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Shame can be one of the hardest symptoms of psychiatric drug withdrawal. If you've been feeling like you're especially doomed, broken, or beyond help, this video is for you. I share what I've learned from my own protracted withdrawal and from the people I've walked with through theirs.

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00:00 The shame withdrawal puts in your head
00:57 Why your brain says you're especially doomed
03:16 What happens when you stop carrying this alone
04:09 Printing out proof that people like you have healed
05:39 "But I had preexisting issues", and why that's not the end
08:19 Walking into a cave with no light, and walking out
09:02 The nerve endings that break off and grow back
11:11 Waking up one day and feeling good again
12:17 Borrow hope from people who have been through it

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