A significant number of my clients are on, or have been on, psychoactive medications and may be struggling with withdrawal and rebound symptoms when I first see them.  Clients often find the medications have left them with a myriad of physical issues, including digestive disturbances, toxic livers and kidneys, forgetfulness, tremors, insomnia and permanent brain dysfunction.

Most medications cause paradoxical symptoms — issues that resemble what they were given to treat. An example is where anxiety is replaced by drug-induced agitation and irritability. This fact has been repeatedly proven in landmark criminal and civil cases against psychiatrists  and pharmaceutical drug companies (see Dr. Breggin’s excellent work in this area).  Further, to add to the problem, rarely will doctors admit the addictiveness and withdrawal symptoms and instead blame the drug-induced symptoms on the original emotional problem.

To help clients accelerate their physical healing, my hypnotherapy treatments for anxiety, depression and other psychiatrically treated mental disorders,  involve providing clients with the resource material they need to wean themselves off these addictive medications safely.  In addition, I assist my clients in accessing safely staged physical detoxifications (typically specialized homeopathic and herbal remedies).  For properly staged detoxifications from harmful substances and mind-altering medications and to reduce the intensity and frequency of withdrawal and rebound symptoms (discontinuation syndrome), I typically refer my clients to Dr. Vladimir Topalo, MD, who is not only a medical doctor and naturopathic physician, but who diagnoses using iridology…a fantastic, risk-free diagnostic tool I will tell you about in a future post.

There is no need to suffer alone; one call to my office — either my Ottawa hypnotherapy office or my Belleville, Ontario hypnotherapy treatment office (toll-free 1-888-390-3553 or info@graceplacewellness.com ) — and you will get the guidance, support and treatment for your mental illnesses, including, but not limited to: anxiety, depression, PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder), fears and phobias, eating disorders such as binge eating, bulimia and anorexia and all manner of stress management support.