Many people wonder how a therapist or psychologist can help someone come off psychiatric medications if they are not allowed to prescribe or stop medications themselves. The answer is simple. Getting off psych meds is not mainly about prescriptions. It is about...
This is a conversation that is not popular, but it is necessary. In the tapering and recovery coaching world, lived experience is powerful. It creates community, language, empathy, recognition, and the courage to leave what once harmed you. But lived experience, no...
Online tapering support groups can feel like home. At first, they often give people what the medical system did not. They offer validation, shared language, community, and the priceless moment of being believed. If you have ever tried to taper psychiatric medication,...
Ilia Malinin didn’t describe a physical mistake. He described sequence. “Right before I got into my starting position, all the negative thoughts just rushed into my head. All the negative, traumatic experiences. I’ve been through a lot. Being the Olympic gold hopeful...
The conversation around psych meds is finally shifting, but tapering conversations are still missing the most important framework: the psychology that determines what the brain predicts, fears, amplifies, or calms during medication exit. Most deprescribing models...
