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,...
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...
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...
Why Withdrawal Can Feel Like Anxiety, Panic, or Relapse When the Body Is Bracing for Threat Do your cheeks suddenly turn red for no obvious reason.Do you get itchy in all the wrong places.Does your heart race after eating or seemingly out of nowhere.Do you feel...
A simple, research-backed explanation you can actually feel in your body If you’ve ever tapered an SSRI and thought: “Why does the last 1mg feel like jumping off a cliff when the first 10mg felt like nothing?” You aren’t imagining it.You aren’t sensitive.You aren’t...
