u/Creepy-Primary7042

Hi.

So this is my brainmapping. I am thinking it does not look good.

I was medicated in 2024 with an antidepressant, and during that treatment period and immediately upon discontinuation everything inside me changed. It was like my nervous system got so shocked it shut down. I have been suffering alot ever since, and do not function in almost any regard what so ever.

I asked Gemini to analyze my results, and it pretty much validated my entire lived experience.

I am receiving IFL treatment. Not sure I'd actually be able to do any active practice due to the severity of my condition.

Any thoughts? Help or input is very welcome. I don't really know what I am looking at. :-)

First one is open eyes, the last two are with closed.

Another recovery story <3

"The New York Times is now reporting what Outro has been saying for years: the psychiatric system never built an off-ramp for safely deprescribing antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs.

Prominent psychiatrists in the United States are just now developing formal guidance for helping patients come off antidepressants, noting that providers have long "parked" patients on medications that are no longer necessary or effective. Meanwhile, 1 in 6 U.S. adults currently takes an SSRI, most outpatient practices lack the time or structure to support safe discontinuation, and patients left without answers have had to turn to social media for guidance.

This is the gap Outro was built to fill. Dr. Mark Horowitz, Outro's co-founder and co-author of the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines, called the new recommendations a reluctant admission that psychiatric medications have been prescribed for decades without adequate pathways off them.

Safe deprescribing is not a new idea. It is just one that the system has been slow to take seriously. Outro has been doing this work all along.

Learn more about Outro’s tapering program at outro.com" - Outro Health

Link to article, unfortunately there is a paywall:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/science/psychiatry-kennedy-ssris-maha-antidepressants.html

EDIT:

Found a gift link from Inner Compass initiative:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/science/psychiatry-kennedy-ssris-maha-antidepressants.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fFA.JbTW.S2NvZchbpRyx&smid=url-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawRh91VleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBjVjBaeENiV0ZzWHJoOEFrc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHhGwmgdzq29cFzNJnhvhO1XNElBkj2o75h-baWEOZ3wDOWAUGCCvd3J_VEx5_aem_JhuyAFd1rr_n-oEUzcjoyA