Laura Delano on Overcoming Labels and Facing Painful Emotions
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- In Fall 2019, Laura Delano shared what it was like to be diagnosed "mentally ill" as a teenager and how she found life beyond labels by learning to be with her emotional pain. The video was produced by Live Different, a Canadian-based charity, for their Own Your Story series.
-Learn more about Laura here: www.lauradelan...
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-To learn about safer psychiatric drug tapering, visit The Withdrawal Project here: withdrawal.the...
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I honestly don’t think I can trust a single doctor ever again after 21 years of being harmed by them. I’m housebound and 4 years into this taper. The whole thing was a lie. Having to process the trauma of all the pills forced down your throat whilst learning you were never mentally ill to begin with. I just don’t know how to do that anymore. I’m happy to see you’re posting again. Speak the truth of what happened to you. It will save others.
Morgan.....how are you doing now
Thank you so much for writing here, Morgan, and I send you much love and solidarity as you navigate this dark era of your healing. I'm curious: are you a member of TWP Connect (our networking platform at The Withdrawal Project for folks looking to find others on the journey)? Also, we recently started a weekly livestream in our FB group called 'Inner Compass Conversations' where we chat about various issues related to taking and coming off psychiatric drugs. I'll paste links to both below in case you're not familiar with them.
@@lauradelanodavis7573 how best to contact you...i gave a few questions i would enjoy asking you....my email is gary.a.simone@gmail.com
I concur
Thanks to Robert Whitaker, Daniel Mackler, Peter Breggin and you, I am drugs free. For 10 years now.
I was getting crazy moods and acatysia on SSRI, for which I was treated with neuroleptics and mood stabilizers. I took 4 drugs at the end. Finally I decided to stop this shit. I found psychiatrist who helped me to taper off. At the end I did it mostly myself. Very slowly, gradually, as is reccomended. Thanks for sharing your story and hope.
I lost over 40 years of my life to being mislabelled and drugged. Now finally off all psych meds, I have a real life with real feelings. I struggle with the loss of all those years but I refuse to lose any more time to bitterness and anger. I try to focus on today.
56althea - Thank you! So nice to see someone who has successfully come off psych drugs after over 40 years.
@@nokomismn9685 I've lost 30, but have been off now for almost 8 years... we have to move on, and expect nothing in return.
Have you recovered your sexual ability?
Sounds just like what happened to me.Psych drugs took me from a little depression about my marriage,to a mental wreck who cut herself/manic and stayed even more depressed and suicidal.those very drugs were what was keeping me worse.I never had anything wrong with me and they should have taught me coping skills instead of pills and misdiagnoses .Worst thing is to think something is wrong with us for life when all we had was normal human emotions!
Survival instinct, externalizing, and motivation is what seems to work well with 36 Tenets of Motivationology. What’s the situation?
Yes it’s normal human emotions. I’m glad you feel better now!
I'm so sorry for all you've been through, Benzo Warrior. Your words are powerful and I resonate with them deeply
3. Yrs off benzos
It’s so great to see you back on UA-cam. My story is similar to yours, and your 5 videos gave me strength and hope during my withdrawal. I watched them many times. I’ve now made a good recovery, and I am learning how to live again. Thank you for this sixth video - you give so many people hope. ✅
Thank you SO much for sharing here. It really means a lot to me to know that those videos were of help to you
She's on the most recent Mad in America show:
ua-cam.com/video/MCIQXz_vZQQ/v-deo.html
How long did it take bro
@@LauraDelanoLaura we’re all dying to have an update video about your healing from withdrawal. We want to know how you’re doing, and we could use some hope… please 🫶🏻
Thank you SO much Laura! I cried tears of joy when I read your articles and found your channel. I felt so scared and alone when psychiatry failed to “cure” me. Finally after exactly 14 years (teens-30’s) I am relearning how to be a human being with emotions. It is scary and difficult to get out of the habit of labelling myself with a mental disorder. It was terrifying to hear from my shrink of 14 years that my depression and anxiety are “treatment resistant” because I could no longer handle the debilitating drug side effects. I am slowly coming out of it and seeing that I am more than a pill popping depressive- I am human being with ups and downs that dont’ need to be labelled and covered up but rather experienced and learned from. I am 100% drug free and everyday I am getting stronger. Thank you or all that you do, I really look forward to more content!
Elle Kay - Same here. I was on those drugs for many years and the prescribers called me "treatment resistant." It's nice to know I'm not alone.
@@nokomismn9685As u know; "treatment" = the euphemism 4 medication. U r NOT "treatment resistant"; u r MEDICATION RESISTANT!!!!!. When psychotherapy fails, then (& ONLY then) it becomes treatment resistant.
Dear Laura. I am a psychiatrist and you are my inspiration. At my small scale i try to take “labeled patients” out of the psy system. And it works. I feel your history.
I will subscribe on ICI.
awesome. where are you located?
haku Switzerland. Here there is 1psychiatrist for 500 people. The highest in the world i believe
@@teddayer6523, that is very interesting. could i add you as a contact somewhere? my discord is haku#4207
are you always against psych meds? do you know about psilocybin? it will soon become a big thing for psychiatry. i recommend to watch the new documentary titled Fantastic Fungi on the many potentials of mushrooms including mental health
haku hi haku. You can add me as contact but as i am not very good with new techniques u have to guide me.
For your question. I can’t be against every single psychotropic medication because in some cases i don’t have the choice and i have to act in urgency. As an example: a few months ago a young woman came to my office(I work in a big psychiatry practice) completely disorganized, delusional and huge anxiety(for the 1st time). She was with her panicking boyfriend who wanted a quick help. What choice did i have? Sending her to the emergency dpt of the hospital or quickly making a diagnosis and send her home with a treatment.
I have chosen the second option after i went through the different explanations with the boy friend. It calmed him down and gave him energy to take care of his friend. I couldn’t do the same with her because she was completely out of control. I told him that because it’s the 1st time it is probably a brief psychotic episode and it’s most probably transitory.
Then came the question of medication:
The pharmaceutical world is so perverse that it doesn’t leave you a way out. I knew that they wouldn’t go out of the clinic only with a reassurance. And i couldn’t take any risk. So i decided ro put her on Zyprexa until she is better.
As predicted she was rapidly much better, they could go on vacation together etc. I saw her and consulted her through the phone(because of stupid lockdown) and finally stopped the medication.
Would have she been cured without the Zyprexa? I don’t know. But i didn’t have the choice. The main thing is that now she is perfectly fine and doesn’t need me anymore.
The other question about Psilocybin. Here in CH they are very enthusiastic about new treatments of depression and anxiety with products like Ketamine, LSD, Ecstasy and Psilocybin. Studies have been conducted in Geneva over a decade ago (mainly with Ketamine). But to be honest nothing is officially out yet.
Ketamine seems very promising against depression(a single dose that the effects lasts for days). But the pb is the addiction that it might bring.
But for me it is still exterior elements(psychiatrists, medications...). I prefer clients becoming independant through interior and personal strength.
I do my best to make the clients become as self reliant as possible and leave my practice medication free. And i promise you it works. I have no superiority on other human beings that society wants to consider as “ill”. I just call them “different” not “ill” and it works. For me it’s the best award.
What about you. Are you in that field?
Dear Francisco. You can delete the comment i recorded your directions.
I am not on facebook. I’ll contact you through Whatssap.
Thx
Laura's story is inspiring & hopeful, but it's her unique story. Most of us with poor mental health would love to be able to take ownership of our lives without medications, but that is not reality for many. None of us want to take medication, but for some of us, it's imperative just to function
When can we sue docs that did this
I’ve followed your story for a while but am only just seeing this video. My story is so similar… same label, same hospital, very similar experiences only mine started at 17 and took until 50 to get off all the meds. Thank you for all of your work. Going forward I hope to help the next generation.
I need help.
Any permanent damage?
@@mitch5222 I’m 6 years off everything other than Benzos. I’m now 7 months off Benzos and doing so much better. I still struggle with insomnia (getting better) and some nighttime looping thoughts. Im now recovering from the toll tapering and being sedentary took on my body. But I think not. Healing at a better pace than I expected and fully expect 100% recovery at some point. The only thing that I expect will remain is past memory loss from being on so long. Hope that helps!
@@racmasart ok. What medication did u take? I was on many ad , mood stabilizers and antipsychotic for 8 years
I am from South Africa and will be turning 72 shortly. I was put on Benzo's when I was about 30 because of anxiaty attacks . I was on this "medication" or should I say , poison, for 2 years and 3 months. 12 mg when I wake up, 12 mg at mid day and 12 mg at bed time. I knew something was'nt right and after 27 months I seeked help. Eventually after 6 and half a week in a hospital under medical care I started my recovery and returning to a "normal" life again. This was the beginning of a long and lonely battle which was now recalled because of your video presentation. I am so gratefull for the medical people who assisted me on my road to recovery and most of all to my Creator GOD , who gave me the strength through His Son Jesus Christ.
Through HIS grace and my decision to to make a decisive turn in my life I am enjoying a healthy life, not depending on any, I say again, any chronic medicine what so ever.
Thank you for your courage and persistance. I am just adding my penny's worth.
Did you recover fully ? And how long did it take you to recover ?
5 years on Seroquel (100 mg/day). I have been drug-free for 3 years and still have muscle twitching, poor balance and motor control and insomnia. I think this posion has damaged me for life, there is no hope. There is not much difference between surgical lobotomy and antipsychotic drugs.
@p de silva Psychometrically it is good. But I "zone out". I am amazed at how cognitive intact I´m. But I would rather be intellectually impaired than physical.
@p de silva Still have damage, pseudoparkinson is not fun.
@p de silva Drug induced
Update?
@TT :P how are you now??
So happy to have found your channel! I will catch up with it, but we founded Everyday Psych Victims Project to empower victims such as yourself. We mainly focus on human and civil rights, discrimination, but we also are of course anti-drugs. I created a Motivationology which has motivation at the center as well as situation, externalize etc which is anti-psych/opp☕️ (Even self defense)
Your group sounds super-important. Thank you for all you do! Glad you found me here!
I love the subtleties of each light coming on in the background as she reveals her own stages of enlightenment and her journey out of the abyss of misdiagnosing the human experience.
Incredibly powerful!! I just discovered her and am so very grateful for her sharing her hope and experience with others. ♥️
Wonderful. I believe God is using you to be a light in the world.
How much could nutrition
play important role in "mental illness" ? especially in teenage lives. Where they may have no idea.
I've definitely found that what I put in my body plays a profound role in how I feel mentally, emotionally, physically, creatively, and spiritually. Super-important, in my estimation!
Thank you for posting this powerful new video. How well are you coping emotionally without medication? I am currently withdrawing slowly from Saphris (down to 4.5mg at present) by splitting and weighing wafers and will then taper off clomipramine with a compounded solution. I believe some permanent damage has been done from both 18 years on psychotropic medications and ECT.
There are many, many people we have to thank for exposing this Crime Against Humanity. Speaking for myself, I just didn't know where to look, until it was way too late for me to save myself. I lost most of my life to this horror. I will forever grieve the life that was taken from me.
Here I hear truth. You offer real hope Laura.
That just brought me to tears. This is exactly my story. Thank you for all you do @LauraDelano. I wish I could contribute to helping the Inner Compass Initiative somehow!
PLEASE PLEASE KEEP THE VIDEOS COMING
My niece was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 15 yo. She's been taking low dose anti-psychotics since then. She is now 39 yo. She has not been able to carry a conversation. If she does speak, its a few words. Her words are not reliable. i've been trying to get her to tell us how we can help you but to no avail. i am thinking of getting her off AP's and seeing if shrooms can reset her brain.
I'm so sorry to hear about the struggles your niece has been through over all these years. Perhaps ensuring that everyone around her in her support system is super-informed about the risks of long-term antipsychotic use is a key step, if you haven't taken it already? My organization (Inner Compass Initiative) has a mini-booklet on antipsychotics that shares key information we're not typically told about this drug class by doctors. (Here's a direct link: www.theinnercompass.org/learn-unlearn/intervention/antipsychotics )
@@LauraDelano Yes, APs are harmful. They just make her more manageable. They don't get at the root of the problem.
@@LauraDelano Have you ever met or heard about a minimal-verbal schizophrenic?
@@LauraDelano We took her off for a 2 year period but she became agitated and angry. I would love to get her into a state of mind we can have a conversation with her and she can tell us what she is experiencing so that we can help her better.
@@michaelepstein2570 I'm guessing you took her off quickly (i.e. over days, weeks, or months)? For folks who've been on psychiatric drugs for multiple decades, we typically find that it takes multiple years of slowly tapering down in order for them to successfully get off and stay off without getting totally destabilized for withdrawal. If you're not familiar with Inner Compass Initiative's The Withdrawal Project yet, I hope you'll check us out! Link here: withdrawal.theinnercompass.org
Máte neskutečný posun k lepšímu, ve vzhledu, vystupování. Přijde mi jakoby vám Bůh požehnal. Dáváte lidem naději se uzdravit z psychiatrických drog. Díky 👍
You’re an inspiration Laura. xo
Hi are you OK it’s OK not to be OK sometimes right🤗 with your bipolar diagnosis did you go back on the medication I am currently in abrupt withdrawal from latuda & zyprexa I went to my doctor for help with the insomnia and sleep and she gave me a pill called Buspar. I tried it for pills and I feel even worse no more for me I do still take Ativan Lunesta and Ambien I don’t think I will continue the Ambien it’s not working. Well nothing is really working right now for sleep because of insomnia from the withdrawals I hope it goes away as fast as possible Lord make it so I hope that you were able to titrate to get off of your medication. Thank you for posting the videos for inspiration
Woah! Your message has given me chills multiple times. I have had tears try to come out multiple times as well. Thank you. I feel so connected to you. This year has been the biggest turning point of my life. It all started when a trusted doctor phoned me and told me to read Anatomy of an Epidemic. I’m going to finally find freedom after 20 of my 36 years of life. I feel like my life is going to be way more beautiful than I ever could have imagined.
You are a awesome human being, love
I'm cold turkey off if seroquel\quetiphine 200mgs for sleep. I have sleep narcolepsy so I didn't need sleep. Each time I went back my dose was upped until it was a wapping 600mgs! I had no idea who I even was. I was too drugged.
I was always able to get off of the drug until the past few years it was prescribed for pain so I could sleep. This medication is what caused that pain. The same day I had a pancreas attack was the same day the clinic dropped me as a patient.
Hoping I get through this. Pure hell. At my age my heart is concerning me most. I am very scared.
I grieve for the several decades I have lost to this crime. I don 't have a life because of them.
Please keep spreading the word, this happen to me as well.
I promise, it's a game changer for your mental health awareness and psychiatry and most importantly spiritual development.
Also watch my latest video on UA-cam for the reasons we have mental health issues. The real reasons.
Can you update us with how you’re doing Laura ?
Hey Laura! So good to hear from you again!
Thanks, River! My hope is to get this page going again!
Laura Delano Awsome! I’m a subscriber, and I most certainly thoroughly enjoyed your early videos. Can’t wait to hear more from you about your experience. You’re very relatable. Thank you for bravely doing work that not many are willing to do.
@@riverjones5702 Thank you
Laura Delano you’re welcome! I greatly admire your courage. Few have the guts to do what you do. Never back down!
@@LauraDelano SPOT-ON U R!!!!! I'm 53 now & have been psych med-free since 1/1/2017 after 30+ different psych meds ovr a 40+ yr-period since age 4 (was diagnosed as Bipolar (then called Manic-Depression) & AD(H)D (then called Hyperkinesia) & prescribed Ritalin & Adderall (albeit separ8ly) @ age 4). My experiences r IDENTICAL 2 URS; Psych Meds NVR ADDRESS NOR RESOLVE THE ISSUES ,(e.g.: abuse [verbal, mental, emotional, &/or physical], bullying, conflict, disrespect, harassment [verbal, sexual, etc.], mistreatment, mockery, & ridicule) THAT OTHER PEOPLE INFLICT ON2 U WHICH OFTEN TRIGGERS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES (a much LESS STIGMATIZING TERM THAN MENTAL ILLNESS(ES)". Nvrthlss; luv the fact that we r so philosophically in-sync w/each other RE: mental health "treatment" (i.e.: Psych Meds). The philosophy of "behavioral health" (i.e.: psychiatry) says that mental health conditions (e.g.: anxiety, bipolar, depression, schizophrenia, etc.) REQUIRES "TREATMENT" ,(i.e.: [Psych] Meds). NOTHING'S FURTHER FROM THE FUCKIN' TRUTH & WE BOTH ATTEST 2 THAT. Should u ever come 2 Detroit, MI (I know that u r from Boston, MA per a seminar vid featuring u in it), please feel free 2 contact me as follows:
Billy Bandyk (a.k.a.: B.J. Banditt)
18247 Grayfield
Detroit, MI 48219-2222
Phone # (cell/home): (586) 443-6838
E-Mail: bjbanditt32@gmail.com
Again; SPOT-ON U R!!!!! A.F.A. (As Far As) society & "the system" (i.e.: law enforcement, criminal justice/courts/corrections, & "behavioral health"/mental health) r concerned, it's much more convenient 2:MEDIC8 THAN COMMUNIC8!!!!!
Read the book - Many lives many masters by Brian - something
Dear Laura, thank you for your work.
Thank you 🙏
I was on antidepressants and never had side effects-but I know so many people who are stuck in the diagnose/drug/disable cycle due to “antipsychotics”. The tide is starting to turn, but defeating the psychiatric establishment will be quite the challenge.
Keep speaking out!
By the way I don’t mean to imply that so-called antidepressants are safe. They have their own side effects and withdrawal issues.
@Lauradelano, I haven't seen any recent videos from you. How are you? I'm in the process of withdrawing from the neurotoxins that I've been prescribed, God willing, I'll be going to an Amen Clinic in 2023, where they do SPECT (Single Photon Emission Completed Tomography). The founder of the clinic Dr. Amen refers to "mental illness" as brain health issues. Through the scan they are able to evaluate your brain, & based on the scan devise a personalized treatment. I hope you're doing well these days. I would love to know how things are working out for you since your last video. Peace, Light & Love.
Have you fully recovered? And how long did it take?
I'm fully living life, for sure. Some lasting injuries-- my gut/digestive system, food/chemical sensitivities, and a sensitized central nervous system-- but I feel ALIVE and integrated and rooted in myself. Compared to life in the first years off psychiatric drugs, these ongoing areas where I can feel I have more healing to do feel like a walk in the park!
@@lauradelanodavis7573 Great to hear this from you Laura 💕
@@lauradelanodavis7573 any update
Sometime in the near future, God willing, I would like to talk with you and perhaps interview you on my own podcast and UA-cam channel in order to bring to light the truth about psychiatry and to help those who have been harmed by psychiatry. Thank you.
👍🏻 👼🏼
What a beautiful video. You remind me of Brit Marling here. Have you by any chance watched The OA? :)
anyaskvo I’m so disappointed the OA has been cancelled 😞
Thank you
Were your parents divorced? Did you have stepparents? What exactly was your life like?
This woman is just highly sensitive. Not “I’ll.” Sensitive.
hey Laura I cannot post comments on your Facebook page for some reason
Thank you
I love you please help me i have family that needs your help
Just wish she would respond to our questions etc...
= Healings 2022 =
= Me & My biologic mom =
Been there wore that T shirt......thanks Laura
How are you today?
Much love ❤️
snuppy puppy says hi!
We're are you?
Amen, thank you
THANK YOU.
Has brain tumors been ruled out???
So you now talk about yourself in the 3rd person. And you have been re-hashing the same old shit over and over on UA-cam for the last 5 years. Good job.
HELPP!!!! PLEASE HELP!! GOD, PLEASE READ THIS I NEED HELP!!!
I'm a 19 year old who had a temporary anxiety. My physician offered another anxiety medication like it was nothing, (i've previously been on chlonodine hcl which helps for both hypetension and anxiety). I found out it was a psychiatric(Buspar/Buspirone) :/
No talk about how to use it, side-effects, how it works. And never told me it mitigates the brain. Never said it was a psychiatric drug.
The first time I took it, I definitely noticed a decline in cognitive-faculties. As I kept taking it however, I seemed to regain the ability to think, however, my memory
and the way I read (I tend to be VERY high in IQ, and read chunks ultra fast instead of slowly linearly from left to right) were downgraded.
I will admit I took them all over the place. I tried to stick with taking it at morning (4am when I wake up) and then another in the afternoon. But honestly sometimes I'd
forget and only ingest one. I made a follow up with my doctor once after the prescription and he told me it's until my brain adjusts. He had some point in there because i did kind of start seeing to regain my ability to think creatively but my way of reading was still changed from fast to slow and my memory was still bad.
I had a realization realizing wtf I was taking and realizing it alters my brain and noticing my memory not as good and reading linearly instead of how I normally read. I then decided to search this thing up. I found out it's a psychiatric drug that mitigates the brain and I just got
so fucking scared. I started searching up "buspar lowers intelligence." I've read some posts on quora about people feeling as smart as they were before and on when going on even more powerful
things such as SSRI's (but then everyone is different). And other people saying "well if we define intelligence as the neurochemistry which is impacted by these drugs..." you get the point.
Generally I'm hyper-aware with my eyes always looking everywhere and ever since this medicine, it has gone away. Also, I stumbled upon these videos claiming that psychiatric medicatinos can be the devil for some
people: ua-cam.com/video/qTfuhKWWbGU/v-deo.html
They say that it impedes cognitivie abilities, but what makes me think I can stay this sane is because my very High IQ (Stanford Binet 149) took the hit and I'm still
able to cognitively function.
I quit cold turkey. 10 days ago was the last time I took it, after taking it for 3weeks/month. However, I did not know that quitting cold turkey was a bad thing. No one ever had these conversations
with me, and I really do feel like a victim :(
I'm scared that quitting Cold Turkey will do brain damage, but I searched it just lists the withdrawal side effects as more severe. I just don't know what to do man. Please someone just tell me what to do to get out of this mess.
I don't want to feel hopeless. Please don't put any blame on me, I admit that I was ignorant. In fact, I grew up in a bubble of my ethnic community (Mexican) and
didn't really find out the difference between an entree and an appetizer til like a month ago or two.
I've also seen other posts on reddit about brainfog on buspirone/buspar, and no one believing them. But I do.
I'm just so scared.
Next time you can try to taper off of them gradually so your body doesn't go into withdrawal.
For instance, first take 9/10ths of your normal dose for a week, then take 8/10ths the next week, then 7/10s the next... etcetera etcetera. Just keep repeating this process until you get off them. Drink lots of water to flush your system.
Juan Zavala - Lamento que estes sufriendo. Have you heard of The Ashton Manual? It is available online and tells how to taper off psychiatric drugs. Warm best wishes to you.
@@nokomismn9685 ya estoy mejor, lmao.
@@juanzavala9023 how are you now
a little fine now@@Slidehhy