Brain zaps

I talked with someone today who was beat up pretty bad by psychiatry and was describing antidepressant withdrawal it sounded scary the way he said "they don't even know what it is" along with his description of these "brain zaps".

I have heard people talk of these "brain zaps" before. Each person seems to describe them a little differently. Some people describe them as a quick sharp pain, like a headache that lasts for only a second or two. Other people have described them as a memory blank, like they were doing something and all of a sudden their mind went blank and they couldn't remember what they were doing. The people that I have talked to have had these issues lessen and go away with time.

Psychiatry's faulty science because it treats the brain like any other organ of the body. Thoughts are intangible electrical impulses, so treating the organ responsible like the heart or other organ is turning something we haven't the foggiest idea about like something we do. Plus, since disorders can't be diagnosed as surely as physical maladies (excluding neural disorders that show up on MRI scans et al.) treatments are basicaly: proscribe and try one thing after another until the desire effect is observed. Trouble with this is if I whack someone in the head with a hammer, I'll see a desired effect too, but get a lot of undesired effects as well. Until we get Star Trek medical tricorders, except in the most severe cases where the patient or genetral public's health is in immediate jeopardy, we should refrain from messing around with brain chemistry.

HesDeltanCaptain wrote:genetral public's health is in immediate jeopardy, we should refrain from messing around with brain chemistry

"How SSRIs (Paxil) Really Messed Me Up . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuYZMW-_nII

Look how real it is on video compared to clinical words on webpages, does the psych industry even care ? I can't find any clinical word webpages describing the real life pain these drugs are causing.

I wouldn't call them brain zaps myself. I would describe it as the suffusion of your entire body with what feels like electricity emanating from the brain. It's torture, and when added to the the seizures, the panic attacks, the nausea, I found it to insufferable to continue withdrawing. Oh, and you get no support whatsoever.

I experienced something like this while being weened off of Zoloft. I took it for 7 months total and was on 100mg/day when I started the weening process. I spoke to my doctor about it and he gave me a schedule of how I should do it. I followed his advice exactly. I got these brain zaps all the time. It was just like this weird feeling that would just run through my head occasionally. I kinda felt like I was stoned while it was happening. The difference is that being stoned is more pleasurable while this is more like the unpleasant comedown groggy feeling at the tail end of a high.

This is kinda why I stick to marijuana. I usually time my smoking so I fall asleep at the end and don't get the groggy effects, but instead get a fantastic night of sleep. Weed has always worked better for me as an anti depressant than anything else has. Though I've only personally been on Lexapro and Zoloft.