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Your doctor says withdrawal should be short because the drug “leaves your body.” Then you stop an SSRI and months later your sleep collapses, anxiety spikes, your body hurts, and you’re told it must be your “condition” coming back. That gap between what you were promised and what you’re living is exactly where protracted withdrawal hides.

We walk through what protracted withdrawal and PAWS can look like after antidepressant tapering and other psychiatric medication tapering, including delayed symptoms that hit long after the final dose. We get into the why: neuroadaptation, receptor changes, nervous system hypersensitivity, and why “windows and waves” make recovery feel unpredictable. We also name the symptoms people often get dismissed for, from panic and intrusive thoughts to brain zaps, sensory overload, GI issues, and surprising pain sensitivity that can send you back to the prescriber looking for relief.

Then we shift to what actually helps. We talk risk factors like rapid tapering, polypharmacy, and stop-start cycles that can contribute to kindling. We share practical ways to manage withdrawal by lowering nervous system load, tracking patter

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One bad assumption can burn down a life: “It’s just stress” or “you’re just falling out of love.” We sit down with Sabrina Lane from Loving Through the Storm to talk about what happens when antidepressants and antidepressant withdrawal collide with marriage, grief, and trust. Her story starts the way so many do, with a therapist recommending Lexapro at a specific dose to “take the edge off,” and it escalates into a chain of medication changes, emotional blunting, and a home that stops feeling like home.

We dig into the hard parts partners rarely say out loud: the moment your spouse tells you they feel nothing for you or for anyone, the way prescribers can gaslight real side effects, and how a sudden switch from an SSRI to an SNRI like Effexor can set the stage for instability. We also talk about personality shifts that look like a completely different person, reward-seeking behavior, increased drinking, and why friends and coworkers may not notice what’s obvious inside the relationship. Along the way, we keep coming back to informed consent, FDA warnings, and why “it’s out of your system” is not the same thing as “your nervous system is healed.”

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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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What if the kindest thing a therapist can do is hold the line? We dig into the boundary problem hiding in plain sight: missed sessions waved off, late cancellations uncharged, and vague money talk that quietly devalues the work. With guest Aron Gilbert, a social work psychotherapist and founder of Boston Evening Therapy Associates, we unpack how a flimsy frame sends mixed messages to people who came to change their lives—and how a clear, consistent structure actually makes therapy safer, deeper, and more effective.

We start by challenging the false divide between “business” and “therapy.” Money is not a contaminant; it’s a potent part of the human story—tangled up with security, agency, shame, and power. When a client gets angry about a missed-session fee, that’s not a customer service crisis; it’s clinical information. We show how to turn that moment into meaningful work about accountability, fairness, and old patterns, rather than a negotiation that erodes trust.

Then we lay out the real trade-offs of insurance. To use benefits, clients need a billable diagnosis, often one insurers deem “worthy,” and records can be audited or clawed back. Those la

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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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Forget the “born an addict” script. We dig into why the broken-brain narrative persists, where the DSM and twin-study talking points get overextended, and how neuroadaptation—not destiny—explains the very real deficits measured after substance use. From dopamine to GABA and glutamate, we unpack what’s actually happening in the brain, why SSRIs often miss the mark, and how a smarter plan uses testing, targeted nutrition, and careful deprescribing to reduce cravings and restore balance.

We share what we see in practice with high-functioning drinkers and people who’ve cycled through rehab: sugar-laden menus, labels that overshadow stories, and protocols that ignore gut health while expecting “willpower” to do the heavy lifting. Instead, we walk through the basics that move the needle—protein-forward meals, mineral repletion, amino acids like L-tyrosine, 5-HTP, and NAC, plus sleep, sunlight, movement, and simple breath work to rebuild prefrontal control. We also explore how psychiatric meds and stimulants can extend or worsen dysregulation, and why a slow, hyperbolic taper can make quitting alcohol or other substances dramatically easier.

This is an inv

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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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Trusted care should never start with a wink and end without a chart. Naomi Moore joins us to share how her husband John, a pediatric nurse and devoted dad, went from seasonal life stress to a devastating, rapid unraveling after an off-the-books antipsychotic prescribed by his own brother. Over five months, a cascade of medications—long-term Lexapro, new olanzapine, sleep aids, and later duloxetine—collided with missed warning signs, superficial check-ins, and zero meaningful informed consent. The result was a medication-induced suicide that shattered a family and exposed the cracks in a system that treats symptoms faster than it asks why.

We walk through the precise timeline: the December antipsychotic, the personality shift, the paranoia about being an “addict,” the ER visit, the brief psych admission, dose increases, and the crucial questions no one asked. Why was an antipsychotic started for situational distress? Who tracked interactions or withdrawal after 25 years on an SSRI? Where was the family in consent? Naomi lays out the black box realities—akathisia, agitation, paradoxical suicidality—that are too often dismissed as rare. She explains how relativ

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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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What happens when a crisis call for help becomes evidence of a crime—and the pill meant to steady your mind may have helped set the fire? We sit down with Ben Bathan, a former senior technical artist, to unpack a nightmarish chain of events: a therapist who directed specific SSRIs and dosages, years of escalating side effects, and a conviction for criminal threats after calling a “confidential” emergency line while in a psychotic state. The story presses on a raw nerve—how medication that can alter judgment, aggression, and impulse control is treated by courts that still demand intent.

Together we map the fault lines: out‑of‑scope prescribing behavior, akathisia and tardive dyskinesia that erode self‑monitoring, and the gap between what patients experience and what regulators choose to print. We revisit FDA hearings, black box warnings, and how adverse event coding can bury brutal narratives under labels like aggression or irritability. Ben walks us through prison intake and parole practices that funnel people back to the same meds, alongside stark realities of segregation and violence that make careful clinical assessment nearly impossible.

We also

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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 Gaslit Truth Podcast is hosted by Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz, exploring mental health, psychiatric medication withdrawal, therapy culture, and informed consent.

In this episode, Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz talk about the problems diagnosing bipolar disorder

A Wall Street Journal apology letter, a new album on deck, and a claim that top doctors say “not bipolar”—the Kanye headlines practically beg for hot takes. We wanted to do something different: slow it down, map the timelines, and ask what happens when a possible traumatic brain injury, years of medications, and a perfectly timed PR move collide. Two truths can coexist. Marketing can be sharp, and a misdiagnosis can be real.

We walk through what bipolar diagnosis actually looks like without a lab test to anchor it: structured interviews, mood screeners, and collateral history. Then we show how that process falls apart when medical rule-outs and substance timelines are skipped. TBIs can mimic mania and psychosis. Thyroid shifts, vitamin D deficits, antidepressant starts and withdrawals, cannabis, and perimenopause can all tilt energy, sleep, and drive. 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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The Gaslit Truth Podcast is hosted by Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz, exploring mental health, psychiatric medication withdrawal, therapy culture, and informed consent.

In this episode, Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz talk about the problems when a spouse diagnoses the other with a mental health disorder.

What if the story you’ve been told about mental health—diagnose fast, medicate faster—misses the point of why you’re suffering? We sit with psychiatrist Dr. Josef Whitt Doerring, a specialist in deprescribing and withdrawal management, to unpack how incentives, marketing, and habit have shaped care more than science. He explains why the celebrated biopsychosocial model rarely guides practice, how normal stress and grief get pathologized, and why short trials can’t answer decades-long safety questions.

We dig into hot-button topics with nuance: the ADHD wave across classrooms and midlife women, the absence of definitive brain or blood tests, and the predictable boost stimulants give almost anyone. Dr. During shares an inside view from the FDA and pharma on how adverse events are processed a

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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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