Psychiatric Medications are Killing Me.

@dfb I hope you know that you make a difference. There is someone reading your words, nodding in agreement, and realizing they are not alone in their struggles. Just like you are not alone in your struggles.

Please keep on keeping on.
Ginger

@dfb what about a hospitalization where you can be slowly and carefully weaned from the meds that have been plaguing you? It sounds like you could benefit from a safe environment, professional/medical supervision for the “discontinuation effects”, counseling/therapy to address your past traumas and emergency intervention if needed. It could be like a mental health rehab.

Hi, I have suffered with bouts of depression for 45 years but only for short periods due to Big Pharma. I have been on more antidepressants and antipsychotics than I can remember but the point is that our bodies do change and so must the medication. Some can be increased and some must be weaned off. I’m surprised that you are have been taking this combination for so many years. Time to see a new doctor…you don’t need to suffer like this.
Seroquel and Lorazepam both made my depression worsen. Seroquel gave me bad dreams.
The problem with most antidepressants is that it takes 3 weeks to see if they are effective. But adequate sleep is crucial. I take 1/2 an Zolpedine if I don’t get sleepy by midnight and then another half if I don’t feel sleepy an hour later.
When I couldn’t climb out of the black hole for a month a few years ago I had ketamine infusions until my antidepressant kicked in. 3 or 4? Well worth the $$
I read positive affirmations everyday and 3 blogs with fellow sufferers helping each other. 2 are on Facebook
I pray that you find better medical advice and get back on the road to recovery 💕

DON'T give up, dfb!

I went through twenty years of hell on antipsychotic drugs and, against the advice of the mental health community, I quit them all. It has been a tough row to hoe, but I feel like I've been reborn. I'm not recommending this approach to you. Just informing you of one person's experiences. The brain is so complex and responses to the various drug therapies so variable that I think it's difficult to predict an outcome to any one approach.

Best of luck to you.

Thank you!

Thank you!

Yes, that is a good idea. Unfortunately, very few clinics, never mind hospitals, will work with patients wanting to discontinue their medication. Then, they are very expensive, and I question their effectiveness. The longest I found was ninety days; the costs were in the six figures. Insurance isn't even an option. Follow-up would have to continue for months, even years.

Hopefully, in the future, mental health facilities will recognize the need for this service. I have detoxed from alcohol, cocaine, benzodiazepines, and cigarettes, and they were all easier and faster by comparison. They sold this stuff without giving any thought to the long-term ramifications.

For now, I am doing endless research, and my providers support me as best they can.

Peace and good health to you.

What a crock hospital are where they put you on meds and give you a label. what hospital most are holding pens.

@dfb were you in psychoanalysis for your ailments? Trying to get on top of stuff from our early years requires a deep dive via psychoanalysis.

Yes, I was for years then I was put on medication and therapy was stopped. I could no longer think or feel.

It is only recently, after titrating most of my meds that I have been able to start healing.

It is beyond wonderful to have my mind and heart back. I probably have at least another six months to get rid of all of the poisons I have been taking, it’s been a year already.

Current psychiatric medication retard healing. Numbing the patient, rendering them incapable of making any progress.

My depression and constant suicidal ideation was directly connected to the extreme trauma I experienced as a child.

I lost fifteen years of my life to the soul numbing effects of psychiatric medications. I’m finally, at sixty, waking up to who I am. I like the person I am getting to know.

May we all live in peace and good health.

This is well said about what I've gone through for twenty years. It was terrifying to go off meds for me. Everyone's telling me don't do it! It's been a rocky road, and I'm thankfully, my parents still live with me. Now that I'm off meds, I see how I never really dealt with my fundamental problems while numbed by meds. And I see how impossible it would have been to have a partner. I feel like the psychiatry field is based on their fear of the unknown, as well as a very conservative outlook. Things that have already happened and worked are the only options. For example, have you noticed how many people in the field throw up their hands at the Internet? This just shows me how conservative the field really is. I see that there are cases where crisis is treated to save lives. And the problem is bigger than just the psychiatry practice. But the approach needs to be changed. And finally, I hate to say it, but I think that many motivations are still fighting wwII. These old timers think they've seen it all. Here's to leading a life directed by understanding through God's direction, and not based on a picture of what life should be like based on how America looked after saving the day in wwii