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The Road Back Future Events Ireland June 27-29 How to Get Off Psychiatric Drugs Safely Forward A Note From James Harper, Founder, The Road Back Table of Contents
Part One
3. Suggested Nutritionals for The Road Back Program 6. General Pre-Tapering and Tapering Instructions 9. Pre-Taper For: Benzodiazepines, Anti-Convulsants, Anti-Anxiety & Sleep Medication 10. Pre-Taper For Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, and ADHD Medication 11. How to Taper Off Benzodiazepines, Anti-Convulsants, Anti-Anxiety and Sleep Medication 12. How to Taper Off Antidepressants, Anti-Psychotics and ADHD Medication 14. What to Do If You Have Already Started to Taper Off Your Medication or Quit Cold Turkey 15. How to Taper Off Multiple Drugs 16. What You Can Do If You Have Never Taken Psychiatric Drugs 17. Science Behind The Road Back Program 18. Additional Taper Reduction Schedules
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Chapter Sixteen
What Can Be Done if You
Have If you are suffering from anxiety, stress that does not seem to end, fatigue, or a host of symptoms, you do have an alternative to psychiatric medication. First: Get a complete physical and have the physician rule out all disease or illness. There can be life events that were the direct cause of depression, anxiety, stress, fatigue and more. Usually, these feelings leave on their own in a matter of days or weeks without you doing anything other than letting some time pass. These medications are strong, some are truly addicting, and all of the drugs are life altering. The only question is how your life will be altered. When depression, anxiety, stress, and/ or fatigue begin, other factors also play a role with general health. Levels of our hormones, adrenals, glucose, cortisol, and other functions can become drained, imbalanced, or overly stimulated. Psychoactive medications, in part, are designed to regulate all of these functions to some degree, but they ultimately affect these functions by altering other chemicals in the brain and body. Second: If you are diagnosed with a disease or illness, make sure the diagnosis is from an objective test and not a subjective analysis by the physician or psychiatrist. At the writing of this book, all mental disorders are diagnosed with a subjective test. You will find possible solutions, later in this chapter, for symptoms you may be experiencing. Using the Body Calm, Body CalmSupreme and Essential Protein Formula for anxiety symptoms is one example. These supplements do not cure disease or illness. With that data in mind, if you feel the anxiety vanish once you begin using these supplements, you must not have had an Anxiety Disorder. If you were diagnosed with having chronic fatigue syndrome, and you take the Power Barley Formula and vitamin E, and you no longer feel the fatigue, you were misdiagnosed. A misdiagnosis can and does happen. If a diagnosis of ADHD is presented, and you were to take Ultimate Omega 3, vitamin E, and possibly Body Calm and those symptoms subside, you did not have ADHD. Again, these supplements do not cure or prevent disease or illness. If you feel the major positive changes after using these supplements, your body was just lacking those nutrients. Good-meaning, well-intentioned physicians often feel like they must prescribe psychoactive medication or face the threat of malpractice. The senior partner in a law firm refused to even read this book. Why? His answer was, “If there is a way to taper off psychiatric drugs, with little to no side effects, we would no longer have a case.” If you receive a clean bill of health from your physician, there are suggestions and probable solutions. Anxiety Stress, Fatigue, and Depression – Anxiety, stress, fatigue, and depression begin wearing on the body quickly. In no time, the body begins to feel drained and rundown. It is easy to lose track of where the anxiety, stress, fatigue, or depression started, and when the body seemed to lump itself together with your overall feeling. The goal of The Road Back is to assist you to keep separated the anxiety, stress, fatigue, and depression from the body and you. You can hit your finger with a hammer and not mean to and your hurt finger will have an affect on you until it heals. You can decide to hit your finger with a hammer and you can have an affect on your body.
In either case of the finger hitting, if the finger were to be hit hard enough, you and the injured body part would begin to lump together and you would begin to feel like you were only the body, or your attention would become so fixed on the body that it would become difficult to distinguish the two apart. Your entire attention would become fixated on the hurt finger.
Ask an artist to hit his/her finger with a hammer very hard and to then paint a beautiful picture or create anything not associated with pain. It will not happen. The live, creating part of us, the part that feels emotion - both wanted or unwanted emotion - begins to collapse with the body.
There is not a drug made that can prevent a person from hitting his or her finger with a hammer.
If you just lost a loved one, or on a lesser scale, just lost your job, there are no supplements or medications that will replace the loss.
The most a psychoactive medication will do is deaden the feeling you have for the loss. The most a good supplement will do is assist the body to not succumb to the continued drain put on it because of the feeling of loss.
The Road Back has zero chance of coming into your life and handling the life reason for anxiety, stress, depression, or even fatigue. However, we can assist your body to not succumb to the physical stressors being put on it daily from the emotional trauma.
There are hundreds of clinical trials which show that people with anxiety; stress, fatigue, and depression have low levels of amino acids, vitamins, minerals, antioxidant levels and more. These clinical trials do point to the fact, however, that a person will suffer a depletion of these vital nutrients if they are put under enough stress or duress for a period of time.
Our goal here is to point out a few things you can do to help your body maintain general health and well-being while you address the real reason for the problem you are experiencing.
When we use the terms anxiety, stress, depression, and fatigue, we do not imply a disease or illness associated with these conditions.
If you are trying to choose between two different jobs or changing jobs and you feel anxiety and stress, that anxiety or stress is not a disease. If you were to choose one or the other, the anxiety or stress would vanish. If you just experienced a loss in life, that loss is not a disease. That is part of what eventually happens to each living person. Having a natural emotion is not a disease or illness. You should be considered very sane and normal.
If that emotion continues beyond the arbitrary time placed on
us, “they should be over it by now,” psychoactive medication comes into play.
These drugs as well as supplements will not help you “realize” or have that
“earth shattering realization” why you have felt that way for such a long
duration or remove the loss you feel.
They will not.
Psychoactive medication may block the emotion, but the emotion will need to be dealt with at some time in the future, unless you just wish to feel “flat-lined” forever. Most people tell us, in hindsight, they would have been better off dealing with the emotion when it happened, instead of putting it of for months or years and then dealing with the emotion on top of the drug withdrawal.
This is why The Road Back suggests using a few supplements. Again, the supplements are not going to solve the problem or underlying condition. They will only help maintain the body’s general health and well-being and give you the chance to address what the original problem was.
We break down symptoms in fall in to two areas, anxiety/stress/insomnia, or fatigue. You may feel that you have depression, but even the depression will fit in to one of the two categories. Make sure to use the Daily Journal and
complete the entire pre-taper. This should handle all anxiety, stress, and /or
insomnia, if present. You can use these supplements as long as you wish; they
are not addictive or habit forming.
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