Rehabs/Detox for Psychiatric Drugs? 

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 truth!

It is bigger than most !

the proof is in the pudding...

So sad to hear of this.

Same. Permanent brain damage 22 years later. Akathisia, dpdr, agoraphobia, depression

Rehab/Detox 4 psych meds? What an oxymoron. All they'll do is give u more psych meds & categorize 'em as something else (other than what they r; similar 2 putting lipstick on a mallard duck & call it a swan).

Yeah, great points. I wish medical professionals, regulators (yeah right) and researchers paid attention to online forums and outlets like this... they'd get so much insight into what's going on and what to do and what not to do. Unfortunately, they're all conditioned to view these sources as attractors and purveyors of mass delusion and psycho-somatic/hypochondriasis. It will have that element in and amongst it but more than not there will be useful signal. There's always noise, off target signal, and signal with any matter of investigation... you'll get the most signal from this channel and online communities of sufferers, much more than from conventional medical opinion which is almost always behind and/or interfered with by self-interested parties trying to hold off on a reckoning or on stoppage of their gravy train. There are so many more lessons of recent and not too distant history in medicine and related fields that show how badly things have been handled before, but it's like these things are often memory holed, or people never learn it. Each generation then thinks that that stuff was behind them, things are so much more sophisticated and well ordered now.

About it getting infintely worse, do you think something like half of the damage is actually inflicted by dropping the drug so quickly? Like maybe that creates such neurological stress that that's when a lot of the damage is done.

We have to get doctors to listen from a different perspective that it financially just as lucrative or zero chance. I think involving the drug companies needs a piece of the solution... again financially. I wish the solution didn't come with a price tag, but at this point in reality, it must.

I am too at 22 years off. It is permanent for some.

​@@swaggerstoooopid7260how are you now

As an alcoholic. AA exists because a bunch of screw ups couldn't stop drinking got together to stop. I do AA and I am telling you don't want that label unless you already have to.

Same brother i am damaged by cold turkey i see no way out except death

​@@aashish551how are you now

Don’t you think you might have other disorder and didnt notice it coz the benzo was masking it

How are you

Can’t you reinstate back on the medication if it’s that bad

Hang in there, Kevin. I was so, so wretchedly ill at 3 years. I'm so sorry for your suffering.

@@nicolelambic how are you now?

@@swaggerstoooopid7260 still have significant, disabling symptoms, but I am improved from acute years

Thank you for all your good work 🙏

Please, please, please, can I contact you?​@@nicolelambic

That's great, Michael! It helped me as well - I stopped biting my nails for the first time in my life on keto. I wish it helped more with my withdrawal, but it did help w/ some things (GI symptoms, that kind of thing).

I liked Xanax when I got it, but I could always lie about get clonzopine type when I wanted from a doctor. Xanax is a hard one. Take care brother.

Same I was also cold turkeyed in a rehab in Texas 22 years ago. I am still disabled and have hardly recovered. Some of us will have to learn to live with these symptoms or take matters into our own hands

That’s the strangest part to me. I know so many people that take them and know zero that have had issues. The worst I’ve heard is a month of symptoms. Not the 22 years of hell I’ve had

No, not everyone has a problem stopping, but you cannot predict who will be who. Therefore, everyone should reduce slowly at least to see how the withdrawal will go. Just blindly ripping people off means a % of people will suffer horrifically, and maybe even go on to be protracted. There's also the complication of 'delayed withdrawal' where some people reduce quickly and think they are in the clear bc they have no withdrawal symptoms, only to have them hit weeks or months later.

@@nicolelambic Correct!

​@@nicolelambicindeed, I knew I was sensitive and never wanted this. I am so upset I got given this and rushed on this against my specific ask.

So very sorry. Wishing you continued healing🙏

Do very slow taper, and take supplements like magnesium glycine and NAC and natural GABA. Exercise and healthy diet is very important to deal with anxiety withdrawals.

​Maybe also St John's Wort for depression, and If you have a friend who will be willing to give you massages.

Rubbish, not at all.

Sadly this is true. You fight back in the US but there are more normal countries where you are able to control your own life. I also wish she hadn’t yapped about “addiction”, Most of this is is physical dependence. Frankly, I think the way American doctors behave, they deserve to live right outside some of the worst and most miserable drug addiction and abuse right outside their door and know their refusal to to prescribe properly caused it

That's me, good friend went to treatment at a resort. I did my rehab on a couch with nothing.

Good luck when you run out.