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Before you begin tapering your psychiatric medication, there are a few things worth having in place. I walk through how to build a support system, what coping strategies can help you ride out the hard waves, and how to think through your lifestyle so you have real margin when it gets rough.

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00:00 Prep Before You Taper
01:13 Who You Need in Your Corner
03:54 Building Support Mid-Taper
07:39 Groups and Withdrawal Buddies
09:40 Coping When Waves Hit
12:46 Lifestyle and Work Margins
16:21 Resources and What Your Body Can Do

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Relational disconnect is one of the most common and most painful parts of withdrawal, and one of the least talked about. In this video I share what that disconnect actually is, why it happens, and what it looked like for me on both sides of it.

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00:00 When Withdrawal Cuts You Off
01:15 What Relational Disconnect Feels Like
03:46 It Is Not You
05:08 How to Talk to the People Around You
06:55 Your Inner Circle
08:23 Give Yourself Grace
09:24 What Comes Back
10:53 Life on the Other Side
11:58 Take Heart

Heads up: this channel offers education, support, and community, not medical or therapy advice or services. Nothing here replaces professional care from a doctor or licensed mental health provider. By engaging with this channel, you accept full responsibility for your own choices and outcomes. No results are guaranteed. Full disclaimer: https://lifeaftermeds.com/disclaimers

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If you had a diagnosis before you started tapering, you may be wondering whether you were ever really okay, or whether you ever will be. I've been there, flat on my back in agony, asking the same question.

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00:00 Broken for good?
01:16 When the DSM and psych meds grew up together
02:17 Dependency mistaken for illness
04:27 Two people, same diagnosis, very different outcomes
06:21 "This proves you need meds for life" and why that's wrong
07:22 The belief you can't heal is a symptom
08:46 Flat on my back in agony
09:31 Suffering before the diagnoses came
11:04 What healing from dependency looks like
12:29 What the hard season can give you

Heads up: this channel offers education, support, and community, not medical or therapy advice or services. Nothing here replaces professional care from a doctor or licensed mental health provider. By engaging with this channel, you accept full responsibility for your own choices and outcomes. No results are guaranteed. Full disclaimer: https://lifeaftermeds.com/disclaimers

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