evaluate your brain, & based on the scan devise a personalized treatment. I hope you're doing well these days. I would love to know how things are working out for you since your last video. Peace, Light & Love.

Sometime in the near future, God willing, I would like to talk with you and perhaps interview you on my own podcast and RU-vid channel in order to bring to light the truth about psychiatry and to help those who have been harmed by psychiatry. Thank you.

Thank you

What a beautiful video. You remind me of Brit Marling here. Have you by any chance watched The OA? :)

This woman is just highly sensitive. Not “I’ll.” Sensitive.

Were your parents divorced? Did you have stepparents? What exactly was your life like?

hey Laura I cannot post comments on your Facebook page for some reason

I love you please help me i have family that needs your help

= Healings 2022 = = Me & My biologic mom =

Been there wore that T shirt......thanks Laura

Just wish she would respond to our questions etc...

Much love ❤️

How are you today?

We're are you?

snuppy puppy says hi!

Amen, thank you

Has brain tumors been ruled out???

So you now talk about yourself in the 3rd person. And you have been re-hashing the same old shit over and over on RU-vid for the last 5 years. Good job.

HELPP!!!! PLEASE HELP!! GOD, PLEASE READ THIS I NEED HELP!!! I'm a 19 year old who had a temporary anxiety. My physician offered another anxiety medication like it was nothing, (i've previously been on chlonodine hcl which helps for both hypetension and anxiety). I found out it was a psychiatric(Buspar/Buspirone) :/ No talk about how to use it, side-effects, how it works. And never told me it mitigates the brain. Never said it was a psychiatric drug. The first time I took it, I definitely noticed a decline in cognitive-faculties. As I kept taking it however, I seemed to regain the ability to think, however, my memory and the way I read (I tend to be VERY high in IQ, and read chunks ultra fast instead of slowly linearly from left to right) were downgraded. I will admit I took them all over the place. I tried to stick with taking it at morning (4am when I wake up) and then another in the afternoon. But honestly sometimes I'd forget and only ingest one. I made a follow up with my doctor once after the prescription and he told me it's until my brain adjusts. He had some point in there because i did kind of start seeing to regain my ability to think creatively but my way of reading was still changed from fast to slow and my memory was still bad. I had a realization realizing wtf I was taking and realizing it alters my brain and noticing my memory not as good and reading linearly instead of how I normally read. I then decided to search this thing up. I found out it's a psychiatric drug that mitigates the brain and I just got so fucking scared. I started searching up "buspar lowers intelligence." I've read some posts on quora about people feeling as smart as they were before and on when going on even more powerful things such as SSRI's (but then everyone is different). And other people saying "well if we define intelligence as the neurochemistry which is impacted by these drugs..." you get the point. Generally I'm hyper-aware with my eyes always looking everywhere and ever since this medicine, it has gone away. Also, I stumbled upon these videos claiming that psychiatric medicatinos can be the devil for some people: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qTfuhKWWbGU.html They say that it impedes cognitivie abilities, but what makes me think I can stay this sane is because my very High IQ (Stanford Binet 149) took the hit and I'm still able to cognitively function. I quit cold turkey. 10 days ago was the last time I took it, after taking it for 3weeks/month. However, I did not know that quitting cold turkey was a bad thing. No one ever had these conversations with me, and I really do feel like a victim :( I'm scared that quitting Cold Turkey will do brain damage, but I searched it just lists the withdrawal side effects as more severe. I just don't know what to do man. Please someone just tell me what to do to get out of this mess. I don't want to feel hopeless. Please don't put any blame on me, I admit that I was ignorant. In fact, I grew up in a bubble of my ethnic community (Mexican) and didn't really find out the difference between an entree and an appetizer til like a month ago or two. I've also seen other posts on reddit about brainfog on buspirone/buspar, and no one believing them. But I do. I'm just so scared.