Living Well with Schizophrenia
Living Well with Schizophrenia
Hi, my name is Lauren and I live with schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder.
This is a channel dedicated to increasing knowledge around schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and mental illness. These videos are intended to be a resource for people with the diagnosis, their loved ones, and for people who just want to learn more about the illness.
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Idk what ward your in but where i went when dealing with military PTSD we had no phones no nothing soo kinda dont believe this
I think smoking weed when I was 12 till 16 caused my depression problems and anxiety disorder with panic attacks
Haha u are a lucky one, last summer I went to a psych ward in Bulgaria and felt like an animal. What a disgrace to humanity….
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Talk to Chris Palmer or watch his podcasts.
So happy for you! Amazing! ❤
I want to be nice in the comments, but Lauren, I’m concerned that people might be harmed by watching your videos about getting off of medication. My dad wants me to get off of meds… but I strongly don’t believe it’s feasible. I’d rather be on meds that be on keto. Keto is just unrealistic in most people’s lives. Sorry if anything I said was upsetting.
I wonder how many people with the exact same symptoms just write it off and go to work. Learn to cope by faking it enough to get by. Of course im talking rudimentary employment where the coworkers while not schizoid whatever but are essentially brain dead and dont notice anything even remotely nuanced ❤
Im having a huge struggle staying in ketosis... Idono why, 2 years ago when I first tried ketosis I was having almost no food cravings, but now I am having intense cravings, and now Im having regular heart palpitations that no doctors can figure out the cause yet for a month now, 3 different blood panels and 5 different ecgs have all been perfect.. Im about to get a cardiogram and stresstest... we will see.. Im going to fast for 72 hourse after my stress test if it goes well and see if that helps me with the food cravings. Maybe even atophagy for the heart palpitations.. Fasting has often helped me recover from most of my physical ailments. Usually just a 24 -36 hour fast. I tried to get off my 3mg of palideridone twice before and had the worste withdrawals of my life. Extreme anxiety and panic attacks that lasted for 6+ hours, general terror, moodswings and paranoia akin to psychosis but different. Ive been an addict my entire adult life, polyaddict, and been in recovery for the last 7 years and have been essentially drugs of abuse free for a year- excluding alcohol and cannabis which Ive only been off of for about 3 months- so I know alot of different kinds of withdrawals, and opiods and my antipsychotic are the worste. Im going to see about a compound pharmacy to make smaller doses of my paliperidone as 3mg is the lowest standard dose made, and its slow release so I cant alter the pills to take less. But after being on this medication for 7 solid years, 3 of which I was on 9mg (basically the highest recommended dose) and 6mg for most of the rest of it, 3 mg here and there but awlays had to go up until Ive been in ketosis.... its a scary thing..and my medication is covered and I dont think if I get it from a compound pharmacy it will be covered anymore.. Homestasis is what we want. But there is a thing called PAWS. Post acute withdrawal Syndrome/Symptoms. THey can last for years.
You suffer from something in Dutch we call 'ziektewinst' (litt: sickness-profit) don't know if it translates well, but in a nutshell you have too many benefits staying sick. Good luck with that. I'm just going on with tapering off without a sponsored (keto) diet, just by actually living well.
You are delusional.
Remember there is no rush! Take your time, stay well my friend
Oh, I'm terrified about withdrawals. I remember when I literally tapered off opening the med capsule and taking one little ball out of it each week until zero! It was venlafaxine. I didn't felt a bit!
Thank goodness I have only 5 of the 10. I may be half schizophrenic.
I don't think eating a regular diet was your problem. I don't think you need to eat a keto diet to get off your medication. I think you just need to gradually cut down your medication. It's the physical dependency on the medication that makes it hard to get off the medication. I know that people get crazy when they're going through withdrawals. That would happen even to people who don't have a mental illness. I've heard that you can get back to normal over a few years of getting off your medication.
This could also be parasite infestations, mold toxicity, high histamine, grief, trauma, betrayal, loneliness, nutrient deficiencies and being gaslit by people in your life. If realizing people are evil and turning to God in prayer is an obsession this lady is working for big pharma. obcession
You just need to get away psychiatry completely. Your internal stimuli isn't lying to you, the "help" is poison. This is demonstrably the case, it's well studied, and it's reported in the open literature. People get trapped in this state of "schizophrenia" because the drugs and treatments damage their brain and they're unable to sort themselves out. The damage they say is caused by schizophrenia itself is only reported in medicated patients. I'm happy to hear you're trying ketogenic diets, fasting, etc. Elimination of grains is key. Water fasting for a few days helps, they had clinics that did that for catatonia and catalepsy in the USSR. Etc.
Diversity, higher percentile in “.afican white admixture” or black so what, many things are race related blood pressure what is the point. She’s mining for “ racism” or other foolishness and linking it to genetically linked partial and lower IQs in twins. America is not suffering from any racism comparatively it’s absurd. Sell that where true bigotry exists, I’m practically albino lived in 98.7% nobody white decades, Asia, Latin America indigenous. Actual Indio, this is terrible what drivel! Perhaps host Dx is borderline R word.
Hey Lauren, it sounds like you're suffering a bit from depression.
I’ve been on this diet and off medication for almost a year now & feeling amazing! I hope you continue on this path!
I don't even feel motivated to eat, shower. Getting up from bed seems hard as well. Even writing this text seems like a lot of effort.
You probably should blur your classmates names
I never understood mental health relevance until I experienced it myself . It is a nightmare we cannot wake up from
Hi, I'm new on your channel (thanks algorithm!) but I would very strongly encourage you to shift from a ketogenic diet to a fully carnivore diet. It seems like it shouldn't make a difference, but the difference is significant. Many ex-keto carnivores actually say that the difference in their health (including mental) improved more when they went keto to carnivore than when they went from SAD to keto! I'm glad that psychiatrist reached out to fix your taper progress. My best friend has been coming off a benzo since going carnivore, and it has been over a year since she started the taper, with the last teeny dosage giving her a lot of trouble. It can be very dangerous to come off certain types of meds, so I'm glad to hear you're being careful. Best of luck:)
Isn't all this stuff learned? It seems to me, this particular symptoms list is just overanalysis paired with childhood trauma.
You're very brave to try new promising methods and wise to be patient and flexible with fine tuning your new approach. There's always new information coming up that we learn that cause us to possibly need to make changes. Stuff we didnt know when we started doing our new approach. It would not be rational to just forge ahead ignoring new information. Yeah my doctors don't keep as good of track of my various meds I'm on. I've had to discuss updating things several times.You still seem to be very engaged with life and taking very sane and logical steps to improve your situation, so I'm so happy you don't seem to be succumbing to your problem at all. I yearn and pray for your success.
Thank you again for sharing your journey with all of us ❤. For me, the medical keto diet is probably too much for me at the moment. For right now, I’m just trying to eat more nutritious, less processed, foods. My wonderful husband made me a fruit smoothie last night made from the frozen fruits in our freezer. I want to try more of this(adding in veggies) to see if I can get more nutrition into my body. I’m also ordering a whole foods multivitamin supplement to support this effort. I’m hoping this might help my mental health and overall functioning. I don’t have all the supports you have doing the keto diet, so this is at least a step towards reducing my psychosis episodes (which I take medication for). Maybe, at some point, I can get to this level. Until then, I really love all your vlogs 😊. Keep it up :). You’re an awesome person!
Joshua Alexander book healing schizoaffective i recommend highly good luck on this wild journey stay strong stay positve
Hello I am just commenting I’m 26 and started having symptoms around 22 I have an ominous feeling like everyone is out to get me the doctors medication or somone is always trying to poison my food I can’t sleep at night I’m starting to hear things multiple voices I can make out what there saying and feel things that aren’t real does anyone else experience this? The voices are just starting its somthing new. I haven’t been diagnosed, but have had multiple therapy sessions. I feel completely normal but also lost and alone..
Are you able to hold down a job
Are you able to hold down a job
Are you in denial that your keto experiment had no effect on your psychiatric health?
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You continue to amaze me with your strength, honesty and valor. I have a daughter who struggles with severe schizoaffective disorder with severe paranoia and delusions. I have tried for decades to get her help, and still she wants to die. I can’t bare to think about this devastating possibility. But I do……How can a mother, friend or loved one help a sentient adult who refuses to choose the pursuit of greater wellness and the hope of higher functionality overall? God bless you and your husband and beautiful children.💜✝☮✝💜✝☮✝💜✝☮✝💜
You're not slipping into psychosis. You've been brainwashed by some stupid greedy doctors and you're a normal person.
Different medication, but when attempting to go off Zoloft, I was getting unbearable brain zaps and headaches and dizziness after tapering off the way my psychiatrist instructed. I stayed on it, despite it not helping in any way, out of fear for years. I eventually got fed up, so I started cutting my pills in half and then into tiny pieces, almost in powder form. I also started taking it like a day apart, then two days apart, and so on, until I felt no side effects and finally stopped taking it. I didn’t do it in any scientifically proven way, and was just something I came up with out of desperation, but it worked for me. It is clear there is a deep lack of information about how these medications affect our brains and health. I know many, or most, doctors generally mean well, but there is so much they don’t know. Thank you for doing this, Lauren. It’s too difficult for me to commit to keto, but after watching you go through this process, you inspired me to really look into my diet and lower my carb intake. I know it’s not the same thing, but improving my diet has made a noticeable difference in my anxiety. I was on 60mg of buspirone a day and right now I’m completely off of it. I’m out of the country so I can’t get my medication refilled, so it’s not entirely voluntary, but while my anxiety is still there, it feels manageable. Before this, my anxiety was debilitating, to the point where I was waking up every hour or two at night and constantly hot. Now I’m actually sleeping! I am reconsidering going back on my medication when I am able to get it refilled. Thank you for documenting this. You’re making such a difference. ❤
You’re really good at explaining things. ❤❤
I've been in psych wards too. Relationship with Jesus Christ has brought me to a place of stability although I still have my struggles
Please please in addition to medical keto get an excellent Orthomolecular specialist in psychiatry! For many decades there have been successful clinical studies to phase out meds for schizophrenia
Well done, very brave!
Mark Horowitz is amazing. Slow taper can be optimal for giving your brain time to adjust. For instance, benzodiazepine reductions impact the brain up to 10-15 days later.
My psychiatrist and I actually just had a conversation about reducing one of my medication dosages and withdrawal. She basically confirmed what you alluded to, when she said that it’s only been very recently that reduction of and/or taking someone off of a psychiatric medication has been a discussion/talked about in their schools.
Just want to give up and remember its nothing to do with what you have or being successful. Mentally i'm lonely, not satisfied and depressed.
This information is false cannabis actually helps with mental health
Your body is speaking to you and you are listening. Well done!!! You will pivot and tweak as needed. You are doing so beautifully 💕
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I reckon crushing and weighing so you can carefully reduce
Step by step. It took me 6 years to reverse my villis atrophy while normally the science say that It takes max 1 year. I still take Xanax, I have a neurodegenerative disorder, but I am clean in some how. Way Better than I was prescribed with Gabapentin, Tramadol and Ssri. I am not perfect and if i would need some extra to be normal, despite my improvement with 3 years of being on a liondiet (free of carbs), I ll take my damn Xanax ( cerebellar ataxia). I do not care about the others, I care about my peace. ❤❤❤❤
Thanks so much for sharing. I definitely thinking doctors need to wean people off these meds very slowly and carefully.
Wow I never really thought about how psychiatrist don't de-prescribe I was diagnosed 4 years ago and fortunately I haven't experienced any symptoms of my illness after being off meds completely for 2 years it feels like my brain is a dormant volcano wishing you good health Lauren thank you ❤
I always think:"Oh Lauren goes to fast with lowering her doses." Take it slow: you've got this, but do it slow. Lowering or cutting of medication is also an intervention in itself. I experience withdrawal symptoms to and it takes as long as it takes. Psychichiatric medication changes our brain and we don't know exactly how long it takes our brain to adapt after the medication. Be careful ❤