Neuroplasticity: A Path for Healing from Protracted Withdrawal Symptoms
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Mad in America presents a panel discussion on neuroplasticity and how it offers hope for healing from protracted psychiatric drug withdrawal symptoms. Neuroplasticity, a well-established scientific principle, highlights the brain’s remarkable ability to reorganize and form new synaptic connections, particularly in response to injury. While specific research on its application to psychiatric drug withdrawal is still forthcoming, a grassroots movement within the community is already leveraging these principles for healing.
Our panel features an inspiring group of individuals who have successfully used these concepts to recover from persistent drug withdrawal symptoms. They will share their stories and a diverse array of strategies, including brain retraining, mind-body techniques, and graded exposure, among others.
About the Guest Speakers
Ben Ahrens, CEO & Co-Founder of re-origin®, has consistently sought out new solutions and innovations to help humanity regain and optimize its health. Over the years, Ben’s path has led him through many areas of health including serving as a celebrity and professional athlete fitness consultant. During this period, Ben learned firsthand the incredible ability of the body to repair itself. Next, he took on the role of Executive Vice President at Innovative Medicine in New York, a provider of cutting-edge health therapies. While at Innovative Medicine, Ben dedicated himself to expanding education for clinical practitioners in advanced biological medicine with an emphasis on chronic illness recovery.
A soulful, insightful storyteller (see his TEDx talk), Ben powerfully distills complex ideas into compelling, succinct messages. In this talk, Ben speaks of his journey going from bedridden with severe chronic illness to full recovery. Shortly thereafter, he experienced protracted benzodiazepine and antidepressant medication withdrawal. He fully healed once again using neuroplasticity concepts.
Kay Loveland, PhD is a Clinical Psychologist in Asheville, NC. She attended undergraduate school at the University of North Carolina where she played varsity tennis, graduate school at the University of Massachusetts where she received her Masters and PhD in Clinical Psychology, interned at Georgia Mental Health Center and completed a postdoctoral internship at North Dekalb Family and Children's Center. She also worked as a Clinical Psychologist for the Women's Tennis Tour after having experience in college tennis and a brief foray into the world of professional tennis.
Dr. Loveland presently has a private practice in Asheville, NC where she specializes in working with people with chronic illness, antidepressant and benzodiazepine withdrawal and protracted withdrawal, and PTSD. She also was director of Camp Unleashed Asheville, a camp for people and their dogs, and was co-founder of Camp Hope Unleashed for veterans with severe PTSD and their service dogs. She is a certified Trauma Resiliency Trainerand developed a program using therapy dogs and teaching trauma resiliency skills to inmates in the prison system.
She is a frequent contributor to various psychology journals including Voices, a publication of the American Academy of Psychotherapists. Her recent publication was an article about becoming a mother, grandmother, and mother-in-law in one year after adopting a foster child that she met doing pet therapy with her goldendoodle, Misha.
She continues her pet therapy work at the hospital in Asheville and at Eliada Home, where she is also on the Board of Trustees. In her spare time she also enjoys photography, tennis, reading, and writing. She and her father wrote a book when he was ninety-eight titled The Last of the Rugged Individualists based on his 30 years of hiking and befriending hermits in the hollers of the Appalachian Mountains.
Gustav f. is a formerly psychiatrized person who resolved five years of protracted withdrawal sensations and chronic pain with a mindbody approach originated by Dr. John Sarno. He has since made a RUclips video A Mindbody Approach to Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal that shares his success story and proposes a possible model of protracted withdrawal as a neuroplastic syndrome driven by psychological stress. Gustav’s RUclips channel and free Substack are updated when he feels inspired to do so. He has particular interests in filmmaking, literature, hockey, and spending time with his family.
About the Host
Robert Whitaker is the author of four books, and coauthor of a fifth, three of which tell of the history of psychiatry. In 2010, his Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness won the U.S. Investigative Reporters and Editors book award for best investigative journalism. He is the founder of madinamerica.com, a website that features research news and blogs by an international group of writers interested in “rethinking psychiatry.”
Thank you so much! This information is priceless!
Excellent, thank you.
I've realised that due to many, many years of a SSRI that I was prescribed as a 'maintenance dose' has manifested into nuerotoxicity, that is going to take a few years to heal.
I am learning by researching as to what I can do to facilitate this healing.....
Same here. Please research how to S L O W taper. I'm 15 months off SSRI's , it has been waves and windows for me . . .I tapered way too fast per my doctor's direction. It's getting better ❤
Consider opening your mind to the possibility of psilocyben/microdose protocol or ketamine therapy... Both are proving immensely more effective than the ssri drugs from your friends in big pharma....
The first guy: if he’d been on Klon for 10 years, I’d wonder if it wasn’t Lyme causing the pain and seeing spots. That sounds like tolerance 🙏🏻 I thought I had Lyme before I realized the Klon was absolutely rocking me. I even started treatment for Lyme. I had so many tests, scans, etc.
Lyme symptoms are so similar to tolerance.
Servere wd from zoloft 10.5 months off zoloft after 16 years use.😢 Any suggestions.
I was on many drugs for my OCD and then the misdiagnosed me with bipolar put me on many other drugs my life is over. It's been six months. I am off my meds, but it's like nightmare😢 Akhatisia,anhedonia, cognitive impairment, insomnia, DPDR, racing thoughts, and severe mood swings،Hyper sensitive nervous. Any kind of neuroplasticity technique could you offer me please?
Time is you’re healer. It takes time to let the brain go back to homeostasis after you’re injury. We will all heal. Some people fast some people slow. And it is very very bad and dark and lonely. But you will heal❤
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It’s what you do with that time. Many in their 80, 90s beyond still carry trauma like it was yesterday. Healing is a verb. Peace and health.
"Any kind of neuroplasticity technique?" I would suggest getting out into nature, be amongst green plants and/or clean water. If you can walk, walk as much as you can half way in one direction, then save enough energy to walk back. If walking is too slow, then biking , if you can still balance. All away from industry and car noise and pollution. You can google green spaces and mental health.
Tai chi, qigong, and neigong are the best way to heal the nervous system. You can start with Damo Mitchell here on RUclips.
I really hope so also, struggling so bad@@lonnievisch6009
Good information. Bedridden with severe symptoms 1 year off from 18 years on sertraline fast taper. Neurological dysregulate injury. Brain pain and along the spine. Has anyone gotten better?
All speakers on video (plus host.) Description box below video. Search TMS and somatic healing stories.
@@Snowflake1374 you will get better too👍
@@lonnievisch6009 I really hope so.
I'm 20 months off after harm reduction taper.
25 years on a SSRI that was re-prescribed to me as 'maintenance'.
Now enduring a protracted acute withdrawal symptoms , which I've since learned can also be drug dysregulation syndrome.
This will be discussed in the upcoming webinar from Mad in America.
YES!!! 15 months out- it's getting better ❤
So judging from these comments, there's still no cure for withdrawal symptoms. How sad...
Lack of success isn't proof of impossibility.
There IS! It a process. It takes TIME, for me a lot of time....but I definitely see progress! Angie Peacock 's podcasts helped me tremendously.❤
I've realised that due to many, many years of a SSRI that I was prescribed as a 'maintenance dose' has manifested into nuerotoxicity, that is going to take a few years to heal.
I am learning by researching as to what I can do to facilitate this healing.....