Q&A on Antidepressant Withdrawal with Brooke Siem

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Part 1 of a four-week series intended to provide strategies and support for those who are going through their own withdrawal journeys.
Please note that I am not a doctor and I do not give medical advice. This is simply an opportunity for me to share my story with those in need of a little hope in these particularly intense times. I know that when I was going through antidepressant withdrawal, I would have given anything to know that there was someone else out there who'd spent half their life on antidepressants and managed to get off all the drugs and find happiness. It is not an easy road, but it is possible when you know that there is light to be found in the darkness.

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30 май 2020

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@MultiJellybeann Месяц назад

I been of Prozac for 7 months feel very lost in all this withdraws, Left it cold turkey but pushing through, you made this video 3 years ago but its very help full in today day. thank you

@hotdogflavoureddrink 3 года назад

Everyone talks about the physical effects of discontinuation but the hardest part is now having to rebuild your personality because they made you so numb to the world and its realities.

@bsiem 3 года назад

Nobody talks about part, and it is absolutely the hardest, especially when you've been on these drugs for a long time. For me, the only unmedicated reference I had for myself was when I was a child. I was a stranger to myself when I got off these drugs at 30, and I am still (5 years later) not solid on basic parts of myself because I never got a chance to "learn" it when I was young.

@hotdogflavoureddrink 3 года назад

@@bsiem I myself have been on them for 10 years but I started later than you. Unfortunately I have missed out on a key part of my life and only now trying to figure things out. It's only after going off of them do I realise how much they were actually doing.

@Snowflake1374 5 месяцев назад

Agree. Feel the same.

@Maximusbyronus Год назад

Thanks for posting this video! I was on 75mg for 15 years (started when I was 20) and tried to quit many times. During the unbearable withdrawal stages, many people close to me, and doctors would say something like “…see, that is the medicine working…” or “you have a chemical imbalance” which made me even more depressed and hopeless. I knew the brain zaps, nausea, heart palps, and massive spikes in anxiety were the withdrawals and not my baseline. I absolutely agree with having to quit antidepressants alone. I bought a jewelry weigh scale and measured the granules in the 37.5mg capsule and weaned off for almost a year. Its almost year 3 of being pill and substance free and each year that goes by I feel more balanced and better than ever. I felt duped into taking antidepressants too.

@dianemorrell9638 Год назад

Being brainwashed into a disease model that has no interest in deprescribing as here in Canada there is no publicly funded antidepressant withdrawl program. Doctor denies my reality for 4 years going from 225 mg to 25 mg. effexor after 23 years. I was cold turkeyed from a benzo of 23 years. Being denied reality by powerful doctors has been brutal. ❤

@BigBadMF43 Год назад

did you feel like you had a mild flu or a constant hang over type feeling during withdrawals? If so, then did the feeling get worse after exercise?

@Maximusbyronus Год назад

@@BigBadMF43 I couldn't exercise during withdrawals when quitting abruptly. However, when I weaned off over the course of a year, the withdrawal symptoms were minimal and exercising made me feel better. But I never pushed myself if I felt like crap.

@alamiralyousef8021 8 месяцев назад

@@MaximusbyronusHi, I hope to find the answer for you، did you have memory problems after stopping the medication

@Maximusbyronus 8 месяцев назад

@@alamiralyousef8021Hello, I didn't have any noticeable memory problems.

@dianemorrell9638 Год назад

What relief to have you in mind, now especially, during periods of distress that comes from the involvement and resulting trauma from the medical community. My autonomy was even taken away at one point during a rant at a psychiatrist as I went a week without sleep and cramping up like a junkie while reducing beads slowly. Thanks for your warm intelligence and public service :)

@chadhiggins9944 Год назад

You're great Brooke! Great video!

@DrBoFitCare 4 года назад

Thank you for spreading this knowledge 🙌

@aprilhassell1747 5 месяцев назад

Id like you to write a book about all the tips and tricks of withdrawal...you have the best advice and it all needs to be in your second book♡. Hope you see this. Hope to meet you someday. Good back and listen to all your podcast so you dont miss the vital advice you've given. You are a gift from God to me.

@emmaelson6770 7 месяцев назад

I had to go completely off Prozac at one point after overdosing and experiencing Serotonin Syndrome. it was not much fun but it was probably the best decision