My drug dealer was a doctor

We’ve written plenty about the current opioid epidemic in the U.S. but we’ve not had an opportunity to write about the dangers of taking or attempting to come off of antidepressants. Until now that is.

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Normally when we write about antidepressants we inform you about your natural choices. However, after reading a story in Medium about a man who was trying to wean himself off the drug Effexor I knew that I needed to share his story with you.

According to the author, Michael Lee, “…Effexor. It will bring you to your knees. Literally. That heroin addict you see on television that’s curled up on the bathroom floor, sweating, throwing up and paralyzed. Yeah that was me. All from a drug that our government says is safe. No one told me this would happen when I went on these meds. No one told me shit about the fact that withdrawing or “tapering”, as the medical community likes to call, it would be equal to getting off heroin or detoxing from alcohol.”¹

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In the U.S., allopaths (traditional doctors or MDs) tend to prescribe drugs to treat the problem as opposed to getting to the root of the problem. In fact, Lee, who went on the drug to combat mild depression and seasonal affective disorder (or SAD), said that no one asked why he was depressed, they just put him on drugs.

He says,

“No one wanted to ask if I was connected to God. No one asked how I defined success. No one put down the pen and looked into my eyes. At 19, no one asked why how I felt was directly related to my basketball performance, which had been my identity and sole source of self-confidence for the past 10 years. No one told me that who I was matter far greater than what I did.”²

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_nag9DqnOs

No one that is, but Big Pharma, who were more than happy to give him a drug that would cure all his ills and heal his pain. But he says that all it did was “numb me out.”³

I would highly recommend you watch the videos above and below and read his entire story here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRPB_AvuyKU

The more we talk about depression and what lies at the bottom of our feelings the more we will be able to help others and ourselves deal with our feelings- maybe even without harmful drugs like Effexor. Now is the time, the last numbers show a staggering 13% of AMERICANS are on antidepressants.

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