Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring is a board-certified psychiatrist, and former FDA medical officer with a specialization in identifying and treating psychiatric adverse drug reactions.
In 2020, he co-founded a private practice, dedicated to assessing and treating patients suffering from these reactions. Now as the host of the Life on Less Meds Podcast, Dr. Josef is vigorously proactive in challenging the harmful effects of psychiatric medications. He shares daily content on how to safely navigate drug tapers and heal from withdrawal.
My links: beacons.ai/drjosef
Come find us at: www.taperclinic.com/
Disclaimer: All of the information on this channel is for educational purposes and not intended to be specific/personal medical advice from me to you. Watching the videos or getting answers to comments/question, does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. If you have your own doctor, perhaps these videos can help prepare you for your discussion with your doctor.
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Another time when I was walking along a boulevard, I blacked out and fell into the water. I almost drowned because I sank under water multiple times because I was very weak from the 'medication'. This time it was like being under water for real. I tried to get to the surface of the boulevard water several times and I did see a rowing boat at the shore. I tried to grab it and hold on to it. I was struggling for an hour to raise myself into it, because I was so weak from the 'medication'. Later I told this to my 'mental healt care case manager'. The only thing he said was: Yes we know this happened to other 'patients'. In other words he had decided that he would not warn me about this 'side' effect. Also he did not want to stop drugging me. I later asked two other psychiatrist to stop this drugging, but they also refused.
One time when forced drugged I walked outside of my home to go down at the concrete stairs. I got a black out and fell down the stairs causing my arm to be dislocated. The entire night I was laying down. My neighbours told they heard an enormous 'bang' from me falling down. They just left me lying there all night. They had the same mindset / personality as mental 'health care' ; just dont give a vucking damn.
It is good you address this 'side' effect. I had my breathing completely stopped while I was fallen asleep during day from antipsychotics. I waked up gasping for air like having been choked or under water for minutes. I suspect this is one of the causes for the 'sudden death' caused by psych drugs.
Of course, Dr. Josef only sees the patients WHO ARE NOT BEDRIDDEN FOR YEARS AND WHO HAVE LOST EVERYTHING THEY EVER HAD, AND HAVE NO ABILITY TO FUNCTION. AND, THOSE THAT DOUBT THEY WILL EVER BE HEALTHY AGAIN.
Thank you for your willingness to share this. Everyone who is prescribed these medication should hear this message,
or "Mothers little helper" by the rolling stones!
it worked great for me until they cold turkeyed me.
I like "medication" by spiritualized
I have been following both you and Ren for over a year now. Enough said!!
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People are slowly waking up to the horrific side effects and prolonged withdrawal of benzos. Unfortunately, doctors still prescribe psych meds for almost every problem ... and the patients don't have a clue that that's what they're taking. For example, Antidepressants are commonly given to people who have trouble sleeping.
If anyone reading this thinks this has to be an exaggeration, let me tell you, YOU ARE WRONG!
This is all to familiar for me.
The meds are much more serious than the system is treating them. They hand them out way too easy. Praying for strength for everyone. These meds will get exposed sometime soon.
THIS IS NOT AN "UNCOMMON" OUTCOME. THIS HAPPENS EVERY TIME! NOT RARE OR UNCOMMON. THAT IS A LIE.
Pharma Damage their own. They partly believe they are helping, then ignoring all the danger signs. Its a massive evil business.
IT'S THE BIGGEST DIRTY LITTLE SECRET IN THE WORLD.
No One Would Believe it IF THEY DIDN'T SEE IT WITH THEIR OWN EYES!
YES. IT SOUNDS LIKE HOW COULD THAT POSSIBLY BE TRUE? WE CAN'T BELIEVE IT EITHER! IT IS APPALLING THAT THEY HAVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR MORE THAN 60 YEARS! BECAUSE THEY NEEDED MONEY. YOUR HEALTH AND SURVIVAL WAS NOT IMPORTANT TO THEM!
I've been on benz0s for almost 20 years. I want to get off, but I'm scared. Ugh. The world is on fire and China can cut our meds at any time. I don't want to be a slave to this. So many of us feel hopeless or backed into a corner. Vice just put out a doc on fake/laced benzos.
Yepp, same here...
❤ Ren
You didn’t mention memory loss, ipId be interested to know if others have experienced this. Mine is severe, basically most of my life is a blank.
I took ability too. Horrible
Hopefully she gets some help, has to be a hell of a burdain to walk around with the weight of knowing that she prescribed damaging drugs to people.
I’ve been more brands than I can remember, and every one has stopped working within a year. Not one doctor has ever addressed this, they just keep increasing the dose and I always end up just quitting the meds, and quitting engaging with doctors. There isn’t any real help where I live.
Ren has some good stuff.
I haaate ativan. They gave it to my dad when he was hospitalized, combining powerful opioids with it. He wasn't complaining that he was in pain (though it was clearly evident he was), and we told the doctors not to administer opioids because he was already going to be in withdrawal from alcohol. One minute he was awake, alert, and in a better state than we had seen him in for months. The next, he was in and out if consciousness every 1.5 minutes, struggling to breathe, coming back to for a few seconds pulling at the tubes and equipment attached to him. They put him on the 9th floor in this condition and in alcohol withdrawal with little to no supervision. If my brother hadn't defied covid visitor rules at the hospital and stayed the night with him, I'm rather confident he would have died that night without any of us there with him. Instead, we finally got a nurse to come in, followed by one doctor, who then called an entire team of doctors to assess the situation and had him rushed to ICU. Pseudomonas pneumonia and a staph infection (they never did settle on or clearly explain what type of staph infection he had. First it was just staph, then we were getting yelled at for not wearing protective clothing because he had MRSA. Then it was a 'simple' staph infection again, then it was MRSA...) He slowly deteriorated for a month in the hospital, only regaining consciousness twice completely delirious and not making sense. Passing on the day before holiday... While he was in the hospital, my mom went to a doctor appt complaining about severe insomnia (alcoholic also, unfortunately). They prescribed ativan to her for sleep issues. Went to visit her one day a week or two after my dad had passed and she sat in the chair telling me my dad had just left and was heading to my brother's house, and a few other delirious statements. I looked to see what all she was taking (I stay up on her meds, but hadn't caught up on her new meds yet), noticed it was ativan and had a talk with her after it wore off and she came back to reality. She was passing out daily, bruised up, unable to get out of bed from pain of falling... It was a mess. F*ck that drug. And all benzodiazapines. Sure, they may have clinical uses, but without any support for patients who want to stop taking it - or who are forced to stop?? What is the sense in that. Do no harm... Give me a f*cking break.
My best friend walter Drew gerken was attending wyotech so drugged up on pills i remember asking him what drugs he was on. He was a zombie. He used to have a mental breakdown every 6 months or so and go to mental ward, they would charge his dad about 15 grand each stay there. I told him how drugs from Kaiser turned me into a drug addict. And how my life improved when i stopped taking them. One morning after staying the night at his house i saw the handful of pills he took each morning. Including lithium. I had researched everything he was taken and I told him to wean himself off, especially the lithium. But that was the last day he ever took one of those pills. He never had another nervous breakdown or visit to john George. He went on to become a helicopter pilot before his death in a boating accident.
Well know they are pushing abilify and other long term antipsychotics. It's all about what the next big drug they got cooking in R&D. I couldn't get a benzo from my doc for real anxiety but I could get an abilify shot for my non existent psychosis and paranoid personality disorder. I remember after receiving double the maximum dose of the abilify shot what he said to me. This is after a month of sitting in the middle of my living room under a blanket rocking back and forth with unbearable akathesia. I was only sleeping three or four hours a night. I wanted to die to not exist I was losing my mind. My Doctor "It's a very expensive drug you should be happy medicaid is paying for this. "I'm scheduling you for another shot and you have no choice." Abilify is just really profitable I guess and benzo is not. Short term benzo use is pretty safe from my understanding. Benzos don't make a lot of money though. It's all about profit even at the expense of the patient. In fact Doctor's go as far as to intentionally misdiagnos for profit.
They gave my son tons of different psych meds between the ages of 7 and 15 plus clonidine for sleep. At 15 slowly got him off everything. So much better now. He doesn't rage or hurt me anymore.
Would you talk more about ritalin?
You mean Cocaine-lite?
Ask your psychiatrist how many times a day they say “you don’t need a pill, prescribing one would do more damage than warranted.” You go to a doctor, you get a pill or at least get told if you want one, they will give you one.
Or if you're the USMLE the answer is B blockers or Benztropine lol
Also, i like the context of how we can move through the stages of grief and how this isnt a linear path, ie moving backwards and forwards through the stages, to acceptance
Great interview. Im currently using the education and approach from Daniels KZread channel. For me, it made complete sense and remember the lightbulb moment, along the lines of, that describes my struggle, the fear of not sleeping/being awake. I genuinley believe its the way forward, however its not an easy road and ive just had a speedbump with high levels of frustration (catastrophising during last nights sppedbump). However, having only had a couple of hours sleep (im guessing) then i made sure i appraoched the day as positively as i could. As Daniels teaching would empahise, its not about the poor nights sleep, its the narrative we attach to the experience, alongside the various other educational information, approach etc
Yeah and it wasn't from taking a drug it was a psych doctor taking away the ativan I was taking 1mg x3 a day for years. My old doctor retired and I met with someone new for 15 mins and he said he wouldn't continue the ativan and I said ok not knowing that you're supposed to taper off it slowly I was biting my arm and cutting my leg I was crying and I thought I lost my mind and I slit my wrist.
Tapentadol please cover also know as palexia
Your story sounds so similar to mine. Was microdosing mushrooms for a few days and one evening I smoked a small amount of weed which led to some sort of panic attack..but I just rode it out at home bc I had a similar experience after smoking weed prior to that in which I did go to the hospital and they left me traumatized. I thought I was going to die and they ignored me, refused to bring my husband back after me asking repeatedly for them to get my husband. It's a long story but they treated me so badly and now I have severe anxiety about ever possibly having to go to the hospital for an emergency. I also do not smoke weed anymore bc it was causing very scary side effects, and I was not an inexperienced smoker, I'd had 20+yrs at that point. I was never a heavy smoker or anything but I smoked a few times a week regularly. It's also similar in the way that I was on a rollercoaster of meds all thru my 20's, Dr told me it they would be lifelong as well. I quit them all in my 30's and decided I'd rather cope w my mental health issues as best I could without all that crap. They never worked and ALWAYS had side effects. In my 40's I changed my diet and added lots of supplements. It took about a year but my mental health has never been better than the last 5yrs. It's not these psch meds we need, it's a proper diet without all the toxins. Most of us are walking around extremely fragile, damaged from a life of constant exposures and very poor nutrition. Sorry this comment is rambling but I'm writing and trying to listen at the same time.
Dr Josef, thank you so much for all this vital information. I live in Melbourne, Australia. I tried to book an initial consult with the Taper Clinic - but as I’m not in the US, I think I wasn’t able to. Im on Effexor, and have started a very slow taper based on your information. I was wondering if there is general access to info on your tapering protocols for Effexor? Or did you know of anyone/anywhere in Melbourne who works from your protocols you could refer me to? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I really don’t want to get it wrong. Sincere thanks again for all that you are doing in this area. Warmest wishes from the home country ❤
We still have lobotomy, but now we call it antidepressants/antipsychotics.
You are impostor like Wojtyla
Could a patient in this scenario, not benefit from increasing consumption of compounds such as L-theanine?
Read “An Angel at my Table” by New Zealand best author - Janet Frame. She tells her story of how she was almost lobotomised. But the day of the procedure the doctor read in the newspaper that she had won a prestigious writing award and she was spared and he let her leave the asylum.
LOVE wellbutrin. however, have to stay at 150. at 300 I start getting what I think might be mania. I don’t think I’m bipolar, but as long as I’m at 150 it treats my depression and I’m in the clear.
I'm a student nurse, and THIS is something I have a real issue with when I make observations and write out case reports on patients! A LOT of nurses think that doctors are all-knowing and don't bother watching for side effects or even question the medications!! NURSES!! BE VIGILANT!! WATCH FOR THESE SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS!!! USE YOUR TRAINING AND YOUR GUT FEELINGS!!! DAVIS'S DRUG GUIDE (or some other reputable source)... USE IT! LEARN IT!! READ IT AGAIN!!! KEEP LEARNING!! DON'T WALK AROUND SAYING "I GOT IT" WHEN YOU DON'T!! BE SMART, NOT ARROGANT OR COMPLACENT... This is a serious lawsuit, for sure... All avoidable too!!!
Easy for you to say if you don't suffer from life-long anxiety and depression. Approaching this from such a pure academic and smug view almost seems unempatheric. Frankly, if you were my psychiatrist, I wouldn't come back for a 2nd appointment.
I was 33 and it gave me a stroke.
I was 33 and it gave me a stroke.
thankyou for your work doctor. I live in the uk and have been diagnosed wrongly in my opinion and have been taking rispiridone for years. I have been hospitalised several times and am very disturbed by the lack of care and doctors fondness for prescriptions. I have never been warned of the side effects and have been told i will be on ssri medication for life. Id like to thank you for spreading awareness of the plight of thousands of people who have been badly let down by the mental health system. Its abuse and these doctors will never see the light because they are hooked on their jobs and the tremendous ego boost they get from their power. At the start of lockdown there was legislation passed allowing one dr to hospitalise any patient. It used to be three and this has been used as a way of getting rid of people who dont subscribe to the current thing.