Before you start on psycho drugs...

All true, and it's been my life for the last 19 years. Tapered off my last ever antidepressant on Sunday. I AM FREE!

It was h3ll. It was hard work, it was expensive. It turned my life upside down. But I believe it was worth it. Lyme taught me the principles of good health and not trusting the CDC/FDA, to allow me to do it.

A good resource is https://kellybroganmd.com/.
A good book is "Overdosed America" by John Abramson.

I know what it's like to need medication. I know what it's like for it to be your only hope. But the horror of being on them for life, going through dosage adjustments, becoming dead inside, and the risk of suicide that comes both from being on them and trying to get off them, in my very informed opinion, IS NOT WORTH GOING ON THEM. I plead, with tears in my eyes, for anyone to reconsider. If you need them to save your life right now, then use them only long enough to get on a strict diet, learn about real nutrition and health, and get off as soon as you can.

For me, mental health is my top priority and my trigger. I've heard it said that the risk of Disulfuram to put you in a psych ward is worth the "healing" from Lyme. To me that's a big fat NOPE. Getting Lyme from my weak immune system was worth the risk of getting off antidepressants. There are alternatives.

If you've already gone down that path, I just want to say that it does not have to be permanent damage. There is hope. I am living (and thriving) proof.

NEVER. GIVE. UP.

Cignet.☄️ said...


I watched my adoptive mother go berserk on so many occasions because of things like Prozac. Smashing the house up, week long binges, all sorts of messed up stuff.

When I started having my own issues with my mental health I sought to do things through meditation, exercise and a little bit of prayer. This is about 5 years ago, after I self medicated with alcohol and cannabis.

It was in my household too. But everyone said it was the LACK of pills that caused these rages. So when I started having my own issues with mental health, it was "common sense" that I needed them as well. Now I know the truth, and I am sad for my child self. But victorious for her.

OMG, I'm sorry for you guys...
I posted to warn people who haven't been on drugs yet.

Thanks for posting your REAL EXPERIENCES!
I think this is much more didactic than the initial video.

I hope you are BBunny arrives to get rid of it. Maybe the book of the author from the video is a good start?
One of my best friends nephew died of a side effect of a psycho drug too, that stopped his digestion completely (side effect mentioned in the insert was 'it may slower digestion').

He's got a huge surgery, and died from a heart attack (his heart could not cope with the surgery).

His family is full of medical professionals.
They don't even blame themselves...

They blame the situation: 'the boy needed drugs', they said, 'and unfortunately was too weak for the drugs he so badly needed'.

If they don't blame the drug that somehow killed their son (he was not even 30 years old), do you think they will blame the drugs when they kill patients?

oregonhay said...
My MD "Doctor", Dr. Lucifer...

I found that initial remark so funny that I had to log in and tell you. It's not often that I read things that make me laugh aloud. Very funny. I realize the seriousness of the entire comment, but that was a great opener.

One of the issues I've seen is that physicians try to modulate serotonin levels with serotonin reuptake inhibitors and don't address the real issue. The real issue is complex and not fully understood but IMO, one major component of it involves oxytocin levels. Oxytocin levels in the brain are 1000 times higher than they are in the periphery, but it is the periphery levels are just as much an issue. The literature says that oxytocin directly effects serotonin levels, this is not in question but how is still debatable. This is what helps cause the feeling of loneliness, social reclusiveness, lack of empathy, and a non-caring outlook. The suicidal thoughts aren't caused by this but they are related. Tryptophan and tyrosine play a secondary role.

When you look at disease states, there are associations between that person's bacterial profile and their condition. Just as a simple example, people with increased depression always have decreased Ruminococcus, Lactobacillus helvetcus, and Bifidobacterium longum. The mechanism of action is not known for many of the psychotropic drugs so I consider them to be like metformin. In the blood sugar lowering drug metformin, the exact mechanism of action is unknown but it is known that the drug increases Bifidobacterium and Akkermansia levels. I believe the psychotropic drugs alter our microbiome and this is why they can be beneficial. So in every medical condition, the person could improve their health by altering their microbiome. It has a lot to do with SCFA (short chain fatty acids) but the details take too much time to go into here. The complexity of what going wrong snowballs into a monster very quickly.

astroman said...
"one major component of it involves oxytocin levels. Oxycontin levels in the brain are 1000 times higher than they are in the periphery, but it is the periphery levels are just as much an issue. The literature says that oxytocin directly effects serotonin levels, this is not in question but how is still debatable."

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"oxytocin "- sometimes known as the "cuddle hormone" or the "love hormone"

I read some studies of this hormone mentioning people with more of this cant stand to be single.

It does a lot more than that. It's mostly used by women during child birth but they are just not trying to understand what it does peripherally. I see it as a storage chest. It is a huge molecule made of 9 amino acids. There are many chemicals that block oxytocin degradation and it can't be made without Vitamin C. IMO, most sick Lymies don't have enough Vitamin C.