10/26/2025
From Dr Josef (MD (Psychiatrist) turned Drug Tapering Educator | Former FDA Medical Officer and Pharma Doc | We teach people how to come off meds in the safest way possible!)
Doctors don’t set out to harm people. But the way psychiatric medications are prescribed creates a 7-step trap that can turn normal life struggles into lifelong disability.
Step 1: You go to your doctor with a real problem: grief, stress, trauma, isolation. Instead of non-drug solutions, you get a prescription. And it works…at first.
Step 2: You stay on the drug. There's no discussion of when to stop, no exploration of life issues. If you’re stable, why change? Your doctor keeps prescribing the medication.
Step 3: You try to come off. The taper is too fast, withdrawal hits like a freight train; you feel awful. The doctor says: “That’s your illness coming back.”
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Step 4: You’re told you have a chronic mental illness. You go back on the drug. You feel better. But instead of recognizing withdrawal, you’re convinced you’re sick for life.
Step 5: Doses are increased. Then drug other meds are added. What’s really happening is tolerance and side effects, but you’re told your illness is “progressing.”
Step 6: The drugs themselves start to harm you: emotional numbness, memory issues, fatigue. But doctors aren’t trained to recognize long-term drug effects.
Step 7: You’re labeled “treatment-resistant.” Now come antipsychotics, ECT, TMS. After years of polypharmacy and brain stimulation, you’re left disabled and confused.
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