Jordan Peterson Health Update and Psych Med Injury Discussion

0:00 Hey guys.

0:01 This is a video update on Dad's health,

0:03 as well as a much longer portion of information about what

0:06 he's suffering from, what a lot of people are suffering from, unfortunately,

0:11 and what my experience with these issues was.

0:14 These updates are not fun for me.

0:16 They're really stressful, and I would have updated you guys sooner,

0:19 but he's still been really sick, and he got worse over the last few months.

0:23 And I'm 25 weeks pregnant, and I wasn't able to record anything without

0:28 weeping the whole time until this week, apparently.

0:32 Uh and it stresses out my whole family to talk about it online,

0:35 and there's no point in adding stress to an already stressful situation,

0:39 except that because we're public, Dad in particular,

0:42 it's also stressful not talking about it because then rumors get started,

0:46 and then that's all people wonder about.

0:49 So, here goes.

0:52 Dad's been suffering from an old neurological

0:54 injury that's more recently been causing akathisia.

0:58 Akathisia is the worst thing I've ever seen anyone go through.

1:01 That sounds dramatic, but it's true.

1:04 We talked about it in 2020 and 2021

1:06 when he experienced it after clonazepam injured him.

1:11 And I'll explain why it's an injury in a bit.

1:13 I had a very brief experience

1:14 with akathisia with symptoms that were extremely horrifying,

1:19 but not as severe as his when

1:20 I went through antidepressant withdrawal from Lexapro.

1:23 That was just over 10 years ago.

1:26 And that experience, like the withdrawal period that was really severe,

1:29 lasted 2 and 1/2 years for me, where I was nearly disabled.

1:32 This was kind of before I had a public thing going on.

1:38 Uh that's when I just had a blog.

1:40 I've linked a bunch of papers below about everything

1:42 I'm going to talk about so that people watching can

1:44 get scientific background information about what this is because it's

1:48 not talked about nearly enough for how catastrophic it is.

1:52 In my opinion, psych med injuries and psych meds

1:55 as a whole should be considered a national emergency

1:58 given one in six Americans or possibly more depending

2:01 on the stat is on one of these medications.

2:04 And long-term use appears to cause mitochondrial

2:06 dysfunction that manifests as a neurological injury.

2:11 I'll get into more of that in a in a bit, too.

2:14 Akathisia is a side effect that's way more common than people know,

2:17 usually caused by psychiatric medications.

2:20 Although other medications can sometimes cause it

2:22 and so can sudden cessation from those medications.

2:25 That's a huge trigger.

2:27 So like suddenly stopping one of the medications that can also cause it.

2:31 And sometimes people with Parkinson's can experience it, too.

2:34 It is intolerable discomfort that makes people want to crawl out of their skin.

2:38 It's a neurological injury, really.

2:41 A lot of people don't survive it and there's no quick fix.

2:44 Although I'll go into how we've dealt with it before.

2:48 Uh without videotaping me sobbing and it seems like

2:52 a bunch of my sadness this week has turned into anger,

2:56 which I is actually at least more enjoyable for me,

2:59 but uh without posting a video of me sobbing,

3:02 I don't know how to describe how bad it is in words,

3:05 but I'm going to take a stab at it.

3:07 You guys could look up videos of other people suffering with it if you want to.

3:11 It's catastrophic.

3:13 Before I get into it, let me be super clear.

3:16 Dad has not been on a psych medication since January 2020.

3:20 This recent flare-up of neurological symptoms wasn't due to new medications.

3:25 That's partly why we had no idea what was going on for about 6 months.

3:28 We went to specialists, obviously,

3:30 and it was misdiagnosed repeatedly, which is super common.

3:35 Um then he got pneumonia and sepsis and obviously

3:38 that's a whole thing to recover from, too, and dangerous, you know.

3:45 This year's just been terrible.

3:49 This recent flare-up that started last August was likely

3:53 due to the stress of both of his parents, my grandparents, dying last year,

3:58 moving countries, selling his home, and mold exposures,

4:01 which was enough to trigger a recurrence

4:03 of neurological symptoms like what he experienced in 2020,

4:08 2021, something we obviously didn't think was possible after

4:11 5 and 1/2 years away from these psych medications,

4:13 but I've talked to psychiatrists who say

4:16 they have patients that experience what experience this.

4:20 This has been unbelievably hard on my family.

4:24 Every day for the last year has been hell.

4:26 I haven't been posting podcast regularly online because until

4:29 a few days ago I've cried every single day.

4:32 My brother is stressed out, my mom is stressed.

4:34 I mean, it's impacting so many people.

4:38 Um and of course my dad, you know.

4:41 Um mom's thank goodness, such a strong person, and thank God for faith.

4:47 If it weren't for my dad and our love for him and the strength

4:50 of our family and how we've been

4:53 through so many health problems you almost adapt.

4:59 No, you don't cuz it's too awful,

5:01 but like we have got good communication skills and we're closer if anything now.

5:08 Otherwise, this would have just crushed us.

5:11 I've certainly been walking around in a state of panic for almost a year now.

5:15 Uh to make matters on pregnancy hormones definitely don't help that.

5:19 And then to make matters worse, I don't even want to mention this really

5:21 cuz I don't want to give it any attention,

5:23 but some journalists online reached out to me

5:26 trying to pin dad's symptoms on stem cell treatments,

5:30 which is so dumb it's hard to fathom.

5:33 Um and I responded, which was stupid.

5:36 You just should just never respond to a journalist, but I was like, "Hey,

5:39 I really appreciate you looking into doctors,

5:40 but like that's not what's going on with dad.

5:43 I'm going to talk about what's going on with dad.

5:45 Um but it just isn't associated with stem cells.

5:51 And he ignored me and anyway, that kind of thing is annoying, obviously.

5:59 So, dad had stem cell IVs over the years a couple times uh to see

6:04 if they can help with neurological pins

6:06 and needles and pain and like sensitivities and things.

6:11 And I had mentioned in one of my videos that last

6:13 summer in June he had a stem cell IV from a specialist.

6:16 This is a specialist I don't know.

6:18 It he was like hooked up with him from one of his friends,

6:23 a great specialist, but it's not someone I'm connected to.

6:27 He stayed in a moldy hotel for that treatment and that brought back symptoms.

6:32 Wasn't the stem cell IV.

6:34 He's had hordes of those.

6:35 And trying to link the stem cell IV

6:37 in June to sepsis from pneumonia in October is insane.

6:46 Anyway, sep- sepsis happens within days of an infection.

6:50 So, not only are we dealing with missing my dad,

6:53 pregnancy for me, taking care of him,

6:58 and being really sad, but we also have to deal with morons on the internet.

7:05 So, that sucks.

7:06 The problem this year likely was that because

7:08 we didn't know stress and mold exposure or stress,

7:12 really, too, could retrigger old neurological injuries,

7:16 it was misdiagnosed a bunch and then medications and supplements that were

7:20 used by a few of the doctors and hospitals worsen symptoms.

7:25 Enough that it got to the point where we were like,

7:27 "Oh, we know what akathisia is.

7:29 Oh, no." Um so, now that we know what it is and have proper doctors,

7:35 it can it can be carefully healed again like it has before.

7:39 And it is.

7:40 You can So, thank God for that.

7:42 It's just horrifying and it's so infuriating that these sensitivities,

7:50 this damage that can cause severe symptoms like this can last

7:54 for so long after stopping psych meds and then apparently be retriggered.

8:01 People online this is another thing I'm frustrated about.

8:05 If I come off as like frustrated in this um I apologize.

8:11 I like I said, I've probably tried to channel um Oh, no.

8:19 Okay.

8:24 I was like, I can do this without crying.

8:26 I probably tried to channel [snorts]

8:40 Wow, well, I'm not channeling very well right now.

8:43 But I've been trying to channel my like sadness cuz I've

8:46 been so sad into anger cuz I'm tired of being sad.

8:54 But this like neurological injury calling it addiction is so stupid.

9:03 Dad doesn't fall into that category.

9:04 We've made that clear so many times.

9:07 He quit smoking and drinking when he was 27.

9:09 He just isn't that.

9:11 Instead, he falls into the unfortunately common category

9:14 of people who were prescribed psych meds long-term.

9:19 [snorts] And it's not like they were prescribed for no reason.

9:24 Um like severe, crippling, life-ruining depression,

9:27 the kind where you can't get off the couch for 30 years runs in my family.

9:32 Okay.

9:42 [snorts]

9:47 And it's not the kind of depression you can normally diet and exercise away.

9:51 Like people like to say that.

9:52 They like to look at depressed people and go,

9:54 "Why don't you eat better and exercise more?" And it's like, "I'm in hell.

9:57 Like, you think that's going to help?" Although obviously

10:01 that was before we knew about only eating meat.

10:05 Which did help.

10:06 Um but in a really complicated way.

10:08 Like people didn't Who's going to guess that?

10:12 So, it wasn't something you could get

10:16 rid of from cutting processed foods, for instance.

10:20 [snorts] Myself, my dad, my grandpa, my great grandpa had it.

10:23 My great great grandpa was left on a doorstep,

10:25 so I can't imagine he came from a very stable family.

10:38 Okay.

10:39 I have a Kleenex now.

10:42 Um so, where was I?

10:45 My great Yeah, depression.

10:46 So, when when dad started to be badly impacted by depression in the '90s,

10:51 and he had it He said he had it since he was a kid.

10:54 Um he was impacted enough that he was having a hard time lecturing.

10:58 He took an SSRI.

10:59 We were told it was a genetic serotonin problem,

11:02 and antidepressants were basically a vitamin for a serotonin deficiency,

11:05 which is still what people are told.

11:08 Even though that has been completely debunked.

11:11 And when I started having symptoms when I was a kid of OCD, suicidal thoughts,

11:15 extreme anxiety, anger,

11:17 uh my psychiatrist who was assigned to kids with autoimmune disorders,

11:22 like so many people with autoimmune disorders are on psych meds,

11:25 put me on Celexa at the time, and that was eventually changed to Lexapro.

11:31 And they helped a lot initially.

11:33 I thought they saved my life for years, like a life from hellish depression.

11:38 And so did Dad.

11:39 One out of five or six, like I said,

11:42 people in the US is on a psychiatric medication.

11:45 They're not addicts.

11:47 They don't even know these medications are

11:49 dependence forming because their doctors say they're not.

11:52 And the dangers surrounding these medications

11:54 certainly aren't well known, even now.

11:57 That's a large part of the reason for this video.

11:59 I was like, I don't want to talk about it really,

12:03 but it's happening and it's so bad

12:05 that people need to know because it's not rare.

12:11 And dependence forming, to clarify that, it's different than what

12:15 people think of when they think of addiction.

12:17 It means your brain changes to adapt to the medication.

12:21 So, if you pull it out, especially quickly, your brain can't handle it.

12:25 It's not that you want to take it or enjoy taking it.

12:27 It could be causing severe side effects.

12:29 This is what happened with Dad.

12:31 He started getting akathisia on Klonopin.

12:34 But pulling it out is is impossible and it worsens it.

12:38 It's a terrible situation.

12:40 Um but this was 6 years ago, you know.

12:44 Uh Anyway, apparently that differentiation between being on a psych

12:48 med and being an addict is too complicated for most people,

12:52 or at least for the people complaining on the internet.

12:54 But I thought I it should be addressed anyway.

12:57 And I'm someone who honestly looks at classic addicts, say heroin,

13:01 and thinks they must be suffering and it's a complicated issue

13:04 and I feel bad for them and there's more to it,

13:07 in my opinion, than someone who just took drugs and is an addict.

13:11 I think there's likely physiological issues at play for classic addictions.

13:15 But Dad's not in that category.

13:17 Uh so now, I guess I can talk about what akathisia felt like to me.

13:24 And when Dad recovers, he can talk about his experience if he wants to.

13:30 For me, and I don't want to like get into details

13:33 more than that really cuz it's too hard on my family.

13:38 And it's I don't want to.

13:40 Um so my experience with akathisia,

13:42 for me it it hit for the first time 2 weeks after I stopped Lexapro in 2015.

13:47 After going on a ketogenic diet that I kind of randomly went

13:50 on when I went on an elimination diet that just happened to be ketogenic,

13:54 I cut out almost everything, like meat and vegetables.

13:58 And that put my depression into remission.

14:00 My depression went away.

14:01 I could feel it go away one day about 3 months into the diet and I thought,

14:05 "I'm never going to take another pill again." And I stopped everything.

14:10 Uh that depression, even on the Lexapro,

14:12 was so debilitating that when I started doing dietary intervention,

14:17 testing it out, and removing things,

14:19 I focused on my arthritis, which was crippling.

14:22 I had joints replaced from it because I

14:24 thought that was the easier thing to fix.

14:26 And that there was no way dietary intervention was going to touch

14:30 something as severe as that depression that runs in my family.

14:34 That's how you know the Lexapro wasn't fixing

14:36 the depression because I felt the depression go away

14:39 on the ketogenic paleo diet I was on, kind

14:42 of like meat and vegetables and a bit of fruit, while on that Lexapro.

14:46 So I stopped Lexapro over a 2-week period, which is basically cold turkey,

14:52 which was crazy after taking it for 11 years.

14:56 But this was 2015, and even now doctors will wean people down in 2 to 4 weeks.

15:01 If you have a doctor that suggests you wean down off

15:04 of a long-term psych med in 2 to 4 weeks, run.

15:09 That can literally give people neurological injuries,

15:12 and that's what happened to my family from pulling the medication out too fast.

15:16 Although we were getting injured on the medication, too.

15:19 Uh people need to hyperbolic taper, and I have links below to it,

15:23 which is roughly a 10% reduction over every new dose.

15:27 So, if you go from 20 mg to 18 mg,

15:32 then the next reduction is smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller.

15:36 Um and sometimes that takes years.

15:40 And sometimes people still like can't do it.

15:43 So, I developed insane sensitivities to food,

15:46 light, sound, stress, smells, chemicals, vitamins, supplements.

15:50 Like my body freaked out.

15:53 This is why I eventually started only eating meat.

15:55 That wasn't for fun.

15:56 It was because I was insane.

15:59 And getting to the meat diet took me 2 years to figure out.

16:02 And I suffered quite a bit even on the paleo

16:05 and ketogenic diet during that 2-year 2 and 1/2-year period.

16:10 So, the akathisia and the bad psych

16:13 med injury symptoms felt like I was overwhelmed

16:17 with a sense of impending doom that was

16:19 stronger than anything you can naturally feel.

16:22 And I know that because for instance,

16:24 last summer I was in the hospital with my newborn.

16:28 Um and we thought she was going to die.

16:32 And that was the worst thing I've ever experienced.

16:37 Um but the stress response I

16:40 experienced during antidepressant withdrawal was almost hallucinogenic.

16:44 Like it wasn't a natural stress response.

16:46 That's I guess the best way I can describe it.

16:49 Uh it felt like I was falling into a volcano while being chased by a bear.

16:55 Like I had the physical sensation sometimes that I was falling.

16:59 And there were days when the only thing

17:00 that felt soothing was wrapping my arms around me.

17:03 This was like more of the akathisia symptoms.

17:05 And rocking back and forth to try to calm

17:09 down or stamping my feet or like shaking my hands.

17:13 It felt like severe restless legs.

17:16 But also in my arms body.

17:18 Everything I saw was pixelated.

17:20 I couldn't see color properly.

17:21 I felt like I was in the upside down in the show Stranger Things.

17:25 I couldn't listen to music.

17:26 Music hurt my ears.

17:27 There were days I couldn't watch TV even.

17:29 I couldn't lay in bed and watch TV.

17:31 I just had to lay in a dark room and try to not panic.

17:34 There wasn't a comfortable position I could get into.

17:37 Light hurt my eyes, sound hurt my ears.

17:39 My sense of smell was heightened.

17:41 I sprouted full-on allergies to things I'd never been allergic to.

17:45 At the time, I was so unaware that stopping

17:48 Lexapro could cause these symptoms that I thought it was

17:50 my autoimmune disorder somehow or sudden extreme food sensitivities because

17:55 I had limited my diet to a paleo keto diet,

17:58 which obviously doesn't make any sense.

18:01 You don't cut things out and then when you reintroduce them, you hallucinate.

18:06 Like that's not a thing that happens.

18:08 The main thing that flared up my neurological

18:12 injury were foods and preservatives in foods.

18:16 Um and then for Dad,

18:18 his symptoms when when they got really bad years ago and more recently,

18:25 were more severe than that.

18:27 We're not on an all-meat diet for fun.

18:30 We're We're on an all-meat diet because we've been left

18:32 with extremely long-lasting sensitivities

18:35 and neurological injuries from these medications.

18:37 And Dad's more sensitive than me.

18:39 Maybe because he was older or on SSRIs

18:42 longer and because because of the Klonopin for sure.

18:47 So, that's a brief description of my experience

18:49 with akathisia and psych med withdrawal.

18:51 It lasted 2 and 1/2 years for me and it only started to go

18:53 away when I switched from a the paleo dairy-free keto diet to only eating meat.

19:01 So, in the middle of that antidepressant withdrawal years ago now,

19:04 after a period of not sleeping

19:06 from a reaction to a preservative called sodium metabisulfite,

19:10 Dad was prescribed Klonopin.

19:12 And most of you guys know this.

19:14 He didn't take it for fun.

19:15 He took it because he hadn't slept in like 3 weeks.

19:18 And I know that's true because I had a similar We

19:20 both ate the same thing that had sodium metabisulfite in it.

19:24 And I had a similar response, but very horrifying, less severe though,

19:30 where I threw up and then I didn't sleep well for about

19:33 3 weeks and I was it was horrible, you know, horrible.

19:36 [snorts] Um He was pale.

19:41 Near anaphylaxis, couldn't really breathe.

19:44 That That was one of those weird allergies that popped

19:47 up that neither of us had before stopping medication.

19:51 I didn't have food allergies before stopping those meds.

19:54 Neither did he.

19:55 Uh insomnia so severe you do not sleep can

19:59 be part of having a psych med induced neurological injury.

20:02 Glutamate skyrockets when GABA systems are

20:04 damaged cuz GABA's what counteracts glutamate.

20:07 And we don't really understand a lot of what's happening,

20:09 but severe insomnia is discussed a lot amongst people with psych med injuries.

20:13 I had a hard time sleeping for years,

20:16 even after my antidepressant withdrawal neurological

20:18 injury went away with the lion diet.

20:21 I still have a hard time sleeping.

20:24 Like that's still my probably most sensitive area, although it's manageable.

20:28 I'm Like I'm fine.

20:30 Uh but I use white noise, a cold room, an eye mask, earplugs.

20:35 Something's still off.

20:37 And I'm sure it's from the lingering damage SSRIs did.

20:40 Dad's doctor prescribing him Klonopin for insomnia

20:43 due to the undiagnosed SSRI withdrawal,

20:46 or at more aptly described as neurological injury, injured him further.

20:50 And that's how he ended up with full-blown akathisia

20:52 for about 2 years after realizing the Klonopin was causing issues

20:57 after his doctor raised the dose of Klonopin when my mom

21:00 was diagnosed with cancer and given 8 months to live.

21:03 All this stuff sounds crazy, dramatic, but over the last 6 years,

21:09 I've talked to hundreds and read thousands of stories of people

21:13 who experience injuries from psych medications that sound like that.

21:19 And these aren't out of the ordinary for those people.

21:22 Uh I wouldn't go into all this detail except I really

21:25 do want you guys to understand that as horrible as this is,

21:28 what's worse is this isn't rare.

21:31 People who get injured by these don't have a a voice, really.

21:35 They're too sick to have a voice.

21:37 But I've talked to and been sent stories

21:40 from thousands of people that are stuck in this hell.

21:44 SSRI prescriptions SSRI prescriptions and benzodiazepine

21:49 prescriptions long-term are super common.

21:51 And the majority of people who take them,

21:53 especially long-term, have withdrawal or neurological injury from them.

21:58 It's almost always misdiagnosed as recurrence of their symptoms

22:02 because doctors will use the same words to describe it.

22:06 And then these poor people end up on two or three more medications

22:09 to stabilize their worsening mental illness when

22:12 it's really neurological damage from the medications themselves.

22:16 Most psychiatrists are completely unequipped to handle this.

22:21 They don't even know about this.

22:22 They certainly aren't taught about this in medical medical school.

22:25 Most people don't know it exists.

22:27 Uh when it happens in families, like a lot of the time these people are outcast

22:32 because people can't understand why they're acting the way they're acting.

22:36 Uh and I'll be the first to say when I first took a Celexa,

22:40 um it felt like it worked.

22:45 I felt my shoulders drop.

22:46 I felt like I could breathe again deeply.

22:49 I stopped panicking.

22:50 I stopped having suicidal thoughts and my OCD disappeared.

22:54 That was when I was 11, but I remember it vividly.

22:58 And I remember how I felt like before I started taking them.

23:00 But by the time I was 13, I was certainly still depressed.

23:03 I stayed on them because I thought, "Oh my gosh,

23:05 if this is how I feel with medication,

23:07 imagine how bad it is without it." But, what ended up

23:10 happening is I got more and more mentally ill over the years,

23:13 was diagnosed with bipolar type two, had a seizure from Wellbutrin when that was

23:18 added in, suffered from severe restless legs

23:21 that was really intolerable that I thought was

23:24 part of having an autoimmune disorder or something.

23:27 I didn't know it was associated with SSRIs.

23:29 And I just ended up getting worse and worse and worse.

23:33 I just always thought I would be even worse without the medications.

23:37 That wasn't true.

23:38 What I needed to focus on was mitochondrial health, really.

23:41 So, I'm going to get into that now.

23:43 Um mitochondrial dysfunction is like ketogenic research.

23:49 In 5 years, it's going to be mainstream.

23:51 Like ketogenic therapies are moving into the mainstream, thank goodness.

23:55 There's mounting evidence that dementia, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, long COVID,

24:00 and those weird chronic diseases that people get

24:02 that are hard to treat and kind of fringe,

24:05 but most definitely exist, like chronic fatigue,

24:08 Lyme, POTS, MCAS, like those kind of things.

24:13 Um that have this large array of seemingly

24:16 unrelated symptoms that include things like chronic fatigue,

24:19 depression, brain fog, anxiety, chronic pain, lightheadedness,

24:24 weird chemical and food sensitivities, are due to mitochondrial dysfunction.

24:29 Because that impacts your whole body and your brain.

24:32 10% of us by weight are mitochondria.

24:34 So, when I talk about neurological injuries,

24:36 what I'm talking about is mitochondrial

24:38 dysfunction that manifests like a neurological injury.

24:41 This is pretty cutting-edge research,

24:44 and I've linked papers below so people can read more about it.

24:47 In the previous kind of announcement videos,

24:50 I talked about how whatever was going on with Dad had been diagnosed as CIRS.

24:55 That's still true.

24:56 He definitely has CIRS.

24:58 Um Otherwise, the mold exposures he

25:01 experienced wouldn't have caused neurological symptoms.

25:03 That's chronic inflammatory response syndrome

25:05 and is almost like mold-induced illness.

25:08 I I think that the genetic predisposition to mold illness is likely what caused

25:15 the severe mental illness that ran

25:16 in my family that was then treated with medication.

25:20 I talked about how it felt spiritual.

25:24 And it does.

25:25 It's been hellish.

25:27 Um [clears throat] I know like other people going

25:30 through really stressful periods with sick families

25:33 like know what those periods of time are like and like it's hellish.

25:38 My daughter last summer was hospitalized the same day as my dad.

25:43 That seems odd.

25:46 There There's a biological basis for what's going

25:48 on with dad and we finally know what it is.

25:52 But I do think there was a spiritual element or is.

25:55 I'd also say if mentally ill desperate people are

25:57 given medication that's supposed to ease their suffering that ends

26:00 up nearly killing them when they stop or even

26:03 while they're on it and then they can't stop, I would say that's evil.

26:07 Have you guys heard of post-SSRI sexual dysfunction?

26:11 It's way more common than people realize, too.

26:14 And podcasters are starting to talk about it, which is good.

26:17 But it causes seemingly permanent genital numbness and anhedonia,

26:21 so emotional numbness.

26:23 It makes people suicidal because they can't feel anything.

26:27 And that can happen from short-term use to some people of these medications.

26:33 Finasteride's one of them.

26:34 SSRIs.

26:35 Um any medication that can cause things like that, akathisia,

26:39 PSSD, that level of suffering is evil, I think.

26:44 I do think our family has been attacked spiritually because

26:47 I cannot understand the level of suffering that I've been through,

26:51 let alone my dad's been through and my whole

26:53 family without it making more sense through a spiritual lens.

26:58 Oh, thank God I'm a Christian.

27:01 Um Anyway, away from the spiritual part.

27:06 Um So this the association between CIRS,

27:12 chronic inflammatory response syndrome, or basically mold induced illness,

27:16 ketogenic diets like the carnivore diet,

27:19 and psych med induced neurological injury.

27:22 How do they connect together?

27:24 Mitochondria.

27:25 Mold causes mitochondria to hibernate to protect themselves and shut down,

27:30 which causes this weird array of symptoms I talked about.

27:33 Psych meds cause mitochondrial dysfunction.

27:35 I've linked the papers that manifest as a neurological injury,

27:40 and a ketogenic diet gives mitochondria an alternate

27:42 fuel that helps them heal and helps them work,

27:46 which is why it's so massively useful and why we're just eating meat.

27:51 I'm going to put this video out and people are going to tell me I'm reaching,

27:53 but this is now well established research.

27:55 Mitochondrial dysfunction research is blowing up right now.

27:59 I'm going to talk about it more on my podcast because it's promising.

28:02 It's really promising, and understanding what's wrong is really

28:05 the only way to figure out health problems.

28:07 Um like I said, there are papers linked below so

28:10 you don't have to just take my word for it.

28:12 And I would have made this video shorter,

28:15 but I wanted to address everything I could in a fit

28:18 of frustration and anger at the situation and how it is.

28:22 I put a website together that I linked below called prescribed-harm.com,

28:27 which goes into the research about psychiatric

28:30 medications and what they're doing to people.

28:32 And if you're watching this video and have been injured by these medications,

28:35 you can write your story on that website, too, and I'll post it.

28:39 Um or maybe that website will be useful

28:42 to explain to family members what's going on.

28:45 Or doctors who don't usually know what's going on, or leave

28:49 a comment below to show people this isn't uncommon.

28:52 These injured people are so hurt, like I said,

28:55 that they can't usually have their story

28:58 told cuz they're just trying to survive.

29:00 And they're basically disabled and traumatized and gaslit and misdiagnosed.

29:05 I'm going to be jumping up and down for a while,

29:08 probably until this is dealt with properly,

29:11 um about the dangers these medications produce

29:13 until things are changed or at least until

29:15 it's common knowledge that people need to be

29:18 aware of this before they start the medication.

29:20 Pharmaceutical companies rename these neurological injuries and psych med

29:25 side effects and use language to hide the symptoms.

29:28 Like there's malevolence here, too.

29:30 Like calling akathisia restlessness, may cause restlessness.

29:35 Calling akathisia restlessness makes me want to hurt people.

29:40 And maybe that's pregnancy hormones talking, but it's criminal, really.

29:44 There are no long-term studies on these medications,

29:46 yet most people take them for more than 5 years and are told that they're safe.

29:50 Or at least safer than their original mental issue.

29:53 Actually, there's one long-term study and you know what it shows?

29:56 That 60% of people have a recurrence of symptoms.

29:59 That's what they That's what they got from the study,

30:02 and need to go back on the medication.

30:04 You know what's stupid about that?

30:07 They don't differentiate between recurrence and withdrawal.

30:10 And withdrawal is almost always misdiagnosed as recurrence,

30:13 even though the array of symptoms with withdrawal is generally way

30:17 more severe and includes pain syndromes and sensitivities and new symptoms.

30:22 They're just like, well, you just got worse.

30:24 Nope.

30:25 The industry is so crooked.

30:27 It's a travesty that now that there's actual

30:30 solid research linking ketogenic diets to improving mental disorders,

30:34 treating them, giving the brain the energy that it needs to not be sick.

30:39 I linked metabolicminds.com below, which is a great site about ketogenic diets

30:44 and mental illnesses run by scientists and that diet

30:48 or the carnivore diet should be first line treatment

30:51 for mental illness given they work and actually treat

30:54 the energy deficiency that's causing mental illness but especially

30:59 because these psych medications cause mitochondrial dysfunction long term

31:03 that manifests as a neurological injury and is very

31:06 difficult if not impossible to treat without time and lifestyle

31:09 interventions like ketogenic diet sun sleep no stress

31:14 like serious stress regulation so to end this rant

31:22 and apologies I can see it's been 33 minutes

31:25 um but I really did want to cover everything cuz

31:30 it it's a lot so prayers are much

31:33 appreciated still and all this suffering we hope leads

31:40 to more awareness so other people can avoid this withdrawals

31:43 a silly name for what happens to people because

31:47 withdrawal should be solved by the original medication

31:49 right if you're in withdrawal you go back

31:51 on the original medication you're not in withdrawal anymore

31:53 all your symptoms go away it's not what happens here

31:56 this is a neurological injury I don't want

31:58 to promise another update I'm grumpy and pregnant and I

32:01 don't want to be on the hook publicly for another

32:03 update I don't want to talk about it I'm

32:06 going to talk about mitochondrial dysfunction and psych med

32:10 this travesty of psych med injuries but I've been

32:16 barely surviving with the pregnancy hormones and stress thank

32:21 goodness for my husband who's just a rock but I'm

32:24 not sleeping well I wasn't eating well um

32:27 at least this week it appears I'm not crying constantly

32:32 being in the second trimester probably helps that but that's

32:35 it for updates about dad until he's back.

32:38 Now that we know it's a neurological injury and we know we need time

32:41 for him to recover and we can speed it up by not provoking a reaction.

32:46 Um like I said, prayers will prayers are much

32:51 appreciated um for my dad and for my brother,

32:56 my mom, and me um and the all the people helping us to help him through this.

33:02 So, there's light at the end of the tunnel but people need

33:06 to know these medications and what they can do to people especially long-term,

33:11 but not just long-term and they need

33:13 to be aware of these before taking a medication.

33:16 So, check out everything I've linked below.

33:18 If you want, I spent some like a decent

33:20 amount of time trying to find good articles and my recent study that I posted is

33:26 being done on the carnivore versus keto versus standard

33:29 American diet and rheumatoid arthritis and IBD run

33:32 by a research team is linked below and prescribed-harm.com

33:37 for more information on how to safely taper

33:39 to avoid neurological injury and to read other people's experiences.

33:45 So, thank you guys for listening and thank you for the support.

33:48 Um and I'm really sorry for anyone else

33:50 damaged by these horrible medications, but there's hope.

33:54 You can recover with time.

33:56 Ketogenic diets are unbelievably helpful and it really it's about avoiding

34:02 making it worse because bodies and brains do want to recover.

34:06 So, thanks for listening and I'll see some of you on my podcast.

34:11 I don't think I had any happiness at all for 3 years pretty much.

34:17 And what is dire.

34:18 Well, my wife she she spent a year hovering

34:21 on the brink of death in a variety of different ways.

34:24 Before that, my daughter had catastrophic health problems which

34:27 have mostly resolved and then I got extremely ill.

34:30 So, we've been in and at the same time

34:33 we were facing social pressure of like an unparalleled magnitude.

34:37 People trying to you know, bring this enterprise to a halt I suppose.

34:43 That's probably the right way to think about it.

34:46 Most of that time I was hoping that I would die.

34:49 I've been grateful for the good things that have happened to me,

34:52 but I don't think I was grateful

34:55 enough before just for mundane normality, you know?

35:01 Yeah.

35:02 And you know, you think you don't have

35:04 everything you could have and and perhaps that's true,

35:06 but if you can sit down and breathe there's lots of people who don't have that.

35:15 Yeah.