2 Huge Resources for Coming off Psych Drugs Safely

A great tips sir

This is really great sharing my dear friend👍👏

Hello Russell! I was wondering if you knew of any online support groups? From people who are off the meds and recovering.

Also do you know of any other success/recovery stories?

I've been trying to find something online but haven't had much luck.

Thanks again!

I’m currently trying to come off abilfy from 5 mg to 2 mg, I feel like complete s***, your videos are a big help, thank you

Do try Ashwagandha, Shilajit for your sex drive. Mucuna Pruriens for Dopamine and Choline for your brain which was destroyed by these meds

I was diagnosed with bipolar 1 with psychotic features. I've been smoking pot since i was 16. A lot of studies suggest smoking pot long term for people who have bipolar can potentially make their symptoms worse. Which i feel like what was happening to me. Saw a psychiatrist. She slapped me on ziprasidone and called it a day. Didnt talk to me about side effects. How the meds would make me feel. Im a shell of my former self. Yes, my anger has subsided. Yes, my hallucinations havent happened since being on the meds. But thats all thats changed. Not once did she talk to me about quitting marijuana and what that might do for me. No one acknowledges my complaints about the side effects im experiencing. So i made the decision to come off my meds ive been taking for 4 years. Theres a lot of good things happening with microsdosing psilocybin. So im gonna try that to help me get off marijuana. I have treated my body like an apartment dumpster. So now im gonna work on seeing if i can manage myself naturally. Exercise, eating right, cutting out sugar etc. Im 34 years old. I was diagnosed when i was 30. I think my diagnosis was correct but the treatment was a little extreme. If anyone has had a similar experience i would love to hear how you are managing. Wish me luck.

Broo ..now u are totally clean or consume drugs la little bit..?

Glad your doing so well now 😃
Proud of all you have achieved 👏

Just wanna say I'm so glad I found your channel, really helpful information. Navigating mental illness and psych meds can be so difficult. Thank you so much for sharing! :)

Have you healed?

Hey.. How are you doing Russel.. Any signs of psychosis returning?? Or you are fine??

Hi Russell thanks so much for your videos. I had an episode one night after taking LSD. It wasnt a bad trip it was more of an other worldly experience. The problem was this experience scared the hell out of me and i became paranoid that this experience would happen again at any moment. I was living in fear. This was twenty years ago and i was put on olanzapine by a psychiatrist. I would stay on this for twenty years plus i added two anti anxiety/depression meds as well. Long story short mate the side effects have become too severe for me to continue to take these drugs. I went off them 3 days ago. I had to go cold turkey because even the slightest amount of the drugs were giving me this intense brain fog and headache that took all the joy of living away from me. So far ive been amazed that the transition has not been any where as bad as i expected. Sure my anxiety has increased but i am bunkering down at home until i get through the transition period. Already i feel an increase in my well being. I feel very positive and look forward to an increase in confidence and a more fulfilling life.

Hey Russell
So grateful to you
Im currently experiencing emotional bluntness as a result of taking olanzapine twice, one of which was a 300mg injection its been 5 months since the last injection but the emotional bluntness seems to stay...do you have any inkling as to when ill get my emotions back ..will i ever? Also 300mg is 20mg per day for how long?..does olanzapine permanently down regulate dopamine

Hey, im very bad, can i talk to you, i need hope.

I have some good news guys I am 7 months without this drug. Doing very good and stable. My tips would be drink cacao, valerian root and melatonin. Be strong however if you get psychotic symptoms go back to minimum dose.

My son has been on antipsychotics medication since he was 17. He is now 27. I was told that smoking Marijuana induced his illness. He was diagnosed with bipolar. Once I allowed him to take Wellbutrin he was then diagnosed with schizophrenia. From schizophrenia to schizo effectiveness.
He’s been on Seroquel, Haldol, to Prolixin. Each drug worst then the other. My son has been burning his temple to kill the voices in his head. Cutting himself and has become addicted to other street drugs. My son was smart know he’s unable to think properly. I am his guardian. He is currently hospitalized because he stopped taking his meds. I have told the doctors that I no longer want him on Prolixin. I wanted to try Latuda. They told my that Latuda is only a mood stabilizer. I’m reading everywhere else that it’s an ap drug. They want to give him Seroquel and Latuda together. I’m telling them that is why he’s here now because of you all over medicating him. Which cause him to stop taking his meds. I told I was making the right choice by putting him on those meds as a child. I thought he would be about to live a normal life. He has expressed to me that he feels like he’s living a nightmare. I just want him well.

Hey man I want to say that I’m thankful for your videos. I wish I would have known all this back in 2016 when I first was hospitalized. I was first diagnosed with marijuana induced psychosis. Believe it or not I had the chance to play in the NFL but that was shot down due to my new best friend “antipsychotics” no lie. But after a few hospitalization I said that I am most definitely am not trying to cold turkey off of them anymore. I told myself that I’m going to try tapering off as recommended like how some people have done. Keep up the good work on the videos and wish me luck.

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RUSSELL,currently in 3 months after Lexapro taper after 22 years of SSRi use. I was able to build a business and get my electrical license during my taper process. My brain has completely shut off. I can hardly deal with just slightly stressful situations. I'm almost ready to quit because I feel like I'm messing up. I don't want to hurt anyone because of my brain not working properly. I'm not sure if zi should quit this venture entirely and move out to the woods until I'm healed or just deal with this until the fog clears and hope I'm still standing in the end. Appreciate the encouragement. I can't believe how many of us were put on these meds at a young age... I just wanted to ask if you went through something similar. And if so, how did you get yourself through it?

yo this is Scott Kretzschmar
couldn't sleep for 6 weeks
now taking 13 milligrams of clozapine
It is letting me sleep now
took melatonin,sleep pills,zzzquil,sleepy time tea,nothing worked

Make another video personal update

psych drugs in my sad experience are pure poison! this shit ruined my whole life.
i was forced to did antipsychotics, i was misdiagnosed.

Hi Russell, my case is that in 4 months I received 4 injections of "Xeplion" ("Invega" I think is in English). I received the fourth injection at the end of February, so I was told that its effect should end at the end of March, when I should receive the fifth. But I decided not to receive any more (despite the psychiatrist's opposition), because gradually from the first to the fourth injection I lost my creativity and thinking and speaking abilities that I had before. And now I've ended up in severe despair and depression because of it, and I've lost my self-confidence.
(I also take quetiapine 200 mg tablets along with Xeplion for four months.)
What is your experience with Xeplion? Do you think there is hope for recovery and recovery of abilities in my case as well? Is there an antipsychotic that the brain can't recover from?
I appreciate any reply.

4 years off Lexapro, Vicodin and xanax. 43 months off Seroquel. What ride……. Still in withdrawals but healing is happening……..

I have been enforced medication for 17 years.
Thank you for some of these videos

I'd like to put it behind me.
I am having a hard time titrating.

I was 17 when they started me (Nice and young)
The medications are so powerful; if you take them for 15 years you may never be able to get off medicines.

I want to come off meds because I don't wanna be dumb anymore.
It's not fun.

I don't wanna be attacked by APS anymore.
I knew I was screwed 4 years in.

Hopefully I can completely get off these.


We need to get this information out there.
These medications are severely damaging and prescribers are prescribing more readily.
They are coming up with new mental illnesses.

They already made up mental illnesses so that they can give you a medicine to help with that disorder.

You are a wonderful human being God bless you

Hi, I wonder if you could help me. May of 2021 I had my first psychosis, it was super scary, I'm a mum of 4 and I wasn't managing me stress at the time, was put on haloperidol...awful, was a zombie for 4 months, they put me on olanzapine and my psychosis came back, both times I was hospitalised. I've been a year out of inpatient care. I'm on 700m quetiapine. I was hoping to start tapering off as I've been on same amount for a whole year and been very compliant in taking my meds. I had appt yesterday and my psychiatrist wants me on them for another year. I was shocked. I said so if I decide to taper off it myself I can do thay but at own risk of psychosis coming back. I'm at a point now that I need to try for myself, I never had mental illness prior to this and I have now how a episode on and off medication. If it happens again I will probably agree to take them for the rest of my life but I need to give myself a chance. He has lowered it by 100mg to 600mg but I'm having 3 monthly appointments and this would tale longer than a year so I may have to take matters into my own hands unfortunately. Please help 🙏

Thanks Russell, you are doing an amazing job helping others 🤍

🌺 'promosm'

I can recommend milk thistle against withdrawal, it helps it speed up by a lot

Your videos helped me so much in the beginning of my adverse reaction to prozac. You saved my life. God bless you.

Russell thank you for your time and dedication i wish you and everyone else happyness. Please excuse me but i have a sensitive question... now im only 22 years old but due to a street fight i was forcefully put on a hospital were they gave me tons of pills and injections then i got out and for a year i took risperdal, tavor and xeplion. Thing is due to the antipsychotics i took and god knows what else i have severe sexual dysfunction. No erections, no libido nothing. In your experiance and knowledge does this damn dysfunction go away? Will i ever heal or im chemicaly castrated for the rest of my life? Thanx

So the two weeks isn't the only thing I found weird. It took a year off to come back from it. There's no way it's two weeks.

Russ, i wish you Happy New Year and Happiness!

Hi, Russ! Tell me, please, did you have weakness after this fucking pills and if yes, how long it was?

Hey Russell. I want to share my story a bit... I deeply loved a boy.. We were in relationship for 5 years.. Could not imagine my life without him.. But he drained me emotionally.. At d end it found he was cheating on me.. N many more things he said to me... I got ptsd and trauma from that....!!! After an year I got psychosis bcoz I had lots of stress n love for him.. M on antipsycotics since 1 n half years.... I want to come off them I want to ask you will I have a relapse... Will I have psychosis again... I want to be normal again like before

Hi Russell, great comeback.
I took 3 months of neuroleptics (risperidone + onlanzapine) and I stopped 5 months ago. My condition has improved since then: I sometimes recover my intelligence and my personality from before for short periods of time but I always fall back into a state where I have difficulty thinking.
After a while, will everything come back the same as before or am I doomed ? Do you have any idea how long it takes ? Thank you and have a good day.

How long does it take to recover? You said 5 years. After taking Olanzapine for 8 month I can not think. I am 2 years with any antipyschotics, will I ever go back to normal? I took other antipyschotic mainly invega.

New subscriber…please continue putting out videos… very informative

Another excellent video. Thank you for this. ✅💯

Hey i was misdiagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia instead of cptsd due to narcissistic abusive family. I ended involuntary in ward and they forced me on 20 mg of zyprexa during a 2 month stay. I managed to spit most of the doses out and took it only around 10+ times. Since 3 weeks im in home and i feel depressed empty numb no emotions like a zombie. I never felt such depression ever before no pleasure at all i know ap caused it. Will i recover if i took it only 10 times around? 😭

Hey Russell, thank you so much for your videos. They are very helpful. You said „maybe it will not go away entirely“ what do you mean by that? Thanks

Glad to see again
Are your withdrawal symptoms goes
And how you doing now this year

How to withdrawer when you've got 2 depot injections a month under a court order?

Glad to see you back man!

New video oh yeh.