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The moment you think you’re doing the right thing for your child’s mental health can be the moment everything turns. Sheila joins us to tell Tre’s story—a 25‑year‑old nurse, athlete, and gentle soul whose life unraveled in a matter of months after a cascade of psychiatric prescriptions, missed medical workups, and a system that documented his suicidality yet never built a safety plan.

We start where too few clinicians do: the biology. Tre’s persistently low testosterone never received proper endocrine evaluation. Instead, treatment pivoted to antidepressants and mood stabilizers. Rage appeared within days of the first medication, then the list grew: Cymbalta, Effexor, lamotrigine, Ativan, buspirone, Vyvanse—paired with a doubling of testosterone. The result was a storm of side effects: personality changes, violent outbursts he couldn’t recall, intense restlessness that looked like akathisia, and sexual dysfunction consistent with PSSD. Records show he repeatedly reported feeling suicidal. What’s missing is even louder: no safety planning, no calls to the person he lived with, and telehealth check-ins so short they could never capt

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What if the hardest part of coming off an antidepressant isn’t the first cut, but the last milligrams? We sit down with Dr. Mark Horowitz—clinician, researcher, and someone who’s been through withdrawal himself—to unravel why standard advice fails, how the brain adapts to medication, and what a safer exit really looks like.

Mark shares his first taper attempt after 13 years on Lexapro, a methodical plan that still crashed into panic, derealization, and hours of daily terror. That lived shock led him to survivingantidepressants.org, hyperbolic tapering, and ultimately co-authoring the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines and national guidance in the UK. We dig into the science behind tolerance and homeostasis, the neuroimaging that explains why tiny doses can have big effects, and the practical tools—liquid formulations and small percentage reductions—that let people step down without falling off a cliff.

We also take on the evidence base. Most psychiatric drug trials are short, yet millions stay on meds for years. Stopping studies often confuse withdrawal with relapse, inflating claims for maintenance. Mark clarifies the dif

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🔥 You’ve been harmed. You’ve been dismissed. It’s time to take your brain back—with guidance from people who’ve been there and know their stuff.

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The story you’ve been told about depression is tidy, catchy, and comforting—and it doesn’t match the evidence. We sit down with Professor Joanna Moncrieff to unpack why the “chemical imbalance” narrative took hold, what her 2022 umbrella review actually found about serotonin, and how a drug-centered lens helps us make wiser choices about antidepressants. Instead of assuming pills fix a faulty brain, we look at how psychoactive drugs alter consciousness—sometimes helpful in crisis, often numbing across the emotional spectrum—and what that means for informed consent.

Joanna walks us through the gap between early, hyped studies and larger research that failed to replicate findings on serotonin. We explore what serotonin reliably affects (sexual function), where the data are inconsistent (mood, sleep, appetite), and how SSRIs may increase activity in the short term yet disrupt systems over time. We zoom out to the marketing that reframed distress as a biological condition requiring medication, cementing a professional identity while sidelining context—grief, trauma, values, and life events that actually shape how we feel.

We

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🔥 You’ve been harmed. You’ve been dismissed. It’s time to take your brain back—with guidance from people who’ve been there and know their stuff.

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Electricity doesn’t care about intent—and when it meets the human brain, biology, physics, and ethics collide. We sit down with Sarah Price Hancock, a nationally certified rehabilitation counselor and former professor who became an advocate after sustaining injuries from electroconvulsive shock treatment. Her story pulls back the curtain on how misdiagnosis, catatonia, and “maintenance ECT” can unfold in a system with scant dosing standards, limited specialty training, and a consent process that often breaks down when people are most vulnerable.

Sarah explains electroporation in clear terms: high-frequency pulses can open cell membranes and barriers, allowing drugs, histamine, and pathogens to move into places they shouldn’t. We connect that mechanism to real-world physiology—massive, rapid changes in cerebral blood flow, seizure-driven oxygen and glucose demands, and periods of postictal brain and even cardiac silence. The result can be perfusion and reperfusion injury, hypoxic-ischemic damage, and a spectrum of cognitive, motor, cranial nerve, and autonomic problems that may appear immediately or emerge over time. This isn’t jus

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Psych meds have harmed us—and we’re not just survivors, we’re deeply educated in psychopharmacology, psychology, and nutrition. As hosts of The Gaslit Truth Podcast, we guide people safely off psychiatric medications with strategies grounded in science and brain health

🔥 You’ve been harmed. You’ve been dismissed. It’s time to take your brain back—with guidance from people who’ve been there and know their stuff.

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Start with a simple premise: what if the “problem” wasn’t you, but a system that muted your body’s signals and called it care? We sit down with Rachel Reynolds—garden coach, sensitive soul, and antidepressant survivor—to trace a decade-long arc from teen prescriptions to tricyclics, stacked medications, and a side effect no one wanted to own: urinary retention so severe basic routines became a battle. Her story is candid, specific, and, ultimately, empowering.

Rachel maps the medication maze—Prozac’s early lift, the slide to amitriptyline, and a carousel of add-ons and cross-tapers that never addressed root causes. We unpack how side effects get mislabeled as “anxiety,” why spironolactone for acne collides with psychiatric meds more than most realize, and how dermatology’s quick fixes can ignore inflammation, gut health, and liver load. When a self-directed taper brought withdrawal roaring in—anhedonia, nausea, sensory overwhelm—Rachel feared her personality was a pharmaceutical illusion. Instead, as she listened inward, boundaries sharpened and misaligned work fell away.

The pivot came through terrain-based healing. With

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Psych meds have harmed us—and we’re not just survivors, we’re deeply educated in psychopharmacology, psychology, and nutrition. As hosts of The Gaslit Truth Podcast, we guide people safely off psychiatric medications with strategies grounded in science and brain health

🔥 You’ve been harmed. You’ve been dismissed. It’s time to take your brain back—with guidance from people who’ve been there and know their stuff.

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Are you tired of being gaslit and want to DEEP THROAT some more truth? We want to hear from you! Message us your gaslit stories at thegaslittruthpodcast@gmail.com

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Most headlines shrug and say, “we may never know why.” We refuse that answer. With clinical psychologist Dr. Toby Watson, we examine the uncomfortable pattern linking widely prescribed psychiatric medications to spikes in suicidality, aggression, and even homicidal ideation—especially when starting, stopping, or changing doses. The data trail is stark: a small cluster of antidepressants, anxiolytics, sedatives, and stimulants accounts for the vast majority of severe violent reports, while black box warnings arrived years late and adverse events were often buried or recoded in trials.

We talk plainly about informed consent—what patients are told, what they aren’t, and how medication guides can change the conversation. Toby breaks down how placebo frequently explains perceived benefits on depression scales, how “spellbinding” dulls insight and critical thought, and why therapy falters when the mind is numbed. We unpack stimulant‑induced mania misdiagnosed as “new bipolar,” the non‑linear reality of withdrawal, and the structural brain changes that make quick tapers a recipe for harm. Along the way, we confront the system incentives—

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Psych meds have harmed us—and we’re not just survivors, we’re deeply educated in psychopharmacology, psychology, and nutrition. As hosts of The Gaslit Truth Podcast, we guide people safely off psychiatric medications with strategies grounded in science and brain health

🔥 You’ve been harmed. You’ve been dismissed. It’s time to take your brain back—with guidance from people who’ve been there and know their stuff.

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Are you tired of being gaslit and want to DEEP THROAT some more truth? We want to hear from you! Message us your gaslit stories at thegaslittruthpodcast@gmail.com

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Comfort can feel caring—and still cost you your future. We sit down with Daniel West, a rule-breaking physical therapist who argues that “slow and safe” rehab keeps people stuck, while blunt truth and early, focused movement produce real functional gains. Daniel brings hard-won perspective from his own car accident and years of hospital work, including a devastating story about a 25-year-old who died after being encouraged to stay in bed. His point lands with force: informed consent means telling patients the actual risks of immobility and the physics of recovery, not wrapping them in reassurance that backfires.

We dig into the culture of labels that can quietly define a person’s ceiling—“complete” injuries that supposedly can’t improve—contrasted with cases Daniel has walked back to function in days. He explains why he rejects gimmicks and tech theater in favor of precise load, leverage, and relentless intent, and why he caps his practice at ten patients to protect outcomes. Expect friction around incentives too: if a protocol delivers results in hours, months of billing vanish, and that resistance is real. Daniel’s bottom line i

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Psych meds have harmed us—and we’re not just survivors, we’re deeply educated in psychopharmacology, psychology, and nutrition. As hosts of The Gaslit Truth Podcast, we guide people safely off psychiatric medications with strategies grounded in science and brain health

🔥 You’ve been harmed. You’ve been dismissed. It’s time to take your brain back—with guidance from people who’ve been there and know their stuff.

Support the show

Are you tired of being gaslit and want to DEEP THROAT some more truth? We want to hear from you! Message us your gaslit stories at thegaslittruthpodcast@gmail.com

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The spark didn’t just fade—it was blunted. We bring on Cliff Yates, a 35-year veteran of the LA County Sheriff’s Department and stand-up comic, to unpack how SSRIs can quietly reorganize a relationship’s core: intimacy, memory, judgment, and even the stories we tell about each other. Cliff walks us through the gut-punch details—a cruise retold as isolation, affection replaced by aggression, and a warm home recast as a staging ground for divorce—while we map those moments against medication switches, taper attempts, and the confusing dance between “relapse” and withdrawal.

Together we examine the clinical minefield where mania triggered by antidepressants is relabeled as “unmasking bipolar,” where new diagnoses justify more drugs, and where emotional numbing blocks the grief necessary to repair. We explore the neuroscience behind spellbinding—why the medicated reality can feel unimpeachably true to the person on the drug—and how that leaves spouses questioning their sanity. We also confront the social backdrop: skyrocketing antidepressant use, rising “silver divorce,” and a culture that treats pain as pathology while ignoring side

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💊 Ready to Deprescribe Your Psych Meds?

Psych meds have harmed us—and we’re not just survivors, we’re deeply educated in psychopharmacology, psychology, and nutrition. As hosts of The Gaslit Truth Podcast, we guide people safely off psychiatric medications with strategies grounded in science and brain health

🔥 You’ve been harmed. You’ve been dismissed. It’s time to take your brain back—with guidance from people who’ve been there and know their stuff.

Support the show

Are you tired of being gaslit and want to DEEP THROAT some more truth? We want to hear from you! Message us your gaslit stories at thegaslittruthpodcast@gmail.com

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