Anyone on psych meds should get off of them immediately, they’re not good for you! They’re basically a marketing scam that involves the mental health industry convincing you that something’s wrong with you so that you’ll want to take them so that you can give them your money, and they’ll screw you over later.
Whatever happened to your natural RIGHT to have negative emotions? Being sad is “bad”, it means you’re depressed. Being angry is “bad”, it means you’re bipolar. Being nervous is “bad”, it means you have anxiety. If I could go back a decade, I would. Back then, I was a healthy kid without a single braincell of “crazy”. I just wasn’t happy because I was being bullied at school and I was pretty new to the area so I didn’t have friends, and I had lost my mom a few years prior to that. Sound normal, right? Apparently I was depressed, so I was places on zoloft, and that was the starting point. From there, I started having bad physical health symptoms, so I was placed on more meds for health. I recall having to take other psych meds too; specific names I remember include risperdol and abilify. My health kept taking a downward spiral; I developed high levels of things that shouldn’t have high levels like cholesterol and thyroid, and low levels of things that shouldn’t have low levels like various vitamins, so I had to take meds for that. I was used for a labrat; change this dose if it’s too high/low, change this med for another one or add in this med with another one if the effects aren’t desirable, etc. I recall being on ten pills or more on a daily basis. During this time, I was tormented by vivid nightmares in the form of sleep paralysis; I was often afraid to SLEEP.
I tried to quit the meds a few times on my own, but each time, the withdrawal symptoms would bother me so bad that I’d get back on them just to make the feeling go away. Around the beginning of this year, I quit everything, cold turkey, with the help of others’ encouragement. I’d encourage all of you who are facing this problem to do the same. The longer I went without the meds, the less and less I’d experience withdrawal, and after awhile it faded completely. All my different health related levels went back to normal, except I’m still faced with a mysterious digestive system problem that developed over this time that I don’t know what is or how to treat just yet. My memory is terrible, especially short term; I have problems being able to recall things that happened the previous day or even earlier the current day, and events from recent timeframes happen like a very long time ago. Many of my actual long term memories are hard to recall as well. My focus is also terrible; I can’t concentrate on anything I’m trying to do, or often even simple things like keeping up with a conversation, and the memory issue doesn’t help matters.
It’s not hard to get off the meds; you just QUIT. Ignore any symptoms of withdrawal accompanying getting off of them; be strong and fight it! I encourage any friends of mine to never start on any meds, and to the ones who were on them to never go back to them. Don’t go gradual, that just prolongs the problem. It’s such a shame what the mental health system is doing to people like me and many, many others. No other living thing but human beings is doing this to themselves. The next time you’re about to pop a pill, ask yourself which is worse… the you before the meds or the you right now?
