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I’ll never forget when I could hear myself 1:51 saying I don’t think it’s ever going to let me go and that was Valium! One of the hardest things to go through is prescription drug withdrawal, and I believe they make it that way on purpose.

Hi Michael. Thank you for making this video. I've slowly been coming off zoloft and are now half way there (50mg). I cut down to 50mg 7 weeks ago and experienced a range of strong mood swings. The mood seems to have stabilised but now I've been having nights were I just cant sleep at all. Did you experience this when coming off paxil and did it get better? I always have a very good sleep routine/hygiene. I just dont understand why its started 7 weeks later. Thank you

Daily discipline and I am the healer of me.

My deepest wounds were not caused by others or medication issues but by my betrayal to my intuitive self or authentic being. I can do better in my second half of my life. I can only believe in a loving God and keep religion very simple. 13 months off medication concerta methylphenidate 🎉

Thank you for this video. I’ve got on the notifications but it’s still not sending me notifications. I will double check though. I’ve noticed that RUclips is sending me stuff. I’m not even subscribed to. It’s not sending me notifications from places I want.

Benzos, antidepressants, sleeping pills, SSRIs, the antibiotic Cipro, and fluoroquinolone antibiotics (being floxed), anti nausea meds like Reglan, Compazine, Phenergan etc and now Ozempic for weight loss. Why does the drug industry keep pumping out drugs that cause injury to our nervous system, and suicidal, and even violent thoughts?? Since the school year started, and it hasn't even been a month, there have been 3 school closings due to threats in my state and neighboring states. And, those of us who have been in this community awhile know why -kids on psychotropic meds.. or a fluoroquinolone antibiotic?? Our society is a mess with these prescription meds. I am 5 years and 4 months off of Ativan compounded by Reglan injury. I can FINALLY drive without feeling like serious crap, & get back into living more without feeling like crap. Hallelujah! - but unfortunately, this experience has not left me without issue. I had a bad setback with the flu shot at 18 months in (4 years ago now) that set me back for months. Because of that, like many people who were injured by these types of meds, I will not take ANY medications, I will never take a vaccine again ever, & hope I never need dental work. It's not a fun way to go through life. When does that fear of ever needing an antibiotic for anything, or a local anesthetic for a tooth, or needing surgery ever go away ? 8 years, 10 years? 13 years? Thanks to big pharma, & arrogant uneducated doctors for screwing that up for me.

A very timely one for me Michael. Wednesday my time over here in Taiwan as I write this and it was a nerve-wracking day on the job here at my school. On top of that, it's a tough anniversary for me being a living witness to 9/11 as I watched it from my classroom window back in college (Jersey City is less than a mile across the river from NYC). The final part of this where you mentioned inner strength really resonated with me as at the moment I'm struggling with the adjustment to my new job and the seeming mountain of work that was piled on me this first month. I keep repeating this Latin phrase I learned a while ago that goes: Vires acquirit eundo. "We gather strength as we go." This along with Unity's Prayer for Protection have and continue to help me pull through times like this.

All about the power. I hand my power over to the medical system, by proxy the political system. I abandon my own power and the power of my family and community. Thanks!

Good points

Good information!

Just stumbled on your website and channel.. How can Is peak with you one on one? Detoxing off SSRI cold turkey for 8.5 months

It’s so strange how some can stop cold turkey after decades and feel no ill effects. Avoiding all psych meds is ideal. I had no problems many years ago and never took them again, but I know others who were brought to their knees from CTs.

Also will propranolol help in high doses like 20 mg a day just to cope some wds but still have to deal mental ones

Mr. I can live with benzo wds but dont want pssd from ssris. I stopped taking ssri just replacing clona with etiz dunno what to do next .

Will etizolam helps i am on clona 1 mg my doc switch on ssri and 0.5etizolam but i seen horror pssd stories about ssri so i am not taking it but taking etizolam with .5 mg klon what should i do

Great advice thanks brother for your encouraging words.

Thank you I’m going through similar now post covid 🪽🙏🏻🤍

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I'm now going through tough, dark,rough,slow,agonizing days however I'm sure that I'm going to overcome with prayers and diligence. ❤❤ thanks for the upload. I trust that someone else is encouraged to keep going

If these were street drugs they'd be classed as highly dangerous and illegal. Because a doctor prescribes them they're all safe & effective. 31 years with a drug dependency and now nearly 2 years in recovery after finally getting off. These SSRI drugs ruined my life trying to get off them and stay off. They cause chemical imbalances. Benzos, opioids, antidepressants. Devil's drugs.

Man I’m 18 months off of benzos. Since the 1 year mark I’ve been feeling fine mostly but still some waves here and there. But at the 18 month mark I had 2 dental visits that sent me into some incredibly harsh waves. I was cool calm and collected before and after the dentist, it wasn’t the procedure that affected me. It had to have been the local anesthetic or something. Dude wtf I’m 34 years old. Is this what I have to look forward to? It took me 21 days total to feel better after that mess (the dental visits were spaced out 1 week apart). What the actual hell man? I want to have a family and provide and participate fully in this life. Is that just a pipe dream for me now? Ive about had it man. I don’t drink. I don’t do drugs. I meditate, exercise, eat healthier. Like what else am I supposed to do? It just seems like there’s no end to this. Every time I think I’m free of the withdrawal effects of benzos something happens and it comes back. And it’s not a preexisting or underlying health problem! I never had these very physical issues before benzos. Physically sick after routine periodontal cleanings. I debated on going to the hospital 2 nights because I was in so much pain and I have a high pain threshold and haven’t been to the hospital or doctor in 2 years except for routine bloodwork/examinations. So like, does it really end or do people just say “keep going” so we don’t off ourselves? It really feels like there’s no end. I feel fine today, but god forbid I take a local anesthetic or something harmless tomorrow. What a pathetic joke dude.

Thanks so much for this. I'm 6 weeks antipsychotic free after 3 years on a very high dose. Anxiety has gone, sleeping and eating well, although losing weight I gained from meds (2 stone!) Only thing I'm suffering with is jaw clenching and headaches which is constant. I also feel like I will never be happy and productive like I was prior to meds. But I have to live in hope that I will and my brain is still adjusting. I have found great comfort in your videos and especially your website articles as I'm about to sleep as it calms me. Keep at it, you are helping so many people find light at the end of the tunnel x

I am so so grateful 🙏 for these uploads, I felt as if I was just going to lose it and give up just a few days ago, fast forward to today, I kept believing that God was in control and I'm 97% healed. I can encourage someone today September 4,2024 that you're going to make it ❤❤. Trust the process. God's grace is sufficient

10 months 10 days on different anti psychotic drugs...prescription drugs..klonopin 1mg for days of 10 mnths 10 days....Today is 5 months 22 days cold turkey.. I was on that treatment because of a silly matter an anti oxidant supplement withdrawal... Called glutathione....today is 5 months 22 days,when i will able to function, can't do anything..'full body pain...numb system is numb..when i will heal.pls reply

Thanks Michael, so true! It's all so dark, disgusting and insane that these pills would be marketed as good for your well being! What a bad joke. Praying that the truth be exposed and that many lives are saved the unnecessary pain they cause 🙏💗🕊️

Thank you so much for your channel and information. Coming off these meds after a decade has been a nightmare, but by God‘s grace and kindness and help from my church it’s been manageable, but you’re right they don’t tell you how to get off these medications and that you will eventually have to. They also don’t tell you how bad the withdrawals are and the effect they have on your entire life and they have no clue how to safely instruct you to get off these medication’s, which is very sad.

Hi. Could you tell me one more time what drugs you came off and how? CT or weaning off? thx

Thank you for the kind words of encouragement Michael ❤

Did you suffer from PSSD, emotional blunting, anhedonia

Hey Michael, thanks for all your videos. When you tapered, were you using a gram scale and the Ashton method? Or were you just snapping pills and eye-balling it?

Thanks for this, I am on day 2 and i started feeling so scared after reading all the stories i started feeling i am better off just staying on. This was a good reminder not all our stories are the same

I am so grateful to be watching this video. Part of my journey currently is i have reinstated. Its only been three months. But im trying again. And to know this is normal is just the relief I needed. And when I first tried things werent stable in my life. Thanks for mentioning that too!

Thank you

Thank you for this video that sheds light on the “withdrawal “ process. 10 years on and almost 3 months off. You nailed it with all the side effect issues, stomach, depression, anxiety, They don’t tell you how long this process last, but it’s real and the effects are real, but as you said, there’s hope through the God of all hope and mercy 2 Corinthians 1:3-4

I think this is pretty simplistic. It is a natural trajectory of an injury: denial, anger, acceptance, grief, healing. It is easy to see these steps affecting a person going through withdrawal. AND these "horror stories" do serve a purpose, they let you know you are not alone and that other people are persevering and that you can too. And many do come out and tell about them getting better later on - which is tremendously helpful. Seeing the hell they were going through and then coming out on the other side. I don't think I could have managed without getting information so that I could dig into strategies for getting better: supplements, exercise, fasting, etc. Fasting has been the one big game changer for me. I never would have known about it if I merely "stayed positive" from the start: I don't see how anyone could honestly advocate for this, while I do see the benefit of it at a later date. The grieving and accepting of the horror was healing in itself: crying and emotion activates the parasympathetic nervous system and that is of tremendous benefit, and helps regulate.

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I stopped paxil 3 weeks ago. I was fine but this week suddenly having severe fatigue with extreme emotions and excessive thoughts and sad feeling . Is this all withdrawl symptoms ? Is it normal to have it ? I had these symptoms before starting paxil. Just scared if it's a relapse 😢

Barry McDonagh at DARE tells a story of a person in a jail cell desperate to get out. While trapped in a prison of bars Barry tells the inmate to look around his neck where he finds a key that unlocks the door and sets him free. To me, the jail bars represent the frightening stories of getting off benzos and SSRIs so abundant on the web. The key to freedom is always within our reach. It’s risky, sometimes dangerous, and at times painful, but it sure beats living in chains based on someone else’s experience.

God bless you for your important work in this.

A true voice of hope. Thank you.

I luv u!!

The story’s are true. I agree and disagree with this video. It helped me personally knowing this was a actual thing and I wasn’t going mad and the horror story’s like mine lol is a warning not to even touch them yes some peoples receptors kick back in quicker then others but why take that chance?? Just warn people don’t use them.

Thank you for sharing your experience, I am going through withdrawals now and each time I am struggling with mental pain I am watching your videos to encourage myself that I will heal. I stopped AD meds 3 weeks ago and I feel terrible. I am praying to God to heal all of us who is going through this difficult process. Thank you 🙏 for your support

Do you have any videos addressing what recovery timelines look like, or could you make one? Wanting to understand what some experiences of recovery look like - is it that the windows get longer and longer or is it that the symptoms are less severe, or both? Thank you!

I'm not tech savvy at all. I was trying to see if you did any videos on how to deal with rumination?

Keep up the good work, Michael!~ You made my day!~ 10 months off of 22 yrs of Lorazepam and Wellbutrin and a host of other meds, treatments, hospitals in between to survive and you know the rest🥲😳🙏🙏🙏when the anxiety lets up, I would like to be coached and join your community. I watch your videos every night. Thank you for the free videos. You are truly a Gift from GOD!!!💚💚💚edited from anxiety lol🙂

Thank you sooo much Michael!~ I really needed these!~ 🙏🙏🙏

I watched this two times and cried both times. Thank you for the hope you give me. Off of 22 years of Lorazepam and 24 years of Wellbutrin and I have put my life in God's hands. Wish I was younger but at age 65, God's ways are still the best. I watch your videos EVERY night. I will let you know when I am healed!~ I was thinking that you could pray with us on one of your videos!~ Did you have a hard time making decisions and figuring things out? I guess that goes with a whole other level of anxiety, right? GOD BLESS YOU for all you do for us! <*><~~~🙏🙏🙏

The best man to deal with these challenges. Grateful that you are on this earth.

Ignore horror stories? Pretty hard to ignore when you see and experience yourself someone or yourself being in middle of the most horrific story ever made Real. The paranoia, delirium attacks (READ if anyone here knows what a real delirium because of alcohol and benzos&/sleeping pills feels like, can not say anything about them. It is literally the worst, the Worst absolute evil i have ever experienced (i have had about 20 of these which have ended in epileptic seizure (i have no epilepcy naturally), included severe epileptic seisurez, Thinking positively will-not-help-a-bit when you are really addicted to something like benzos or sleeping pills, praying won´t help, no, there is no god coming down to save you from medical withdrawal. Only dropping the dosage with a R-e-a-l doctor is reasonable, some people can also do it themselves, but it is hard to drop the amount. This video is dangerous, truly. Someone will die because he or she ignores the horror stories about someone literally going insane for the rest of his/her life or die from withdrawal. You can check i t up, many do die from benzo and sleeping pill withdrawal. Not alking about SSRI and other bullshit medication (which are no more in my country even supported to insomnia for example anymore, because causes more harm than helps in that case), but like Zopinclone, Temazepam, Diazepam, Oxepam etc etc. Please, if you are and serious addict, please take professional help only without internet videos. Someone will lose their mental healht or die because of these kind of videos.