What You Need to Do To Get Off of Your Anti-Depressant Medication

In this article, I would like to make a couple of very simple points. Extra information and background can be found by following the links in the text, or by exploring the rest of my website: www.drtraviselliott.com.

In order to get off of an unwanted medication, it is essential to eliminate the need for it. Alternative medicine can help you do that in a variety of different ways.

One important thing to consider is the type of approach that interests you. How would you answer the following two questions?

1) Do you want a natural alternative to the anti-depressant?
or
2) Do you want to heal the underlying causes of your illness, thereby eliminating the need to take any kind of medicine, be it natural or pharmaceutical?

These are not rhetorical questions, but rather very important ones. I want to make sure that you are very clear with yourself so that you can be clear with me. By being clear with me, I will be able to satisfy your goals quickly and efficiently, saving you both time and money.

Whether you are on Prozac, Wellbutrin, Effexor, etc., doesn’t matter, they all act in a similar way. They manipulate brain chemistry so that the calming, “happy” nerves are increasingly stimulated, and the excitatory, stressful neurons are stimulated less. This is a pretty gross generalization, but the point is that the medications do one thing: change your brain chemistry.

However, your brain is not who you are. There is a deeper level of consciousness than your brain and it may be that the problem lies there. Sure, your brain chemistry is imbalanced, but why is it imbalanced?.

If you answered yes to the first question above, it may be that you would rather not explore that deeper level of consciousness. That is totally fine. Or you may believe that because of your diet, personal habits, or lifestyle, imbalanced brain chemistry is the most pressing problem and that is what you would like to address. That, too, is totally fine.

The picture below is a list taken from HealthNotes- an informational kiosk that is available for free access in most health food stores. It shows some natural supplements that can help with depression. Another list exists for anxiety, though many of the entries are similar.

If you would like an alternative supplement you can research some of these on your own, or make an appointment to get my recommendations and receive an individualized supplement plan.

If you are interested in re-balancing your brain chemistry with a natural product, some combination of the supplements above will probably work. For example, St. John’s Wort has comparable efficacy to SSRI’s in many studies.

However, if you answered “yes” to the second question, you need a different approach. You may be tired of taking pills and would just like to get to the bottom of why you are not feeling well. In that case you will need one or more healing sessions that are designed to identify and eliminate the underlying causes of your illness.

The underlying causes, in my experience, are usually erroneous belief systems or deep wounds that are creating conflicts within your consciousness. The increased stress that you experience as a result of these conflicts have the long-term effect of changing brain chemistry. That’s why the anti-depressants work for a large number of people. They are not concerned with the “why”, they are only concerned with the end-stage, physiological result.

Once the underlying causes are healed and you experience life with less fear, anger, and sadness, the brain chemistry is able to normalize. The majority of the time it normalizes on its own. However, sometimes it is necessary to do a short-term course of a natural supplement to help correct the neurotransmitters.

The benefit of choosing to heal in this way is that you will decrease the need for long-term medication and/or supplements, and you will be able to experience your life with an increased sense of joy, not just less depression. It’s not very expensive in the short run, and it will certainly save you even more money and effort in the long run.

If you are ready to ask for some help with either approach, please give me a call. I offer a no-charge 15 minute consult. Of course, you may also make an appointment to begin the process of eliminating your need for an anti-depressant medication.

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