by Janet Foner | Mar 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
Welcome to our blog that will keep you updated on the Sunrise Center. We hope this Center will become a catalyst for a movement of people creating places for people who want to stop using psychiatric drugs. We will have stories by people who have stopped using...
by Editor | Dec 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
In my 40s, isolated from friends and family, and with the encouragement of my “scientifically minded” new partner, I began taking psychiatric drugs in an attempt to deal with a cycle of depression and suicide attempts. After some years, I discovered that the...
by Editor | Dec 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
When I was married and in an abusive situation, I took an overdose of pills right before going to work. My husband was beating me. They took my daughter away. I was looking for a way out. Ten minutes after I took the pills, I knew I had been stupid. I had a good...
by Editor | Dec 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
Using Reevaluation Counseling to cope with the feelings, and acupuncture to help with the detox and withdrawal, I succeeded in getting off of an old-school anti-depressant that I’d been taking for close to twenty years. I learned how to get off of psychiatric...
by Editor | Dec 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
This is my story of getting off psychiatric drugs. I didn’t get to choose the ways I was hurt in my life, but I did get to decide how to move through the effects of those hurts. I have been drug free for eleven years and counting. When I faced a huge crisis in...
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