This is an amazing article. Thank you for this contribution. I sent it to a father with young children who unfortunately had a number of these issues and listened to psychopharmacologists who actually increased his suffering and he’s now working with very good secondary doctors to taper off 3 or 4 different drugs. I sent him your article and he sent me back this very poignant and beautiful response and I wanted to send it on to you:

“That’s nice. That’s the even more isolating thing about phsyc med withdrawal or what I’ve done to my brain. You actually can’t find anyone to actually acknowledge or understand how long the suffering continues to go on. Only a few on the Internet… I see people talk bout ‘here’s how I deal with depression,’ etc. ‘I exercise, I eat right, I do yoga, I socialize, etc’.. Imagine if all that is ripped from you to and you live in a terror of a chemical straight jacket. Where your thoughts are so corrupted, you’re in and out and shades of dissociation/de-realization and it goes on for years. Your life has been altered to the core, you can find a few people on the Internet but nothing they can do or anyone else. You are truly alone, no matter how much people love you. You have no assimilation or idea of self. And it just goes on, so you fight with every grain you have through the night terrors, the exhaustion, the terror, because you have a 9 year old that you feel to guilty to leave the planet. You don’t really want to leave the planet, you just want the suffering to stop…”