EP 330: Reader Question - How was your journey going off antidepressants?

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Regardless of your relationship with alcohol, going off antidepressants is no simple task and something you definitely need to do under medical supervision. In answering a reader’s question, Annie Grace shares her personal journey, including what led her to begin taking medication in the first place as well as three key things that helped her not only as she eliminated prescription medication but as she continues actively caring for her mental health today.

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0:00.0	This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without
0:15.2	judgment, pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.
0:20.2	Annie Grace and I am here answering readers questions. Today I have a really great question
0:32.0	from Gina. She says, hello, I'm really enjoying the 100 days program so very much. I love the
0:36.1	quick hit of great information. So if you're curious by the way about the 100 days program
0:40.0	or any of our programs, you can always go to thisnakedmind.com and everything is there for you, all of
0:45.5	the great programs we have, which is awesome. So that's great. So Gina says, I'm wondering if Annie
0:50.9	has any done any podcast specifically on discussing her journey of going off Annie depressants. I'm
0:56.2	interested in hearing about how she leaned off, would draw symptoms she experienced, if any, etc.
1:00.4	If such a podcast is this, provide me with a link. Please note, I'm really excited about the July
1:05.6	alcohol experiment and I've emailed you guys a few times in your way, so helpful and efficient,
1:09.5	much appreciated. Thank you. Ah, that's awesome Gina. Thanks so much for all of that. So when I'm so
1:14.0	glad you're enjoying the 100 days of lasting change, it is such a cool program. It's basically
1:17.7	like 100 days of every day, just, you know, something that you can take where leave to help you
1:23.2	just create lasting change in life. And again, all of that is available at thisnakedmind.com. So
1:28.4	my journey off Annie depressants. So by the time I stopped drinking, I was taking four different
1:33.6	medications. I was taking well-buterin, acetalapram, pretty regular Xanax, and I was occasionally
1:40.0	taking a sleep medicine, I believe it was ambian. And so all of those medicines were combined
1:47.5	often, and all of those medicines, I believe, said do not drink when on this medicine. Yet it was
1:53.9	two different rules, right? Because the medicine bottle would say do not drink, but the doctor would
1:59.1	be like, oh, it's not that big of a deal, everybody does it. And so it was kind of like what the
2:03.9	official rule was and what was really happening in the world. And I had tried many different
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