Here are some of my favorite people and resources in this space. Just because I'm recommending it doesn't mean I endorse every little bit. Please engage discerningly, and always involve wise and trusted people when making decisions.
❤️ Joanna
Crisis and Surviving
For the days when you're just trying to get through the next hour.
Start here
Crisis and Survival Plan, my free tool for building a plan before you need it, with short videos walking you through each step.
Support calls you can join
- Life After Meds group calls with Elissa and me, for tapering and PAWS
- ACE peer support calls, free and weekly, from the Antidepressant Coalition for Education
- Heartcore Collective, support circles with Angie Peacock & others
- Wildflower Alliance, free calls for people having thoughts of suicide
Encouraging voices
- Drew Insalata / The Anxious Truth
- Michael Priebe / The Lovely Grind
- Christ Centered Tribe, Christian meditation
Forums
- Surviving Antidepressants, the oldest forum on this topic, now closed to new registrations but still readable
- antidepressantrecovery.org, a newer forum taking members
- Benzo Buddies, for benzo withdrawal
There are groups on Facebook too. They vary widely in helpfulness, and there are a lot of words you can't say there because of Meta's terms of service.
Symptoms and Coping
For understanding what's happening in your body and finding ways through the days.
- The Myth of Low Serotonin & Antidepressants, a short animated explainer
- Medicating Normal, feature-length documentary and channel
- As Prescribed, feature-length documentary
- Antidepressant Risks
- Benzodiazepine Information Coalition
Channels and a journal
- Maggie Sterling, healing your nervous system
- Angie Peacock
- Dan Landauer
- Inside Then Out Journal, a prompt journal Elissa bought and has found very helpful
Healing and Reintegration
For the slow work of getting your life back.
Blogs and podcasts
This Life After Meds website is a blog, and I publish my videos as a podcast feed as well, if that's how you like to listen or watch.
Roger McFillin has a blog and a podcast. Two of his articles I especially like: They Want You Dead Inside and What Did Depression Look Like Before Antidepressants?
Tapering and Deprescribing
- Surviving Antidepressants: which drug to taper first when you're on several
- Surviving Antidepressants: tapering information by topic
- TaperMate, an app for tracking a taper
- Outro's free learning library
- Outro Health, directed by Mark Horowitz, with psychiatrists, therapists, coaches, and support calls. Takes insurance in some US states and internationally
- TaperClinic, directed by Josef Witt-Doerring
- Inner Compass Initiative, Laura Delano's program
- Verigrate
- Nicole Lamberson
- Dr. Julia Britz
- Other recommended doctors, therapists, and clinics, a list on Surviving Antidepressants
- Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines, written for prescribers