What Happened When Allison Went Off Her Meds
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It makes me feel weirdly emotional to see you two sitting next to each other again. ❤️
I know rigut
my doctor increased my dose near the beginning of the pandemic and in my check up I told her I was worried it was making me numb because I stopped crying everyday. She very kindly let me know that that's what antidepressants are supposed to help with
i...relate lol
I always missed the crying! Crying helps me release the emotions.
Lololololol I’m experiencing the same exact thing. The only emotion that I used to feel was an overwhelming sense of sadness and now that that’s gone I feel numb and I hate it. I’m actively looking up things that I think will make me cry. Things like medical dramas always used to get me, and things like infertility stories. But I’m only crying like once a week now or if one of my other disorders gets triggered. 🤦🏻♀️
I grew up watching these two in my teen years and will probably watch them for the rest of my life. Entering my twenties, I can relate even more to the topics they cover.
Cuuuute, it’s weird seeing this without a split screen!
I went off my meds about 6 years ago. I regret it terribly. I truly know that some people can handle life with just therapy and good thoughts... but I'm not the one.
I know now that I shouldn't be ashamed.
I was diagnosed last year as type 2 bipolar, and I've had some very well meaning people ask if/when I intend on going off of them. Allison's description of medication not just fixing things, but changing how much power they have over you is so perfect. I've also been having a similar issue to Gaby where I'm trying to figure out what is just "normal" vs what is "detached and depressed"
same. I've had my family telling me that they will support me because they want me to be "cured". I used to mention that there's no cure for bipolar disorder, and then they will start to tell me that I don't have bipolar disorder, or that the meds are not working, or (this one is the worst) that the meds are making me very sick and not helping me. I ended up just not talking about my disorder with my family.
I have anxiety and depression. I’m not medicated right now after years of going off and on. I am functional right now but I definitely wake up with that edge of anxiety every day. Some days are just terrible depression days and I crawl through them, get my work done and lay under a blanket, tell myself the next day will be better. I manage it with mindfulness but I don’t think I have the best quality of life without medication. It’s really something to consider.
My dad is always telling me that I should try to get off my meds and I'm just like... 😬
On his side of the family, the *VAST* majority of them have chronic mental health issues. 5 out of 7 siblings have had serious mental episodes which required hospitalisation or sabbaticals with intense therapy, etc. Soooo many of my cousins are receiving treatment for various issues. Like, it's clearly a hereditary thing? Which is not something that's just going to go away? I've accepted that I'll probably be on meds for the rest of my life. He hasn't. 🤷🏻♀️
Idk how to explain to him that I can't just magically change my brain chemistry. 🙄
I love that you both have bangs now. It suits Gaby & I didn't imagine it as so!
I was just binging on old content and damn new content
LITERALLY same i was watching a jbu video from 2016 and then this came up in the recommended?!?!
Gaby: Bright Hair - Dark Mic
Allison: Dark Hair - Bright Mic
Will be taking no further questions about the relevance of this observation ^ thanks x
It is so good to see you guys in the same room. This is a good video because I've been on antidepressants for about 15 years now. I've had to go through the process of changing meds a couple of times, so I could relate to every thing you said. Especially the part about the meds are working so I feel good and don't need them anymore.
This is so insightful, thank you both for being so candid and especially Allison speaking about how she has a new awareness and can potential empathise more from this experience :,)
That's a great example and reminder that we should reevaluate things we assumed about how our actions affect ourselves. And long time scales like every couple of years are a good way to do it without constantly second guessing yourself. I had a similar reevaluation where I thought I was doing everything I could, but in reality I was doing the most I could manage back when I had a busier schedule.
This such a wonderful out video! I think they’re still a huge stigma around medication for mental health. It has literally helped me a 1000% with my life with ADHD. I really related to your experience with meds helping you getting yourself out of a panic state more than avoiding the panic state in the first place x
Allison, I really REALLY appreciate you sharing your story. I went through something similar a couple of months ago and found that medication was really the right thing for me and not something I could ‘think’ my way out of, even though I was also a clinician and really enjoying therapy. I encourage you to use person-first language even in off-hand comments like when discussing who should take meds - I believe you said “a schizophrenic or bipolar” and it would be really great to see you take the time to spell out “people with psychotic or bipolar disorders.” It would mean a lot to me!!
She said "If you're schizophrenic, if you're bipolar" not A schizophrenic or a bipolar.
Good honesty and openness- thank you. I live in the UK now and thankfully have the National Health Service, you know social medicine paid through central taxation.
I decided to try new meds around April of last year and ultimately came to realize that the original med is still the best for me. A lot of what you talked about really resonates with me. I really do love me on this med. I’m just so much happier and actually me.
Thankyou for being detailed and open about your lives Gaby and Allison. Recently, I confessed to my therapist I still feel like garbage, like damaged goods, because of the impact mental health has had on myself and my family…and to hear people as amazing as you both go through life and have specific experiences makes me feel human and valuable. Because of people as human and valuable said to others like me with this episode: we’re all valuable and doing our best. Even if we don’t always say the darker parts of our lives out loud
One thing I highly suggest if people are looking at different meds is that there is genetic testing now that's super easy! It's just a mouth swab and they can put your swab through a whole gamut of different mental health medications like SSRIs, anxiety meds, depression meds, anti-phychotics, etc. It shows how you will respond to that med and which one would be best for you. I think that that helps take the guess work out of diagnosing meds and can make it much much easier for process. Definitely recommend asking your general care doctor or psychiatrist about it.
Hi, definitely don't want to invalidate your experience. I'd just like to add that there is no clinical evidence that these tests work. A lot of professionals advice against them at this point in time since they're quite expensive and haven't proven to be any more efficient than the generic route at this point in time.
I identify with so many things Allison is saying - I'd really like to thank you for expressing and articulating these feelings and lessons so well. Both of you have had a great impact on my life - on how I view and accept myself, from sexuality to mental illness and accomplishments. Sometimes I feel a bit stalker-y for following two people for so long and to this extent in different platforms and mediums but it's been very fun and helpful.
I relate to Gabby a lot. I was diagnosed with bipolar 2 last year and have been taking the correct meds since. It's always a balance of figuring out what dosage and what type is right for me. I'm currently off my meds due to an insurance mixup and now I am seeing just how important they are for me and my wellbeing.
Hi Allison! I relate to this so much. I'm a therapist who also has OCD and has navigated a lot of similar thoughts and feelings. I appreciate this video. Also reaching out because I met your grandfather recently ..... because he's dating my auntie! They seem pretty smitten, it's cute. He's really proud of you, I found your channel because he told me about you due to our shared profession. He's a really sweet guy.
Cannot explain how happy seeing them in the same room made me. Ahhhhhhh!!!!❤❤❤
such a brilliant thing to put out into the world!! thanks guys
This is a great discussion. I am learning lately to understand a difference between bad mental patterns that have been picked up that can be worked past vs mental patterns that are built into your brain structure.
This past year I’ve been meditating a ton and greatly reduced my base level of anxiety, which is very nice. Still have ADHD though! And I’m recognizing that some of my issues are gonna need some therapy. And some things are probably here to stay, but I can figure out how to work with it better.
Thank you for being so open about this!
Thank you so much for addressing this!! There is such a pervasive attitude that meds for mental illness are a temporary fix and once you’re on them there’s so much pressure to get off them as soon as possible. There have been so many people in my life who have, without any qualifications, told me that I should get off my meds. I am non-functioning when I’m off my meds. I’ve found a good balance for now, and why should I fuck with that just so uncle Joe has a better opinion of me because for some reason being on meds is somehow “wrong”? For a lot of people, meds are a lifelong thing, and that needs to be normalised.
insurance is SO DUMB and the way we have to do absolute paperwork gymnastics to get anything accomplished is cuckoo bananas. my wisdom tooth surgery has been rejected twice and my pharmacy can't get me more than a 1 month supply of ZOLOFT (IT'S FUCKING ZOLOFT PEOPLE!!! WHAT AM I GONNA DO??) ugh. end rant. i totally get what you're saying about the point of reference - I started depression/anxiety meds last year and know EXACTLY the concrete ways it has helped me since then. thank you so much for sharing Allison!
I love you two!! Following since the Buzzfeed years.
I'm not on any meds for mental health, I haven't been diagnosed with any mental health issues, but I have two autoimmune diseases and I have been on strong medication for the big one (dermatomyositis) for the last 2 years. One of my medication is corticosteroids, and I related so much to what Allison said about her weight and body. Between the disease (it affects skin, muscle and joints so, long story short, I get physically tired, mainly in my legs, very easily), the meds, my new hormonal contraception and the pandemic, I have let myself quite a bit, and have won weight, though I've always been chubby, I've never been this chubby.
I have been blaming all of the above, and keep saying to myself "when I get off the meds, I'll have my old body back".
Now I've gone off two of my meds, and I am going to have a test next week to see if I can get off the steroids and I am starting to worry that I won't get my body back if I get off them. That it is actually my fault I got bigger... I'm going to try to think about it like Allison put it if it is so: It wasn't the meds, it's my body, and I can actually change it if I want to and work on it.
I hope it works, I am not the most strong-willed person when it comes to exercise, mainly with the pandemic and me being on immunosuppresants until recently, I don't think I'll go into a gym until the end of 2022 minimum. :( (I live in rainy Ireland, and it is night when I finish working for almost half of the year... See? Already giving excuses.)
This came up in my recommended at a good time for me. I've been on and off ADHD and SSRI meds since high school, but haven't taken any since March of 2018. I struggled in 2019 but the pandemic REALLY sent me through a loop and after 6 months of wrestling with my insurance and doctors I'm finally seeing a psych in two weeks. I'm hoping I get some relief soon because I feel like a broken human.
I did the same thing with blaming my anxiety medication for my weight gain, but I think I just went from 24 to 31 years old lol
Yeah I have bipolar too and I get scared when I feel happy at all because I assume I'm manic and it's gonna switch from happiness to irritability and impulsive decisions
I also went off my anxiety meds and still had the weight gain and was very sweaty and then my doctor diagnosed me with Graves’ disease and hyperthyroidism!
if you had hyper you would loose weight though, I have had it for more than 20 years.
I recently decided I wanted to come off atleast some of my meds and spoke to my psychiatrist and he took me off the antidepressants but has said he doesn’t see me coming off my last antipsychotic but that we can adjust the dosage and I’m super happy! The adjustment has been good as I’m in a great place and it’s nice to know if I need more support I know what works
Just went through this… went off my meds for a few weeks, and it was bad. Felt all the same things as you did, and now I’m back on them. It’s so silly that we feel disappointment in a way when we need to go back, when we wouldn’t think that about medication for any other illness 😕
I didn't want to take medication (diagnosed with bipolar 2, adhd, generalized/social anxiety), I was of the mindset of "I am me and I don't want medication to change who I am". I eventually agreed to it, but the experience was not ideal... in short I spent ten years of my life cycling through not people who could prescribe medication, but also a long list of medications to boot. So many of them caused side effects, so many of them didn't help enough and just left me numb and secluded. 2019 ended in grief for me, my pet cat had to go over the rainbow bridge and I was devastated... then as soon as I began to feel a little better... global pandemic. I haven't gotten that low in a very long time... and I had thoughts that made if very clear I needed medication again or I don't even know what might happen to me. For now I am on medication that helps, and I am doing things online with RUclips that give me something to focus on. Everyone has their own journey and it can really suck at times, but the only way to find out what is needed is to trudge through life as best you can. 🖖
I am on the same experiment with knowing that this is the consequences. Also sweating more and weight gain and wanting to see if going off will cause weight lose and less sweating without getting anxious, depressed again. Everyone is different but I agree what you are saying. Knowing if you need it is important. Good job Allison, Great video guys!
So one of the antidepressants I was on caused me to gain weight and increased my blood pressure (my PCP confirmed that these were caused by the medication). When I switched to a different med, I didn't lose the weight and my blood pressure has taken nearly a year to come down almost to normal. All this to say, meds cause side effects, and my experience was that the side effects didn't disappear immediately after going off of them.
When I was in college I went off and on my SSRI because I kept running out of it and putting off seeing the doctor. It was awful and I hope to never go off my meds again 🙃
Really empathize with this. I've been on antidepressants for a decade and I'm now suspecting a lot of the symptoms may have just been unmedicated ADHD. I was in such a low place when I started on them, but now that I have so much more positive in my life I'd love to go off of them (and get some ADHD meds)! But that whole doctors/insurance loop is a THING. Antidepressants are sooo easy to get, ADHD meds not so much.
Great episode and they are back together in the same room soo exciting ❤❤💯💯💯🤘
I know of a woman who can bring back your ex 2days without know daley💝🌹🌹
She helped me few days ago she does a work, I'm assuring you, you gonna testify 🙏🙏🙏
Absolutely love this
My Dr. temporarily prescribed a low dose of Prozac until I went to a psychiatrist. I never went to the psych cuz I was happy on this dose but it expired after 9 months. It was during the pandy so I didn't want to go back to the doc to get it renewed, or maybe I could've just called? IDK but during those 9 months my house was super clean, and now it's been a mess ever since lol.
I loved this video ❤️
This video reminded me to take my morning meds !
in the same room no less!
As a gal on so many fucking meds, I'm a pro. I just tweeted TO Kaiser and UCSF threatening to sue them for my second UNNECESSARY brain surgery because they "forgot" to get my meningitis because they *didn't get any the first time.* My brain is not a restaurant for seconds.
Together again! 🐸
They are together 😍😍😍😍😍
Uff I have struggled with mes for a long time... Inam off my meds because I couldnt stand them, but I do have psycotic breakouts from time to time, my husband wants me to go back on the meds but its just do hard... I hate the feeling, but my anxiety is bad, its painful, I feel it under my sin and my cloths feel like sand paper, the urge to hurt myself can be bad, I forget stuff that hapoened seconds ago and the suicidal thoughts are strong, they are always there still with meds but more managable, Im in process to go back on them, just looking for a new psyquiatrist, last one didnt felt right.
I'm a grad student on trintellix in Canada, and I've been considering going to the US for a PhD. Like Allison, I've tried I bunch of other meds that haven't worked, but I've never had a consistent doctor/psychiatrist prescribing. Does anyone know if it would be possible for me to prove that I've been on a bunch of meds so that insurance covers it if I move to the US and start seeing a new doctor? Or would I just have to go off trintellix? I never even thought about how moving to the US would affect my ability to stay on my meds...
Trintellix is my queen!!! Love her work
Just reminded me to take my meds!
Alisson, maybe the extra sweatiness has to do with the weight gain? From experience, I have been feeling hotter and sweating more easily the heavier I got lol
IN PERSON!!!
Are your anxiety meds benzodiazepines by any chance? They are notoriously difficult to get off from (benzo withdrawal syndrome is a thing) and the rebound anxiety could be due to withdrawal from the meds and not necessarily your underlying anxiety. The same is being discovered for some other classes of psychiatric medications, such as antidepressants. Just something to consider! Sending love and hope you find the right balance for you and your life :)
Trintellixx and Wellbutrin squad make some noise!!!!
How did the Wellbutrin help the Trintellix? Just gained weight from Well/Lexapro combo. not good.
i wish for no more thunderstorms ever again. make it stop.
Baybeeeeee!!
My mom went through the same deal with trintilex
I loooooove Allison....a version of me I can root for...team Allison
Is the couch show coming back? 😭😭😭
What *is* the difference between happiness and mania? Does anyone know?
Mania is more than just elevated mood, it is often coupled with insomnia, a general feeling of not being able to stop (hyperactivity), making rash decisions, etc. It also lasts anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of weeks. Happiness is just an elevated mood, an emotion. It is more fleeting than mania, it often comes and goes, whereas mania is constant until the episode stops
My opinion on meds is before you take them is to speak to a therapist beforehand, depending what it is but some things are more to do with your situation rather then anything else like I think talking to somebody can help and if you can solve it talking to someone, I would recommend that route but not for everything as certain disorders require medication. What annoys me is when doctors recommend it when you are seeking mental help and they just go straight to that, its like no I need to speak to someone about it. Taking meds should be in my opinion, something that should not be taken lightly and people should think a good amount before it and do their research.
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But also pregnancy... I have ADHD but when I start trying to fall pregnant I have to come off my meds...
If you’re thinking of going off your meds please please please talk to your psychiatrist first. They will talk to you about your symptoms and if going off is the right thing they will help you come up with a plan so you can slowly decrease the dosage so you don’t just go cold turkey. I had to go cold turkey for a couple of days because the pharmacy told me they could deliver the meds on time and then turned out they couldn’t and no one else in the area had them cuz they’re quite new. It sucked. Don’t do it if you can help it because cold turkey is not nice.
Secondly, on the topic of ‘everyone needs to be on meds vs no one should be on meds’ I do think that it’s really important to be open minded. I think for a lot of disorders therapy is even more important than medication so if you don’t feel comfortable trying meds and you’ve never been to therapy before please try it out. Yes it might be uncomfortable at first but so are a lot of things you’ve never tried before.
This video is freaking me out. - Gaby and Allison have swapped sides. Gaby is normally on the right. Allison on the left.
The podcast is cool and all, but when are you going to discuss the latest UFO news?
You need to consider PAWS when quitting a long term medication
The thing I really don't like about the whole "true self" type of talk is that 1. it implies that mental illness is kind of imaginary and 2. it is not used for any other type of illnesses. Like type 1 diabetics don't get told that their '"rue self" doesn't need insulin and they should try to go off it. That type of philosophy implies that the medication is changing who you are rather than regulating a broken body, and I mean that in the sense that the body is not working properly. Someone whose brain chemistry is messed up giving them anxiety disorder and needs medication to regulate that should not be treated differently than someone whose immune system is messed up resulting in an auto immune disorder (MS, hepatitis, IBD, the list goes on).
I just recently found out im on the autistic spectrum and it really helped with a lot of the issues I was having. Ive watched yalls show for a while and I am wondering if you've ever thought about being on the spectrum?
Hello... Jake from VSauce3 mentioned you had a mental health channel in a recent video he uploaded... I'm an alter in a DID system... Not exactly sure who's actually fronting right now... I've kind of just been a dissociated blob for a few days now since there was a recent tragedy in the family and my screwed up brain has still not processed that information to be able to react to it yet... I don't understand why this keeps happening to me... someone passes away... I just sort of dissociate for a long time, then randomly, out of no where some times MONTHS LATER finally break out into tears at the most inconvenient time possible... I already know she's passed away, why can't I just react already?
Leggo
Travel to India, go to Himalyas do Vipassana or other meditation.
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