by Dr Teralyn | Mar 10, 2026 | Anxiety & Depression, Anxiety and Depression, BRAIN HEALTH, chemical imbalance theory, deprescribing medication, medication tapering, medication titration
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...
by Dr Teralyn | Mar 4, 2026 | Anxiety & Depression, Anxiety and Depression, chemical imbalance theory, Health and Wellness, medication tapering, medication titration
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...
by Dr Teralyn | Feb 11, 2026 | ADHD, antidepressants, Anxiety & Depression, Anxiety and Depression, BRAIN HEALTH, chemical imbalance theory
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...
by Dr Teralyn | Jan 28, 2026 | ADHD, antidepressants, Anxiety & Depression, Anxiety and Depression, chemical imbalance theory, deprescribing medication, Health and Wellness, medication tapering, medication titration
The missing piece in most psych med deprescribing conversations is psychology. Not therapy culture psychology, not mindset memes, but the deeper truth: the brain interprets withdrawal through expectation, past experience, identity, fear, relief, and meaning. Taper...
by Dr Teralyn | Jan 12, 2026 | Anxiety and Depression, BRAIN HEALTH, chemical imbalance theory
Meditation has an image problem. Somewhere along the way it got filed under woo-woo, optional, or “not for serious people with real trauma.” It became the thing people roll their eyes at right before saying, “I tried it once and it didn’t work.” Meanwhile, millions of...
by Dr Teralyn | Jan 5, 2026 | BRAIN HEALTH, chemical imbalance theory, deprescribing medication, Health and Wellness, medication tapering, medication titration, Mental Health & Anxiety
I was prescribed an antidepressant in month five of my pregnancy, not because I had been diagnosed with a depressive disorder, but because my OBGYN asked if I had postpartum depression in my first pregnancy. I answered with uncertainty, “I think so.” That uncertainty...
