Ann Bracken, Author // Crash: A Memoir of Overmedication & Recovery
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
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Crash: A Memoir of Overmedication and Recovery is the story of Helen Dempsey and her daughter Ann who both fall victim to the same regimen of overmedication at the hands of the mental health system. Helen struggles with intractable depression and initially turns to self-medication with alcohol, but finds herself unable to recover despite numerous drugs, hospitalizations, and electroconvulsive therapy. Ann vows to build a different life for herself, but eventually descends into the pain of a mysterious migraine and intractable darkness lasting for many years.
Severely overmedicated with opioids and psychiatric drugs, Ann crashes her car twice. Because traditional medical treatments have failed her, she challenges her doctors' advice and discovers ways to heal the source of her physical and emotional pain without drugs. The question of why her mother never got well continues to haunt her long after her mother's death until she finds the missing puzzle pieces she'd searched for all her life stashed in a dusty box in her sister's attic.
Blurb I wrote for Ann’s book:
Ann Bracken artfully braids her path out of chronic pain and major depression while questioning the system designed to help her, and reaching back into her mother’s history to find a way to help her too. Her journey of self-discovery and healing provides an alternative to the traditional mental health care system that fails so many of us with just more pills and appointments. I saw myself (and many women friends) in her story, too: the blind trust that many of us give when we put our mental health in the hands of doctors who are misled to thinking that pills are the cure to for our life situations, the abuse and trauma we have endured, and the human condition itself.
The author gives us permission to ask questions about our current mental health treatment, read and educate ourselves on the risks, benefits, and alternatives to the status quo system, and above all, not to quit until we find our own path to a healed life. Through compassion for the people that hurt us and the bittersweet moments that come along the way, Ann shows us a path that leads to a full heart and a clear mind. Let Ann’s story break open the possibility that life can be and is good without (or with less) medication. There are many of us who have taken the same path she found and reclaimed our minds and our lives.
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Thanks for the interview, Angie. Always so good to talk with you and thanks for giving me a place to talk about my journey and share my story.
My face is sodden with tears. These gals have given me a case of “rainy face.” But after the rain the earth glistens & glows.
That this woman is alive to tell her tale - just blows my mind. I’m really amazed .
💖☺️🙏🏻 Thank you !!!
Wonderful interview and channel. ☺️
I sure wish your book was on audible. My brain is too damaged to read but I can listen.
Great interview. Thanks for bringing awareness to this crisis. I too was polydrugged into hell. Now healed but very angry with psychiatry.
Any ptsd after that?
No ptsd. Took 6 months to see a bit of light. Then progress took over. Healed after 8 months. What might have helped was Carnivore diet and 2 hr daily walks.
@@tonygiles9389 did you taper??
I was addicted to benzos for 20 years. My Queen 👑 Showed me that it was the drugs the whole time. I could turkey 🦃 off 8 years ago. The symptoms are Hell on earth, but I'm healing slowly but surely. I just wanted to Say Thanks so much for your video . They are God Work 🙏🏽💜
33 years on lorazepam and was stopped much to quick. Now my legs and feet are shaking and cramping 18 hours a Day since 25 month's ( realy severe shaking).11 month's off now. When i take clonazepam the shaking stops.
My age is 70 years. Must i reïnstate clonazepam or hope for the best that my receptors restore ?
Thank you brave ladies!!!
Bless you🙏❤️
Angela Peacock! Every video you post i see you getting better & better & better! You're such an inspiration! Thank you for all you do!
I’m trying to bring you all the best content possible!
She looks so healthy and happy! Thanks Angie ❤
@@justkeepswimming6549 Yes, I'm very happy and very healthy!!! So grateful.
@@ablueable i am just afraid that after all this withdrawal i wont like life. I am already tired of all of this what happened to me and still is happening. I lost many years of my life and have no family and wont have it.
@@mitch5222 I can see that your journey must be very difficult and dispiriting. Please hold on and know that you are in my prayers. One step at a time.
I’ve got a crazy story for you if you’re ever interested in hearing it. Retired RN 🇨🇦. Twenty-two medications that I remember in less than 10 years. It all started with chronic migraine diagnosis. Ann’s story is so similar to mine it’s eerie. This is a bittersweet moment for me. On the one hand I feel so understood and on the other hand I’m so livid that this has happened to us. I down to one medication-Gabapentin. Tried to get off it several times but haven’t had much luck. My new doctor is willing to work my with the taper when I’m ready.
Wow, thank you for this interview. Very enlightening , especially the manifestation of pain experience x
Thank you for this insightful interview, Angela and Ann. I recommend this book for those who may be dealing with similar struggles, those who have friends and loved ones who are struggling, and anyone who is interested in the world of the treatment of depression and pain with drugs.
Great interview....to all Angie is a great awsome coach, I highly advise talking to her
Thank you Angie. I watch all your videos and follow you. Hope one day to meet you. Thanks,
Hi angie. I seen your vidoes for years and you have grown alot. You should be proud of yourself and what you have accomplished. Pad yourself on the shoulder from me. All the best. Take care.
Great interview Angie. Thanks for hosting these conversations. I’m eager to buy and read Ann’s book. Thanks for being a beacon of hope!
Glad you enjoyed the interview, Michele. I hope you enjoy the book!
you are so smart youre my inspiration !
You look really good nowadays.
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I'm like her mom. Never had a chance.
Angela, how do I send a donation directly to you? - Shelly
Wow, thank you Shelly! Here is a donation link: paypal.me/angp1111
I deserved to be as lucky as you
What do you mean by this comment?
there are sadists that work at psych wards? ???😂😂😂