What to do if you Love Someone on Psychiatric Medication
About this episode
Dr. Josef discusses the impact of psychiatric medications on loved ones and offers guidance for families concerned about their effects.
Click here if you need help quitting psychiatric medications: membership.taperclinic.com/signup/?utm_source=podcast If you're watching someone you love slowly disappear on their psychiatric medications, this video is for me talking directly to you. I'm a board-certified psychiatrist, and I see this pattern constantly: someone started a medication during a real crisis, and at first it helped. But years later, they're on more drugs, at higher doses, and they're clearly worse. The warmth is gone. The humor is gone. They're fatigued, foggy, unmotivated, and a shell of who they used to be. In this video, I walk through what's actually happening and what you can do about it. What I cover:→ Why medications that once worked can stop working, and how tolerance leads to the familiar cycle of higher doses and added prescriptions→ How the side effect burden, sedation, emotional blunting, cognitive dulling, eventually outweighs any remaining benefit→ The signs families notice first: withdrawal, loss of personality, loss of motivation, the sense that the person you know is no longer there→ Why doctors often misread these signs as the underlying illness getting worse or label the patient…
People in this episode
Host: Josef Witt-Doerring
Topics covered
- psychiatric medication
- mental health
- treatment resistance
- family support
- medication side effects
Keywords
- psychiatric medications
- treatment resistance
- emotional blunting
- cognitive dulling
- family support
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Taper Clinic
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