More Hope For Your Healing Journey

You can find complete interviews to the snippets in this video here (in order of appearance):
Michelle Fuchs // Suffering, Surviving, & Our Paths to Recovery
• Michelle Fuchs // Suff...
Geraldine Burns // The Matriarch of the Benzo Recovery Movement
• Geraldine Burns // The...
Dan Landauer // Healing from Polypharmacy
• Dan Landauer // Healin...
Karla Helbert // On Grief & Trauma
• Karla Helbert // On Gr...
Meghann Hempel // Restoring Mental & Physical Health Through Nutrition & Lifestyle Interventions
• Meghann Hempel // Rest...
Paul Tijerina // Nutrition, Strength & Sleep for Emotional Health
• Paul Tijerina // Nutri...
Dr. Rani Bora // Holistic Healing & Mental Wealth
• Dr. Rani Bora // Holis...
Bernie Silvernail, MS // Co-Founder of The Alliance for Benzodiazepine Best Practices
• Bernie Silvernail, MS ...
Jezel Rosa, APRN, PMHNP-BC // A Holistic Approach to Deprescribing
• Jezel Rosa, APRN, PMHN...
Michele Waterman Part I // Coming Back To Yourself After Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
• Michele Waterman Part ...
Michele Waterman Part II // Coming Back To Yourself After Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
• Michele Waterman Part ...
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[@user-ow4hf6ss5d]

Praying for the mercies of God to touch everyone going through this.Don't blame yourself.

[@Jay_Segoviano_WC]

We need more of these videos. They are golden to us who are still in it.

[@beatrizrosado898]

We all need hope.Some days are so hard...We keep going. WE WILL HEAL. WE NEED THIS MESSAGE. THANK YOU!

[@Fiawordweaver]

Thank you. ❤❤❤ I was so scared that I had MECFS. Im 71. I’m tapering from 30 years of klonopin 2mg start point 3 years ago and currently at 0.5mg. I have bedridden days severe fatigue and breathlessness since I started the taper. I have had no medical input or direction. So now that I believe it’s benzodiazepine taper fatigue, I feel free even though I cannot do what I used to. 3+days ago I rode my bike in the neighborhood for 5 minutes. It was pure joy and happy. Today I rode for 10 min. So 10 minutes of HAPPY JOY. THE fact that there is a light at the end of the tunnel empowers me emotionally. I wrote two poems the other day that demonstrates that I am healing from my CPTSD. I so appreciate this channel. 🎉🎉🎉

[@lonnievisch6009]

👏👏👏

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

Keep on healing!!

[@marymeyer6909]

I so need this. Keep developing new scary symptoms.

[@beatrizrosado898]

We are so strong. SENDING BLESSINGS TO YOU!!!

[@Jay_Segoviano_WC]

You’re not the only one. There’s so many of us. Keep looking forward.

[@rachaelhernandez7264]

Me too. 10 months off and new symptoms and worsening of others…BUT WE WILL HEAL!!! ❤

[@allencollins6031]

Takes soooooooo long. 😞 But there is improvement.🕊🕯3.5 years. Whew...man.

[@marymeyer6909]

Can you make 27 more of these ❤

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

We have many success stories on my channel. Be sure to go back and watch older videos.

[@omarrashied5520]

We need 2700 more of these actually 😁

[@debbiebaymiller9113]

I’ve told you before & I will say it again. These are SO WONDERFUL Angie!! Thank you on behalf of myself & all of my fellow BIND sufferers that feel we’ll never make it to the other side. You are such a credit to humanity with all you do girl. You’re our Head Angel! 😇

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

Thank you so much! A few more coming!

[@tamihenderson4500]

@@AngiePeacockMSWhow do I get in touch with you

[@BirdieHaze2207]

Thank you, it’s sooooo hard ( need a new word for hard) to be so, so protracted and still be so, so bad. After this long you feel like how can it change.

[@jbs9012]

Mary M. thanks for sending my way. Angie so desperate for hope. Bravo for pouring into this community with so much strength and hope. My biggest fear is that suicidal thoughts will morph into reality. No plan but can’t stop thinking about it. Internal never ending nightmare. I had a window a few weeks ago and now crushed by SI. So good to hear laughter.

[@kc-475]

Keep going, friend. You’ve got this and you’re stronger than you know. Praying for you!

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

I will do a video about this very soon. Thoughts are thoughts and they are really scary. But they cannot hurt you. They are bad chemicals happening. Do not act on any of them and do not follow them out. They are going to happen.

[@suecobb-werner]

Man I relate to what you’re going through SO much. I’m terrified of the SI thoughts becoming reality. Let’s hold on and believe we will get through 😢❤

[@justdesi86]

I feel this. Also for me, part of it is as an intrusive thought, part is the "I can't live like this anymore."

[@jbs9012]

I must choose humility and hope. The window may be around the corner. Oh God grow hope and courage in each of us.

[@shan4145]

It is a Miracle when people have came out to the side 💖

[@manikmultimedia]

Thank you thank you. I’m listening to this on repeat. Feelings of hopelessness, even though I’m better than a year ago. I don’t know what the future holds, but videos like this provide a lifeline to hold onto. Thank you.🙏 ❤❤❤

[@tomwong917]

You are not alone.

[@kaylavontress8256]

Thank you for this, was giving up!! We do need to hear from those who have survived, only those with the same experience can give us hope to survive the withdrawal journey. 🙏🙏

[@Justlikemagic96]

I really enjoyed your conversation with Michele Waterman i keep going back to it!

[@michelewatermancoaching3477]

❤Angie peacock I absolutely adore you and I am so grateful for your friendship and support. You held space for me during a 19 month set back and helped me hang onto hope!! I have my whole life back and I will never stop using my voice for good. If you’re in this mess, keep going. Keep surviving. Keep living - until that’s all you want to do!

[@catherinebailey940]

Michele, I've heard a little bit of your story on a podcast. I'm curious how you've handled depression. I was clinically depressed before even being put on meds. After 20 years, meds have now turned on me and I have no options left after trying many over the years. I need to get off but am absolutely TERRIFIED of living life without them and how to manage my depression. I'm even intolerant to supplements now, so addressing deficiencies even feels impossible 😭

[@carolinecroft7029]

Brilliant, for those of us struggling badly❤

[@suecobb-werner]

I’m in an awful wave right now, truly awful, I completely needed this today. Dan, you really gave me so much hope with your story.

[@kevinkay7607]

I think we will all be ok, just going through a tough time right now, just keep your eyes on the light at the end of the tunnel. Bless us all.

[@kc-475]

❤

[@Gwenhenn]

Thank god for this and for you. I saw Medicating Normal last year and when you were outside talking to Dave about when you finally realized what was wrong, I paused it and sobbed like a baby for 15mins as I finally realized what’s been wrong with me for years. I started hyperbolic taper Jan 2023. I wasn’t aware until recently that the lower you go the harder it gets. Been fortunate that everything had gone smoothly until this March when I had surgery. Ever since I’ve been in emotional hell. I’m doing everything I can to hold on. I just found your podcast. I’ve been watching your videos all week and hope to someday have a one on one with you. In the meantime I’m struggling with s**cid*l ideation and isolating. I’m so fortunate to have loving and supportive family and friends who’ve watched the documentary and some of your videos to try and understand more. Even my Dr is completely on board with this tapering method and actually said “that’s a great idea. They don’t teach us how to get patients off of this stuff” which floored me that she was that transparent. So I am extremely lucky. What I’m REALLY struggling with is being around everyone when I’m an emotional wreck as I can be apathetic and cold and they don’t deserve that and it later adds to my emotional turmoil even though they understand why and I feel so guilty. Thank you for all that you do and continue to. I don’t know where I’d be right now if I had not seen you in the documentary. I hope to someday have a coaching session someday.

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

Thank you for taking the time to write this message to me. Thinking of you. You will get through this! You have a lot of things you will need in place and that is wonderful!

[@christinedemello5810]

Wow this gives me hope ! Been on xan 2mg 2xday 26yrs I'm trying to taper it's so hard.i went into seizures coma 3yrs ago trying to get off these.bur your stories are a big help thank you!❤❤❤

[@ashleyen3]

Best of luck. I am about to start a taper in the fall for ssri and I have gotten very ill trying to get off before. The key I heard is hyperbolic tapper and go slow 🐌 I'll keep you in prayers. We got this .🙏

[@mitch5222]

How can we get bettter if 12 years of pure hell and traumas and still after 7.5 half not ok. I feel like a child, didnt have to to grow up? And i am 44 years old.

[@christinedemello5810]

@@mitch5222 wow I understand what your saying .I'm so scared

[@mitch5222]

@@christinedemello5810 thanks. How are u doing?

[@mitch5222]

​@@christinedemello5810how are u doing?

[@madelynhernandez7453]

Thank you!!! I think getting mad at why others leave is part of the injury and our inability to process emotions. We also feel a sense of betrayal as weird as that sounds. I don't know. I know that I have never felt so frail.

[@oliversmith7820]

Oh wow thanks Angie

[@RedRocket83921]

I want to believe in healing so badly I just hate how the goalposts keep getting shifted the longer it goes on😢 I have lost all hope because I’ve had to push back healing goals so many times when I pass another milestone and I’m still so sick. It’s so demoralising when you have to sit and watch your life disappear😣

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

Some of us take longer than others. That doesn’t mean it’s not happening.

[@kc-475]

Angie, God bless you for putting this video together. Thank you for bringing me hope on a really hard day.

[@garysimone4977]

Hope is smelled A.N.G.I.E

[@craftygirl17]

Angie did Christy pass from Bind,, I’m so scared now to even try again to get off clonazapam since I heard this. I hope it was t suicide, I’m going through trauma from a family member who died by suicide. You are such an AWSOME person, I am so grateful that you are here for so many people❤️

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

The details have not been released by her family. Anything you have heard is speculation. Please be respectful of her and her family. Stay in your own experience.

[@MsCarmel55]

This is a great video compilation! Thanks Angie for sharing hope with us.❤

[@jennifergiordano3368]

Love you, Peak! Another incredible video for helping humans. ❤🎉😊

[@barbarahscott8995]

We need these “gifts” to help us going through this benzo journey, esp. those of us in the thick of it … I will get through this and be better for it!! Thank you!!

[@ryebreadnocrust]

Angie this has to have been the best video I’ve seen relating benzodiazepines and prescription med withdrawal always much love from Fl ~ Ryebread

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

We agree!

[@Bex66]

Angie, I absolutely love these videos when you put them together like this. So uplifting and positive and gives us hope. Thank you. ❤❤

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

You’ll have to thank my assistant for working on the editing part! I just do the interview part and select people who kept me going / people I think will keep you all going, too!

[@Bex66]

@@AngiePeacockMSW well you’re a great team!! 💕💕

[@crystalweiche6925]

Love you Michelle, love seeing you heal! 💜💜💜

[@suecobb-werner]

She is amazing!!!!

[@bwote]

Thanks for this! I'm just about to start a slow taper of a benzo I gave been on since '87. But first the effexor. My nervous system is shot. I'm a mess and basically a recluse because it's all too much. Diagnosed with P.O.T.S. recently. Videos like this are so helpful.

[@marymeyer6909]

I listen to Michele Waterman's part every day. She really speaks to me

[@joetesmer9071]

Amazing video Angie!

[@marymeyer6909]

THANK YOU ANGIE!!

[@jazzyj2243]

Thank you for sharing this! 🙏

[@amynork]

I need this today! 😢

[@Blu6556]

Thank you!!!

[@kingy231]

Thank you, I needed this today

[@justkeepswimming6549]

You are awesome Angie! Keep them coming!!

[@tash98101]

Thank you so much for another video of hope. I want you to know your videos have offered me the spark of hope I've often needed to continue to hang on. Thanks again!

[@jeannesullivan5392]

Angie, thank you for mentioning depth perception issues. I have broken more cups/dishes since getting 86’d off cymbalta suddenly. I think I am putting something on the counter & miss it…❤ please keep educating us!🙏🙏🙏❤️🥰

[@kathleenneff]

These are so wonderful Angie! More please?? ❤

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

More coming. It just takes us a bit to edit them due to the large files and downloading and converting!

[@user-uw1js8ey4d]

That was so helpful. Thank you so much for these videos of hope for us going through this tough journey. Holding on to survive this healing journey 🩷🙏

[@matthewgonano636]

wow you look great!

[@marjorie6343]

So much pain in my neck shoulders and back Incredible stiffnes and pain Can I heal from this, sometimes I am So desperate! Hug from The Netherlands 🇳🇱

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

Always get medically checked if you feel something else is going on. Pain is a very common symptom for many that goes away.

[@marjorie6343]

Thank you for you answer Angie. Yes I have been to my doctor, physiotherapist, chiropractor, got massages , but it seems to get from the inside. , a very tensed feeling in my muscles in my whole body. I hope this will get better because it is very debilitating! 🙏❤️🇳🇱 🇳🇱🙏

[@sarahmkate84]

Oh wow the lady at the end of that video Michelle made me cry 😢 i will do this for my daughter 🙏

[@brittalinstrom537]

My little one is what keeps me going too ❤️

[@cm23307]

Thank you for this video Angie. Do you have any videos of people talking about recovery and getting off meds that were diagnosed schizoaffective? That's my diagnosis and my family doesn't think I can heal!

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

Yes look for Brandalyn’s video on my channel. Also, on medicating normals channel for “healing from schizophrenia without meds”

[@cm23307]

@@AngiePeacockMSW Thank You!

[@Benzosuzy]

6 yrs protracted I am not a better person!😢 I’ve lost everything.

[@julierogers4473]

I'm so sorry honey. 🫂. This is my biggest fear because of what he did to me. 🤬

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

I still felt like this in my year 6 too. It can break up at any time. Please keep going. You’ve made it really far. What symptoms are left for you? Are you off of everything?

[@jeannesullivan5392]

I am so sorry that you haven’t felt your body healing YET…. You & your body will heal; keep nourishing your body with healthy food and healthy thoughts…❤🙏 just remember, you are not the exception; we all get better, just at different rates…

[@rajeshlumb8659]

1175 days off still anxiety mild dp dr

[@mitch5222]

7.5 years. Still severe. I cant sit because neuropathy in my legs for 12 years. No improvment in nueropathy tgings. Anxiety still, delusions sometimes still, fatigue a lot. Trumas are hurting me everyday fear and sweating. 7.5 years plus 8 years of drugs and all the time hell. This is not possible for me to heal anymore.

[@g3355gg]

I'm not a med user but I've had insomnia for months (not sleeping at least 2 nights a week) and it's recently improved a bit after reading some books but the problem is my nervous system feels like its overclocked, I'm having constant anxiety and a buzzing sensation throughout my whole body

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

Did you take antibiotics, vaccines, something that triggered it?

[@angel_2022M]

​@@AngiePeacockMSW you are so right, for me, I was a normal healthy active person, never had any anxiety or mental problems, but two years ago, after a COVID booster, I had all the strange physical mental symptoms. Doctors say it's an anxiety disorder and put me on xanax and antidepressants. I became more and more sick , with all type of strange weird symptoms, I couldn't know that it's all due to prescribed drugs. Doctors said you need more drugs, as the current ones are not working for you. From your KZbin videos, I came to know, and connected the dots. It has been 7.5 months since I am off, but struggling badly from horrible withdrawal. Thanks for giving me hope and doing these helpful videos ❤️

[@diefilmkitchenjohannessand2173]

Is there hope in the film medicating normal? I m off nearly 18 months from benzodiazepines and still harmed. Thx for your work 🙏

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

Yea of course there is and it’s free on KZbin. Ow! Go watch!

[@wshaynann]

Can you make a video on your thoughts about Ketamine treatment?

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

Sure

[@shahnazali4000]

Hi Angie how can one taper from Clozapine( antipsychotic drug) If the last dosage is150 for 3months, what would be the new dosage.

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

Hi I don’t give medical advice and definitely not in comments on KZbin without knowing where to point you when I don’t know anything about you or your history. That would be unethical.

[@brokenwingedsongbird]

Healing is situational. Not everyone heals. Maybe from withdrawl but not the possible and rare horrific injury and the trauma that comes from it. There should be a space for the people like me

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

You’re still tapering aren’t you? Then you can’t be so sure. Those that preach the permanent stuff haven’t lived this out long enough to see the healing that takes place. I get that it’s torture. We don’t have much of a choice there.

[@brokenwingedsongbird]

@AngiePeacockMSW I've been off 43months sis. And too severely brain injured and honestly effing tortured and abandoned and judged and humiliated

[@brokenwingedsongbird]

@AngiePeacockMSW but...also in this now 7yrs. Since " it " began. I'm just so broken hearted for my son and husvand that I can hardly breathe. I'm in shock

[@brokenwingedsongbird]

@AngiePeacockMSW you probably had me confused with someone else. Also I don't preach permanence. I know lots of severe cases who healed. Severe in different ways but I'd say far out of the scope of normal wd. But yeah. Took my last pill 43months ago after taking a pokydrug chemical raping followed by a totally unnecessary hysterectomy but I wasnt able to speak for myself. Just had to succumb to the gaslighting and threats. I was normal 100% before pills other than some situational anxiety

[@julierogers4473]

My pm Dr doesn't understand why I want to taper my meds. He said I could be off in 3 weeks 😱. He's the one that did this to me. In withdrawal everyday since he cut me in half in January... I reinstated the end of February but I'm not stable 😭 I didn't have any idea of what was happening to me 🥺

[@aprilhassell1747]

How many years were you on?

[@jeannesullivan5392]

Julie, my pain Dr. Doesn’t understand my protracted withdrawl either. He’s not in my body & didn’t make sure my script made it to the pharmacy… if you can find something to do to distract; I color…I feel like a 5 yo but it works for me….I have graduated to markers now…so maybe now I am a tween… just do whatever you can to distract & relax your brain waves.. if you can find a Dr to taper you very slowly….there are a few on YT. Best of health to you❤

[@julierogers4473]

@@aprilhassell1747 Just started in September last year 😭

[@andyapple7176]

Does anyone know - if I got ssri withdrawal akathisia will it go away if I reinstate?

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

It depends on how far out you are and what the aka was caused by. Some it helps some it doesn’t. Go to surviving antidepressants and read their article about reinstatement.

[@barnbrac2452]

Angie, have you any opportunities for interviewing those experiencing ME/CFS or Long Covid in withdrawal? Pretty niche I know but there are many out there.

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

All the symptoms overlap. I only have two clients impacted by long covid in the last two years. The healing principles are similar.

[@barnbrac2452]

@@AngiePeacockMSW thanks Angie!

[@Justlikemagic96]

Hi, do you experience PEM? How do you manage me/cfs it on top of the withdrawal?

[@barnbrac2452]

@@Justlikemagic96 I have PEM. Always. I think because benzos are mast cell stabilisers, in withdrawal you get the symptoms of me/cfs/ long covid.

[@sylviadominguez8327]

How long does it take? I'm going crazy with akathisia. I don't think i could last

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

It could stop tomorrow or next week. It can go off like a switch sometimes. Please keep going!

[@nuevagestionhumana1203]

I am starting to taper klo after 23 years. Does anyone know if I can make it completly alone? I live in a new place, I don't know anyone and I can go to my family in a year. I do not know if I should wait until I'm back with my family or continue here alone...any suggestions? I can't think.

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

You will definitely need some peers to support you. You need at least one person to talk to about this. Either free online fb groups, surviving antidepressants, benzo buddies, meet with one of the coaches (I am one) or attend some of the zoom groups.

[@mitch5222]

I am 44 years old. I was in hell for 8 years while on medication. Now 7.5 years off ct 3 meds and i am not healed. I am 44 and i lost everything. How can somebody comes from this if feel like a child that didnt have time to grow up? I am still healing. How can i navigate life if i didnt have time to grow up normally?

[@mitch5222]

Angie? how many years u were taking medication?

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

13 years, over 40 medications

[@fennax17]

Do you believe we can heal after 3 years? Someone told me after 3 years of no healing its permanent, that scared me😅

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

Oh please. That’s ridiculous someone would say that. I’m 8.5 years out now and didn’t have any substantial healing until year 4 because I was so severe. Between 4-6.5 I had soooo much healing it was crazy! Keep going and block people that say this stupid shit. Please!

[@fennax17]

@@AngiePeacockMSW thank you!

[@justdesi86]

What if the whole journey is doing nothing until this stops? I'm so frozen...

[@AngiePeacockMSW]

It’s usually not like that the whole time. You will be able to do things when your body is better somewhat. Keep going. Staying alive is enough.

[@sarahmkate84]

​@@AngiePeacockMSWit's so hard just surviving I can't wait to live my life fully again 🙏

[@susanmorgan4151]

I'm frozen in place sometimes too. Typically a whole day at a time. When I look back , I see the "frozen" times are getting shorter. (I'm 11 months clean)

[@Benzosuzy]

Hell, no, I’m not grateful. I am not a better person six damn years in fkn agony.