The hard part for me is realizing everyone’s an asshole when I get off the medication. Quite literally my husband will see me cry and get mad. Great support I have.
@@Luke-vf6qc A.D. must never be stopped abruptly but stick to only one medicine and the dose should be reduce to the lowest mg gradually over a period of 3-4 months depending on how you feel during this process. The brain has to adjust. To feel better and prevent side effects reduce negative thoughts with a simple practice. Your breathing is closely related to the brain [mind] and gives good relief from stress-anxiety. To relax sit on a chair or lie down, neck straight, eyes closed and observe the sensations of your incoming--outgoing breath at the entrance of the nostrils for 5-10-15 minutes or more. Don’t fight your thoughts. With daily practice the mind will relax. No deep breathing needed. Do the practice without any expectations. When taking a walk, at office, in school, when reading, before sleep etc observe your breath sensations. Like me, make this a lifetime daily habit to have a good life. Avoid constipation as it affects the mind instantly. Best wishes and prayers. Senior Counsellor.
@@Jono1982 coming off them. I only took SSRI for 3 months + 1 month rapid taper. I think I also developed some sort of mild akathisia right now. These drugs are really strong and changes how your brain works.
If you do, just allow the depression and be your natural self ( the way God created you) without antidepressants, depression is a lie from the enemy to bring us down and antidepressants hold you back from being the real you, Don’t let depression defeat you.... I’m coming off of my antidepressants at the moment and I’m ready to face the depression if it comes back, you have to completely live it, if you start feeling a little sad just accept it without any judgement and say to yourself is ok to feel a little sad but I will be okay in Jesus name.... don’t listen to your mind and be mindful of the moment stay present and you’ll realize that everything is okay no matter what and that you’re complete and depression was a lie all along.
Nicolas Cage lol no, The government can’t control your mind that way, at least not yet, the enemy is the devil, who uses our minds sometimes because our minds create our emotions.
Reading the comments gives me more anxiety, it's been 2 years since I came off, and I'm becoming hypochondriac again, a dr said I had to take them again but I won't, I'll try to be as happy as possible, naturally! Wish me luck everyone! Be safe!
I suppose people who came off the medication without any problems might be less likely to comment here so there's maybe a bit of bias in terms of how scary some of the comments sound. Hope things stay positive for you in the future and wishing you all the best.
@@lot3741 Reduce negative thoughts and feel much bettter. Your breath is directly related to your mind [brain] causing negative thoughts-anxiety. For a relaxed life sit on a chair, back erect, eyes closed, be still and observe the sensations of your incoming--outgoing breath at the entrance of the nostrils for around 5-10-15 minutes or more. Don’t fight with your thoughts. Slowly they will reduce and relax the mind. No deep inhalation-exhalation needed. Anytime of the day or night before sleep sit or lie down on your back and observe your breath. Be as still as possible as it reduces negative thoughts. Make this a lifetime daily habit to have a good life. Best wishes Shyaaam Sir. -Counsellor
My withdrawal symptons have been nightmares, muscle aches, headache, slight fatigue, brain zaps, slight dizziness and slight anxiety. I'm guessing the symptons will get worse but i'll try push through. I've been on antidepressants for 6 years now, tried to quit very slowly for 2 years now. At the end of this year i hope i'll be free from this shit. 💪
Been on xanax plus ssri for a week. Suffering from post covid icu ptsd. Been isolated in icu for 64 days in a third world country. Drugs made it worse. Ssri was a nightmare and xanax masks the problem and has a big potential of making you dpendent on it and that would be a big problem. Faith worked best. Watch aaron kim here on CZcams... could save lives
I m with you!!!!!! Loneliness, nearly impossible to find a decent place to live,people more and more aggressive pfttttttttt both parents in a carehouse
Taking anti depressants was one of the worst things I’ve ever done. I told my dr I didn’t want anything with really bad side effects or withdrawals. She lied to me and put me on Paxil. Any time I miss a dose I get brain zaps and even vomit sometimes. I’ve been trying to get off them for months and it’s been really bad. I can’t work or barely do anything. I can’t even think straight.
Antonio Icosium It was all of that plus brain zaps, body aches and complete lack of motivation. I’m slowly getting better but it’s been almost 5 months now.
Can we talk I need information. I have 3 days without my medication, can we talk for WhatsApp 809 716 9098 I live in Dominican Republic, please I need information about it, because my psychiatrist don't say nothing about it.
@@karlarivera5696 Develop your mental muscles. Sooner or later anti depressants have serious side effects. I transformed my life some years back and now I am teaching others. After 10 days of doing the simple meditation explained below medication can be reduced and stopped after 20 days of daily meditation because the brain will be reprogrammed. .Your breath is directly related to your mind causing anxiety-stress. For a relaxed life without anxiety-stress sit on a chair, back and spine as erect as possible, hands on your lap with palms upwards, close your eyes, be still and observe your incoming--outgoing breath, body sounds and body sensations for around 10-20 minutes. Be as still as possible. Plenty of thoughts will come which is ok--slowly negative thoughts will reduce. The mind is slowly reprogrammed to relax. Stop watching negative TV shows. Do the above meditation twice daily without any doubts and your life will transform. Stop medication-continue meditation. Best wishes. Shyaaam Sir. -Counsellor-Teacher.
The dreams are the worst part for me as well as constant dissociation. I feel like antidepressants kinda numb you or a part of you and make you tolerate emotional pain better but in a way you lose a part of yourself. Coming back to the ‘real world’ after being on antidepressants is often scary but definitely necessary at a certain point
coming off of antidepressant is the worst. i was on citalopram 20 mg for 10 months, went down to 10 mg for a month and then 5mg for 2 weeks and 2.5 for 2 weeks. I was told by GP that 10mg is the lowest dose and I can stop taking them. Everytime I stopped taking 10mg I would get horrible brain zaps, fatigue and crazy mood swings. Even after I stopped 2.5mg, I had horrible headaches, blood glucose levels and stress levels went up for 2 weeks straight. I can still feel the lingering negative affect such as headaches today. please be careful when starting these drugs
This video is giving VERY uninformed info. The effects coming off of psychiatric drugs aren't some normal anxiety, etc. It is SEVERE severe more than your normal anxiety. It is anxiety times 10000. The dizziness is beyond normal. Hallucinations and severe suicidal ideation and even homicidal ideation is COMMON. A lot of people coming off these drugs become psychotic and aggressive. This cutesy video is not telling half the story. Very inaccurate. Plus, your depression comes back because the drug only masked the symptom. And the depression can come back HARDER than it was.
Nadine Lewis Very good points. I have watched someone very close to me dealing with this and what your comment details is much more helpful and accurate. It's so bad I thought we would lose him. YOU should make this video! Thank you.
Bullshit. That may have been like that for YOU, but it strongly depends on the person and the substance taken. For me it was usually not a big difference.
they can help people alot. but they hurt alot of people badly. i think bc so many kids and adults are being misdiagnosed which is obvious since the criteria to test a person is so awful and just stupid. so many being put on this stuff when they dont have a mental illness or feel sad and these days its unacceptable to go through the grieving process we must eat pills for that. so many people destroyed bc mainstream gives no alternative to drugs. i had a traumatic event happen and im somehow disgnosed bipolar and put on antipsychotics and i never in my life had an episode and never had mania. so if someone is depressed bc of they have a legit illness then sure these drugs will work. give them to people who are human and have tough lives are not mental and dont need drugs. they need to heal naturally and going through the process and feel it and cry. not be so drugged up they are zombies and feel nothing anymore. id just say if u ever need to get off them for some reason good luck. withdrawal is bad and is nothing like opiod withdrawl.
@@kmosher8 If my mechanic gave me a 50/50 chance that a repair would help my car or harm my car, I would not go to the mechanic. Antidepressants really help only about 30% of the people, and 50-80% have difficulty withdrawing from them. Those aren't good odds, and if it were my mechanic, I would fire him.
If whatever had caused the depression on a deep subconscious level isn't resolved and put into an empowering loving perspective then a person could be stuck for YEARS ...I wish you all well
i was severley abused by my psychopath father..... the anxiety and anger drove me into a deep depression and i was on SSRI's for 13 years . Life feels like a bad nightmare, I'm hoping Covid will take me back home.
@Gra 67 - There isn't always an event that causes depression. It can simply occur out the blue for no reason whatsoever. I believe in the genetics we inherit determines this
@@icosium1icosium957 I'm feeling good now, I had the flu like symptoms for about 2 weeks and all other symptoms associated with coming off the meds. Thanks for asking.
"most people dont have side effects coming off of antidepressants but some do". Considering the availables studies, more than 50% of people comming off of antidepressants will have (lasting) side effects, so that sentence should be reversed. How can this be considered information ?
Just stopped taking pills a few days ago. It is torture. The anxiety and the fact that anything, literally anything can tick me off is insane. I feel like I have roid rage.
@@palomaarras6943 A.D. must never be stopped abruptly but stick to only one medicine and the dose should be reduce to the lowest mg gradually over a period of 3-4 months depending on how you feel during this process. To feel better and prevent side effects reduce negative thoughts with a simple practice. Your breathing is closely related to the brain [mind] and gives good relief from stress-anxiety. To relax sit on a chair or lie down, neck straight, eyes closed and observe the sensations of your incoming--outgoing breath at the entrance of the nostrils for 5-10-15 minutes or more. Don’t fight your thoughts. With daily practice the mind will relax. No deep breathing needed. Do the practice without any expectations. When taking a walk, at office, in school, when reading, before sleep etc observe your breath sensations. Like me, make this a lifetime daily habit to have a good life. Avoid constipation as it affects the mind instantly. Best wishes and prayers. Senior Counsellor.
@@shyaaammeneen63 I don't want to be an asshole here, I'm gonna be honest though, when I was in withdrawal from antidepressants, none of these tips would work. My brain was too far gone, I would run outside at 3am and get into fights with everyone, I became an animal and couldn't control anything, not even my breath. I'm glad I'm out of that phase now after 7 months clean from antidepressants, I will never take pills for mental health again
@@User-pz4re May joy be with you. . I have recd a lot of positive replies. Since many years I have made it a habit to observe my breath sensations even during my normal activities and I am feeling relaxed and healthy. Anywhere-anytime it can be done. The best part is nobody comes to know that you are doing the breath observing practice as there is no deep breathing or sound. Normal life is not affected. Read my msg and do the practice regularly. Best wishes. Sr. Counsellor.
Until psychiatrists begin to take samples of their patients' brain chemistry to send to a lab and have it analyzed to see if said brain chemicals are "normal" or somehow abnormal, it can FACTUALLY be said that there is NO EVIDENCE to substantiate the theory that mental illnesses are the result of some chemical imbalance in the brain. It really is that simple. Don't let them fool you with their fancy rhetoric or their round about responses. Always, and I mean ALWAYS steer the conversation back to this one question. "How do you know the patient has a chemical imbalance in the brain if you have not in any way sampled, analyzed, or measured the patient's brain chemistry?". Don't let them get away with circumventing this question.
The chemical imbalance theory has been dead for decades but people keep repeating the damn thing. The current working theory behind antidepressants is that they increase neurotransmitter concentrations which force the body to make adaptations to maintain homeostasis, these adaptations, in the lesser serotogenic, and norepinepherinic sub-systems then create knock on effects in the Glutamate system - the one of the two main systems and the primary excitatory system - these changes to the Glutamate system then have antidepressant effects. It's a very round about and dirty method which takes weeks to have any appreciable effect - and it also explains why Ketamine which acts directly on the Glutamate system has time to action effects measured in hours.
I've been taking 50 mg of sertraline for almost two years when my psychiatrist reduced the dose to half the first week was horrible, I cried over everything, had a bunch of rage and anxiety then it got better some days ago he made me fully stop taking it the only thing I notice is that I'm sleepier than I used to be
I need to talk on this. I can't overcome from side effects, I can't be without medicine for 2 or 3 days. I feel like very low and tired. Please help me talk to me.
I'm on 150 and I've reduced it to 100 for the last 2 days.. I do feel a little more emotional, but I just try to remind myself that whatever is coming in the next week or so, that this is me. And I deserve to be myself.
I asked my doctor if I could come off but they keep making me take them and it really pisses me off. They think I want to come off because I feel better. I want to come off because I don't want a little pill controlling my life.
How long have you been on them now? It is not meant to be forever, up to a year at a time, along with other types of behavior/attitude therapy. Slow weening off for best results in stopping, do NOT stop suddenly or too fast. No one can make you do anything so educate yourself and take control! Best wishes
Yeah I’m the same I don’t want to rely on pills but the way they say keep taking them makes me feel like I need them I really need some truth into what will happen if I don’t constantly take them I don’t wanna have to rely
I'm off mine after 24 years on Paxil It was worse than any nightmare iv ever had. Extreme Terror !! My doctor begged me to go back on paxil. I said NEVER !!!
Doctors Never wnt you off your meds.. They want control. Good luck having them so ok. Sure no problem. I quit my Paxil and blood preasure against what my doctor said. They want $$$ as long as I was taking his meds. From his prescribed pills. The gravy train for him just keeps on coming
Before you were on meds. How did you feel ? I wish you the best if you ever taper off of them. Even getting. Off them slowly was as if I was going through hell. i tried many times to quit and the withdraw was terrifying. I finally did it on my 4th attempt. I wound up in the emergency room on the 4th day. Could hardly breath. All part of the withdraw
Antidepressant withdrawal is by far one of the most horrible things I’ve went through and I’ve went through it several times and probably will do so again. What angers me most is there are methods like tapering strips that could be utilized but it’s not done hardly at all in the United States. Only the Netherlands has them but they can ship them here. Why is that? I’ll tell you why. Doctors have no interest in getting patients off SSRI’s and neither do the drug companies. If they were concerned about getting patients off they would be looking into this method and we would be alot further ahead then we are now. Doctors and drug companies im sorry to say have no incentive to do so. It’s disgusting and I think morally wrong and it needs to change. We need to start demanding that this method be put into practice to help patients through withdrawal.
Why doesn't this weird little video just come out and admit it: antidepressants are physically addictive and stopping causes awful withdrawal? It's creepy how this video invokes authority to skirt the issue...
perimele6 Too right. The "authority" in question is the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists. Notice how they carefully avoid the word "withdrawal" - they refuse to acknowledge that these drugs can cause dependence and devastate lives.
@@cradlecap123 i have akathesia and dystona from being on my meds. it stops when i ween but the wd is undescrible its so awful and hard to explain i always relaspsed.
@@kmosher8 Thanks for sharing. The 'hard to explain' part is isolating. Many people say this. Obviously unprecedented things are happening in the body, Drs draw a blank and think it's in your head (or they know and keep silent - knowing an admission of WD probs will mean patient anger). A real health service would have a drop in clinic for people withdrawing, saying sorry. A chance meeting at a patient practice coffee morning led me to the practice pharmacist who very quickly got me onto the liquid form of the drug (Prozep), which was much easier to withdraw.
I ran out of antidepressants this week.And i can tell you its been the utmost difficult week ive had.All those feelings ths the pills numb are back but so much stronger.And the worst is i cant explain why im sad or why im angry.But i got my pills and hopefully i feel better soon. Anyone who goes through this just know your not alone.❤
Vincaso I can only speak for myself. To give some background, I was severely depressed & basically didn’t eat, sleep or move much at all. It came on suddenly & I’ve never had anything quite like that in my life yet. The first step to healing was recognising the triggers. I was in a hostile workplace & in a relationship with someone with slightly narcissistic traits. I felt put down and treated badly from all sides. I was socially isolated in a city away from my family. I felt inauthentic and like my talents and personality weren’t appreciated by those around me. So I processed those feelings, as painful as they were, and “leaned inward” to really reflect on what I wanted from my life and what it was about my situation that depressed me so much. I realised that the bullying and narcissism I had suffered weren’t my fault and felt more empowered that those people are the flawed ones and not me. I went home and spent some time with my parents in my home city, then moved departments at work and have much better colleagues who are really lovely and treat me with dignity and respect. I’ve also realised what I really want to do with my life and feel excited for the future now. I’m in a new romantic relationship with someone so wonderful who has never made me feel bad about myself and is always so caring and kind. Overall, I would say assess your environment, work out the problem and change things if you can. For me I am thankful that I got depressed because otherwise I would never have made the changes in my life that have led me to where I am now. When I was in the pits of depression, I took about 1000mg of St John’s Wort per day and it really helped but that didn’t cure me and I only took it for a couple of weeks. Over time things got slightly better and I’d say about 3 months later I had made a full recovery. I worry that if I had gone to a psychiatrist I would have been given drugs and electric shocks and locked up. Instead my family and friends were happy to tolerate and sit with my depression rather than want to get rid of it. Sometimes you just need to ride the waves of life. I now take care to avoid my triggers, take care of my diet and physical health and I practise self care. I love my life now and I’m confident you can feel the same! :)
@x..how are you feeling now ..its been 1yr already ..i am going through a lot of depression and i have been prescribed anti depressants but am a bit reluctant to take it ...can you advice me base on your current mood ?
currently, when i’m off them i notice that everyone is truly not as good as a person as you might think they are. the sheer depression is so bad since i have forgotten how to deal with being sad since i’ve been numb for so long, but i want to improve. i don’t want to numb my mental pain anymore.
i was on zyprexa for 5 years (age 19-24). i tried to quit cold turkey twice, went horrible (night terrors, delusions, paranoia, hallucinations). i switched doctors, and the new one put me on lamotrigin and quetiapine. lamotrigin made me binge eat half asleep, i ate the weirdest shit and went zombie after 30 minutes - 1 hour i took it. a few months in i had a weird psychotic episode with magic delusions, and she upped my dosage. once i blacked out and fainted after taking it, and my heartbeat was crazy, cold sweats, etc. i told my doctor and she told me that i was imagining it, and gaslit me. it happened again, and she said she doesnt believe me. i stopped seeing her and taking meds altogether at 25. im happier ever since, have been able to monitor my behaviour and adjust it better and had no weird delusions or psychotic episodes ever since (im 28 now). i struggle with low energy and confidence because of my executive disfunction and social anxiety induced social withdrawal but as it turns out i probably have autism (2 immediate family cases). i wish i had been actually diagnosed instead of being treated for surface level symptomes.
I stopped lexapro just under a week ago and I am beginning to feel again! I actually cry with movies! I can feel for my teen daughter when she is frustrated and crying, I am moved by her suffering which I haven’t felt in over a year. I thought I was turning into an intellectual and practical person but I was actually loosing my humanity. My daughter had stopped talking to me since I couldn’t be empathetic no more!! 😢😤😡 I am never going back to meds again! unless I feel I am failing an exam because of anxiety, then I will take it till the exam is over.
hiii, i read your comment and just wanted to say that theres other stuff you can take that is waaay less impactful for exams! i wouldnt get back on, and then off of lexapro just for an exam, as it takes months and asks so much of you! for me, propranolol is great for exams, which is way less intrusive than an antidepressant. ❤
The MAIN problem is that these 💊 are prescribed without a thorough diagnosis. If you have a crappy week (and ‘flu), the doctor will put you on these pills. No measuring of serotonin done. If they’d just ask you about hobbies, family, work, diet, sleep, money, relationships, responsibilities, future plans, that’d be half of the battle won. I was put on those pills. I had erectile dysfunction & low libido. This caused the woman I was seeing to despise and taunt me, as I became ‘useless in that department’ to her. Thus, everything going downhill.
In old India , 2000 years ago, depression meant the cosmic universe has chosen you to take on the spiritual path . If a young person had depressive traits, the elders would tell them to let go of all attachments in this world and seek out a spiritual master and become his disciple until enlightenment is reached. Once the enlightenment is reached, the formerly depressed student must become a master and help other depressed folks. Depression is when your worldly identity collides with your real identity you were meant to do. It could be due to past experiences of previous life. Or karmic phenomenon where you spent the whole of past life to become something but could not achieve, only to be born again to finish the business. If a person does not finish the business he or she started in past life, the experiences in this life becomes dark and gloomy until you are on the right path. -- It sounds very wierd to you , but when SSRIs all religions and all methods fail you. Please do remember this comment , this should atleast push you in the right direction
Dealing with this right now, no mention of the strange brain/body tingle waves I'm dealing with, microsecond sound distortions, brain overload basically all the most unsettling issues. If it wasn't for my experience with psychedelics prior to this, I'd probably be terrified, not being able to separate myself from the symptoms.
@@chefbrittan84 I actually stopped shortly after 4-6 months as I found little to no help from Lexapro. Most of my mental issues seem to be situation and perspective based which I have since fixed some, but still struggling with others. Hopefully it helps you, for me though it just added another layer of issues and distraction and I don't enjoy feeling medicated.
I am off Cymbalta after 15 years, it's been two weeks thru sheer determination and prayer, I didn't discuss it with my doctor he would have weaned me by reducing the milligrams.which meant staying on it longer.YES the withdrawal has been severe.but every passing day I feel improvement.
You stopped cold turkey? I know prayers can do wonders but it’s better getting off them slowly, the pain of the withdrawals is higher price to pay than staying on them a little longer
I is difficult to stress how long it may take to get off this stuff. They do in fact create a real chemical imbalance. Go as slow as you feel necessary. It is totally up to you. You know better then your doctor.
Been on xanax plus ssri for a week. Suffering from post covid icu ptsd. Been isolated in icu for 64 days in a third world country. Drugs made it worse. Ssri was a nightmare and xanax masks the problem and has a big potential of making you dpendent on it and that would be a big problem. Faith worked best. Watch aaron kim here on CZcams... could save lives
Recommend no more than a 2-5% taper every 2-4 weeks. This is EXTREMELY important. Many times, withdrawal is delayed so you may be doing large cuts and feel great, actually better than ever but just be blindsided with severe, debilitating withdrawal weeks or months later and at that point it's often too late to reinstate so it's a waiting game. Please be aware most doctors follow old tapering guidelines and the majority going through withdrawal did follow their doctors tapering advice.
I’m glad to see that I’m not alone in feeling like shit right now, 5 days after stopping taking the pills. While I was on them I felt numb and muted but not sad. But now, I’ve jut been crying constantly for no reason and feeling intense waves of strong emotion.
Love how she said "only some people get side effects" from what i see almost everyone does it's just that most people stay on them to avoid the side effects, im on my third attempt trying to get off them this is criminal
It’s all f@#king lies man. I quit fast taper.. 23 months later I’m still so ill. My personality has completely disappeared with any quality of life and I’m trying to come to terms with the fact it may never disappear. I had so much potential to be successful in the game of life and now the Only game I play is survival. Very sad 😢
Been on xanax plus ssri for a week. Suffering from post covid icu ptsd. Been isolated in icu for 64 days in a third world country. Drugs made it worse. Ssri was a nightmare and xanax masks the problem and has a big potential of making you dpendent on it and that would be a big problem. Faith worked best. Watch aaron kim here on CZcams... could save lives
Ive quit my prozac cold turkey and so far I feel great. other than the usual headaches and weird ass dreams i havent experienced any negative side effects mentally. I want to learn to handle my emotions with my own mind and not need heavy medications as a crutch to hold onto. Ive been on them for 5 years now and nothing has changed
@@azmagaref Its been 2 months since I went off and i’m doing alright! Haven’t felt suicidal and I actually had a happy cry for the first time in 3 years
@@legallyrequired I'm happy for you, when I stopped cold turkey after taking prozac for only 1 month, I ended up suicidal/homicidal, the police came to my house around 60 times in the span of 2 months, I started breaking objects, scared my parents, they almost kicked me out the house. I also robbed sandwiches from stores even though I wasn't even that hungry just for the sake of it, I ran outside at 3am and got into a fight with a drunk man and all sorts of insane things happened.
@@User-pz4re I’m sorry you had that experience D: I was on prozac mostly for OCD after being diagnosed in hospital, so quitting it just made me super anxious. Its gotten a bit better now but even months later I notice I’m much more anxious and definitely have worse symptoms of my OCD, but Prozac (and the other meds I tried before) made me so numb that I don’t want to do medications again anytime soon
People complain a lot about SSRI. Tell me why you took them in the first place? Were you feeling good. Not taking meds is worst. During withdrawal your same symptoms get amplified. Wean off slowly and accept the symptoms.
What a lie, im going through withdrawal off citalopram now after being on it for ten years. Weaning off slowly over months and I've had periodic chronic vomiting, extreme anxiety, far worse depression than I've ever had and suicidal ideation. I thought I was just weak or something, until I realised it was the withdrawal effect of trying to come off this drug. Its horrendous. Absolutely awful.
@@1MNUTZ exactly, they almost killed me with these drugs, I'm 7 months clean from antidepressants and I will never used them again, I only used it for 2 weeks in summer of 2021 and even that was enough to almost land me in jail, ruined my brain
I’ve been on Prozac for 5 days and already want to quit. The side effects brought back more anxiety, panic, stomach upsets, heartburn, tingling in neck, weakness in arms and legs, headaches, loss of focus, loss of appetite. I was just worried about my mind racing a lot and my insomnia but I’m not willing to keep taking this to be able to sleep.
Anti depressants are different for everyone... That being said, in my situation I tried a couple kinds, than needed a larger dose - larger dose larger dose - until they said I was at the maximum dose. Then I realized hey am I actually happier than when I didn’t take these at all? Coming off them is a long drawn out process, CONSULT your doctor, seriously coming down 50-75 mg at a time and it’s taking many months. It sucks, it’s very difficult - but honestly these are prescribed too readily sometimes, try to find the root cause of your unhappiness before chemically altering your brain. For me it was my job...
Slowly weening myself off of them with the help of my doctor. Very slow process, life sometimes gets in the way and when it does I don’t lower the dose. Taking approx 1.5-2 years to get off of them.
After 20 years taking Lexapro I weened off of them! After 3 weeks Im still having withdrawls! Brain zaps and feel like crying but can't cry? It better get better soon and not have to take them again. Another symptom Im having is anger! Everyone bothers me! not all the time, but most of the time
Been on xanax plus ssri for a week. Suffering from post covid icu ptsd. Been isolated in icu for 64 days in a third world country. Drugs made it worse. Ssri was a nightmare and xanax masks the problem and has a big potential of making you dpendent on it and that would be a big problem. Faith worked best. Watch aaron kim here on CZcams... could save lives
Ive struggles with anxiety mostly and some depression from isolating my whole life. I’ve been on a lot of different medications I was on zoloft for about 4 years and got off of it cold turkey about 3 months ago. The withdrawals we’re horrible but what’s worse is the anxiety and depression coming back. It’s really been a struggle but it is so worth it because of all the terrible side effects of SSRI’s. Am trying to get back on benzodiazepines Nit so many harsh side effects and they work better for me but the problem is finding a doctor who isn’t going to think I am “drug seeking” as that is what most doctors say when you tell them Benzos work for you. Otherwise I’d rather just be anxious and depressed and try to cope with it. Lord help me
Been on xanax plus ssri for a week. Suffering from post covid icu ptsd. Been isolated in icu for 64 days in a third world country. Drugs made it worse. Ssri was a nightmare and xanax masks the problem and has a big potential of making you dpendent on it and that would be a big problem. Faith worked best. Watch aaron kim here on CZcams... could save your life
@@mikeskel45 Thank you. will pray for you brother. Just hang in there and know that He will not fail you. Let him fight that battle and let go. Also check out the channel medicating normal. The truth about psychiatry czcams.com/video/vy6HnFIxO3U/video.html
@@lot3741 A.D. must never be stopped abruptly but stick to only one medicine and the dose should be reduced to the lowest mg gradually over a period of 3-4 months depending on how you feel during this process. The brain needs to adjust. To feel better and prevent side effects reduce negative thoughts with a simple practice. Your breathing is closely related to the brain [mind] and gives good relief from stress-anxiety. To relax sit on a chair or lie down, neck straight, eyes closed and observe the sensations of your incoming--outgoing breath at the entrance of the nostrils for 5-10-15 minutes or more. Don’t fight your thoughts. With daily practice the mind will relax. No deep breathing needed. Do the practice without any expectations. When taking a walk, at office, in school, when reading, before sleep etc observe your breath sensations. Like me, make this a lifetime daily habit to have a good life. Avoid constipation as it affects the mind instantly. Best wishes and prayers. Senior Counsellor.
I took Zoloft to help my headaches and anxiety . I was 25 mg for a while then switched to 50 for a day or two and went back 25. I fully stopped taking them . Five days after taking them I felt really bad headaches and nausea . Lots of dizziness and light headedness😫 anxiety was horrible shaking and trembling !! And now my throat hurts . For a second I thought I had corona but there just flu like symptoms of getting off the meds I guess
Been on xanax plus ssri for a week. Suffering from post covid icu ptsd. Been isolated in icu for 64 days in a third world country. Drugs made it worse. Ssri was a nightmare and xanax masks the problem and has a big potential of making you dpendent on it and that would be a big problem. Faith worked best. Watch aaron kim here on CZcams... could save your life
Say this prayer Dear Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner, and I ask for Your forgiveness. I believe You died for my sins and rose from the dead. I turn from my sins and invite You to come into my heart and life. I want to trust and follow You as my Lord and Savior. In Your Name. Amen
Been on xanax plus ssri for a week. Suffering from post covid icu ptsd. Been isolated in icu for 64 days in a third world country. Drugs made it worse. Ssri was a nightmare and xanax masks the problem and has a big potential of making you dpendent on it and that would be a big problem. Faith worked best. Watch aaron kim here on CZcams... could save your life
@@jrman413 it is about a year and a half. But if you have family, kids work , do not try to do it without informing your relatives. They may help you and understand your behavior but they can also leave . You can lost everything
I'm on week three of withdrawal symptoms and feel fine depression wise but feel terrible otherwise. Terrible brain zaps that are made worse by moving my eyes, increased appetite, body aches, vivid dreams, and hot flashes. I tapered down for about two months and thought I would be fine but this is miserable. Hopefully I will see improvement in the next few weeks.
Been on xanax plus ssri for a week. Suffering from post covid icu ptsd. Been isolated in icu for 64 days in a third world country. Drugs made it worse. Ssri was a nightmare and xanax masks the problem and has a big potential of making you dpendent on it and that would be a big problem. Faith worked best. Watch aaron kim here on CZcams... could save your life
Hey I'm actually interested in an update. I've been off escitalopram for about a about a week and I completely understand all of these symptoms. The brain zaps and feeling tired after being awake for a couple hours, extreme irritations the whole lot. I'm just wondering since this comment was a month ago how you've improved and anything that works as a coping strat
@@rowanrayner5913 that's what I just came off of, Lexapro. It's been a couple of days and the biggest problem I've had is the dizziness without actually being dizzy. It's hard to explain. But I've been nauseous a few times a day too. Really, really hoping this is as bad as it gets and I'm only going to improve from this point on.
@@drawzan8554 definitely doesn’t get much worse and your body will definitely adjust to the physical withdrawals. I think for the most part the dizziness and tiredness and feeling like a vegetable will be gone within a couple weeks. But I think what I’ve found is that irritating feeling and mental health will definitely still be there. I think they say that can last a couple of months.
I accidentally went off fluoxetine completely last week after forgetting to take that med on vacation. I had already tapered down to 3-4 doses per week prior. At present, I don't feel any adverse effects. I'm hoping not to restart.
This understates the problem to an irresponsible degree. This video should be taken down. The worst part of withdrawal (call it what it is!) isn’t anxiety. For me, it’s probably feeling like I can’t get out of bed. When I finally do, I feel clumsy and slur my speech. Runners up are the brain zaps, the onset of diarrhea after every meal, or the “vivid dreams”, which you would call nightmares if you were being honest. Delete this shit.
It keeps mentioning talking to your doctor, but my doctor is horrible. She literally does not listen and tells me to breathe through it if I feel suicidal. Cheers love, she sone of the reasons I've just stopped taking them myself because I know she'll be an cu*t about it. Definitely looks down on me I know it!
Major side effects. I tried cold turkey & within 3 days I wanted to die. Bertigo, migranes & nightmares. I went back on & have been trying to wean myself for a couple months. I still have a 3 month supply to try to wean off my 40 mg dose. I'm down to about 18 mg now but still have headaches. I've started magnesium & potassium with a few other suppliments because I'm also fighting high BP at the same time. It's not an easy course.
Been on xanax plus ssri for a week. Suffering from post covid icu ptsd. Been isolated in icu for 64 days in a third world country. Drugs made it worse. Ssri was a nightmare and xanax masks the problem and has a big potential of making you dpendent on it and that would be a big problem. Faith worked best. Watch aaron kim here on CZcams... could save lives
My psychiatrist changed me onto duloxetine from citalopram which I was on for 10 years. I had some serious suicidal thoughts during the transition and even tied a noose in a hotel room when my wife was out. I couldn't handle the pain when it was around my neck and came down. Looking back, that side effect was incredibly scary and it must have been because of the medicine change. Please be careful when coming off or changing antidepressants. I hate them but we have to wean off them slowly or face horrible side effects that could cause more painful thoughts and feelings
@@umayjeong3594 Me too, when I took antidepressants for 2 weeks and stopped I started splashing water bottles on random people on the streets, I robbed sandwiches from stores, I tried killing myself around 20 times or more (I even wrote a suicide note for my parents to see), I tried robbing peanut butter from a store, I tried to steal a bike, I tried to kick someone into a river, police came to my house around 40 times in the span of 2 months, it took me many months to feel normal again. The strangest part about all of this was that the whole time I saw colors vivid and the whole world looked fake to me Antidepressants are DEPRESSANTS
Keep in mind, it takes 3 weeks for neurotransmitters to adjust. So - waiting 4 weeks in between tapers gives you a new baseline before you taper again. If you don't wait that 3 weeks, your withdrawals can stack up and bite you in the arse.
@@JanCarol11 Develop your mental muscles. Sooner or later anti depressants have serious side effects. I transformed my life some years back and now I am teaching others. After 10 days of doing the simple meditation explained below medication can be reduced and stopped after 25 days of daily meditation because the brain will be reprogrammed. Take on alternate days, then every 5 days and stop after 25 days. .Your breath is directly related to your mind causing anxiety-stress. For a relaxed life without anxiety-stress sit on a chair, back and spine as erect as possible, hands on your lap with palms upwards, close your eyes, be still and observe your incoming--outgoing breath, body sounds and body sensations for around 10-20 minutes. Be as still as possible. Plenty of thoughts will come which is ok--slowly negative thoughts will reduce. The mind is slowly reprogrammed to relax. Stop watching negative TV shows. Do the above meditation twice daily without any doubts and your life will transform. Stop medication-continue meditation. Best wishes. Shyaaam Sir. -Counsellor-Teacher.
@@shyaaammeneen63 Positive thinking is great, but inadequate to heal the body. You cannot heal a broken leg in 25 days by thinking at it, and it is the same with neurotransmitters. There are several adjustments which need to be made. I teach meditation, tai chi, qigong and breathwork, and recommend these for anyone trying to come off of drugs. I, too, help people come off the drugs on the Surviving Antidepressants website. But with the best intentions, 40-60% of people trying to come off will fail. And many will be destabilised and suffer. If they could meditate and wish their way out, they would. Listen to Dr. Shipko: www.madinamerica.com/2020/09/stuart-shipko-ssri-withdrawal-shooting-odds/ . Your advice here is harmful, every other day (alternate) dosing is destabilising and therefore dangerous. Especially if your drug has a short half-life(there are variances, not all antidepressants are the same). survivingantidepressants.org/index.php?/topic/300-important-topics-in-the-tapering-forum-and-faq/?p=2864 I'm glad it worked for you, but you haven't said how long you were on the drugs, how many different drugs you had been on (sometimes doctors switch a lot, which is also destabilising), or how long you have been off. If it is less than 6 months to 2 years, do not be surprised if your neurotransmitters, endocrine, digestion, mood, sleep, skin, or other systems bite you in the arse the moment you hit a stressful situation. There is a delayed response in withdrawal - you think you "got away" until you realise the damage was more than you thought. survivingantidepressants.org/index.php?/topic/9451-delayed-onset-of-withdrawal-symptoms/ On the internet (and without a doctor, as most doctors do not understand how this works), it is best to recommend the safest methods, as people may take your advice and be harmed by it. The safest known method off of antidepressant (and other psych) drugs is slow, careful tapering. www.survivingantidepressants.org.
@@JanCarol11 The whole world is doing the famous "Vipaasna meditation" which is free and trandforming lives all over the world. Minds have people have gone crazy during the present world crisis. Anti-depressants have serious side effects sooner or later. Go to the root cause --why does a person take AD? Get rid of the root cause. How is it that after taking a pill a person feels relaxed. Obviuously ther is a chemical reaction in the brain. The misfiring of the neurons in the brain and serotinin levels need to be reprogrammed which happens with a few days of daily meditation. Then AD must be tapered of gradually. I have transformed my life, career, health, finances serveral years back and now I am teaching others. But a desire and determination is needed. The ultimate bliss is to reach a state of equanimity where nothing disturbs you. The breath is directly linked to the mind [brain] causing anxiety. Best wishes. Shyaaam Sir--Counsellor. Let us help people get rid of AD.
@@shyaaammeneen63 Many Vipassana schools will reject anyone who is on antidepressants. Especially if the diag-nonsense of "bipolar" (which is often INDUCED by antidepressants) is anywhere on your application. These pills are *not* relaxing to many people, they are overstimulating. Look up "akathisia" for example. Please do not recommend people to do alternate-day dosing, that is a harmful practice, especially with drugs like Paxil and Effexor (but there are others). I am a firm believer in meditation, a firm believer that the drugs cause more harm than good. Learning to breathe well would be an excellent way to AVOID the drugs in the first place! But doctors do not teach breathing, and people are taught to go to their doctors if they don't "feel right."
My life is done. I came off them, then I feel fucking uncomfortable and brain stop running. When I back on them I feel illness and not like myself.... Fuck... It is so terrible. Who experienced same as me?...
How are you now dude? I did 3 weeks off and the blankness, emptyness, fog in my brain was unbearable, I completly lost my personality, I cant remember even my phone number.
I tapered my dose down from 50mg over the course of a month and a half. Im 4 days off zoloft now and definitely having brain zaps, some heart palpitations, dizziness but its not terrible, at least not yet,
@@uzmanausheen5475 not long. Maybe a week. Felt perfect for a month and a half and then boom panic attack out of nowhere, blood pressure through the roof, pressure in my face and neck, tension headaches. Now I'm back on this fkn pill and I guess I'll just stay on forever, yay.
Currently tapered 20->2.5mg escitalopram over the last year. And I swear... The lower the dose, the worse reduction symptoms I experience. They pass over time, but this video is a total misinformation!!!
Escitalopram is also Cipralex. If I stop taking 20mg I get brain numb, low concentration, irritable. Moody. Hard to go to work, lazy, Sleep alot. I am tired all the time, drink , smoke, and hate socializing. Sounds great huh??? If I didn't have a wife and kids , I guess whatever belief in God, few simple pleasures to live for I would swallow the whole bottle with booze. Lights out.
That is true that withdrawal symptoms are worse at lower dosages. That's why you taper much more slowly at lower dosages. at least 5-6 years to go from 25% down to zero.
I forgot to take 1 day of my antidepressants and it literally felt like I was about to die. idk how people have little symptoms. cause fuck it feels so bad like someone's literally banged your head so hard on a table and it feels like your insides about to just pour itself out.
@@drEAmzZzza Hang in there buddy, try Chamomile tea 3-4 times daily if too anxious. St John's wort might work for you, or SAMe. Give them a try, one at a time. My problem is I can't sleep more than 3 hours, I wish to sleep. Use CoQ10 natural enzyme for a boost of energy, it makes a huge difference from 2nd day, you'll have energy.
@@azmagaref use nothing bro its all useless shiit. normal people use nothing.. tried everything nothing works man only keeping very busy 247 so u dont think about anything helps also i cant sleep too wake up after 2 or 3 hrs and think about bs til sun up
llama Read Nadines comments above. She nailed what it's like. Don't be discouraged because it can be done but it's a process. Do it right or it'll hurt. Good luck.
Stupid cartoonish video making the whole thing seem like it's just a little bad, in reality it's a horror. 10 months ago I started tapering, 2 months ago I was done with the SSRI. Here'e what I have to live with daily: Anxiety adrenaline rush from the moment I open my eyes. Extremely disturbed sleep with vivid dreams that wake me up every 5 minutes at times. Insomnia, 3 hours of sleep daily. Central Sleep Apnea. Deep sadness and depression with lethargy Week body and legs shaking Disorientation and confusion especially outside in the street or driving. Constant brain fog, feeling like I'm buried in my head. Derealisation, life feels like a bad dream, feeling unreal. Very pronounced tinnitus comes as a bonus. And finally the only positive thing to come out of all this, lost 13kg of body weight.
I know how torturous it can be but this is just an informative video, please don't take the simplistic and appealing style personally. If anything, seeing it depicted as horrifying as it can be would just make me even more worried and hopeless, besides the symptoms vary in intensity from person to person
@@spicymeatballs2thespicening Usually the tapering off process takes 1-2 months to prevent any relapse. First gradually reduce to the lowest mg, then take alternate days, then once in 3 days, once a week and then stop depending on how you feel. Develop your mental muscles. In life there are only 2 problems-mind and the body. To feel better reduce negative thoughts and overthinking. Your breathing is closely related to the brain [mind] and gives good relief from stress-anxiety. To relax sit on a chair or lie down, neck straight, eyes closed and observe the sensations of your incoming-outgoing breath at the entrance of the nostrils for 5-10-15 minutes or more. Don’t fight your thoughts. With daily practice the mind will relax. No deep breathing needed. Observe your breath sensations when you experience multiple thoughts anywhere-anytime- before sleep, in college, before sleep, in the kitchen, when reading, etc. Like me, make this a lifetime daily habit to have a better life. Reduce negative social media, take morning sunlight walks and avoid constipation as it affects the mind instantly. Best wishes--Counsellor.
A TO Z, Usually the tapering off process takes 1-2 months to prevent any relapse. First gradually reduce to the lowest mg, then take alternate days, then once in 3 days, once a week and then stop depending on how you feel. Develop your mental muscles. In life there are only 2 problems-mind and the body. To feel better reduce negative thoughts and overthinking. Your breathing is closely related to the brain [mind] and gives good relief from stress-anxiety. To relax sit on a chair or lie down, neck straight, eyes closed and observe the sensations of your incoming-outgoing breath at the entrance of the nostrils for 5-10-15 minutes or more. Don’t fight your thoughts. With daily practice the mind will relax. No deep breathing needed. Observe your breath sensations when you experience multiple thoughts anywhere-anytime- before sleep, in college, before sleep, in the kitchen, when reading, etc. Like me, make this a lifetime daily habit to have a better life. Reduce negative social media, take morning sunlight walks and avoid constipation as it affects the mind instantly. Best wishes--Counsellor.
How are you now? Stopped them 3 weeks ago and going through exactly what you’re going through and I’ve heard some people say it can take years 😢 I really can’t handle extra years of this shit and I don’t want to go back on the medication so just wondering if it’s gotten any better with you?
@@noraaa8479 Didn't last even 3 weeks after typing this comment, tried Prozac and felt worse and stopped it after 3 days, then I read that TCA are much much easier tolerated, tried Tofranil for one week, wasn't happy about feeling emotionless. This is when my Dr adviced me to try Amitriptyline, that was a break through and instant relief from insomnia and anxiety. Still on it till today but, I'm like %85-95 back to my old self but it actually made me become careless about people and isolated. But I don't ever want to go through that horror 2 years ago. I've been scarred by that and I'm trying hard to help my brain with memory, I eat a lot of greens weekly and take multiple supplements for the brain and body. May I ask how old are you?
"Friends and family" ...a good one. I don't have such things, maybe that's why I'm depressed.
Well I have them in which is why I'm depressed.
I’m here if you want to talk if you still need someone
Im here and I know how it feels! Happy to talk)
That's the key
I’ll be your friend
The hard part for me is realizing everyone’s an asshole when I get off the medication. Quite literally my husband will see me cry and get mad. Great support I have.
Renee, it's time to live life for you. You don't need someone who can't accept you for you.
Guys if I may ask. After leaving the medication and getting the side effects after. Do those side effects ever go away tho later maybe?
Takes months
@@Luke-vf6qc A.D. must never be stopped abruptly but stick to only one medicine and the dose should be reduce to the lowest mg gradually over a period of 3-4 months depending on how you feel during this process. The brain has to adjust. To feel better and prevent side effects reduce negative thoughts with a simple practice. Your breathing is closely related to the brain [mind] and gives good relief from stress-anxiety. To relax sit on a chair or lie down, neck straight, eyes closed and observe the sensations of your incoming--outgoing breath at the entrance of the nostrils for 5-10-15 minutes or more. Don’t fight your thoughts. With daily practice the mind will relax. No deep breathing needed. Do the practice without any expectations. When taking a walk, at office, in school, when reading, before sleep etc observe your breath sensations. Like me, make this a lifetime daily habit to have a good life. Avoid constipation as it affects the mind instantly. Best wishes and prayers. Senior Counsellor.
@@shyaaammeneen63 thank u tho🙏
Its not the depression that gets me, but the f*cking side effects are unbearable. I mean when coming off the drugs
How can I Delete this channel? Idk
I’ll tell you if you send (dm)me your display picture @90.s_kid_2001
@@morris7626 Are you talking to yourself??
Viktor dude I don't know what this is I swear it's a glitch or something
@@morris7626 it's a glitch in the matrix
Such a lie withdrawal is one of the scariest things I’ve ever experienced
How long did it last?
@@jrman413 to me it's been a year and it feels like it gets worse
Im going through it right now. I hate psychiatry so much right now.
@@adams546 being on them or coming off them?
@@Jono1982 coming off them. I only took SSRI for 3 months + 1 month rapid taper. I think I also developed some sort of mild akathisia right now. These drugs are really strong and changes how your brain works.
I feel depressed without them, but I feel ill when on them.
If you do, just allow the depression and be your natural self ( the way God created you) without antidepressants, depression is a lie from the enemy to bring us down and antidepressants hold you back from being the real you, Don’t let depression defeat you.... I’m coming off of my antidepressants at the moment and I’m ready to face the depression if it comes back, you have to completely live it, if you start feeling a little sad just accept it without any judgement and say to yourself is ok to feel a little sad but I will be okay in Jesus name.... don’t listen to your mind and be mindful of the moment stay present and you’ll realize that everything is okay no matter what and that you’re complete and depression was a lie all along.
i feel ya dude...it's really weightng out what's the lesser of the two evils...
@@kentyiluminada7676 wait to u find out jesus is all made up lie as well ... then see how u feel .... fuck humanity
Nicolas Cage lol no, The government can’t control your mind that way, at least not yet, the enemy is the devil, who uses our minds sometimes because our minds create our emotions.
PÅŲŁ ĽĄWŔĔŅĆĘ ŘŐWĒ and i say to you I don’t want you to wait until is too late to realize who’s The God that created you and loves you.
Reading the comments gives me more anxiety, it's been 2 years since I came off, and I'm becoming hypochondriac again, a dr said I had to take them again but I won't, I'll try to be as happy as possible, naturally! Wish me luck everyone! Be safe!
I suppose people who came off the medication without any problems might be less likely to comment here so there's maybe a bit of bias in terms of how scary some of the comments sound. Hope things stay positive for you in the future and wishing you all the best.
@@b3a3n3a3n3a3s THIS
May god help you to get better.
Hope you are doing well. Check out aaron kim channel. Has helped me a lot. Saved my life
@@lot3741 Reduce negative thoughts and feel much bettter. Your breath is directly related to your mind [brain] causing negative thoughts-anxiety. For a relaxed life sit on a chair, back erect, eyes closed, be still and observe the sensations of your incoming--outgoing breath at the entrance of the nostrils for around 5-10-15 minutes or more. Don’t fight with your thoughts. Slowly they will reduce and relax the mind. No deep inhalation-exhalation needed. Anytime of the day or night before sleep sit or lie down on your back and observe your breath. Be as still as possible as it reduces negative thoughts. Make this a lifetime daily habit to have a good life. Best wishes Shyaaam Sir. -Counsellor
My withdrawal symptons have been nightmares, muscle aches, headache, slight fatigue, brain zaps, slight dizziness and slight anxiety. I'm guessing the symptons will get worse but i'll try push through. I've been on antidepressants for 6 years now, tried to quit very slowly for 2 years now. At the end of this year i hope i'll be free from this shit. 💪
Been on xanax plus ssri for a week. Suffering from post covid icu ptsd. Been isolated in icu for 64 days in a third world country. Drugs made it worse. Ssri was a nightmare and xanax masks the problem and has a big potential of making you dpendent on it and that would be a big problem. Faith worked best. Watch aaron kim here on CZcams... could save lives
I m with you!!!!!! Loneliness, nearly impossible to find a decent place to live,people more and more aggressive pfttttttttt both parents in a carehouse
did you guys the withdrawal symptoms while weaning off or once you were completely off?
@Lot we will get through this one day at a time. I'm rooting for you.
How are you now
Taking anti depressants was one of the worst things I’ve ever done. I told my dr I didn’t want anything with really bad side effects or withdrawals. She lied to me and put me on Paxil. Any time I miss a dose I get brain zaps and even vomit sometimes. I’ve been trying to get off them for months and it’s been really bad. I can’t work or barely do anything. I can’t even think straight.
@@icosium1icosium957 yes it is.
Antonio Icosium It was all of that plus brain zaps, body aches and complete lack of motivation. I’m slowly getting better but it’s been almost 5 months now.
Can we talk I need information. I have 3 days without my medication, can we talk for WhatsApp 809 716 9098 I live in Dominican Republic, please I need information about it, because my psychiatrist don't say nothing about it.
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@@karlarivera5696 Develop your mental muscles. Sooner or later anti depressants have serious side effects. I transformed my life some years back and now I am teaching others. After 10 days of doing the simple meditation explained below medication can be reduced and stopped after 20 days of daily meditation because the brain will be reprogrammed. .Your breath is directly related to your mind causing anxiety-stress. For a relaxed life without anxiety-stress sit on a chair, back and spine as erect as possible, hands on your lap with palms upwards, close your eyes, be still and observe your incoming--outgoing breath, body sounds and body sensations for around 10-20 minutes. Be as still as possible. Plenty of thoughts will come which is ok--slowly negative thoughts will reduce. The mind is slowly reprogrammed to relax. Stop watching negative TV shows. Do the above meditation twice daily without any doubts and your life will transform. Stop medication-continue meditation. Best wishes. Shyaaam Sir. -Counsellor-Teacher.
The dreams are the worst part for me as well as constant dissociation. I feel like antidepressants kinda numb you or a part of you and make you tolerate emotional pain better but in a way you lose a part of yourself. Coming back to the ‘real world’ after being on antidepressants is often scary but definitely necessary at a certain point
The dreams are the best part for me lol they are so vivid and real it's like waking up in a new world 😅
“Most people don’t have side effects coming off” so why am I awake for the third night in a row
Cos everyone it’s different ??
Hey David, I wanted to ask if you were able to fully leave the meds?
coming off of antidepressant is the worst. i was on citalopram 20 mg for 10 months, went down to 10 mg for a month and then 5mg for 2 weeks and 2.5 for 2 weeks. I was told by GP that 10mg is the lowest dose and I can stop taking them. Everytime I stopped taking 10mg I would get horrible brain zaps, fatigue and crazy mood swings. Even after I stopped 2.5mg, I had horrible headaches, blood glucose levels and stress levels went up for 2 weeks straight. I can still feel the lingering negative affect such as headaches today. please be careful when starting these drugs
I’m never trusting a medical professional ever again. My life has only gotten worse since I started my meds
This video is giving VERY uninformed info. The effects coming off of psychiatric drugs aren't some normal anxiety, etc. It is SEVERE severe more than your normal anxiety. It is anxiety times 10000. The dizziness is beyond normal. Hallucinations and severe suicidal ideation and even homicidal ideation is COMMON. A lot of people coming off these drugs become psychotic and aggressive. This cutesy video is not telling half the story. Very inaccurate.
Plus, your depression comes back because the drug only masked the symptom. And the depression can come back HARDER than it was.
Nadine Lewis agreed i came of citalopram went crazy took 5 months of goin back on meds to feel a slight improvement messed me up badly
Nadine Lewis Very good points. I have watched someone very close to me dealing with this and what your comment details is much more helpful and accurate. It's so bad I thought we would lose him. YOU should make this video! Thank you.
Bullshit. That may have been like that for YOU, but it strongly depends on the person and the substance taken. For me it was usually not a big difference.
Yeah, it is such a shame how the public is misinformed on how these drugs work.
Nadine König agreed. This is intentional of course.
Antidepressants helped me. They helped me lose everything worth living for.
This.
same
they can help people alot. but they hurt alot of people badly. i think bc so many kids and adults are being misdiagnosed which is obvious since the criteria to test a person is so awful and just stupid. so many being put on this stuff when they dont have a mental illness or feel sad and these days its unacceptable to go through the grieving process we must eat pills for that. so many people destroyed bc mainstream gives no alternative to drugs. i had a traumatic event happen and im somehow disgnosed bipolar and put on antipsychotics and i never in my life had an episode and never had mania. so if someone is depressed bc of they have a legit illness then sure these drugs will work. give them to people who are human and have tough lives are not mental and dont need drugs. they need to heal naturally and going through the process and feel it and cry. not be so drugged up they are zombies and feel nothing anymore. id just say if u ever need to get off them for some reason good luck. withdrawal is bad and is nothing like opiod withdrawl.
@@kmosher8 If my mechanic gave me a 50/50 chance that a repair would help my car or harm my car, I would not go to the mechanic. Antidepressants really help only about 30% of the people, and 50-80% have difficulty withdrawing from them. Those aren't good odds, and if it were my mechanic, I would fire him.
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If whatever had caused the depression on a deep subconscious level isn't resolved and put into an empowering loving perspective then a person could be stuck for YEARS ...I wish you all well
i was severley abused by my psychopath father..... the anxiety and anger drove me into a deep depression and i was on SSRI's for 13 years . Life feels like a bad nightmare, I'm hoping Covid will take me back home.
Sorry to hear that.
@Gra 67 - There isn't always an event that causes depression. It can simply occur out the blue for no reason whatsoever. I believe in the genetics we inherit determines this
For me the scariest part about it is that I was having flu like symptoms coming off of it and I was terrified that I had covid
GIRL ME TO !!!!!!!!
@@icosium1icosium957 I'm feeling good now, I had the flu like symptoms for about 2 weeks and all other symptoms associated with coming off the meds. Thanks for asking.
Me rn 😓
i wish my withdrawal was like the flu. ill take anything physical over the severe mental and psychological torment i get from wd.
@@kmosher8 what was it like and for how long
"most people dont have side effects coming off of antidepressants but some do".
Considering the availables studies, more than 50% of people comming off of antidepressants will have (lasting) side effects, so that sentence should be reversed.
How can this be considered information ?
Just please, don't take anti depressants. Coming of them is one of the worst experiences ever if not the worst
Just stopped taking pills a few days ago. It is torture. The anxiety and the fact that anything, literally anything can tick me off is insane. I feel like I have roid rage.
How do you feel now? i stopped my medication 3 days ago and i feel awful
@@palomaarras6943 A.D. must never be stopped abruptly but stick to only one medicine and the dose should be reduce to the lowest mg gradually over a period of 3-4 months depending on how you feel during this process. To feel better and prevent side effects reduce negative thoughts with a simple practice. Your breathing is closely related to the brain [mind] and gives good relief from stress-anxiety. To relax sit on a chair or lie down, neck straight, eyes closed and observe the sensations of your incoming--outgoing breath at the entrance of the nostrils for 5-10-15 minutes or more. Don’t fight your thoughts. With daily practice the mind will relax. No deep breathing needed. Do the practice without any expectations. When taking a walk, at office, in school, when reading, before sleep etc observe your breath sensations. Like me, make this a lifetime daily habit to have a good life. Avoid constipation as it affects the mind instantly. Best wishes and prayers. Senior Counsellor.
@@shyaaammeneen63 I don't want to be an asshole here, I'm gonna be honest though, when I was in withdrawal from antidepressants, none of these tips would work. My brain was too far gone, I would run outside at 3am and get into fights with everyone, I became an animal and couldn't control anything, not even my breath. I'm glad I'm out of that phase now after 7 months clean from antidepressants, I will never take pills for mental health again
@@User-pz4re May joy be with you. . I have recd a lot of positive replies. Since many years I have made it a habit to observe my breath sensations even during my normal activities and I am feeling relaxed and healthy. Anywhere-anytime it can be done. The best part is nobody comes to know that you are doing the breath observing practice as there is no deep breathing or sound. Normal life is not affected. Read my msg and do the practice regularly. Best wishes. Sr. Counsellor.
Until psychiatrists begin to take samples of their patients' brain chemistry to send to a lab and have it analyzed to see if said brain chemicals are "normal" or somehow abnormal, it can FACTUALLY be said that there is NO EVIDENCE to substantiate the theory that mental illnesses are the result of some chemical imbalance in the brain. It really is that simple. Don't let them fool you with their fancy rhetoric or their round about responses. Always, and I mean ALWAYS steer the conversation back to this one question. "How do you know the patient has a chemical imbalance in the brain if you have not in any way sampled, analyzed, or measured the patient's brain chemistry?". Don't let them get away with circumventing this question.
There's empirical evidence to show medications help mental illness...
@@Julia-jz5wt and empirical evidence to show they are not better than placebo.... and can permanently damage your brain
@@ghassenbohli4056 Yes that empirical evidence exists. The medications would not be on the market otherwise.
The chemical imbalance theory has been dead for decades but people keep repeating the damn thing. The current working theory behind antidepressants is that they increase neurotransmitter concentrations which force the body to make adaptations to maintain homeostasis, these adaptations, in the lesser serotogenic, and norepinepherinic sub-systems then create knock on effects in the Glutamate system - the one of the two main systems and the primary excitatory system - these changes to the Glutamate system then have antidepressant effects. It's a very round about and dirty method which takes weeks to have any appreciable effect - and it also explains why Ketamine which acts directly on the Glutamate system has time to action effects measured in hours.
They are legalised criminals and dealers lol!!!!!!!!!!!!
Coming off antidepressants is SO much worse than this video is admitting. WAY, WAY worse.
Exactly. If I had known it would be this bad, I would’ve never started taking them
I've been taking 50 mg of sertraline for almost two years
when my psychiatrist reduced the dose to half the first week was horrible, I cried over everything, had a bunch of rage and anxiety
then it got better
some days ago he made me fully stop taking it
the only thing I notice is that I'm sleepier than I used to be
I need to talk on this. I can't overcome from side effects, I can't be without medicine for 2 or 3 days. I feel like very low and tired. Please help me talk to me.
I’m taking a 100mg of Serta from the past two years 😔
I'm on 150 and I've reduced it to 100 for the last 2 days.. I do feel a little more emotional, but I just try to remind myself that whatever is coming in the next week or so, that this is me. And I deserve to be myself.
“Maybe take some time off work.” Funniest thing I’ve heard all day 😂
I couldn't recommend enough consulting the Surviving Anti-Depressant forum before weaning off.
I asked my doctor if I could come off but they keep making me take them and it really pisses me off. They think I want to come off because I feel better. I want to come off because I don't want a little pill controlling my life.
How long have you been on them now? It is not meant to be forever, up to a year at a time, along with other types of behavior/attitude therapy. Slow weening off for best results in stopping, do NOT stop suddenly or too fast. No one can make you do anything so educate yourself and take control! Best wishes
Yeah I’m the same I don’t want to rely on pills but the way they say keep taking them makes me feel like I need them I really need some truth into what will happen if I don’t constantly take them I don’t wanna have to rely
I'm off mine after 24 years on Paxil
It was worse than any nightmare iv ever had.
Extreme Terror !!
My doctor begged me to go back on paxil.
I said NEVER !!!
Doctors Never wnt you off your meds..
They want control.
Good luck having them so ok.
Sure no problem.
I quit my Paxil and blood preasure against what my doctor said.
They want $$$ as long as I was taking his meds. From his prescribed pills.
The gravy train for him just keeps on coming
Before you were on meds. How did you feel ?
I wish you the best if you ever taper off of them. Even getting. Off them slowly was as if I was going through hell.
i tried many times to quit and the withdraw was terrifying.
I finally did it on my 4th attempt.
I wound up in the emergency room on the 4th day. Could hardly breath.
All part of the withdraw
"Most people don't have side effects when coming off antidepressants" what absolute BS!
The best part of the video was the dog playing with the rubik cube.
Antidepressant withdrawal is by far one of the most horrible things I’ve went through and I’ve went through it several times and probably will do so again. What angers me most is there are methods like tapering strips that could be utilized but it’s not done hardly at all in the United States. Only the Netherlands has them but they can ship them here. Why is that? I’ll tell you why. Doctors have no interest in getting patients off SSRI’s and neither do the drug companies. If they were concerned about getting patients off they would be looking into this method and we would be alot further ahead then we are now. Doctors and drug companies im sorry to say have no incentive to do so. It’s disgusting and I think morally wrong and it needs to change. We need to start demanding that this method be put into practice to help patients through withdrawal.
Why doesn't this weird little video just come out and admit it: antidepressants are physically addictive and stopping causes awful withdrawal? It's creepy how this video invokes authority to skirt the issue...
perimele6 Too right. The "authority" in question is the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists. Notice how they carefully avoid the word "withdrawal" - they refuse to acknowledge that these drugs can cause dependence and devastate lives.
And they make it look all cute and funny, like it’s not a serious issue, shame on them
@@kentyiluminada7676 True: Akathesia can happen which is awful and dangerous. Once study found that 56% had withdrawal problems, so that's 'most'.
@@cradlecap123 i have akathesia and dystona from being on my meds. it stops when i ween but the wd is undescrible its so awful and hard to explain i always relaspsed.
@@kmosher8 Thanks for sharing. The 'hard to explain' part is isolating. Many people say this. Obviously unprecedented things are happening in the body, Drs draw a blank and think it's in your head (or they know and keep silent - knowing an admission of WD probs will mean patient anger). A real health service would have a drop in clinic for people withdrawing, saying sorry. A chance meeting at a patient practice coffee morning led me to the practice pharmacist who very quickly got me onto the liquid form of the drug (Prozep), which was much easier to withdraw.
Your best bet is to NEVER go on psychotropic drugs... PERIOD! They do more damage than good IMO
You’re probably right but sometimes you get to a stage where you have no option. For me it was an absolute last resort
@Mike Larry - many people cannot function without their meds. I'm one of them
@@montesa9136 thats what they want us to think
I agree
@@saphire60 exactly
I ran out of antidepressants this week.And i can tell you its been the utmost difficult week ive had.All those feelings ths the pills numb are back but so much stronger.And the worst is i cant explain why im sad or why im angry.But i got my pills and hopefully i feel better soon. Anyone who goes through this just know your not alone.❤
I had severe depression and made a full recovery without antidepressants. Stay away from psychiatrists.
How?
Vincaso I can only speak for myself. To give some background, I was severely depressed & basically didn’t eat, sleep or move much at all. It came on suddenly & I’ve never had anything quite like that in my life yet. The first step to healing was recognising the triggers. I was in a hostile workplace & in a relationship with someone with slightly narcissistic traits. I felt put down and treated badly from all sides. I was socially isolated in a city away from my family. I felt inauthentic and like my talents and personality weren’t appreciated by those around me. So I processed those feelings, as painful as they were, and “leaned inward” to really reflect on what I wanted from my life and what it was about my situation that depressed me so much. I realised that the bullying and narcissism I had suffered weren’t my fault and felt more empowered that those people are the flawed ones and not me. I went home and spent some time with my parents in my home city, then moved departments at work and have much better colleagues who are really lovely and treat me with dignity and respect. I’ve also realised what I really want to do with my life and feel excited for the future now. I’m in a new romantic relationship with someone so wonderful who has never made me feel bad about myself and is always so caring and kind. Overall, I would say assess your environment, work out the problem and change things if you can. For me I am thankful that I got depressed because otherwise I would never have made the changes in my life that have led me to where I am now. When I was in the pits of depression, I took about 1000mg of St John’s Wort per day and it really helped but that didn’t cure me and I only took it for a couple of weeks. Over time things got slightly better and I’d say about 3 months later I had made a full recovery. I worry that if I had gone to a psychiatrist I would have been given drugs and electric shocks and locked up. Instead my family and friends were happy to tolerate and sit with my depression rather than want to get rid of it. Sometimes you just need to ride the waves of life. I now take care to avoid my triggers, take care of my diet and physical health and I practise self care. I love my life now and I’m confident you can feel the same! :)
@@user-xy4ff5yp7b can i add you on fb or insta i want some help?
@x..how are you feeling now ..its been 1yr already ..i am going through a lot of depression and i have been prescribed anti depressants but am a bit reluctant to take it ...can you advice me base on your current mood ?
@@frankamo7319 I feel great! On no medication. I’m loving life. It has had its ups and downs but I am emerging from them with joy ☺️
"Take some time off work" for 6 weeks or longer. Yeah sure. My boss will let me.
currently, when i’m off them i notice that everyone is truly not as good as a person as you might think they are. the sheer depression is so bad since i have forgotten how to deal with being sad since i’ve been numb for so long, but i want to improve. i don’t want to numb my mental pain anymore.
i was on zyprexa for 5 years (age 19-24). i tried to quit cold turkey twice, went horrible (night terrors, delusions, paranoia, hallucinations). i switched doctors, and the new one put me on lamotrigin and quetiapine. lamotrigin made me binge eat half asleep, i ate the weirdest shit and went zombie after 30 minutes - 1 hour i took it. a few months in i had a weird psychotic episode with magic delusions, and she upped my dosage. once i blacked out and fainted after taking it, and my heartbeat was crazy, cold sweats, etc. i told my doctor and she told me that i was imagining it, and gaslit me. it happened again, and she said she doesnt believe me. i stopped seeing her and taking meds altogether at 25. im happier ever since, have been able to monitor my behaviour and adjust it better and had no weird delusions or psychotic episodes ever since (im 28 now). i struggle with low energy and confidence because of my executive disfunction and social anxiety induced social withdrawal but as it turns out i probably have autism (2 immediate family cases). i wish i had been actually diagnosed instead of being treated for surface level symptomes.
I found this to be equally calming and stressful 😂
I stopped lexapro just under a week ago and I am beginning to feel again! I actually cry with movies! I can feel for my teen daughter when she is frustrated and crying, I am moved by her suffering which I haven’t felt in over a year. I thought I was turning into an intellectual and practical person but I was actually loosing my humanity. My daughter had stopped talking to me since I couldn’t be empathetic no more!! 😢😤😡
I am never going back to meds again! unless I feel I am failing an exam because of anxiety, then I will take it till the exam is over.
hiii, i read your comment and just wanted to say that theres other stuff you can take that is waaay less impactful for exams! i wouldnt get back on, and then off of lexapro just for an exam, as it takes months and asks so much of you!
for me, propranolol is great for exams, which is way less intrusive than an antidepressant.
❤
Withdrawals from antidepressants
Can be truly awful
Now I want the dog in this video... He seems a pretty cool guy!
The MAIN problem is that these 💊 are prescribed without a thorough diagnosis. If you have a crappy week (and ‘flu), the doctor will put you on these pills. No measuring of serotonin done. If they’d just ask you about hobbies, family, work, diet, sleep, money, relationships, responsibilities, future plans, that’d be half of the battle won. I was put on those pills. I had erectile dysfunction & low libido. This caused the woman I was seeing to despise and taunt me, as I became ‘useless in that department’ to her. Thus, everything going downhill.
In old India , 2000 years ago, depression meant the cosmic universe has chosen you to take on the spiritual path . If a young person had depressive traits, the elders would tell them to let go of all attachments in this world and seek out a spiritual master and become his disciple until enlightenment is reached. Once the enlightenment is reached, the formerly depressed student must become a master and help other depressed folks.
Depression is when your worldly identity collides with your real identity you were meant to do. It could be due to past experiences of previous life. Or karmic phenomenon where you spent the whole of past life to become something but could not achieve, only to be born again to finish the business. If a person does not finish the business he or she started in past life, the experiences in this life becomes dark and gloomy until you are on the right path.
-- It sounds very wierd to you , but when SSRIs all religions and all methods fail you. Please do remember this comment , this should atleast push you in the right direction
0:56 made me smile. My first smile for today and now back to the brain zaps, depression and crippling anxiety..
Dealing with this right now, no mention of the strange brain/body tingle waves I'm dealing with, microsecond sound distortions, brain overload basically all the most unsettling issues. If it wasn't for my experience with psychedelics prior to this, I'd probably be terrified, not being able to separate myself from the symptoms.
I started taking Zoloft and my initial reaction was it felt like I was on shrooms. Bizarre. Like you, luckily I’ve felt that before.
@@chefbrittan84 I actually stopped shortly after 4-6 months as I found little to no help from Lexapro. Most of my mental issues seem to be situation and perspective based which I have since fixed some, but still struggling with others. Hopefully it helps you, for me though it just added another layer of issues and distraction and I don't enjoy feeling medicated.
I am off Cymbalta after 15 years, it's been two weeks thru sheer determination and prayer, I didn't discuss it with my doctor he would have weaned me by reducing the milligrams.which meant staying on it longer.YES the withdrawal has been severe.but every passing day I feel improvement.
That was definitely not a smart decision.tapering slowly is the best way to get rid of it forever.
You stopped cold turkey? I know prayers can do wonders but it’s better getting off them slowly, the pain of the withdrawals is higher price to pay than staying on them a little longer
I is difficult to stress how long it may take to get off this stuff. They do in fact create a real chemical imbalance. Go as slow as you feel necessary. It is totally up to you. You know better then your doctor.
Been on xanax plus ssri for a week. Suffering from post covid icu ptsd. Been isolated in icu for 64 days in a third world country. Drugs made it worse. Ssri was a nightmare and xanax masks the problem and has a big potential of making you dpendent on it and that would be a big problem. Faith worked best. Watch aaron kim here on CZcams... could save lives
Recommend no more than a 2-5% taper every 2-4 weeks. This is EXTREMELY important. Many times, withdrawal is delayed so you may be doing large cuts and feel great, actually better than ever but just be blindsided with severe, debilitating withdrawal weeks or months later and at that point it's often too late to reinstate so it's a waiting game. Please be aware most doctors follow old tapering guidelines and the majority going through withdrawal did follow their doctors tapering advice.
I’m glad to see that I’m not alone in feeling like shit right now, 5 days after stopping taking the pills. While I was on them I felt numb and muted but not sad. But now, I’ve jut been crying constantly for no reason and feeling intense waves of strong emotion.
me too, i hope you're feeling better now :(
How are you now
@@sabinemar4how are you now
Love how she said "only some people get side effects" from what i see almost everyone does it's just that most people stay on them to avoid the side effects, im on my third attempt trying to get off them this is criminal
It’s all f@#king lies man. I quit fast taper.. 23 months later I’m still so ill. My personality has completely disappeared with any quality of life and I’m trying to come to terms with the fact it may never disappear. I had so much potential to be successful in the game of life and now the Only game I play is survival. Very sad 😢
I’m so sorry your still not better, hang on in there, they say you will eventually feel yourself in time ❤️
@@kimhunt5890 thanks for the your message of support. Time will tell I suppose. Ima keep on fighting on 👍🏻
Been on xanax plus ssri for a week. Suffering from post covid icu ptsd. Been isolated in icu for 64 days in a third world country. Drugs made it worse. Ssri was a nightmare and xanax masks the problem and has a big potential of making you dpendent on it and that would be a big problem. Faith worked best. Watch aaron kim here on CZcams... could save lives
You will be well. Watch aaron kims vids. I pray you find the answer there
Ive quit my prozac cold turkey and so far I feel great. other than the usual headaches and weird ass dreams i havent experienced any negative side effects mentally. I want to learn to handle my emotions with my own mind and not need heavy medications as a crutch to hold onto. Ive been on them for 5 years now and nothing has changed
Thats because prozac has a long half life it stays in your body longer so your body has longer time to adjust. Just wait s week or more youll see
Oh watch out, your brain might switch suddenly when Prozac is fully depleted.
@@azmagaref Its been 2 months since I went off and i’m doing alright! Haven’t felt suicidal and I actually had a happy cry for the first time in 3 years
@@legallyrequired I'm happy for you, when I stopped cold turkey after taking prozac for only 1 month, I ended up suicidal/homicidal, the police came to my house around 60 times in the span of 2 months, I started breaking objects, scared my parents, they almost kicked me out the house. I also robbed sandwiches from stores even though I wasn't even that hungry just for the sake of it, I ran outside at 3am and got into a fight with a drunk man and all sorts of insane things happened.
@@User-pz4re I’m sorry you had that experience D: I was on prozac mostly for OCD after being diagnosed in hospital, so quitting it just made me super anxious. Its gotten a bit better now but even months later I notice I’m much more anxious and definitely have worse symptoms of my OCD, but Prozac (and the other meds I tried before) made me so numb that I don’t want to do medications again anytime soon
People complain a lot about SSRI. Tell me why you took them in the first place? Were you feeling good. Not taking meds is worst. During withdrawal your same symptoms get amplified. Wean off slowly and accept the symptoms.
What a lie, im going through withdrawal off citalopram now after being on it for ten years. Weaning off slowly over months and I've had periodic chronic vomiting, extreme anxiety, far worse depression than I've ever had and suicidal ideation. I thought I was just weak or something, until I realised it was the withdrawal effect of trying to come off this drug. Its horrendous. Absolutely awful.
They arent in the business of curing depression they are in the business of selling drugs to get you dependent on their poison.
@@1MNUTZ exactly, they almost killed me with these drugs, I'm 7 months clean from antidepressants and I will never used them again, I only used it for 2 weeks in summer of 2021 and even that was enough to almost land me in jail, ruined my brain
The vivid dreams is the best thing about the medicine, I have never had this amazing dreams since I was a kid
I’ve been on Prozac for 5 days and already want to quit. The side effects brought back more anxiety, panic, stomach upsets, heartburn, tingling in neck, weakness in arms and legs, headaches, loss of focus, loss of appetite. I was just worried about my mind racing a lot and my insomnia but I’m not willing to keep taking this to be able to sleep.
Anti depressants are different for everyone... That being said, in my situation I tried a couple kinds, than needed a larger dose - larger dose larger dose - until they said I was at the maximum dose. Then I realized hey am I actually happier than when I didn’t take these at all? Coming off them is a long drawn out process, CONSULT your doctor, seriously coming down 50-75 mg at a time and it’s taking many months. It sucks, it’s very difficult - but honestly these are prescribed too readily sometimes, try to find the root cause of your unhappiness before chemically altering your brain. For me it was my job...
so what did you do about it?
Slowly weening myself off of them with the help of my doctor. Very slow process, life sometimes gets in the way and when it does I don’t lower the dose. Taking approx 1.5-2 years to get off of them.
After 20 years taking Lexapro I weened off of them! After 3 weeks Im still having withdrawls! Brain zaps and feel like crying but can't cry? It better get better soon and not have to take them again. Another symptom Im having is anger! Everyone bothers me! not all the time, but most of the time
Been on xanax plus ssri for a week. Suffering from post covid icu ptsd. Been isolated in icu for 64 days in a third world country. Drugs made it worse. Ssri was a nightmare and xanax masks the problem and has a big potential of making you dpendent on it and that would be a big problem. Faith worked best. Watch aaron kim here on CZcams... could save lives
I wished we could get an update from you. I'm a few days out from quitting Lexapro, but only after 8 months.
@@drawzan8554 did you quit cold turkey or wean off
Ive struggles with anxiety mostly and some depression from isolating my whole life. I’ve been on a lot of different medications I was on zoloft for about 4 years and got off of it cold turkey about 3 months ago. The withdrawals we’re horrible but what’s worse is the anxiety and depression coming back. It’s really been a struggle but it is so worth it because of all the terrible side effects of SSRI’s. Am trying to get back on benzodiazepines Nit so many harsh side effects and they work better for me but the problem is finding a doctor who isn’t going to think I am “drug seeking” as that is what most doctors say when you tell them Benzos work for you. Otherwise I’d rather just be anxious and depressed and try to cope with it. Lord help me
Been on xanax plus ssri for a week. Suffering from post covid icu ptsd. Been isolated in icu for 64 days in a third world country. Drugs made it worse. Ssri was a nightmare and xanax masks the problem and has a big potential of making you dpendent on it and that would be a big problem. Faith worked best. Watch aaron kim here on CZcams... could save your life
@@lot3741 thank you brother I will check him out. That’s crazy I pray the Lord will heal you. God bless
@@mikeskel45 Thank you. will pray for you brother. Just hang in there and know that He will not fail you. Let him fight that battle and let go.
Also check out the channel medicating normal. The truth about psychiatry
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@@lot3741 A.D. must never be stopped abruptly but stick to only one medicine and the dose should be reduced to the lowest mg gradually over a period of 3-4 months depending on how you feel during this process. The brain needs to adjust. To feel better and prevent side effects reduce negative thoughts with a simple practice. Your breathing is closely related to the brain [mind] and gives good relief from stress-anxiety. To relax sit on a chair or lie down, neck straight, eyes closed and observe the sensations of your incoming--outgoing breath at the entrance of the nostrils for 5-10-15 minutes or more. Don’t fight your thoughts. With daily practice the mind will relax. No deep breathing needed. Do the practice without any expectations. When taking a walk, at office, in school, when reading, before sleep etc observe your breath sensations. Like me, make this a lifetime daily habit to have a good life. Avoid constipation as it affects the mind instantly. Best wishes and prayers. Senior Counsellor.
Benzoes are even worse. Can have seizures coming off them, also way worse withdrawals.
I took Zoloft to help my headaches and anxiety . I was 25 mg for a while then switched to 50 for a day or two and went back 25. I fully stopped taking them . Five days after taking them I felt really bad headaches and nausea . Lots of dizziness and light headedness😫 anxiety was horrible shaking and trembling !! And now my throat hurts . For a second I thought I had corona but there just flu like symptoms of getting off the meds I guess
How u feel now?
Vincaso I’m feeling alright , lacking a little sertonin but I’m not nauseous anymore I still get headaches tho
Did it help you sleep? N how long were u taking the 25 mg that’s what they put me on
@@ashleyy-gx5fr couple months I slept for like 13 hours every night and the dreams were very vivid I think that’s the word but I had some crazy dreams
Been on xanax plus ssri for a week. Suffering from post covid icu ptsd. Been isolated in icu for 64 days in a third world country. Drugs made it worse. Ssri was a nightmare and xanax masks the problem and has a big potential of making you dpendent on it and that would be a big problem. Faith worked best. Watch aaron kim here on CZcams... could save your life
Say this prayer Dear Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner, and I ask for Your forgiveness. I believe You died for my sins and rose from the dead. I turn from my sins and invite You to come into my heart and life. I want to trust and follow You as my Lord and Savior. In Your Name. Amen
🤮
Been on xanax plus ssri for a week. Suffering from post covid icu ptsd. Been isolated in icu for 64 days in a third world country. Drugs made it worse. Ssri was a nightmare and xanax masks the problem and has a big potential of making you dpendent on it and that would be a big problem. Faith worked best. Watch aaron kim here on CZcams... could save your life
That only works for idiots
IT Has been almost 6 months after withdrawal this shit and i am still not feeling well . This is poison
How are you now?
@@jrman413 Right now I am feeling very well.
@@kA-rg5en When did the withdrawals end for you? How many months in?
@@jrman413 it is about a year and a half. But if you have family, kids work , do not try to do it without informing your relatives. They may help you and understand your behavior but they can also leave . You can lost everything
@@kA-rg5en Thanks. May I ask how long you were on SSRI?
I'm on week three of withdrawal symptoms and feel fine depression wise but feel terrible otherwise. Terrible brain zaps that are made worse by moving my eyes, increased appetite, body aches, vivid dreams, and hot flashes. I tapered down for about two months and thought I would be fine but this is miserable. Hopefully I will see improvement in the next few weeks.
Been on xanax plus ssri for a week. Suffering from post covid icu ptsd. Been isolated in icu for 64 days in a third world country. Drugs made it worse. Ssri was a nightmare and xanax masks the problem and has a big potential of making you dpendent on it and that would be a big problem. Faith worked best. Watch aaron kim here on CZcams... could save your life
Hey I'm actually interested in an update. I've been off escitalopram for about a about a week and I completely understand all of these symptoms. The brain zaps and feeling tired after being awake for a couple hours, extreme irritations the whole lot. I'm just wondering since this comment was a month ago how you've improved and anything that works as a coping strat
@@rowanrayner5913 that's what I just came off of, Lexapro. It's been a couple of days and the biggest problem I've had is the dizziness without actually being dizzy. It's hard to explain. But I've been nauseous a few times a day too. Really, really hoping this is as bad as it gets and I'm only going to improve from this point on.
@@drawzan8554 definitely doesn’t get much worse and your body will definitely adjust to the physical withdrawals. I think for the most part the dizziness and tiredness and feeling like a vegetable will be gone within a couple weeks. But I think what I’ve found is that irritating feeling and mental health will definitely still be there. I think they say that can last a couple of months.
@@rowanrayner5913 how are you feeling now?
I am sorry I am just having tough time trusting doctors as they don’t tell us how severe and hard it is to stop. I feel like I am stuck in a loop.
I accidentally went off fluoxetine completely last week after forgetting to take that med on vacation. I had already tapered down to 3-4 doses per week prior. At present, I don't feel any adverse effects. I'm hoping not to restart.
This understates the problem to an irresponsible degree. This video should be taken down.
The worst part of withdrawal (call it what it is!) isn’t anxiety. For me, it’s probably feeling like I can’t get out of bed. When I finally do, I feel clumsy and slur my speech. Runners up are the brain zaps, the onset of diarrhea after every meal, or the “vivid dreams”, which you would call nightmares if you were being honest.
Delete this shit.
It keeps mentioning talking to your doctor, but my doctor is horrible. She literally does not listen and tells me to breathe through it if I feel suicidal. Cheers love, she sone of the reasons I've just stopped taking them myself because I know she'll be an cu*t about it. Definitely looks down on me I know it!
Am so sorry about it, Its possible just take it slowly of course side effects may occur but they are not parmanent.
Major side effects. I tried cold turkey & within 3 days I wanted to die. Bertigo, migranes & nightmares. I went back on & have been trying to wean myself for a couple months. I still have a 3 month supply to try to wean off my 40 mg dose. I'm down to about 18 mg now but still have headaches. I've started magnesium & potassium with a few other suppliments because I'm also fighting high BP at the same time. It's not an easy course.
Take L-theanine with coffee in the morning, to help your mood, do some research first about what it is,, I’m taking it and it really help me out
C G Ayo it’s been a year since you commented this I hope things are better
Been on xanax plus ssri for a week. Suffering from post covid icu ptsd. Been isolated in icu for 64 days in a third world country. Drugs made it worse. Ssri was a nightmare and xanax masks the problem and has a big potential of making you dpendent on it and that would be a big problem. Faith worked best. Watch aaron kim here on CZcams... could save lives
My psychiatrist changed me onto duloxetine from citalopram which I was on for 10 years. I had some serious suicidal thoughts during the transition and even tied a noose in a hotel room when my wife was out. I couldn't handle the pain when it was around my neck and came down. Looking back, that side effect was incredibly scary and it must have been because of the medicine change. Please be careful when coming off or changing antidepressants. I hate them but we have to wean off them slowly or face horrible side effects that could cause more painful thoughts and feelings
So glad you are still here.
i didnt have any issues getting off cold turkey. Just me personally
Y’all are literally scaring me I just got on them for depression and turrets..
It's gonna be okay I also started taking them 5 days ago for my anxiety
3rd day and am feeling zaps wtf
@@leodiscorpion3350 I stopped taking them lol my comment was 6 months ago. It made me so suicidal and I had to go to the ER…
@@umayjeong3594 hope youre doing fine now
@@umayjeong3594 Me too, when I took antidepressants for 2 weeks and stopped I started splashing water bottles on random people on the streets, I robbed sandwiches from stores, I tried killing myself around 20 times or more (I even wrote a suicide note for my parents to see), I tried robbing peanut butter from a store, I tried to steal a bike, I tried to kick someone into a river, police came to my house around 40 times in the span of 2 months, it took me many months to feel normal again. The strangest part about all of this was that the whole time I saw colors vivid and the whole world looked fake to me
Antidepressants are DEPRESSANTS
THEY DONT MENTION TINNITUS! THE WORST SIDE AFFECT.
Yep, that's the bonus i received after quitting.
@@azmagaref man they are cold. Doctors should explain the side affects beforehand
I think they do this on purpose to keep you on them
I’m having horrible flu like symptoms 😞been having it for like a week now
i was taking ADs for my OCD and i quit cold turkey. i feel so lost rn, the withdrawal symtoms are killing me, i hope it gets better soon.
brain zaps !!
Taper no more than 2-5% every 2-4+ week's.
Most doctor's are clueless about tapering off Psych Med's.
Keep in mind, it takes 3 weeks for neurotransmitters to adjust. So - waiting 4 weeks in between tapers gives you a new baseline before you taper again. If you don't wait that 3 weeks, your withdrawals can stack up and bite you in the arse.
@@JanCarol11 Develop your mental muscles. Sooner or later anti depressants have serious side effects. I transformed my life some years back and now I am teaching others. After 10 days of doing the simple meditation explained below medication can be reduced and stopped after 25 days of daily meditation because the brain will be reprogrammed. Take on alternate days, then every 5 days and stop after 25 days. .Your breath is directly related to your mind causing anxiety-stress. For a relaxed life without anxiety-stress sit on a chair, back and spine as erect as possible, hands on your lap with palms upwards, close your eyes, be still and observe your incoming--outgoing breath, body sounds and body sensations for around 10-20 minutes. Be as still as possible. Plenty of thoughts will come which is ok--slowly negative thoughts will reduce. The mind is slowly reprogrammed to relax. Stop watching negative TV shows. Do the above meditation twice daily without any doubts and your life will transform. Stop medication-continue meditation. Best wishes. Shyaaam Sir. -Counsellor-Teacher.
@@shyaaammeneen63 Positive thinking is great, but inadequate to heal the body. You cannot heal a broken leg in 25 days by thinking at it, and it is the same with neurotransmitters. There are several adjustments which need to be made. I teach meditation, tai chi, qigong and breathwork, and recommend these for anyone trying to come off of drugs. I, too, help people come off the drugs on the Surviving Antidepressants website. But with the best intentions, 40-60% of people trying to come off will fail. And many will be destabilised and suffer. If they could meditate and wish their way out, they would. Listen to Dr. Shipko: www.madinamerica.com/2020/09/stuart-shipko-ssri-withdrawal-shooting-odds/ .
Your advice here is harmful, every other day (alternate) dosing is destabilising and therefore dangerous. Especially if your drug has a short half-life(there are variances, not all antidepressants are the same). survivingantidepressants.org/index.php?/topic/300-important-topics-in-the-tapering-forum-and-faq/?p=2864
I'm glad it worked for you, but you haven't said how long you were on the drugs, how many different drugs you had been on (sometimes doctors switch a lot, which is also destabilising), or how long you have been off. If it is less than 6 months to 2 years, do not be surprised if your neurotransmitters, endocrine, digestion, mood, sleep, skin, or other systems bite you in the arse the moment you hit a stressful situation. There is a delayed response in withdrawal - you think you "got away" until you realise the damage was more than you thought. survivingantidepressants.org/index.php?/topic/9451-delayed-onset-of-withdrawal-symptoms/
On the internet (and without a doctor, as most doctors do not understand how this works), it is best to recommend the safest methods, as people may take your advice and be harmed by it. The safest known method off of antidepressant (and other psych) drugs is slow, careful tapering. www.survivingantidepressants.org.
@@JanCarol11 The whole world is doing the famous "Vipaasna meditation" which is free and trandforming lives all over the world. Minds have people have gone crazy during the present world crisis. Anti-depressants have serious side effects sooner or later. Go to the root cause --why does a person take AD? Get rid of the root cause. How is it that after taking a pill a person feels relaxed. Obviuously ther is a chemical reaction in the brain. The misfiring of the neurons in the brain and serotinin levels need to be reprogrammed which happens with a few days of daily meditation. Then AD must be tapered of gradually. I have transformed my life, career, health, finances serveral years back and now I am teaching others. But a desire and determination is needed. The ultimate bliss is to reach a state of equanimity where nothing disturbs you. The breath is directly linked to the mind [brain] causing anxiety. Best wishes. Shyaaam Sir--Counsellor. Let us help people get rid of AD.
@@shyaaammeneen63 Many Vipassana schools will reject anyone who is on antidepressants. Especially if the diag-nonsense of "bipolar" (which is often INDUCED by antidepressants) is anywhere on your application. These pills are *not* relaxing to many people, they are overstimulating. Look up "akathisia" for example. Please do not recommend people to do alternate-day dosing, that is a harmful practice, especially with drugs like Paxil and Effexor (but there are others). I am a firm believer in meditation, a firm believer that the drugs cause more harm than good. Learning to breathe well would be an excellent way to AVOID the drugs in the first place! But doctors do not teach breathing, and people are taught to go to their doctors if they don't "feel right."
My life is done. I came off them, then I feel fucking uncomfortable and brain stop running. When I back on them I feel illness and not like myself.... Fuck... It is so terrible. Who experienced same as me?...
How are you now dude? I did 3 weeks off and the blankness, emptyness, fog in my brain was unbearable, I completly lost my personality, I cant remember even my phone number.
I take the antidepressant medication Proxat. Do I stop taking it and go back to normal for a few days or do I sit like this forever?
Does somebody know how to stop the dizziness and the headaches. I cant even read or do things.
The dizziness is so soooo bad.. how long did it take to subside with u
I tapered my dose down from 50mg over the course of a month and a half. Im 4 days off zoloft now and definitely having brain zaps, some heart palpitations, dizziness but its not terrible, at least not yet,
How long did the dizziness last
@@uzmanausheen5475 not long. Maybe a week. Felt perfect for a month and a half and then boom panic attack out of nowhere, blood pressure through the roof, pressure in my face and neck, tension headaches. Now I'm back on this fkn pill and I guess I'll just stay on forever, yay.
I’m coming off and frankly feel the same as when I’d been on them... my dose was always light though, maybe that’s wgy
I understand all the negative comments but in my experience without my SSRI I wouldn’t be here today and that’s a fact
The book "30 Days to Reduce Depression" by Harper Daniels is recommended. Gives good daily mindfulness exercises. Worth a try.
Currently tapered 20->2.5mg escitalopram over the last year. And I swear... The lower the dose, the worse reduction symptoms I experience. They pass over time, but this video is a total misinformation!!!
What do you mean?
Escitalopram is also Cipralex. If I stop taking 20mg I get brain numb, low concentration, irritable. Moody. Hard to go to work, lazy, Sleep alot. I am tired all the time, drink , smoke, and hate socializing. Sounds great huh??? If I didn't have a wife and kids , I guess whatever belief in God, few simple pleasures to live for I would swallow the whole bottle with booze. Lights out.
Well done for tapering so well. Yes the smaller doses are where the brain / blood barrier drops hit harder. Wishing you all the best. Go slow!
Do you are like you really are after the antidepressants? I feel bad I don't know if I come back to the normally again.
That is true that withdrawal symptoms are worse at lower dosages. That's why you taper much more slowly at lower dosages. at least 5-6 years to go from 25% down to zero.
Akathisia is a life threatening condition often not talked about
Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction
I was thinking about coming off my antidepressants all to gather
Gareth Makay come off them slowly, never cold turkey, maybe 10mg at a time
I forgot to take 1 day of my antidepressants and it literally felt like I was about to die. idk how people have little symptoms. cause fuck it feels so bad like someone's literally banged your head so hard on a table and it feels like your insides about to just pour itself out.
4 weeks cold turkey after 10 years i feel soo bad i cant do anything jsut sleep 247 and wanna die will it ever get better? coz this isnt livable
2 months now after 13 years lexapro, I can't see how I will survive this intact without some other drug! This is a nightmare I'm living now.
@@azmagaref me also 3 months now no difference.. rdy to die alrdy
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Hang in there buddy, try Chamomile tea 3-4 times daily if too anxious.
St John's wort might work for you, or SAMe.
Give them a try, one at a time.
My problem is I can't sleep more than 3 hours, I wish to sleep.
Use CoQ10 natural enzyme for a boost of energy, it makes a huge difference from 2nd day, you'll have energy.
@@azmagaref use nothing bro its all useless shiit. normal people use nothing.. tried everything nothing works man only keeping very busy 247 so u dont think about anything helps
also i cant sleep too wake up after 2 or 3 hrs and think about bs til sun up
@@azmagaref r u any better now? im even worse.. might have to go back on ssri
Vivid dreams I’m so sick of them! Zoloft helped with anxiety but now I don’t wanna take it because of the side effects.
Zoloft was prescribed more frequently than any other antidepressant in the USA in 2018 with over 38 million prescriptions.
The truth is there isn’t a chemical cure for a spiritual problem
Amen
Have you ever gone through it
I got withdrawal symptoms brain zaps and fatigue my doctor told me to go cold turkey
I am going to ask my GP if I can come off them at my next appointment. Hopefully, she'll let me. I don't like being drugged up. :/
+Amal302 good luck!
llama Read Nadines comments above. She nailed what it's like. Don't be discouraged because it can be done but it's a process. Do it right or it'll hurt. Good luck.
how are u??
My doctor is awful. He asked ME what I wanted to do about it. Like I have any idea
Dont use tremedol with sertraline, i accidently did, it caused disaster
Stupid cartoonish video making the whole thing seem like it's just a little bad, in reality it's a horror. 10 months ago I started tapering, 2 months ago I was done with the SSRI. Here'e what I have to live with daily:
Anxiety adrenaline rush from the moment I open my eyes.
Extremely disturbed sleep with vivid dreams that wake me up every 5 minutes at times.
Insomnia, 3 hours of sleep daily.
Central Sleep Apnea.
Deep sadness and depression with lethargy
Week body and legs shaking
Disorientation and confusion especially outside in the street or driving.
Constant brain fog, feeling like I'm buried in my head.
Derealisation, life feels like a bad dream, feeling unreal.
Very pronounced tinnitus comes as a bonus.
And finally the only positive thing to come out of all this, lost 13kg of body weight.
I know how torturous it can be but this is just an informative video, please don't take the simplistic and appealing style personally. If anything, seeing it depicted as horrifying as it can be would just make me even more worried and hopeless, besides the symptoms vary in intensity from person to person
@@spicymeatballs2thespicening Usually the tapering off process takes 1-2 months to prevent any relapse. First gradually reduce to the lowest mg, then take alternate days, then once in 3 days, once a week and then stop depending on how you feel. Develop your mental muscles. In life there are only 2 problems-mind and the body. To feel better reduce negative thoughts and overthinking. Your breathing is closely related to the brain [mind] and gives good relief from stress-anxiety. To relax sit on a chair or lie down, neck straight, eyes closed and observe the sensations of your incoming-outgoing breath at the entrance of the nostrils for 5-10-15 minutes or more. Don’t fight your thoughts. With daily practice the mind will relax. No deep breathing needed. Observe your breath sensations when you experience multiple thoughts anywhere-anytime- before sleep, in college, before sleep, in the kitchen, when reading, etc. Like me, make this a lifetime daily habit to have a better life. Reduce negative social media, take morning sunlight walks and avoid constipation as it affects the mind instantly. Best wishes--Counsellor.
A TO Z, Usually the tapering off process takes 1-2 months to prevent any relapse. First gradually reduce to the lowest mg, then take alternate days, then once in 3 days, once a week and then stop depending on how you feel. Develop your mental muscles. In life there are only 2 problems-mind and the body. To feel better reduce negative thoughts and overthinking. Your breathing is closely related to the brain [mind] and gives good relief from stress-anxiety. To relax sit on a chair or lie down, neck straight, eyes closed and observe the sensations of your incoming-outgoing breath at the entrance of the nostrils for 5-10-15 minutes or more. Don’t fight your thoughts. With daily practice the mind will relax. No deep breathing needed. Observe your breath sensations when you experience multiple thoughts anywhere-anytime- before sleep, in college, before sleep, in the kitchen, when reading, etc. Like me, make this a lifetime daily habit to have a better life. Reduce negative social media, take morning sunlight walks and avoid constipation as it affects the mind instantly. Best wishes--Counsellor.
How are you now? Stopped them 3 weeks ago and going through exactly what you’re going through and I’ve heard some people say it can take years 😢 I really can’t handle extra years of this shit and I don’t want to go back on the medication so just wondering if it’s gotten any better with you?
@@noraaa8479 Didn't last even 3 weeks after typing this comment, tried Prozac and felt worse and stopped it after 3 days, then I read that TCA are much much easier tolerated, tried Tofranil for one week, wasn't happy about feeling emotionless. This is when my Dr adviced me to try Amitriptyline, that was a break through and instant relief from insomnia and anxiety.
Still on it till today but, I'm like %85-95 back to my old self but it actually made me become careless about people and isolated. But I don't ever want to go through that horror 2 years ago. I've been scarred by that and I'm trying hard to help my brain with memory, I eat a lot of greens weekly and take multiple supplements for the brain and body.
May I ask how old are you?
Life really becomes worst hell after withdrawing anti depressant
This all scares me and stuff and I don't want to take antidepressants forever but it sure as hell is better than how I was doing before
Long term use of AD's can make it impossible to ever heal from depression one your off them!
i’ve been on them 6 years cannot get of venlafaxine, it’s so hard