What Antidepressant Withdrawal Is Really Like | EP 171 Brooke Siem

The Mikhaila Peterson Podcast

Mikhaila Peterson

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In this episode I spoke with speaker, author and Food Network “Chopped” champion Brooke Siem. An award-winning chef, Brooke Siem is also an advocate for the safe de-prescribing of antidepressants. “May Cause Side Effects”, her debut memoir, chronicles her own experiences with antidepressants, withdrawal, and learning the skill of happiness.

We spoke about Brooke’s experience with psychiatric medications and the horrific withdrawal she went through when she came off them. I talk about my experience and my Dad’s experience with psych med withdrawal and Brooke shares what people need to know about taking psychiatric medications and coming off them.

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0:00.0	People don't understand anti-depressant withdrawal.
0:02.6	They know opiate withdrawal and it does not feel like a normal withdrawal.
0:06.6	It's not like a hangover or a pain killer withdrawal.
0:09.9	It's just like being put in a horror movie.
0:12.1	I literally locked myself in my apartment and just waited it out thinking I was nuts.
0:16.0	There was intense intense mood swings.
0:18.3	Rage, really really severe rage, like destructive rage.
0:22.4	It was like two and a half years.
0:24.2	Like that could have been my parents' lives.
0:26.4	Like my dad in a hospital, actively being tortured from the side effects.
0:30.3	My mom bringing him food every day.
0:32.2	For medications, he just needed to be taken off of.
0:36.3	I'm pissed off about it.
0:44.2	Hey folks, I thought advertising for Swink Girls was a good idea for this specific episode
0:49.2	because of the topics we cover.
0:50.9	Psych med withdrawal and how I really only survived through that.
0:54.4	Without more misery because of the lion diet, the all meat diet I'm on.
0:58.0	Because of the diet, I have tried basically every meat company and grill out there,
1:01.9	at least in North America.
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1:10.6	Right now, Swink Girls has an amazing discount.
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