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I was never broken! This is my current new identity. I have identified myself as someone with mental illness for the past 15 years. The drugs actually caused my “mental illness.” I was initially given a gabapentinoid for nerve pain at age 16. I was never broken!
Yes I love this. Thank you. We will heal. I didn't think I would. I was told I wouldn't. People in the support groups can be such negative fear mongers. I was told I wouldn't heal if I didn't believe I would heal. I was told I wouldn't heal until I was off all psych drugs. I was told I wouldn't heal for all sorts of reasons. Guess what? They were all dead wrong. I have come so far and now I know I will recover fully. I'm almost there. I really didn't think I was going to make it for a long time but I did. We will all make it. Our bodies want to get better and they know exactly what to do in order to achieve healing. Hang in there, everyone!
I still have days when I feel I will never again feel joy, yet some days I do feel sparks of joy, but on bad days it still feels like it will never get better. It's so day by day. I can't wait for the good days to outweigh the bad.
Hanging on to those sparks of joy is key. The stories in this video will give so much hope to people on this wretched journey. And Angie, thank u for everything.
Thanks for posting this. It’s hard to believe that when you still get worse after a while off of everything 😢 I tend to think something is broken permanently more than in other cases and that’s why it’s a downward spiral.
Me too! I will! ❤ I hope we are all so much better! Happy Easter ✝️🐣edit: I screenshot this and will print it and put it in my planner to remember. Although I might be listening to this at times I need hope!
@@brokenwingedsongbird Oh hun..I'm so sorry you feel that way. And you are right, I don't know your story...but He does. You gotta understand though, you have a Father who loves you more than you can imagine, and an enemy who is doing everything in his power to convince you otherwise.
@@brokenwingedsongbird I am here to tell you that is a lie straight from hell from the Father of Lies. God's ways are so much higher than ours.. He doesn't always answer the way we want. Paul asked 3 times for God to take away his torment, but God said His strength is made perfect in our weakness. He also said in this world we will have many troubles but TAKE HEART I have overcome it and that He would never leave or forsake us..But no matter what it looks like, lean not on your own understand but TRUST Him to bring glory from ashes..that's why it's called the good FIGHT of FAITH.This life is a breath and will be over before you know it but He still has you here for a reason..don't give up..He is for you girl,don't let the enemy tell you otherwise.
@@brokenwingedsongbird That is a lie straight from the father of lies. Jesus said in the world we will have many troubles but take heart for I have overcome them! Paul also pleaded with the Lord 3 times to take away a tormentor of his flesh but God said " My strength is made perfect in weakness". Yes this world is rough..Jesus knows that, the very people who He came to save KILLED Him,even though He already knew they would. What I'm saying is,there is a reason it's called "The good fight of faith" it's tough girl. But He promised to Never leave or forsake us, and to not lean on our own understanding, but to TRUST Him. This life is so fleeting and will be over before you know it, but Thank God we have a hope in Jesus. if you TRULY knew Him, you would know what I'm saying. Get to know HIM not the religious crap,but Jesus. Don't harden your heart towards Him He still has you here for a reason,but it's your choice on whether you are going to trust Him or the lies of the enemy.
Angie I ’m so deeply grateful for your mission of hope and love that you live every day…I’m approaching the halfway mark in my taper and so don’t know how I’m going to get through this but you bringing this to us fellow travellers in recovery is so amazing and it fills me in this moment with hope…sending love out to you…❤
We need more videos like this Angie! Thanks for posting this on your channel. Would you consider doing a longer video of clippings from those that have healed in the future. So many of us are holding on by threads and this video is like a glimmer of light in a very long and dark tunnel.
@AngiePeacockMSW Thank you for your response. I sent your video "Some hope for your healing journey" to four of my "benzo buddies" and they all said it offered them some well needed hope and reassurance. I'll be on the lookout for upcoming videos of this sort on your channel. Thanks so much for everything you do in the psychotropic pharmaceutical harmed community!
Angie, I have been watching your videos often as a source of hope over the years. This video you’ve put together is so inspiring and will be in my toolbox so I can keep going. Sending huge amounts of love and gratitude! ❤❤❤
The Paleo ketovore or 95% carnivore diet: I can't say enough good things about.... all the inflammation gone in all my joints and in my head(brain fog gone)... skin so soft n needs zero lotion.... Give it chance to change your life too :) You are never alone ❤🤸
I’m 3 month Ct. I was on 1-2 mg for sleep and sleep anxiety for 10 months. When my cycle is about to come I go crazy but I get a few good weeks of feeling alive. Does it get better? I need more of these stories. I’m trying so so hard to overcome this I have two small babies and I just need prayers and hope.
Thank you. Very sweet to make that video ! I am crawling. I feel completely overwhelmed and often think I cannot do this. How did I end up in this hell that tapering is. U are in the most awful state, and u have to fiddle around with doing math, handling tiny bits of tablet, and scales and razor blades. There is no liquid Val in my country even if I was brave enough to switch. I ma now completely terrorised my any pharma drug or supplement and now even food is making me feel ill. G*d help us all.
My husband watched this. He remarked - only one man and all other speakers were woman. He wondered how is it that women are more affected by withdrawal than men. Now I know there are many men going through withdrawal but would like to know the ratio of men to women in the benzo community. Just asking as to be able to answer his question, really. If anyone actually knows the answer to this. Thank you.
More women are medicated in the first place than men. I think it’s 1 in 4 women where it’s 1 in 6 men. I would also say men are more likely to be prescribed antidepressants and women more Benzos but I can’t prove that. It’s just what I’ve noticed. Also, I work with men but way more women probably 10x more women than men who I coach.
Thank you so much just saw this as a very protracted healer I woke up to this and it reminded me of how I feel. right now with the suffering. Please can you tell me when your protracted group is on for people in UK ?
I feel so desperate don't know how-to keep going. So poly drugged fast tapered ctd and now off everything worse than ever. Don't know what to do to survive this. Looking for hope but feel completely broken.
Thanks for doing videos on hope, that is the life line for us to keep going. I am now 8 months off benzos. I watch all your videos again and again to get encouragement that I will heal as time passes. Do you think the mental symptoms fade away with time? Because these are the most frightening and disturbing one for me
Did you end up making content somewhere or special group coaching session on your views of nutrition as it relates to taper/withdrawal/mental health? I said yes to your ig poll but think I might have missed it? Super interested to hear your take as I’m dealing with gut issues now at 2.5 months off
@@AngiePeacockMSW Pretty much everything. They take turns in like groups. Burning, boob aches, wonky cotton brain, anxiety, surges of anxiety then hot flashes, burning tongue. A set will calm then another set will come in. I was doing much better last fall but after the first of the year had a lot of loss. Not sure if that caused it? My setbacks tend to be from those kinds of situations. Can’t do anything about that. Just gets more lonely when you get so far out. I go to my dr and get regular checkups. I will have parts of the day where I’m really good. I just say to my brain…COME ON ALREADY!! lol.
Im stucking in cold Turkey seroquel widrawal since 3 months. Are there chances to to recover completley? Im torn between home and desperation. Althaugh im constantley improving since 3 months. I have the impression that im Still far away from completley recovery
I was going through protracted withdrawal symptoms and I didn’t even know did now I’m and a cross road of battling the fight yet again now I’m tapering off opiates, muscle relaxers, buspar, benzodiazepines, and lyrica I don’t know where to even start Im scared for my life, man doctor doesn’t even want me to try
Yes I’m 8 years off everything and yes around our cycles can be some of the hardest times for many women. Many experience worsening symptoms with hormones fluctuating. Eventually that all evens out and we are fine!
If it were this simple. So heartbreaking because i wouldbhave healed and i know im never going to now. Beyond too severe and no im not just saying that. Wish id taken a benzo instead so id be one who healed
@AngiePeacockMSW it's not about who took what drug. It's about level of injury (not simply wd) and loss and trauma during the ordeal. It's just not as simple as once the wd ends you are good
@AngiePeacockMSW what I meant by that is that there is tons of info on benzo and very little on ads unless you know exactly where to look. Also my dr knew about benzo danger when my first level of wd would have healed from zoloft. Bc he said "if this was a benzo you were taking I'd say yes this is from that" and instead I got gaslighted and tortured in a way that's too inhumane to describe. I'd have healed had I known about s.a. or inner compass. If I had been on a benzo even that dumb dr would have been the one to save me. So that's why I say I wish I'd been on a benzo
Angie,Do you have people in your group that are tapering or coming off antidepressants that are in they’re 70 s,I started coming off march of last year and I was 69 yrs old,now in my 70s been off for 9 mos, still struggling but do have windows of good days,
Really?! My mum is 83 and after surgery for femur fracture is going through hell. She is experiecing all sorts of symptoms 😢 She has become almost 100% disabled
@@AngiePeacockMSW I have no help at all from what they have done to me they want to prescribe me a muscle relaxer cause I’m so tenced up makes no since no wonder people kill themsleves there is no help from the health community I feel like they already murdered me I don’t no how to process anything other then physical pain that makes me think I have cancer always negative shit I had so many test ran on me I felt like a lab rat for years my body is failing me cause my brain has been turned to dementia state don’t benzos
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We need more videos like this! Success stories, positive outcomes, hope when we are feeling wrecked ad damaged, alone and desperate!
My whole channel is practically this! Check some of the older videos to see these full interviews and success stories.
I was never broken! This is my current new identity. I have identified myself as someone with mental illness for the past 15 years. The drugs actually caused my “mental illness.” I was initially given a gabapentinoid for nerve pain at age 16. I was never broken!
Yes!! You are not broken!
Yes I love this. Thank you. We will heal. I didn't think I would. I was told I wouldn't. People in the support groups can be such negative fear mongers. I was told I wouldn't heal if I didn't believe I would heal. I was told I wouldn't heal until I was off all psych drugs. I was told I wouldn't heal for all sorts of reasons. Guess what? They were all dead wrong. I have come so far and now I know I will recover fully. I'm almost there. I really didn't think I was going to make it for a long time but I did. We will all make it. Our bodies want to get better and they know exactly what to do in order to achieve healing. Hang in there, everyone!
I still have days when I feel I will never again feel joy, yet some days I do feel sparks of joy, but on bad days it still feels like it will never get better. It's so day by day. I can't wait for the good days to outweigh the bad.
You have no idea how much this was needed. A flicker of light in the darkness.
You are a beautiful light Angie! I'm so glad that you exist ❤
Hanging on to those sparks of joy is key. The stories in this video will give so much hope to people on this wretched journey. And Angie, thank u for everything.
You are so beautiful Angie inside and out 💜
Thank you Angie and all- enough horror stories and fear mongering! Recovery is possible.
We agree!
I'm going to listen to this every day. This is the best video out there
Thank you and we think so too! More coming!
Ending it with the woman who said she’s never seen someone not heal was perfect thank you❤
Thanks for posting this. It’s hard to believe that when you still get worse after a while off of everything 😢 I tend to think something is broken permanently more than in other cases and that’s why it’s a downward spiral.
Boy. This is the most inspiring event I believe I have ever listened/watched...Wonderful. Thank you so much..
Im coming back next Easter 🐣 ✝️ to check in!!! God will heal us!!!❤
Me too! I will! ❤ I hope we are all so much better! Happy Easter ✝️🐣edit: I screenshot this and will print it and put it in my planner to remember. Although I might be listening to this at times I need hope!
@@brokenwingedsongbird it is but you HAVE to believe it by Faith!
@@brokenwingedsongbird Oh hun..I'm so sorry you feel that way. And you are right, I don't know your story...but He does. You gotta understand though, you have a Father who loves you more than you can imagine, and an enemy who is doing everything in his power to convince you otherwise.
@@brokenwingedsongbird I am here to tell you that is a lie straight from hell from the Father of Lies. God's ways are so much higher than ours.. He doesn't always answer the way we want. Paul asked 3 times for God to take away his torment, but God said His strength is made perfect in our weakness.
He also said in this world we will have many troubles but TAKE HEART I have overcome it and that He would never leave or forsake us..But no matter what it looks like, lean not on your own understand but TRUST Him to bring glory from ashes..that's why it's called the good FIGHT of FAITH.This life is a breath and will be over before you know it but He still has you here for a reason..don't give up..He is for you girl,don't let the enemy tell you otherwise.
@@brokenwingedsongbird That is a lie straight from the father of lies. Jesus said in the world we will have many troubles but take heart for I have overcome them! Paul also pleaded with the Lord 3 times to take away a tormentor of his flesh but God said " My strength is made perfect in weakness". Yes this world is rough..Jesus knows that, the very people who He came to save KILLED Him,even though He already knew they would. What I'm saying is,there is a reason it's called "The good fight of faith" it's tough girl. But He promised to Never leave or forsake us, and to not lean on our own understanding, but to TRUST Him. This life is so fleeting and will be over before you know it, but Thank God we have a hope in Jesus. if you TRULY knew Him, you would know what I'm saying. Get to know HIM not the religious crap,but Jesus. Don't harden your heart towards Him He still has you here for a reason,but it's your choice on whether you are going to trust Him or the lies of the enemy.
Thank you Angie for spreading positivity instead of the negative crap on Reddit.
Angie I ’m so deeply grateful for your mission of hope and love that you live every day…I’m approaching the halfway mark in my taper and so don’t know how I’m going to get through this but you bringing this to us fellow travellers in recovery is so amazing and it fills me in this moment with hope…sending love out to you…❤
We need more videos like this Angie! Thanks for posting this on your channel. Would you consider doing a longer video of clippings from those that have healed in the future. So many of us are holding on by threads and this video is like a glimmer of light in a very long and dark tunnel.
Yes we have more like this one coming!
@AngiePeacockMSW Thank you for your response. I sent your video "Some hope for your healing journey" to four of my "benzo buddies" and they all said it offered them some well needed hope and reassurance. I'll be on the lookout for upcoming videos of this sort on your channel. Thanks so much for everything you do in the psychotropic pharmaceutical harmed community!
Wonderful compilation! Thank you so much, Angie. ❤
Ur awesome Angie!
Please more of this!🙏👍🎬
Just saw this Video...
Dear💕 Angie.. I want more videos like this... 🙏🌸
More to come!
Thank you for this!
Thank you so much, Angie! Very appreciative for all that you do.
You are so welcome!
I can’t even imagine hope today. It’s so hard. 😞
Watch the interview I did with Amy about not having hope. It’s 1 video before this one.
It's the physical pain...stomach, joints, etc that is hard to live with. A lot of pain
It sure is but it does go!
Try adrenal support Cytozyme AD.
Thanks for being such a badass benzo warrior and inspiring me! Hope you have some fun adventures coming up! *HUGS*
❤dear Angie.. You❤ are awesome....so beautiful✨❤ inside n outside 🙏
I keep telling myself that this chemical fear will pass but it's so hard to believe it at the moment, because the fear just won't go away 🥺
We have to co-exist with it as best as we can. It will go away as healing continues.
@@AngiePeacockMSW does it just slowly go away by itself?
Amazing, thank you so much!
Wow. Amazing. Thank you SO much ❤
Angie, I have been watching your videos often as a source of hope over the years. This video you’ve put together is so inspiring and will be in my toolbox so I can keep going. Sending huge amounts of love and gratitude! ❤❤❤
More more more please!
Thank you for putting this video together. I needed to hear this. ❤
THIS IS A VIDEO WE ALL NEEDED!! Thank you Angie for putting this together and posting it. Truly. Thank you!!
Thank you so much
Thank you Angie. Have shared with a few of my Benzo friends and also my whole family. A great watch. ❤️
Thanks for sharing!!
The Paleo ketovore or 95% carnivore diet: I can't say enough good things about.... all the inflammation gone in all my joints and in my head(brain fog gone)... skin so soft n needs zero lotion.... Give it chance to change your life too :) You are never alone ❤🤸
Thanks for sharing!
T H A N K Y O U Angie ! ! !
Tears. All I have are tears. Thank you, Angie. ❤
Fantastic stuff… I really like the hope section of your interview with Melissa Boutillier too
These videos you make are the only things that give me the slightest hope ❤
Angie, thank you for this video! Bless you!❤
Thank you Angie, really needed this dose of positivity ❤
Thank you ❤
This came at the perfect time. After a day filled with dread and panic… I was losing hope
Wow, Angie. This is beautiful. What a gift. Thank you.💜
It made me cry too when I watched it!
Thanks Angie very much i know i have come far yet the journey is not over and o will cross the finish line
I’m 3 month Ct. I was on 1-2 mg for sleep and sleep anxiety for 10 months. When my cycle is about to come I go crazy but I get a few good weeks of feeling alive. Does it get better? I need more of these stories. I’m trying so so hard to overcome this I have two small babies and I just need prayers and hope.
This is very good
Thank you so much for this, Angie.
Gracias Angie. ❤
Thank you!!!
This is so helpful
God work Angie 💜
Shared to my benzo groups.
Thanks!
Awe thank you so much.
Thank you. Very sweet to make that video ! I am crawling. I feel completely overwhelmed and often think I cannot do this. How did I end up in this hell that tapering is. U are in the most awful state, and u have to fiddle around with doing math, handling tiny bits of tablet, and scales and razor blades. There is no liquid Val in my country even if I was brave enough to switch. I ma now completely terrorised my any pharma drug or supplement and now even food is making me feel ill. G*d help us all.
My husband watched this. He remarked - only one man and all other speakers were woman. He wondered how is it that women are more affected by withdrawal than men. Now I know there are many men going through withdrawal but would like to know the ratio of men to women in the benzo community. Just asking as to be able to answer his question, really. If anyone actually knows the answer to this. Thank you.
More women are medicated in the first place than men. I think it’s 1 in 4 women where it’s 1 in 6 men. I would also say men are more likely to be prescribed antidepressants and women more Benzos but I can’t prove that. It’s just what I’ve noticed. Also, I work with men but way more women probably 10x more women than men who I coach.
I’m a man and this has brought me to my knees horrible shit to live with
Thank you so much just saw this as a very protracted healer I woke up to this and it reminded me of how I feel. right now with the suffering. Please can you tell me when your protracted group is on for people in UK ?
Here is the group: calendly.com/apeacockconsulting/protracted-support-circle
@@AngiePeacockMSW it says the calendar is unavailable at the moment.
Thank you!💎 What do you think about Dr mark Horowitz book called the Maudsley deprescribing guidlines ? Is it excellent?
I feel so desperate don't know how-to keep going. So poly drugged fast tapered ctd and now off everything worse than ever. Don't know what to do to survive this. Looking for hope but feel completely broken.
I recognize your name. You need some time to heal. You will get there.
It's been 5 years since the 1st ct and I have never recovered. Can you suggest anything to help as I am reaĺly battling
Thanks for doing videos on hope, that is the life line for us to keep going.
I am now 8 months off benzos. I watch all your videos again and again to get encouragement that I will heal as time passes. Do you think the mental symptoms fade away with time? Because these are the most frightening and disturbing one for me
Yes of course they do. I have a whole
Video on the mental symptoms. Click on my channel and look back to a year or so ago and watch that one.
@@AngiePeacockMSW thanks. You are so helpful 🙏
Did you end up making content somewhere or special group coaching session on your views of nutrition as it relates to taper/withdrawal/mental health? I said yes to your ig poll but think I might have missed it? Super interested to hear your take as I’m dealing with gut issues now at 2.5 months off
Would love something like this more directed to severely protracted. Almost 8 years and still fighting. Love this video though. Thank you Angie.
What symptoms are you left with? How is your functioning?
@@AngiePeacockMSW Pretty much everything. They take turns in like groups. Burning, boob aches, wonky cotton brain, anxiety, surges of anxiety then hot flashes, burning tongue. A set will calm then another set will come in. I was doing much better last fall but after the first of the year had a lot of loss. Not sure if that caused it? My setbacks tend to be from those kinds of situations. Can’t do anything about that. Just gets more lonely when you get so far out. I go to my dr and get regular checkups. I will have parts of the day where I’m really good. I just say to my brain…COME ON ALREADY!! lol.
@@patriciaridings4789what drugs did you take? And how long? Coffee/alcohol/cigarettes? What’s your diet like?
Im stucking in cold Turkey seroquel widrawal since 3 months. Are there chances to to recover completley? Im torn between home and desperation. Althaugh im constantley improving since 3 months. I have the impression that im Still far away from completley recovery
I was going through protracted withdrawal symptoms and I didn’t even know did now I’m and a cross road of battling the fight yet again now I’m tapering off opiates, muscle relaxers, buspar, benzodiazepines, and lyrica I don’t know where to even start Im scared for my life, man doctor doesn’t even want me to try
It’s a long journey. I have some free resources and a reading list on my website: www.angiepeacock.com
Angie are you off everything now? I watched a video from you and you said around your cycle was the worse??? just time will heal?
Yes I’m 8 years off everything and yes around our cycles can be some of the hardest times for many women. Many experience worsening symptoms with hormones fluctuating. Eventually that all evens out and we are fine!
🙏🏼🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶
If it were this simple. So heartbreaking because i wouldbhave healed and i know im never going to now. Beyond too severe and no im not just saying that. Wish id taken a benzo instead so id be one who healed
People in the video have taken all kinds of drugs. So have I. What drug is it that you think you won’t heal from?
@AngiePeacockMSW it's not about who took what drug. It's about level of injury (not simply wd) and loss and trauma during the ordeal. It's just not as simple as once the wd ends you are good
@AngiePeacockMSW what I meant by that is that there is tons of info on benzo and very little on ads unless you know exactly where to look. Also my dr knew about benzo danger when my first level of wd would have healed from zoloft. Bc he said "if this was a benzo you were taking I'd say yes this is from that" and instead I got gaslighted and tortured in a way that's too inhumane to describe. I'd have healed had I known about s.a. or inner compass. If I had been on a benzo even that dumb dr would have been the one to save me. So that's why I say I wish I'd been on a benzo
Angie,Do you have people in your group that are tapering or coming off antidepressants that are in they’re 70 s,I started coming off march of last year and I was 69 yrs old,now in my 70s been off for 9 mos, still struggling but do have windows of good days,
Yes even someone in their 80s!
Really?! My mum is 83 and after surgery for femur fracture is going through hell. She is experiecing all sorts of symptoms 😢 She has become almost 100% disabled
So sorry to hear that about your mother,my mother-in-law fell just last Sunday and fractured her femur and had surgery last night and she is 92,
Hey Angie, did you have anhedonia?
Of course I did! For many many many years actually. I have a tiny bit left but 90% of it is gone
How the hell are we to trust doctors anymore they scare the shit out of me after what they have done
We can’t. We have to be informed consumers going forward and trust but verify.
@@AngiePeacockMSW I have no help at all from what they have done to me they want to prescribe me a muscle relaxer cause I’m so tenced up makes no since no wonder people kill themsleves there is no help from the health community I feel like they already murdered me I don’t no how to process anything other then physical pain that makes me think I have cancer always negative shit I had so many test ran on me I felt like a lab rat for years my body is failing me cause my brain has been turned to dementia state don’t benzos
@@AngiePeacockMSW is there anyway or if you have room for coach I need reassurance that I’m in protracted