I was prescribed antidepressant anti-anxiety antipsychotic medication for 25 years after 25 years I realize that they all have ruined my life by learning meditation controlling my mind now I live without medication happy very happy all the side effects are going away slowly bipolar PTSD Anxiety psychosis

Dude, that ending was priceless!! 😂🤣😂🤣

Hello from Australia. I'm struggling so badly and have for years. I'm trying a new med for me but its an old med itself, Nortriptyline and hope to God it kicks in soon. Thank you for your excellent videos, you're wonderful.

Thank you sir. You really are a model to me in my depression. Thank you so much for posting this video.

Another excellent video. Thank you, Douglas. I feel vindicated in taking the meds as long as I have. I really do need them. And I'm glad you kept that ending!

you have no idea how much i needed to see an ending such as that right now thank you!

I haven't laughed in a while due to depression wow, thank you for the video AND the ending of the video laughter - priceless. 💜

25 years of taking all the medication that pretty much exist for depression I came to conclusion it is not a good idea to start taking medication unless I must say this you’re suicidal if you’re having thoughts of hurting yourself or someone else instead try seeking therapy And make sure your therapist has experience severe depression and severe anxiety him or herself otherwise they will never understand depression and Anxiety is

You look so good laughing.. keep smiling.. God bless Douglas Bloch 😍

I use medication, but I find it very beneficial to exercise, be out in nature, meditate, be part of a good community and do a gratitude list every evening. Because of Covid-19, I find some days difficult, but if I don´t force myself to do these activities, I would be heading for disaster. Thank you Douglas for your good advice. Your videos are helping more people than you could possibly think.

Love that ending! Glad you left it in :)

Great to see you laugh at the end of the video Douglas.The power of laughter!

Very valuable information! I already PRESCRIBED to your channel jujuju Saludos desde México!

Good video, but I think it's important to also mention the more serious long term health damage neuroleptics can cause (e.g. heart disease, diabetes, hippocampal atrophy, kidney damage etc) and the addictive nature of psychiatric meds in general, as is now increasingly being revealed (even though the pharma lobby has for decades tried to suppress these findings).

Thanks for the video. Is it true that Introvert and Sensitive people are more prone to depression and mental illness ?

That was great at the end 😀😀 Thanks for your videos! 🙏👆

I had to repeat the video just to see the end ...M looking forward to laugh and feel laughter like that...thank

I picked up your book from the library yesterday, already began reading - great stuff! Good video, the ending is hilarious :)

What you did at the end(laughing) is better than any medication.

Finally a voice of reason! It's not black and white, I think you did a very good job explaining this. Nobody wants to take medications which have a lot of negative side effects. Exercise, diet, social interaction, being in nature, they all have a role in getting better. But sometimes medications do help people, if nothing else works. I completely agree with you, thank you so much for making this video!

So informative, i have a friend in therapy and she's resistant to try medication so I'm doing as much research as i can and this vid was v helpful and the end definitely gave me the giggles too hahaha

I have a question! Love your videos Doug. They bring me great hope. I recently went through a bout where I lost my Klonopin for 6 days and it tweaked my nervous system hard. I am having panic attacks every morning (I deal easy with those), sometimes during the day but not always, and now at night time too. My doctor gave me Prozac but I am sick of being stuck in the pill cycle since I was 10 years old. What is the cure to all of this naturally? Time, exercise, anti-anxiety diet, CBT, social rapport?... Anything else? I understand I may have to go through a lot of suffering and it won't be a quick fix but my nervous system and panic disorder is haywire right now. Besides the above what can I do to bring it down to a manageable level?

Awesome ending, thanks for not removing that!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Thanks Douglas

Doug, would you be able to make a video on the Depression, Sadness & anxiety that comes from a breakup & how to cope? I've been really struggling with this the past few weeks & would greatly appreciate your thoughts & guidance.

I do not comprehend why to dislike the act of taking a pill that makes life more livable. Of course there are side-effects, but I find them clearly outweigh the relief they give. It is kind of somewhat exciting to have something that one can pop inside their mouth in hope of things turning brighter within only a couple of weeks. The only thing I dread about ADs is the withdrawal, or not taking them. Cymbalta withdrawal is a living nightmare and I do not want to go through that anymore. If I'm to ever take Cymbalta again, that would be in a life-or-death situation, and will never even try to get off of that afterwards.

Thank you so much 🙏 and thaks for let the end uncut :)

Excellent!

I just prescribed, love your channel. Hahahaha.

You're hilarious at the end.... you've got just my type of humour x

Thank you Doug please post more good videos

My husband was put on prozac in 1990 then had heart attacks in 2001 and 2007 put on citalopram as they said it was dangerous for heart patients, I believed they actually caused the heart disease, now trying to wean off citalopram very gradually, can't believe he's been prescribed anti depressants for 30 years and was still depressed and suicidal all this time. And 80 mg lipitor daily has had terrible side effects on psyical health, drugs are killing people.

I'm supposed to be sleeping and that ending made me laugh and wake up my dogs! Thanks Douglas! I've decided to try some meds for anxiety when I get back. I don't really want to touch the depression with meds yet, if that makes sense. I understand the "flat" feeling though. When mine were actually working, I felt flat. Very 2 dimensional. It sucked. But I think when I get back from the mountains I'm going to try anxiety meds first. Then see what happens.

Thank you for sharing 👍🙏

That ending!!!! lol thank you douglas

Ssris gave me tinnitus and pssd. Talk about bad luck

Thanks for all the great info I always like hearing your segments on depression and anxiety. What is your thoughts about ketamine infusion for depression?

I'm schizophrenic, I take Olanzapine every night and it works. I follow a strict diet to avoid weight gain. I'm calm and happy.

OMG!!all them medications made me have daily suicidal thoughts..it was worst for me..so in my experience,medications did not work for me..So i stopped seeing my doctors...not asking for help..i've given up...... i'm not suicidal,but just having Bouts of Depression

What advice to you have for someone having taken SSRIs or SNRIs for 25 years and struggling with the side effects you’ve mentioned! However when I stop the drugs, even very gradually, I suffer severe anxiety, total loss of appetite and have got to the stage of contemplating suicide to relieve the agony. I was 1st prescribed these drugs for an episode of anxiety which affected my work in my 20s. I had experienced anxiety and panic attacks for years before this but never anywhere near the intensity on stopping medication. I still hope to get off them but last time was very frightening and hard for my family to witness and cope with

I am 50 yrs old. I had pychiatric problem from my teenage. I consulted some psychiatrists. One or two wrote in their prescription that i had schizophrenia. One or two time i had severe side effect of drug called flumap. On taking that medicine my neck got turned to one side. I was admitted to local hospital for treatment of that side effect. I changed many psychiatrist for some reasons. some for their high fees and some for their side effect of medicines. I got some relief only from prescription of one or two psychiatrist. I had so many problems may more than 100 which i can't write. When i get some opportunity i am not able to quick decision and when the opportunity goes i curse myself. I am jobless nowadays due to covid effects on economy. I quitted smoking but i started i again in covid lockdown. Whole day mostly i think of my past life. I am from India.

Lost it with you at the end. +1 Subscriber!

THIS medication here, I don’t mind prescribing too. 🙂

When is your next video? :D Keep it up!

How do you know when you should discontinue an antidepressant?

For short term use yes antidepressants do work, just not how you think. They numb you, some. Individuals experience a increase in dopamine causing euphoria for a short time. None of these medications should carry on long term as we currently have no research beyond 6 months showing improvement or safety. They work by disabling the Brain... That doesn't sound like something you should bother with. The side effects are terrible but it's the withdrawal that's the problem. And for anything thinking I won't go withdrawal from the medication then lol, doesn't work that way sweetie... Ever leave your medication at home while on a trip? Then there's tolerance withdrawal where even when you take the drug you still go through withdrawal, then there's interdose withdrawal where the dose no longer covers the full duration that it once did. These withdrawals aren't as bad as benzos but some I don't know if you can come back from and the problem I brought up above... Neither does science, psychiatry is rooted in puesdoscience. It's all guess work, theories and check lists. You should see how the DSM-3 was created which layed the foundation for other editions (currently up to DSM-5).a bunch of other psychiatrists sit in a room and vote on what they want in the book, no diagnostic advances or nothing like that... Just talking about what they want to see in the book. One psychiatrist didn't one of the diagnoses in the book because he had one of its symptoms. These pills should not be trust.

late to the game but hahahaha! enjoying this and your other videos so far! :)

You r right ..... medicines improves life , awareness of medicines should be increased

So what am i suppose to do with BPD? meds makes me more stable, what is the alternative?no one wants to be hooked on a pill to have a normal day.. but also side effects are really hard. the ending was hillarious thank you haha

It’s interesting, because right after I started Zoloft, I had ZERO side effects, and the only thing is that I finally feel alive and healthy. Now I’m convinced: I should have started much, much sooner.

I need the meds.

Lol the ending of this video was great 😂

hi doug i would like you to recommend me some medication. Since i often go through dark periods i am looking for something with the least amount of side effects, something that will help me feel numb or anything like it, i most likely dont have depression but i struggle a lot during these crisis, i'm probably suffering from Dhystymia thank you

Unfortunately, this is a very very long trial and error kind of experience. I've been tinkering with different meds and doses for 3 years now. I don't have any negative side effects that I can ascertain on my current concoction, though. Time will still have to tell. The only medication I regret having had to try was Abilify, as I gained 50 lbs from it.

We live in a society that thinks nobody should ever be uncomfortable.

Is your prescribed anti-depressant working, Douglas? :)

Hi Douglas, I found the ending funny too and am glad that you left it like that. I don't have a family doctor or GP to ask for a referral so haven't gone to a different doctor yet. I have been thinking about/doing research into depression/hopeless a lot and realised something. I think I have situational depression. the reason why I got really depressed last Dec is because I went through a loss and yesterday my depression/hopelessness got really bad because of the result of the UK election. The current PM made UK visa rules unfairly strict (even a spouse visa) when she was a home secretary and that is the reason why my British husband and I can't go back there. But the labour party is aware of this issue and they specifically said they were going to scrap the unfair requirement so I was really hoping they would manage to win. It would change our situation completely. But unfortunately the result wasn't good enough. It ended up being a hung parliament but the PM got help from a different party and she and her party is still in power. This discouraged/disappointed me and took away all my hope even though I tried not to set my expectation too high. It made me feel "oh great, I'll have to be stuck where I am and suffer forever. Why do I want to keep going ans try so hard to survive when nothing is getting better?". What can I do to cope with situational depression?

Im goin to my nature filled country el salvador here in the u.s the environment never gets u off the meds.

Your amazing this errs there is more better things than meds , has any body exprince post ssri sexual side effect ?

I have bipolar II disorder + panic disorder and used to experience radical mood swings at the drop of a pin, with persistent depression that made me lose interest in everything. I became a binge drinker for almost ~8 years and was only able to stop once I got in medication. I take a shitload of Lamictal as well as Lyrica, Topamax, and Seroquel, and the main side effects I’ve noticed are slight difficulty concentrating and remembering as well as some loss of sex drive. But that could easily be due to severe sleep deprivation (~5 hours per night for almost 4 years) due to a demanding work schedule, lack of exercise and an unhealthy diet. I take natural supplements that have helped a lot with the sexual part. Otherwise I feel fine. Aside from medication, meditation has been the most important thing in my life. It is what has truly brought me back from the brink. Realizing our spiritual nature is the most important thing we can do in this life in my opinion. Thanks so much for your content!

Ah yes, weight gain, I gained about 30kg in 2-3 months when I was on low doses (for my size) of Fluoxetine and Abilify, I went from 120kg to 150kg, I'm 1.97m tall so it's not that extreme, but now I'm losing a lot of weight but the striae are still there. Nice error at the end :).

wish there was a medication for what i have ...

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Irreversible damage possible. No good idea

Hello Douglas i know you are not a doctor but if you have heard about these medications like... limbik 2mg alprozam .50mg and sertex 50 mg I would appreciate if you can let me know about these meds in case you know. Thanks for sharing your journey. You amazing. ahahahahaha prescribe hahahahahaaha I loved the end.

Constipation nearly killed me.

Hey Doug, i guess it would be better and advisable to say "Hope you've found my video helpful" at the end instead of saying "Hope you've enjoyed it" as they deal with serious medical condition and problems" and not made for fun or entertainment. That said, they are very informative and helpful, indeed. But not entertaining and delightful for sure! So spare the laughs, please!

Anyone's personal treatment for any Depression diagnoses should be evaluated by a qualified psychiatric Dr. or Psych Nurse. There are several levels of Depression, I feel your input is not really qualified to give opinion's when it comes to psychiatric medication's. Just my thoughts, I know no one who loves taking any medicine, but we do.

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LOL prescribe 😂