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🧠Psych Drug Harm Awareness
Withdrawal, Iatrogenic Injury & Healing
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There is no other disease, ailment or illness that strips all three things from a human like psych med withdrawal. Mind. Body. And spirit.

Antidepressant withdrawal is criminal. To be left an empty vessel inside a body still living is a feeling thats hard to put into words.

There were many times I wasnt sure if I was going to make it. But somehow, the hours turn into days. The days turn into weeks, and the weeks turn into months.

You dont go through this level of suffering and come out the same person. The things I have felt, seen and witnessed is not something we were meant to experience. An experience that will change me for the rest of my life.
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#antidepressantwithdrawal#psychmedwithdrawal#ssri#protractedwithdrawal#iatrogenicinjury by @sammanthabecker

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Im Sam. After high school, around 2012, I went on psych meds for mild anxiety, depression and social anxiety.

My psych med cascade started with Effexor. Over the years I cycled through almost every class of medication and different combinations, from an SSRI, SNRI, mood stabilizers, antipsychotics and benzodiazepines. Not realizing that switching medication meant theyre not working.

Sometime in about 2018 was when the final switch happened, where I finished off my last 7 medicated years back on Effexor.

Throughout those 12-13 years, the meds slowly started to chip away at every part of me. I became angry, hostile, getting in car accidents, road rage, speeding tickets, lashing out. I became arrogant and unempathetic. I slowly morphed into someone I didnt even recognize anymore. They changed my entire personality. And the scariest part of it all, is it took me years to realize that it was the meds, and not the real me. Until it was undeniable. I was unable to see how the medications were negatively affecting me because of the intoxication anosognosia effect, or spellbinding.

In December 2024, I met with an amazing functional medicine doctor. Shortly after, I got an internal intuition that it was time I try to stop taking medication. I wanted to live my life naturally, actually get to the root cause of my problems, and free myself from the chains of psychiatry and the labels that were embedded into my identity. I wanted to meet me again.
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#antidepressantwithdrawal#psychmedwithdrawal#ssri#mentalhealthadvocate#psychiatry by @sammanthabecker

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If I would have known what it would be like to come off of psychiatric medication after I took that first pill 13 years ago, I would have never taken them. If I would have known that the side effects would become worse than the original condition. If I would have known that the withdrawal would be a thousand times worse than the original reason for needing it in the first place. I would have never taken them.

These medications are normalized, glamorized and touted. The famous one-liner “dont forget to take your happy pill today” is not a joke.

Psych meds are not a pill that is isolated to affecting just the brain. Your entire nervous system and every system in your body adapts to the presence of the drug. This is called neuroadaptation. And the longer you are on it, the more it adapts, and the harder it is to get off of them.

Most people have no clue what these medications are capable of. Akathisia and PSSD (Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction) are a few to name and people take their lives over.

I went on medication for mild anxiety and depression. Over the course of 15 months in withdrawal, I accumulated 97 symptoms that I never had before until my entire nervous system collapsed and became sensitized from a rapid two week taper.

Withdrawal from these medications is the most inhumane thing you can put a human being through. When you combine mental, physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of suffering, it is a level that is unfathomable and indescribable. I wouldnt wish it on my worst enemy. I would have rather been homeless or served time in prison because being behind bars is better than being behind them in your own vessel. People say they would rather experience their childhood trauma again (insert the worst thing you can think of here.) Withdrawal is the hardest thing I have ever and will ever go through in my time here on earth.
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#protractedwithdrawal#psychmedwithdrawal#fightingformylife#ssri#snri by @sammanthabecker

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Anything I missed? What did withdrawal reveal to you? Does this resonate? #ssriwithdrawal#antidepressantwithdrawal#growthjourney#growth#chronicillnesswarrior by @sammanthabecker

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What crazy things have you been told/asked?
#psychmedharm#antidepressants#ssris#antidepressantwithdrawal#ssriwithdrawal by @sammanthabecker

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🌵Lily of the Desert - Organic Aloe Vera Juice - 2-4 oz/day - Coats, soothes and repairs the gut lining

🧬Vital Proteins - Collagen Peptides powder - 1 scoop in large oz of water/daily - Supports hair, skin and nails but also supports gut

🐄 Designs for Health - Bone Broth Protein Shake - Collagen-rich beef protein isolate - 1 scoop/daily - whenever you need an extra boost of protein, makes a great snack or inbetween meals to prevent blood sugar dips/flaring of symptoms

🪴Garden of Life - Once Daily Womans Probiotic - 50 billion - 16 strains - 1/day - Populates essential strains of good bacteria, prevents bad bacteria from taking over, optimal gut function is needed for neurotransmitter production and function

🌱Vital Nutrients - Organic Prebiotic Fiber Powder - 1/2-1 scoop/day - I add to smoothies - its tasteless, odorless, textureless - Feeds the probiotics so they can colonize and diversify

💧Aussie Trace Minerals - Electrolyte Drops - 20 drops/day in large oz water - Essential minerals the body needs daily (ONLY use or reintroduce if you can tolerate even small amounts of magnesium, please use this one with caution as I couldnt use it for awhile)
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#functionalmedicine#antidepressantwithdrawal#ssriwithdrawal#protractedwithdrawal#guthealth by @sammanthabecker

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🗣️🗣️🗣️#antidepressantwithdrawal#ssriwithdrawal#prescribedharm#lindsayclancy#bigpharma by @sammanthabecker

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Im slowly being able to feel again. To have empathy. To feel my soul. To feel connected to nature. Mother earth. To other humans. To notice the little things. To be present. To come back to myself. To come home. To be human. A feeling thats irreplaceable.
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#nervoussystemhealing#antidepressantwithdrawal#psychiatry#ssriwithdrawal#nervoussystemregulation by @sammanthabecker

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Ive done it all. 5htp, Tyrosine, Tryptophan, Magnesium, Curcumin, Zinc, Gaba, L-Theanine, Glycine, Taurine, Fish Oil. And nothing brought me the most healing than bringing it back to the basics and letting the clock tick.

Whole organic foods. Reverse osmosis water. Quality sleep. Light exercise. Prayer and meditation. Sunlight. Nature.

You cant supplement your way out of reversing neuroadaptation and neuroplasticity. The body is complex, but its needs are simple.

Let your brain and body heal without interruption. Trust that your miraculous creation knows what to do.
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#antidepressantwithdrawal#ssriwithdrawal#iatrogenicinjury#healingjourney#neuroplasticity by @sammanthabecker

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#prescribedharmawareness#prescribedharmawarenessday#prescribedharm#antidepressantwithdrawal#informedconsent by @sammanthabecker

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One day soon were all gonna speak. Were not staying quiet. Were just getting started.
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#netflixdocumentary #prescribedharm #antidepressantwithdrawal #bigpharma #ssriwithdrawal by @sammanthabecker

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