The tragedy of psych drug withdrawal is this: we do it because many of us HAVE TO, no one believes the severity unless they’ve been through it, we lose jobs, support, friends, and then our doctors don’t even believe us. None of us gets back the YEARS we lost, lost income… …or lost support, and then there’s no one there to help you pick up the pieces of your unlived, suffering life that you had to break into one-second-at-a-time increments. For several years after, you have to protect your CNS against anymore insults while you heal.

🧵 AKATHISIA: patients who have developed aka from psychotropic drugs are at highest risk of #suicide. GPS often misdiagnose it as anxiety & prescribe drugs in attempt to stop it. Usually this backfires & makes the person worse. To my knowledge, no one is studying this phenomenon There are a few different kinds: aka while on, aka from coming off. It usually calms down but can take a very long time for some (months to years). There are internal symptoms and external but some can have one and not the other.

The predicament I’m in: I’m definitely what MH professionals would call “depressed,” “anxious” and pretty much fit the diagnosis known as “PTSD.” But... the most traumatizing thing that has ever happened to me, I can’t talk about with a MH “professional...” 1/ #psychtwitter 8. Whenever I asked them if the meds could cause some of this, they always said no way! So I believed them. They would say things like “you’ll have to take them for the rest of your life,” “you’ll never have kids,” “you’ll never heal” or “finish school.”