@realmaggiesterling: This clip is from the Soft Regulation Live Q&A I help yesterday. The replay is available inside the coaching broadcast feed, which all course students get access to for no additional fee.
I tapered off lorazepam (which was totally necessary because I had pain hyperacusis which was unsurvivable without meds), but my taper was slow and truly fairly easy. It doesn’t have to be terrible. Some days I had an uptick in symptoms but it was short lived. Give your brain and body time to compensate.
2026-06-03 00:29:44
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Moes Appelmoes :
Do you have any knowledge or information on whether SSRIs can help desensitize the nervous system? I’ve had escitalopram prescribed for a while but still not sure if I want to start it, I’m not depressed but if it helps my recovery I’m fine taking it since my progress is very slow atm…
2026-06-02 21:20:49
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Jennie :
I’m off my ssri now and still having issues from the withdrawal. It’s a nightmare messed my whole system up 6months off and still struggling
2026-06-03 17:57:35
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M22222 :
Why do I feel like I’m going crazy when I’m lowering my lexapro or Prozac? Is that my actual true anxiety or is it the effects of changing it? I’ve been on SSRI’s since 12 years old and I’m 26 idk if I need them or not.
2026-06-26 21:12:26
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leenie630 :
The amygdala becomes hyper vigilant during a taper. In my taper I got Triple PD- but I work with my nervous system anyway and I’ve made great progress which tells me you most certainly can heal during a taper. Maggie is a very good creator - I’m fussy who I watch. That’s important too.
2026-06-03 12:26:41
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Katie Ly :
Maggieeeee! Is the why we overeat podcast no longer available to listen to? Maybe I missed an announcement somewhere!
2026-06-02 22:43:09
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Antoinette Winstone :
im kindled and stuck
2026-06-15 15:29:11
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Antoinette Winstone :
how can i heal kindling x
2026-06-15 15:38:50
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Antoinette Winstone :
can you help me ? x
2026-06-15 15:46:37
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Kate :
I’m doing a daily liquid microtaper, mixing water & Paxil, using a syringe and micropippette. It is pure hell. Forget going to Dr’s……they know zilch. Everything I learned was from the withdrawl community. Until things change, I tell everyone to skip the Dr and go straight over to our non profits. Dr’s learn from us
2026-06-04 01:39:04
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jamie :
im recovering from chronic illness. the only thing I know is that if I ever end up again severely dysregulated, psych meds will only make things worse for me. My amygdala treats psych meds as if they were the demon, no option to argue with my NS, I tried it too many times.
2026-06-11 00:01:40
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Fashion and Struggle :
I appreciate you talking about the fear / I don’t hear a lot of people talk about the strangest scariest symptoms and then not having the words to describe them makes them so much scarier- derealization is so horrifying after akathisa
2026-06-04 05:34:38
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Blair 🩵🦓🪬 :
Try three benzo tapers and being kindled for 7 years
2026-07-01 05:58:41
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