I take L-Theanine along with a handful of other amino acids---it is also an amino acid. Besides helping my poor cognitively impaired brain focus a bit, it also relaxes me. I take my final dose at bedtime. A lot of this article I'm quoting from is crap. I'm excerpting a bit about some studies because... Continue Reading →
Gluten and mental health
You don't have to have Celiac Disease to be sensitive to gluten. The below study shows how often it plays a part in the picture of people labeled "schizophrenic." There are lots of people who find cutting out gluten helps all sorts of mental health issues, from rumination, to irritability to autism to bipolar disorder.... Continue Reading →
Will Hall’s updated recovery story
I posted Will Hall's story a couple years ago and at that point it was already at least a couple of years old. He updated his story six months ago and asked that I publish the newer version here as well. So here it is. Since I was a child I've struggled with extreme emotions,... Continue Reading →
Iatrogenic Illness and Psychotropic Drugs: a contemplation
Updated 2024: Mentally in some respects I feel better than ever. I am clear, I feel my emotions and I am productive. More productive than ever, ironically as I lie in bed unable to function physically. My creativity has been unleashed and I produce this blog and offer inspiration to others daily. This is spite of atrocious cognitive impairment, invisible to most everyone.
Another MD fails: Adrenals and Cortisol in Withdrawal
Adrenal functioning tends to get even worse over the course of a psych drug withdrawal so it makes sense to look at them again. From the very beginning these docs at this practice have wanted me to take Cortisol, a natural steroid, to pump up my adrenals. Way early on, before I knew what I was doing, I looked at the side effect profile and said NO–it was a gut feeling. Since then I’ve studied my circumstance in depth and consulted with numerous people all over the country and I now have tons of anecdotal evidence that taking Cortisol in my condition is downright dangerous. I’ve been telling them this for about 3 years now. (now I know that it could even be life-threatening for me) ...
From withdrawal to awakening
I am continuing my break from the net but thought I would repost an old piece that has substance. This piece was published first in ICSPPs journal last year, but it was rewrite of something even eariler. In many ways I've grown since this was written. I've updated it very slightly but not much. Practicing... Continue Reading →
Ugh! The lets just add another drug for that pesky side-effect phenomena again!!
On Medical News Today the study they report on show using modafinil (Provigil) to help control that nasty weight-gain side effect. The other day I posted that it's been found that Provigil is ADDICTIVE just like the antipsychotics they want to add it onto. So once again we start adding on the drugs. And now... Continue Reading →
Hypoglycemia and Diabetes type 2—big players in the psychiatrized
First of all I want to make it clear here, because the video doesn't. This discussion is primarily about diabetes type 2. Diabetes type 1 cannot be healed through lifestyle like type 2 can be. Many of us who have been on psych meds are hypoglycemic or have other blood sugar balancing issues and get... Continue Reading →
Coffee definitely messed me up in conjunction with the psychiatric drugs
Mind altering drugs are drugs are drugs are drugs. Yup, legal, illicit or otherwise. And as this man in the video points out this is not about being hard-core anti-drug or anti-coffee. It's about taking care of ourselves and not becoming DEPENDENT on artificial substances to keep us going. It took me two years to... Continue Reading →
Second year blog anniversary
2026 update: the site really did take off and very quickly. There was a niche that needed filling and this site did the job at the time. It was life changing in all sorts of ways. I was mostly bedridden and I was writing daily and finding my voice for the first time. I was supporting hundreds of people too. Since I had been a trained social worker the online work came naturally and easily.
Eleven Ways To Be Your Own Therapist
First a short article by Daniel Mackler and then Eleven Ways to be Your Own Therapist Does Growth Have to Be Painful? Yes. Pain is a byproduct of the growth process. Emotional growth stretches the limits of the personality, and this is unpleasant. At some level personalities want to remain static and fixed, and... Continue Reading →