Psychiatrist Exposes Truth Behind Rexulti Ad

[@lisaatp]

The push to add on antipsychotics for depression is just insanely frightening to me!

[@zak-a-roo264]

That list of side effects immediately made the commercial into a Saturday Night Live skit, wow!

[@barbstotter7288]

@@zak-a-roo264 do not taunt happy fun ball!!

[@zak-a-roo264]

When psyche pro = good bartender... "Oh, rum isn't working for you, try a Long Island Iced Tea, it's got EVERYTHING in it!"

[@HopefulEmpath]

Years ago, a Dr added Cymbalta and then I developed an irrational fear of driving, specifically changing lanes and backing up. She wouldn’t help me wean off 😠 and I tapered slowly but ended up with horrible brain zaps. Twelve years later, I still get weekly brain zaps but mostly when very tired. My lesson: Before starting a med, understand what is involved in getting off the med.

[@stephaniemartin6898]

Cymbalta brain zaps are tourcher, and increased insomnia makes it worse.

[@drunkensquirrel7545]

I wish I'd done that... if only I had a time machine. 🥺

[@HopefulEmpath]

@@drunkensquirrel7545 I’m sorry if you were tricked into taking a med you thought would help. I learned that doctors know very little about the meds they give. I’d like a Time Machine too! 😢🤔

[@joniatoms9798]

Can you describe brain zaps

[@HopefulEmpath]

@@joniatoms9798 Yes, of course. Brain Zaps is a term I used to describe a “clicking electrical sound” in my brain during and after Cymbalta withdrawal, and other psych meds. During withdrawal in 2012, I was having these zaps about 45 times a minute, essentially every few seconds. It didn’t happen when my eyes were closed. The zaps were accompanied by nausea. I lost my then boyfriend during that time. I didn’t tell him what was going on, I think it affected my personality too. I was not myself. It was so horrible that the best I could do on any given day was move from the bed to the sofa. Had I known about this before starting the samples my Dr gave me, I wouldn’t have taken not even one capsule. I used to have my videos of my experience on my former channel but I looked so sick I took them down out of embarrassment. I still have the videos stored.

[@petarch5783]

Actually ,these are not side effects,these are real effects !

[@HopefulEmpath]

Yes! If it’s an effect, it’s real, not a “side” effect that may/may not be common/rare/typical etc.

[@Acetyl53]

The worst and most obnoxious phrase I've seen is "non-specific effects". That's the level of stupidity and common sense defying language games that are allowed to go on.

[@vttrnn]

More accurately called unwanted effects.

[@JAG-h3l]

You are a life saver!!! I have this in my draw. My Dr has been asking me if I started it & after being forced Invega I never want to take another drug like that again. I'm so glad I didn't start this personality killer that numbed me again.

[@KiwikimNZ]

This is scary! Thank you for brining this to light ❤

[@drunkensquirrel7545]

It's also being marketed to seniors who have dementia that's accompanied by irritability. You've probably seen those commercials. All I can hear in my head when I see the ad is, "Is Grandma grumpy? Give her this & turn her into a docile zombie!" SMH

[@ozzy.....7383]

I thought this was a Snl skit when I seen on tv

[@lottasamuelsson1224]

I got the diagnosis Dystymi when i was on cymbalta and Lyrica ! Today 3,5 yrs off meds i see that it was the meds that made me feel this way! ( sorry for my bad english)

[@susanmorgan4151]

Oh my goodness! Im currently in protracted withdrawal from Paxil...(11 months out). After the misery, horror Ive experienced and currently going through these drugs terrify me! Please rethink using any psych med unless it a matter of life and death! Prescribers typically dont have a clue how these drugs work. "You have a chemical imbalance " was what got me into Paxil. Worst decision Ive EVER made!

[@Ann11972]

You can get through this- I was on many benzos, antipsychotics, and antidepressants- I promise you got this, if you need tips, let me know! I smile everyday now. I didn’t even know my own name or family at one point. (Psych “medication” induced amnesia)

[@tiffanyowens8266]

Same thing has happened to me. They fooled me with the chemical imbalance lie. Trying to get my life back after weening off these poisonous meds.

[@SallyS99]

Chemical imbalance is a fallacy

[@BlackRoses-xo2yp]

I am 65 years old and I am on pristiq, clonidine, Klonopin, and I have falling issues and fainting issues and also I asked her if this was going to make me gain weight because I also have an issue with that. So this rexulti was just prescribed to me. And I went and looked it up and then I saw your video and after watching your video I am definitely not taking this crap!! In APRN prescribed it for me. She is new to me because the other APRN had left. Oh, I also have swallowing issues in some kind of issues going on with my throat that we are trying to figure out. Not with this psychiatric APRN person but with a GI doctor end an ear nose and throat doctor. I am a survivor of very severe abuse since I was a small child and I have a hard time with psych meds because they do the opposite for me than what they're supposed to do. Even with the high dose of clonidine I still barely sleep because of my past abuse. I am so upset right now about all of the side effects of this rexulti and that she would give this to me!!!

[@dove.9833]

I tried everything even drugs they give to soldiers after to war to cope with ptsd this was the only drug that completely stopped my night terrors

[@taperclinic]

Wow, it's good to hear a success story here! Happy it's the right fit for you.

[@subjectively-observered]

Psychopharmacology is largely a joke

[@ziggyzap1]

I remember seeing the ad for Rexulti and I asked about it, so far it seems to be working good but my mental illnesses are weird, I have BPD, and Bipolar II. When you talked about feeling flat or having no emotions at all I only had that on Risperidol/Risperidone, It put a wall in my head removing all emotions whatsoever and I felt like a robot on Risperidol

[@McStorch0]

I always roll my eyes at the description restlessness or agitation. Because it’s such a watered down version of what really happens . . . Akathesia so bad you want to (fill in the blank). So it shows they know how real aka is. And uncontrolled movements that might be permanent. Has any doctor ever told anyone that?!

[@Ann11972]

Two years off the “bad stuff” and I can FINALLY enjoy a movie without wanting to rip my skin off. I’m grateful everyday I survived…I almost didn’t. I pray for those who continue to struggle and for those who lost their battle… big pharm-uh (spelled out to prevent deletion of speech) has killed and destroyed so many lives. I almost didn’t survive. I barely made it out.

[@McStorch0]

@@Ann11972 same. Same story for me after taking a benzo for a few months.

[@itssalemsworld]

It's weird because i firmly believe Rexulti saved my life during a depressive episode that put me in inpatient care for a week. I was confused much later when i found out rexulti is supposed to be used in conjunction with an antidepressant because i was taking lamotrigine which is a mood stabilizer. I was good for a good 4 years until severely traumatic environmental factors + seeing a very unhelpful NP who added Seroquel that i never took because why would i add a THIRD mood altering drug (not including the adderall i take) when i feel like i cognitively struggle enough as it is, along with memory loss. When the rexulti stopped helping as much, i slowly tapered myself down a little & started taking the Seroquel a little more. Didnt change or help anything & i went to inpatient care again (again, i feel mainly due to environmental factors & malnutrition). This was the weird part - the doctors at the hospital told me seroquel & rexulti use the same pathways, so they didnt need to taper me off of the rexulti. They just took me completely off it, no tapering, and added more Seroquel (which, honestly worked for me & i havent had suicidal or harmful thoughts ever since the switch). But.. then why doesn't everyone say antipsychotics should be used with antidepressants if it's the same pathways? It made me freak out a little to just stop taking rexulti cold turkey like that.. but i think it was fine from what i recall (almost 3 yrs ago)

[@barbstotter7288]

Had a terrible experience with Rexulti. Is that the same as oxcarbazopine?

[@taperclinic]

dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/drugInfo.cfm?setid=2d301358-6291-4ec1-bd87-37b4ad9bd850 Rexulti is the brand name for Brexpiprazole which is an atypical antipsychotic. dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/drugInfo.cfm?setid=fe49a773-562c-4da6-96b7-bba52f4d61e2 Oxcarbazepine is actually an antiepileptic sometimes used off label in psychiatry for mood stabilizing effects.

[@barbstotter7288]

@@taperclinic thank you. I had negative experiences with both of those.

[@billybandyk0720]

The term "side effects" is so disingenuous RE: psych meds that it's practically unreal.

[@Acetyl53]

In psych med commercials the actors are generally white, in this case they've also chosen red hair and blue eyes which is like the archetypal european. They didn't cast for green eyes because that's too specific, and they didn't use blonde hair and blue eyes because that's become politically loaded and isn't expansive enough. Red hair is what, under 1% of global population? Blue eyes, maybe 3-5% maximum? And the daughter has blonde hair. Contrast this to ads for food, stock images attached to services and utilities, etc, it's actually a hyperspecific clustering or constellation of traits they portray the most. Otherwise it's usually multiracial to the point of being more like check boxes or tokenization, usually with either non-white families or interacial couples. I mean look, I'm not all about the race thing, but this is quite obvious. Psych meds are keyed to European phenotypes in their marketing.

[@robertwilber1909]

Rexulti "If it doesn't kill you it might help"

[@hellboystein2926]

#Don't solve your real problems, take a second pill.

[@nettiea9384]

100%

[@lucylu9792]

😢😢😢 my high anxiety and depression started when u was diagnosed with the devil (cancer)

[@CeeTee-12345]

Look at the side effects. I'm thankful I'm not on that poison. I don't take these types of meds but everyone I know that does doesn't look better..

[@NicoleMiller-h5b]

I have issues with how the daughter in the dementia related video for rexulti keeps approaching her mother from behind touching her without warning. If the daughter were to approach the mother with warning, mom may not be so agitated and aggressive. She is obviously being startled. Quit scaring your mother.

[@alienesse]

Don't be so snobby. Bi-polar I people can't just go get a therapist to manage it. I have been on 1 mg Rexulti for 3 years and I notice that I do not rapid cycle.