@LivingWellwithSchizophrenia Happy to see those beautiful eyes sparkle with life! Regarding dosage, Im afraid of the way Most docs and psychiatrists JUST follow the rough directions of the drug company or the research they have read, but STOPPING is an allllll new science and not as much resources have went into studying this. Very few will even admit these meds are extremely physically addictive. Mustless understand the need to cut a dose down in half and a quarter off that then stable and then half that slowly and then quarter that then half that eventually…. Slow slow slow and stable, you are not in a race.
❤ you have saved my son. He’s on keto and doing well. He’s been on for a month or so no issues clear mind, happy. I’m so glad I found you. You are a wonderful strong woman. I have watched so so so many of your videos. You are so different from the beginning. I feel your heart and your joy. I’m crying because you are a blessing to me, my son and so many people. God bless you ❤
It's a miracle, it's bizarre, i suffer from depression and don't suffer from schizophrenia but i feel happy that she is sharing this which is already helping people like your son!
I have paranoid-schizophrenia with hallucinations. I have been dealing with an aggressive piece to this and ketosis is actually helping me get into a good headspace. I exercise to help with aggression in the schizophrenia with paranoid thoughts and it actually helps me focus my mind. This video reminds me I'm not alone. Thanks Lauren! You guys are awesome!
Am in kenya and i have schizo i take Quitipin 600mg and lamotrigine to help with sleep..i watch your videos and feel like crying😞praying that i can meet someone who can truly love me the way your husband does..your a ray of sunshine
Hi Lauren. My Daughter who is 41 has had a terrible year or probably more like 16 years. To much to explain. It’s heartbreaking for a mother and family to watch. I don’t know what to do. Just touch on the most difficult topics. She stabbed herself causing major damage. A open heart surgery from it. It’s a miracle she is alive. Been in the mental unit 3 times they now have her so medicated her movements are very slow. She shows no emotion. She is just a shell of herself. She has 3 daughters they are now with their Dads. She use to be so friendly. She use to teach ballet. Was so creative. She lives with my husband and I . She can take care of herself. Just know there will be a bit of slober and her eyes are swollen and water from the meds ? She was a beautiful women. She still is to me ❤. I cry a lot. Thank you for sharing your life.
Im sure she will get better. Explore some different options that can be combined with meds. Check Medical medium Brain saver books or for starters check keto for her..
@@lorileessmallworld You are an Amazing Mother , Working so Hard for your Family, Continue to Give Much Love to your Daughter every Day, God i seeing your Good Work . On certain days do things for yourself, go to a Gym and find a group and start light Training, then try every Day to do Cycling ore Walking, Have lighter Dumbells home and do Training for you , that will help you so much, We are created by Jehova God to be active, Do lighter Training in the beginning. Try take your daughter out on Walks ,and Training home lighter Training, I was a Training Coach for a research in Sweden, doing lighter intervall Training whit the Patients, i am also eating medicine , You will be in my Prayers, and your daughter starting to be little more active in her life ,seeing her Gifts she have , Much Love to you and your Family from Helsingborg Sweden from Abel Zorin
I’m so sorry to hear that. Has she tried Clozapine? It works where other meds have not and works quite well. It’s the golden egg of psychiatric medicine. It won’t turn her into a zombie, in fact it should do the opposite. Ask her doctor for it seriously!!!
Following Keto diet and being on a low doses of Prozac and Abilify injection makes me stable and able to work full time. I’ve noticed significant improvements by following keto. Highly recommend others to give it a try.
What an honor to witness your journey. Thank you for sharing with us. PS : If anyone is searching for it, the tissue box is here ! (for happy tears) PS 2 : HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROB ! 🎂 💜
I don’t have schizophrenia or know anyone with it or any neurological disorders…just wanna say I’ve been watching your videos for years now and it’s been incredible watching this journey. Truly. I guess I just wanted to say thanks for letting everyone join you for the ride. Through all the crazy highs and lows.…so cool
Please don't panic if you have delayed withdrawal a few weeks or months down the line after going off your meds completely. It happens, doesn't mean you're necessarily relapsing. You may also have some symptoms at various times as you're body detoxes more of the med byproducts that were stored in your tissues over the past years. All part of the process! I'm excited for you Lauren! Im now 6 months completely med free and so much more present and alive.
I have been following your channel since its beginning. I cry watching you grow- from HOPE. Thank you Lauren & Living Well with Schizophrenia for this work!💪🏾❤️🙏
I’m so close to crying happy tears watching this - I did not have parents that were interested in being present or treating us better, our only option was to survive. I’m in awe of how you really consciously strive to do your best as a parent. The past 8 months you and Rob have done amazingly, facing the ups and downs together. You both had a vision of how you wanted your lives to be and you worked hard and supported each other and look at what you have achieved!! ❤️ It has felt really inspiring to me as a viewer and you really should both be very proud ☺️
Lovely Lauren, you are beautiful and I’m carnivore, healing in many ways, too. Thank you for documenting your experiences including all of the years before keto-as we have been praying for you for so long. Much love from the Midwest, USA. ❤
Awww. I feels yah. After I discovered how to cure my disordered evening, it was as if the days got brighter month by month. Even the way you record your videos is blossoming and demonstrating how much more alive you are feeling. 💐
Am in kenya and i have schizo i take Quitipin 600mg and lamotrigine 150mg to help with sleep..i watch your videos and feel like crying😞praying that i can meet someone who can truly love me the way your husband does..your a ray of sunshine
I feel so privileged to be allowed to be included in your Fan Base Lauren, Rob and Kiddos! Thank you for saving me a seat each time you all saddle up and include us in your daily and weekly treks in your life! Hasn't always been gum drops and lollipops, but throughout the Good, Bad, Happy and Sad you have kept the REAL in your REEL Lauren and that is not lost on your Fans! We appreciate you thinking enough about us to include everything so that the ones like me who are not on medications at least get a sense of your world. Awesome to read the support and love from your Fans in the comment section too! I've learned so much in the last 3 years! Keep Smiling and Strutting! MOO From COW-lumbus, Ohio 👋
This is really sweet, guys!!! And I love how that guy approached the topic of describing someone with schizophrenia! Gives hope :) Great tips too for moving around! Lauren, so relatable about realizing how psych meds affect you SO negatively once you started coming off them while on keto. I'm a long way from completely getting off olanzapine (at the rate I'm going) but I'm on a much lower dose and it's 36% lower than the min effective dose for bipolar and 68% lower than the min effective dose for schizophrenia. The insomnia I got when I went down lower quicker than before scared me and it lasted a long time but with ZERO hallmark symptoms so I like to believe keto helped me get through it but I want to be more careful and I did get a super bad viral infection around the same time, which rest would have helped me with. Fortunately, I've been steady for a while now reaping new benefits, ready to go lower again b/c there is room for improvement. It's so awesome to see you all thriving!! The hair dye job looks so good and professional. Happy belated bday Rob! And I'm so curious about the keto cake. You guys are awesome parents!!! Can't wait to see what you're up to next!
@@jeanpaultongeren125 I believe it's withdrawal for sure. It helped me sleep well all these years. What's worked for the insomnia so far is about 6mg melatonin and 150-250mg apigenin.
That is the wrong approach if you do not combine it with great changes in your lifestyle. But you of course know that already. First lifestyle changes, then lowering medicine. Like Lauren did.
Congratulations Lauren and Rob, the milestones you've achieved are indeed miraculous! I've been following your journey for quite a while and I'm so pleased your unconventional openess/alternative approach, willingness to risk, comittment, hard work and discipline is leading to a bevy of joyful, immersive experiences and what appears, fingers crossed, to be a wonderous outcome. Keep up the good work. The road less traveled indeed!
I'm so happy for you!! I'm going to show this to a friend who has the same disorder and I hope can one day have remission too!! I've watched your videos for a long time and am truly impressed with what you've achieved with the metabolic ketogenic therapy.
Lauren, you've inspired me to undertake my own Metabolic Ketosis journey to 1) prevent cancer (I have a BRCA2 mutation), and 2) hopefully ameliorate (or reverse?) my autism spectrum disorders. I'm only one and a half weeks into my journey, but I've felt HUGE changes already! And I'm so excited to see what I'm capable of! Thankyou, from the bottom of my heart, for sharing this with us all, and inspiring change.
So heartwarming ❤ seeing you so healthy and happy with your lovely family Lauren. Im trying to be more open with my husband around what my MH experience can be like sometimes. Its not easy but watching/listening to you and Rob is helping me to express myself better. Seeing a therapist is also really beneficial. Love from Scotland xx
These videos are a joy to watch. I am so happy to see you so happy and thriving! Inspires me to push through and stay hopeful in my own journey! All the best!
Really happy for you and your family! And I will continue to follow your channel and wait to see you continue to do well without medication. And hope to congratulate after a year or more time. Your success is so encouraging for everyone who is still living with the illness and antipsychotics.
Lauren, you are such a brave woman and have been my inspiration for years. I have Bipolar 2 disorder and lowered my meds since March and feeling great! I take supplements that support my brain like Omega 3 and vits D3 methilfolate. Thank you for all the work you are doing, and cheers to Rob for his patience and support! You are a wonderful family! I wish you all health and joy!
6:28 this brings me to tears. I want my husband to be happy so much and enjoy life more. He loves us his family and is grateful but more than I wish he’s down because of symptoms.
Thank you so much for sharing your journey. This makes me feel like im not alone in my journey with schizophrenia. This is so inspiring. I hope to be able to stop my meds too one day.
Congratulations Lauren!! You are such an inspiration! It is wild to see how far you have come in a year...from hospitalization to this new found freedom and clarity and energy. I want to start this journey...a care team isnt really an option for me. I have a psych doctor for meds. When I mentioned medical keto and your channel be was so dismissive of the idea .."try it if you want"...okaayy .. I feel like this will be my new years resolution...the primary goal will be a reduction in the negative aspects of my illness like paranoia and delusion..it seems the meds only go so far and the sideeffects leave me drained. It just seems like a life goal of "Staying sane enough and staying out of the hospital" isnt fulfilling enough. It has been seven years since my last hospitalization with the current meds I am on, but I KNOW there must be so much more to this life.
So sweet🥺🥺 I've been doing medical keto for about 7 1/2 weeks now and am feeling good!! I'm wondering how you're able to get in more calories and gain muscle though? Thank you!!
This is truly awe inspiring and I wish those including myself would share their life and the struggles those of us face having schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. Watching your journey for these past few years motivates me to want to share my own, especially because not everyone’s journey is the same but it shows that we can all reach a certain capacity of wellness in our lives that allow one to feel fulfilled; without the negative side effects of medication and the lack of support or i guess expertise from general psychiatrists who don’t have the knowledge to help us reach a level of wellness we’re all striving for or at least want to strive for.
I like how you do healthy things in your life. When I have negative experiences it is too easy to get trapped in them and have them prevent me from getting better. Sometimes I just have to go out for a walk, pick up the guitar, pick up the phone and actually call someone, and actually take some advice, which quite often is to just get out and walk around for a while and see what happens. You have a beautiful family and a lot of abilities. You have a lot going for you. I have a schizophrenia diagnosis but I to have talents and abilities. I get stigmatized as a being a criminal when I am trying hard to go through life without breaking the law now. People accentuate my past crimes and my mental illness quite often is over looked.
I’m schizophrenic for 2 years I was taking this medication called risperidone it made me feel so empty and depressed I told my psychiatrist to lower more it made me feel better but I stop taking them for a month and I felt amazing I feel like my self I’m going out more I’m finding jobs I’m communicating these pills ruin my life so I’m glad you are feeling better
I'm glad you are feeling much better but be careful because I don't have schizophrenia but my daughter's father does and it may come and go but what I also wanted to say I used to be on those meds. They gave me such a high dose I was sleeping at my job after drinking like 2 red bulls just to try and open my eyes. I hate those pills too. I stopped once I got pregnant and now on other crap that just numbs your brain. Not nearly as strong tho but yeah risperdal sucks and mental illness. Stay well❤
I'm sorry you had bad side effects, and I am pleased to know you are doing great without medication. I wanted to say that we usually forget that the medicine helped when we really needed it, the side effects are just a reminder that pills in most of the cases if possible are not a lifelong treatment, but a help in times of need.
I dont know why but I cried with this video. Seeing you happy brings me so much joy. You live in a beautiful place and have a beautiful family. Thank you for showing us how to navigate mental health issues. It has help me to want to try and be better and make changes in my life to be present in my family. Thank you! ❤ Edit: I have been struggling for the last couple of months with my mental health. I have not been able to work how I want to work or be present and capable of doing stuff with my family. Ive been isolating myself from everyone except my kids and is really sad. I want to be better. Im trying.
Appreciate you putting so much out there, and I'm glad it's working for you. I hope we all learn more about the mechanisms that are a basis for some of these problems and open up to well-tested if sometimes counter-intuitive solutions or mitigations. I'm curious about how much has had to be unlearned, I know people can learn bad habits that help them cope with their minute-to-minute reality that is outside of whatever their condition is causing, and I wonder if these therapies also allowed a clean break from other stuff tangential but not directly related to the core problems. Again, thanks for sharing things. It's taught me a bit about what's possible
So happy for you! Can't wait to see where you'll be in a year from now continuing this keto diet! Carefully watching your progress as I may get on the keto diet as well. :)
After taking psychiatric drugs for thirty plus years I no longer feel I need an anti psychotic med. And I worry about getting TD. I take the medication because that way I get to have a home and income from the government. I don't believe I'm able to work. The commute alone would be too exhausting. I am interested though in working from home but it would still be part time. I have much gratitude for what I have and I am not sure about whether I need an antipsychotic. I suffered irreversibly damage in the past going off but that was a long time ago. I am currently on very small doses of zyprexa and lexapro.
Much Love to you from Helsingborg Sweden, Show Love to yourself like you show to your Family, I wish you the best when quitting medicin, Do your Journaling every Week, do meditation on how the week went , how you felt , be kind to yourself, you are making many Goals , You and your Family will be in my Prayers, that you will make it , Congratulations to you Lauren , Greetings from Abel Zorin
I was wondering when you were planning to Jump (take your last medication dose). So excited for you! I tapered off of a benzodiazepine about 10 years ago. I was surprised by how scary it was to stop, and that it actually involved a big reorientation in my self-concept that was honestly a little disorienting for a few weeks. I'm so glad you have the support of your family and your online community. You got this!!! By the way, watching your triathlon video got me motivated to try jogging. I'm 55, never been a runner before, but I LOVE it! I'm terribly unfit, can only jog about 100 feet before I get out of breath and slow to a walk, but after walking a bit, my body wants to run again. So I run, then walk, then run, then walk... I can't believe it! I'm having the best time, a whole new world of possibility has opened up. You've changed my life, Lauren. I can't thank you enough!
I noticed this several times already, now i have to say it. YOur Husband seems very invested into you. like, VERY invested. He seems to have been given some part of his energy/soul/power into this whole experience that you two are having. I can see this shit because im an intuitive .... You should be very thankful for him. Much love to him and power and patience. YOu really need to get the life force from inside, the excitement for live. he is brave and sensitive it seems and introverted. hahahah i just saw him catching his breath after you two went running. he really feels like something special. Well, congratz on everything. Please only do what you feel good with. Bye. a brave man you have there. i can see it.
I tried protein meals from hellofresh and noticed that my schizophrenia was better. Thinking about trying greenchef as they do keto meals unfortunately it's costly but probably worth it. Hopefully it will give the inspiration and experience needed to do it alone and at a better price.
dont worry when going off your meds entirely, because worry causes stress and stress causes symptoms, so if you worry because your off entirely just remember to relax 😊
Keep your options open. There is a possibility of relapse, and you may have to take meds again. But always strive for a better quality of life, in this case - being drug free!
This is SO weird because I JUST started running today (I've always liked to go for walks and hikes) but I actually ran today and had been wanting to for so long. I felt/feel SO great from doing so! It is coincidental that you would post this today after my experience earlier. I also suffer from mental health issues and I went through a period of isolation and depression that has lasted longer than I could have imagined. I plan to keep up with my daily run and hope to make it a permanent practice! I agree with your husband that it is not actually that enjoyable while running because it is uncomfortable but it feels so great afterwards!
Completely, the amount of harm the stigma does is enormous. Less stigma means more talking, more questions, more research, more knowledge, less isolation, more possibilities.
your not a bad person if you have to end a friendship with someone with an mental illness people with bpd etc can be extremely difficult and your health is more important than anything 💙💙💙💙
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@LivingWellwithSchizophrenia Happy to see those beautiful eyes sparkle with life! Regarding dosage, Im afraid of the way Most docs and psychiatrists JUST follow the rough directions of the drug company or the research they have read, but STOPPING is an allllll new science and not as much resources have went into studying this. Very few will even admit these meds are extremely physically addictive. Mustless understand the need to cut a dose down in half and a quarter off that then stable and then half that slowly and then quarter that then half that eventually…. Slow slow slow and stable, you are not in a race.
Pls start advocating for UBI in order to improve mental health of the population.
@@Burevestnik9M730 what is UBI ?
❤ you have saved my son.
He’s on keto and doing well. He’s been on for a month or so no issues clear mind, happy. I’m so glad I found you. You are a wonderful strong woman. I have watched so so so many of your videos. You are so different from the beginning. I feel your heart and your joy.
I’m crying because you are a blessing to me, my son and so many people.
God bless you ❤
It's a miracle, it's bizarre, i suffer from depression and don't suffer from schizophrenia but i feel happy that she is sharing this which is already helping people like your son!
What a miracle please pray for other Yola's! I LOVE Robs wife (:
I have paranoid-schizophrenia with hallucinations. I have been dealing with an aggressive piece to this and ketosis is actually helping me get into a good headspace. I exercise to help with aggression in the schizophrenia with paranoid thoughts and it actually helps me focus my mind. This video reminds me I'm not alone. Thanks Lauren! You guys are awesome!
You got this 💪🏼
I also have paranoid schizophrenia
I have been taking medication for 2 years now
Freedom and health looks wonderful on you, Lauren. ❤
exactly
I’ve noticed how you have more joy since your changes with diet and medication reduction. You have a beautiful family. 🤗🤗
I agree; I notice more joy also....
Am in kenya and i have schizo i take Quitipin 600mg and lamotrigine to help with sleep..i watch your videos and feel like crying😞praying that i can meet someone who can truly love me the way your husband does..your a ray of sunshine
Kenya is beautiful and so are you.
@@Plethoralitythank you
Quetiapine (seroquel) saved me omg 😭
@@danielwalker2381am glad it did.thanks for your comment
@@danielwalker2381am glad it did…can we exchange numbers so that we can share experiences
Hi Lauren. My Daughter who is 41 has had a terrible year or probably more like 16 years. To much to explain. It’s heartbreaking for a mother and family to watch. I don’t know what to do. Just touch on the most difficult topics. She stabbed herself causing major damage. A open heart surgery from it. It’s a miracle she is alive. Been in the mental unit 3 times they now have her so medicated her movements are very slow. She shows no emotion. She is just a shell of herself. She has 3 daughters they are now with their Dads. She use to be so friendly. She use to teach ballet. Was so creative. She lives with my husband and I . She can take care of herself. Just know there will be a bit of slober and her eyes are swollen and water from the meds ? She was a beautiful women. She still is to me ❤. I cry a lot. Thank you for sharing your life.
I am so sorry 😢 I’m sure your heart is broken. I’m so sorry.
Im sure she will get better. Explore some different options that can be combined with meds. Check Medical medium Brain saver books or for starters check keto for her..
@@lorileessmallworld You are an Amazing Mother , Working so Hard for your Family,
Continue to Give Much Love to your Daughter every Day,
God i seeing your Good Work .
On certain days do things for yourself, go to a Gym and find a group and start light Training, then try every Day to do Cycling ore Walking,
Have lighter Dumbells home and do Training for you , that will help you so much,
We are created by Jehova God to be active,
Do lighter Training in the beginning.
Try take your daughter out on Walks ,and Training home lighter Training,
I was a Training Coach for a research in Sweden, doing lighter intervall Training whit the Patients, i am also eating medicine ,
You will be in my Prayers, and your daughter starting to be little more active in her life ,seeing her Gifts she have ,
Much Love to you and your Family from Helsingborg Sweden from Abel Zorin
Sorry to hear this. Psych wards should be illegal, more time needs to be focused on inner healing. ❤️
I’m so sorry to hear that. Has she tried Clozapine? It works where other meds have not and works quite well. It’s the golden egg of psychiatric medicine. It won’t turn her into a zombie, in fact it should do the opposite. Ask her doctor for it seriously!!!
Definitely ditto for me. I'm able to do so much more since starting keto....6months away from no meds at all! Your videos are amazing, thanks Lauren.
@@kathfennemore1131 This is awesome! Watching Lauren’s journey I can see it might not always be plain sailing, what you have achieved is amazing :)
Following Keto diet and being on a low doses of Prozac and Abilify injection makes me stable and able to work full time. I’ve noticed significant improvements by following keto. Highly recommend others to give it a try.
What an honor to witness your journey. Thank you for sharing with us.
PS : If anyone is searching for it, the tissue box is here ! (for happy tears) PS 2 : HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROB ! 🎂
💜
@@cataclopintheskywithdiamon8032 TY for the tissues!! 🥲
Need the tissues! 😍
Right?! The bit where Teddy tells Rob he has beautiful eyes. 🥹
I don’t have schizophrenia or know anyone with it or any neurological disorders…just wanna say I’ve been watching your videos for years now and it’s been incredible watching this journey. Truly. I guess I just wanted to say thanks for letting everyone join you for the ride. Through all the crazy highs and lows.…so cool
it's bizarre and beautiful at the same time
Same!
Please don't panic if you have delayed withdrawal a few weeks or months down the line after going off your meds completely. It happens, doesn't mean you're necessarily relapsing. You may also have some symptoms at various times as you're body detoxes more of the med byproducts that were stored in your tissues over the past years. All part of the process! I'm excited for you Lauren! Im now 6 months completely med free and so much more present and alive.
I have been following your channel since its beginning. I cry watching you grow- from HOPE.
Thank you Lauren & Living Well with Schizophrenia for this work!💪🏾❤️🙏
The results of your dedication, commitment and sheer hard work are wonderful to see. So, so well done to your whole family. Keep well. 😊
I’m so close to crying happy tears watching this - I did not have parents that were interested in being present or treating us better, our only option was to survive. I’m in awe of how you really consciously strive to do your best as a parent.
The past 8 months you and Rob have done amazingly, facing the ups and downs together. You both had a vision of how you wanted your lives to be and you worked hard and supported each other and look at what you have achieved!! ❤️ It has felt really inspiring to me as a viewer and you really should both be very proud ☺️
Lovely Lauren, you are beautiful and I’m carnivore, healing in many ways, too. Thank you for documenting your experiences including all of the years before keto-as we have been praying for you for so long. Much love from the Midwest, USA. ❤
Awww. I feels yah. After I discovered how to cure my disordered evening, it was as if the days got brighter month by month.
Even the way you record your videos is blossoming and demonstrating how much more alive you are feeling. 💐
Thank you for showing a way to handle this. I hope my daughter can do the same one day. Good job girl!
Tears of JOY!!! Thank you, this is huge:)
Am in kenya and i have schizo i take Quitipin 600mg and lamotrigine 150mg to help with sleep..i watch your videos and feel like crying😞praying that i can meet someone who can truly love me the way your husband does..your a ray of sunshine
I feel so privileged to be allowed to be included in your Fan Base Lauren, Rob and Kiddos! Thank you for saving me a seat each time you all saddle up and include us in your daily and weekly treks in your life! Hasn't always been gum drops and lollipops, but throughout the Good, Bad, Happy and Sad you have kept the REAL in your REEL Lauren and that is not lost on your Fans! We appreciate you thinking enough about us to include everything so that the ones like me who are not on medications at least get a sense of your world. Awesome to read the support and love from your Fans in the comment section too! I've learned so much in the last 3 years! Keep Smiling and Strutting! MOO From COW-lumbus, Ohio 👋
This is really sweet, guys!!! And I love how that guy approached the topic of describing someone with schizophrenia! Gives hope :) Great tips too for moving around! Lauren, so relatable about realizing how psych meds affect you SO negatively once you started coming off them while on keto. I'm a long way from completely getting off olanzapine (at the rate I'm going) but I'm on a much lower dose and it's 36% lower than the min effective dose for bipolar and 68% lower than the min effective dose for schizophrenia. The insomnia I got when I went down lower quicker than before scared me and it lasted a long time but with ZERO hallmark symptoms so I like to believe keto helped me get through it but I want to be more careful and I did get a super bad viral infection around the same time, which rest would have helped me with. Fortunately, I've been steady for a while now reaping new benefits, ready to go lower again b/c there is room for improvement.
It's so awesome to see you all thriving!! The hair dye job looks so good and professional. Happy belated bday Rob! And I'm so curious about the keto cake. You guys are awesome parents!!! Can't wait to see what you're up to next!
I get imsonia too if I dont use olanzapine. It seems to be the medicine. IDK how to fix it.
@@jeanpaultongeren125 I believe it's withdrawal for sure. It helped me sleep well all these years. What's worked for the insomnia so far is about 6mg melatonin and 150-250mg apigenin.
Lauren I am so happy for you. Congrats on your sucess with keto 🎉
I'm looking forward to lowering my meds at my next doctor's appointment. Psychiatric meds can be so draining. Ready to get out of the fog.
That is the wrong approach if you do not combine it with great changes in your lifestyle. But you of course know that already.
First lifestyle changes, then lowering medicine. Like Lauren did.
@@w.okkerse915 I've been on the Keto lifestyle since Lauren started months ago. I've already had one med drop.
I am amazed by your journey and your willingness to share in this way. ❤
I wish you and your family the best lauren
I’m so happy for you! Thanks for raising awareness
Congratulations Lauren and Rob, the milestones you've achieved are indeed miraculous! I've been following your journey for quite a while and I'm so pleased your unconventional openess/alternative approach, willingness to risk, comittment, hard work and discipline is leading to a bevy of joyful, immersive experiences and what appears, fingers crossed, to be a wonderous outcome. Keep up the good work. The road less traveled indeed!
I LOVE MIRACLES. ❤❤❤❤❤
I'm so happy for you Lauren. I'm so happy some of this is figured out for those suffering and wish the biggest wish it would help all!😢❤💛
Lauren- your joy is palpable. Thank you for sharing these moments with us ❤
So excited and happy for you Lauren!! ❤
I'm so happy for you!! I'm going to show this to a friend who has the same disorder and I hope can one day have remission too!! I've watched your videos for a long time and am truly impressed with what you've achieved with the metabolic ketogenic therapy.
what a beautiful family
WOW! I've been watching you for years and I'm so excited for you and happy your health journey has lead you here.
Lauren, you've inspired me to undertake my own Metabolic Ketosis journey to 1) prevent cancer (I have a BRCA2 mutation), and 2) hopefully ameliorate (or reverse?) my autism spectrum disorders.
I'm only one and a half weeks into my journey, but I've felt HUGE changes already! And I'm so excited to see what I'm capable of!
Thankyou, from the bottom of my heart, for sharing this with us all, and inspiring change.
So heartwarming ❤ seeing you so healthy and happy with your lovely family Lauren. Im trying to be more open with my husband around what my MH experience can be like sometimes. Its not easy but watching/listening to you and Rob is helping me to express myself better. Seeing a therapist is also really beneficial. Love from Scotland xx
These videos are a joy to watch. I am so happy to see you so happy and thriving! Inspires me to push through and stay hopeful in my own journey! All the best!
So amazing! Great job!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
I’m so happy things are going so well for you Lauren! 😊
Really happy for you and your family! And I will continue to follow your channel and wait to see you continue to do well without medication. And hope to congratulate after a year or more time. Your success is so encouraging for everyone who is still living with the illness and antipsychotics.
Lauren, you are such a brave woman and have been my inspiration for years. I have Bipolar 2 disorder and lowered my meds since March and feeling great! I take supplements that support my brain like Omega 3 and vits D3 methilfolate. Thank you for all the work you are doing, and cheers to Rob for his patience and support! You are a wonderful family! I wish you all health and joy!
The joy and hope on your and your children's faces brought me to tears. Thank you Lauren, for sharing your journey with all of us. 💖
6:28 this brings me to tears. I want my husband to be happy so much and enjoy life more. He loves us his family and is grateful but more than I wish he’s down because of symptoms.
Would love to hear more about your exercise training and the best exercise protocols for metabolic health
Continued success Lauren
Lauren and Rob i wish your family all the best now and in the future
Glad you found a decent person to help you .
I love this video so much. Thanks so much for sharing!
Despite what you’ve gone through you’re a better mom than most
This is so wonderful to hear ❤
Thank you so much for sharing your journey. This makes me feel like im not alone in my journey with schizophrenia. This is so inspiring. I hope to be able to stop my meds too one day.
Congratulations Lauren!! You are such an inspiration! It is wild to see how far you have come in a year...from hospitalization to this new found freedom and clarity and energy.
I want to start this journey...a care team isnt really an option for me. I have a psych doctor for meds. When I mentioned medical keto and your channel be was so dismissive of the idea .."try it if you want"...okaayy ..
I feel like this will be my new years resolution...the primary goal will be a reduction in the negative aspects of my illness like paranoia and delusion..it seems the meds only go so far and the sideeffects leave me drained. It just seems like a life goal of "Staying sane enough and staying out of the hospital" isnt fulfilling enough. It has been seven years since my last hospitalization with the current meds I am on, but I KNOW there must be so much more to this life.
I'm so happy for all of you
This got me teary eyed. This is amazing ❤ so inspiring
So happy for you.
I've used the Couch-to-5k schedule to get back into running, and it works well.
Living Well with Schizophrenia, Subscribed because your videos are always awesome!
My son on Lion Diet 8 months now. Tapering off psych drugs too. Life saving.
So sweet🥺🥺 I've been doing medical keto for about 7 1/2 weeks now and am feeling good!! I'm wondering how you're able to get in more calories and gain muscle though? Thank you!!
This is truly awe inspiring and I wish those including myself would share their life and the struggles those of us face having schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. Watching your journey for these past few years motivates me to want to share my own, especially because not everyone’s journey is the same but it shows that we can all reach a certain capacity of wellness in our lives that allow one to feel fulfilled; without the negative side effects of medication and the lack of support or i guess expertise from general psychiatrists who don’t have the knowledge to help us reach a level of wellness we’re all striving for or at least want to strive for.
Glad you are feeling so good, Lauren! Your family and you deserve to have you at your best. I am so happy for you!
miracle.
Your journey will inspire others was absolutely amazing your a wonderful lady all the best for the future your amazing ❤❤
Lauren, you looks happy and health, all the best for the 100% taper off process 🙌
Wow, you seem so happy and healthy. And you have a lovely family 😃
I like how you do healthy things in your life. When I have negative experiences it is too easy to get trapped in them and have them prevent me from getting better. Sometimes I just have to go out for a walk, pick up the guitar, pick up the phone and actually call someone, and actually take some advice, which quite often is to just get out and walk around for a while and see what happens. You have a beautiful family and a lot of abilities. You have a lot going for you. I have a schizophrenia diagnosis but I to have talents and abilities. I get stigmatized as a being a criminal when I am trying hard to go through life without breaking the law now. People accentuate my past crimes and my mental illness quite often is over looked.
I’m schizophrenic for 2 years I was taking this medication called risperidone it made me feel so empty and depressed I told my psychiatrist to lower more it made me feel better but I stop taking them for a month and I felt amazing I feel like my self I’m going out more I’m finding jobs I’m communicating these pills ruin my life so I’m glad you are feeling better
I'm glad you are feeling much better but be careful because I don't have schizophrenia but my daughter's father does and it may come and go but what I also wanted to say I used to be on those meds. They gave me such a high dose I was sleeping at my job after drinking like 2 red bulls just to try and open my eyes. I hate those pills too. I stopped once I got pregnant and now on other crap that just numbs your brain. Not nearly as strong tho but yeah risperdal sucks and mental illness. Stay well❤
I'm sorry you had bad side effects, and I am pleased to know you are doing great without medication. I wanted to say that we usually forget that the medicine helped when we really needed it, the side effects are just a reminder that pills in most of the cases if possible are not a lifelong treatment, but a help in times of need.
It is strange but in Poland we have the smallest doze of Latuda 18,5 mg. You are my light in the tunel❤
Happy for you!
I dont know why but I cried with this video. Seeing you happy brings me so much joy. You live in a beautiful place and have a beautiful family. Thank you for showing us how to navigate mental health issues. It has help me to want to try and be better and make changes in my life to be present in my family. Thank you! ❤
Edit: I have been struggling for the last couple of months with my mental health. I have not been able to work how I want to work or be present and capable of doing stuff with my family. Ive been isolating myself from everyone except my kids and is really sad. I want to be better. Im trying.
Lauren, I can see this is who you always were. It was just covered over. But you were developing into this version of yourself all along.
The cake looks incredible. Could you please share the recipe?
I'm so so glad it worked for you.
Enjoy life ❤
Appreciate you putting so much out there, and I'm glad it's working for you. I hope we all learn more about the mechanisms that are a basis for some of these problems and open up to well-tested if sometimes counter-intuitive solutions or mitigations. I'm curious about how much has had to be unlearned, I know people can learn bad habits that help them cope with their minute-to-minute reality that is outside of whatever their condition is causing, and I wonder if these therapies also allowed a clean break from other stuff tangential but not directly related to the core problems.
Again, thanks for sharing things. It's taught me a bit about what's possible
So happy for you! Can't wait to see where you'll be in a year from now continuing this keto diet! Carefully watching your progress as I may get on the keto diet as well. :)
I´m so happy for you ❤ Hopefully the same will be possible for me as well, some day ❤ Struggling quite a bit right now
I'm so proud of you
After taking psychiatric drugs for thirty plus years I no longer feel I need an anti psychotic med. And I worry about getting TD. I take the medication because that way I get to have a home and income from the government. I don't believe I'm able to work. The commute alone would be too exhausting. I am interested though in working from home but it would still be part time. I have much gratitude for what I have and I am not sure about whether I need an antipsychotic. I suffered irreversibly damage in the past going off but that was a long time ago. I am currently on very small doses of zyprexa and lexapro.
I enjoy you two so much when you talk about things together! You seem so happy and relate together so well!
Much Love to you from Helsingborg Sweden,
Show Love to yourself like you show to your Family,
I wish you the best when quitting medicin,
Do your Journaling every Week, do meditation on how the week went , how you felt , be kind to yourself, you are making many Goals ,
You and your Family will be in my Prayers, that you will make it ,
Congratulations to you Lauren ,
Greetings from Abel Zorin
I was wondering when you were planning to Jump (take your last medication dose). So excited for you! I tapered off of a benzodiazepine about 10 years ago. I was surprised by how scary it was to stop, and that it actually involved a big reorientation in my self-concept that was honestly a little disorienting for a few weeks. I'm so glad you have the support of your family and your online community. You got this!!! By the way, watching your triathlon video got me motivated to try jogging. I'm 55, never been a runner before, but I LOVE it! I'm terribly unfit, can only jog about 100 feet before I get out of breath and slow to a walk, but after walking a bit, my body wants to run again. So I run, then walk, then run, then walk... I can't believe it! I'm having the best time, a whole new world of possibility has opened up. You've changed my life, Lauren. I can't thank you enough!
I listened to each segent a bit...spent a good two minutes on the whole video...good for her
and family...
It’s wonderful to see you doing so well, Lauren 😊. Thank you for giving us another glimpse into your life.
Did you heard about KarXT? The new treatment for schizophrenia with little side effects? That also treats some negative symptoms.
I noticed this several times already, now i have to say it. YOur Husband seems very invested into you. like, VERY invested. He seems to have been given some part of his energy/soul/power into this whole experience that you two are having. I can see this shit because im an intuitive .... You should be very thankful for him. Much love to him and power and patience. YOu really need to get the life force from inside, the excitement for live. he is brave and sensitive it seems and introverted. hahahah i just saw him catching his breath after you two went running. he really feels like something special. Well, congratz on everything. Please only do what you feel good with. Bye. a brave man you have there. i can see it.
Yes. I agree. I'm an intuitive too and could really see his very empathic old soul energy. He is really a giver
Congratz Lauren! You are a shining example of how this works in people
You have slimmed down heaps ❤🌻💜
Good to see your smile
i just discovered this channe l as a schizophrenic and it makes me veryhappy tahnk you :3
Its amazıng to see you healthy and happy❤❤🎉🎉❤❤
Can you do a video of a step by step guide for using the ketogenic diet and metabolic therapies.
I tried protein meals from hellofresh and noticed that my schizophrenia was better.
Thinking about trying greenchef as they do keto meals unfortunately it's costly but probably worth it. Hopefully it will give the inspiration and experience needed to do it alone and at a better price.
are you from holland
dont worry when going off your meds entirely, because worry causes stress and stress causes symptoms, so if you worry because your off entirely just remember to relax 😊
Keep your options open. There is a possibility of relapse, and you may have to take meds again. But always strive for a better quality of life, in this case - being drug free!
no the ketosis fixes it. I saw anoter guy on schizforum who experimented with this/
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This is SO weird because I JUST started running today (I've always liked to go for walks and hikes) but I actually ran today and had been wanting to for so long. I felt/feel SO great from doing so! It is coincidental that you would post this today after my experience earlier. I also suffer from mental health issues and I went through a period of isolation and depression that has lasted longer than I could have imagined. I plan to keep up with my daily run and hope to make it a permanent practice! I agree with your husband that it is not actually that enjoyable while running because it is uncomfortable but it feels so great afterwards!
Thank you for sharing!
Completely, the amount of harm the stigma does is enormous. Less stigma means more talking, more questions, more research, more knowledge, less isolation, more possibilities.
How much better are you?
your not a bad person if you have to end a friendship with someone with an mental illness people with bpd etc can be extremely difficult and your health is more important than anything 💙💙💙💙
I think Yt posted this under the wrong vid 🤔