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🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 138 minutes
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Exposing the dangers of antidepressants is critical to our society’s health. In this episode, Kim Witczak shares her journey from tragedy to advocacy after her husband’s death due to undisclosed drug side effects. We dive into the hidden risks of psychiatric meds, the flaws in our healthcare system, and the importance of finding real solutions to the mental health crisis.
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MORE ABOUT THIS EPISODE:
(00:00:08) Becoming an Accidental Advocate
(00:16:33) Kim’s Healing Toolkit
(00:43:41) Exposing Risks of Psychiatric Medications & Kim’s Legal Fight
(01:03:44) The Truth About FDA Approval
(01:16:58) Highlighting the System's Failures in Mental Health Support
(01:45:56) Solutions For The Mental Health Crisis
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0:00.0 | So Kim, why do you call yourself an accidental advocate. I wish I didn't have to call myself the |
0:16.3 | accidental advocate. I call myself the accidental advocate because I now am in a world that I never chose to be and I'll explain the |
0:26.7 | story in a second but sometimes I realize that our greatest life purposes |
0:31.1 | choose us. |
0:32.8 | And so my accidental advocacy started almost over 20 years ago |
0:38.7 | when I was, my life looked very different than it does today. |
0:42.2 | I was happily married to my husband of |
0:43.9 | almost 10 years and we were both like starting you know we both had successful |
0:49.6 | careers traveled and we were about to start to have a family and Wood got his dream job |
0:56.2 | with a startup company and he was like a big recycler or whatever and he started |
1:01.1 | having trouble sleeping. |
1:03.0 | So he went to his doctor and because he was a guy who needed eight hours asleep. |
1:09.0 | And Wood was getting like he's waking up at 3 a.m. you know and and it wasn't comfortable for him |
1:16.2 | So he was a good patient |
1:19.8 | You know the doctors fixed him that he was a big athlete so they you know |
1:23.4 | stitched him up when he broke his foot you know they you know brought him back to |
1:28.5 | health so he did what most people did and he went to his doctor and after a visit he was given a three-week |
1:35.8 | sample pack of an antidepressants and said it would take the edge off and help him sleep. |
1:42.2 | And so, and what he went home with the three week that automatically doubled the |
1:47.8 | dose after week one. I happen to be out of the country those first three weeks, Woody was on the drug. I was down in New Zealand on an |
1:56.4 | advertising shoot. And so I was not there to see anything that was happening to Woody. And when I came back, I'll never forget, I was like super |
2:05.4 | excited to see him and have the evening. And he was walked through our back door and he was completely drenched through his blue |
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