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Sertaline with no informed consent
Name Heather A What happened: I was in a very bad place and could barely function. My doctor offered me medication which I gratefully agreed to. I walked out with a prescription and didn’t know anything about it until I opened the box and found I would be taking 50mg sertraline per day. I was…
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Venlafaxine taper -fully functional before
Anette What happened: I started venlafaxine in 2019. I started develop worrisome side effects on the venlafaxine very early on such as tremors, restlessness, need of body flexing and clenching and many more. Instead being told to stop it, I was told to dose it up. I was told that there are no medications without…
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Taper cocktail done wrong
Name Barbara B What happened: I was taking Effexor, 225mg for about 7 years. I decided to go off because it wasn’t helping my depression and anxiety all that much anymore. I found a psychiatrist and she supposedly helped me taper. She immediately told me to take one less 75mg a week. By the 2nd…
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Spellbinding
Peter Breggin, MD coined the phrase Medical Spellbinding to explain the phenomenon of disassociatlive anaesthetics affecting people on psychiatric drugs. Their personalities change, they do say things they would never do unmedicated and for many actions, they simple do not remember. Peter has been studying psychiatry and what really works for over 50 years.
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Antidepressant Facts | Breaking the spell | If they taper | Loving Through The Storm | Spouse experience
The Kids can see it
“when you talk to your kids you need to explain to them that he is sick. Doctors gave him a medicine to help him with anxiety and it made him crazy. He cannot control his thoughts or emotions. Tell them be loves them very much he just isn’t thinking clearly. Use this to show them…
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Advice from the inside of hell
“It will be harder for him to wake up without you in his life. It will be hard on you but worth doing whatever you can stand” “Remember his reality is hugely warped” “The real him is trapped in there” “say what you need to say to get him to taper” Once he’s woken up…
