Life on Less Meds is a podcast that reveals the truth about drug side effects and the best strategies to manage them. Your host, Josef Witt-Doerring, MD interviews patients, victims and experts to cover topics such as adverse reactions, post acute withdrawal, benzodiazepine withdrawals, PSSD, and drug tapering. His mission is to raise awareness about the side effects and injuries caused from psychiatric medications to improve informed consent. This podcast is brought to you Witt-Doerring Psy ...
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Psychologist Nick Fortino hosts influential thought leaders in conversation about a variety of topics relevant to psychology, including critical examinations of modern-day psychiatry, social dynamics, psychology in politics, transformation, various forms of therapy, intimate relationships, the psychology of serial killers, etcetera! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/psychologyis/support
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In more than a decade of training and clinical practice as a psychiatrist, I've become increasingly disillusioned by the American healthcare system. It prioritizes profit over progress at the expense of OUR health. The average American spends almost twice as much on healthcare as the next highest spending country, yet our life expectancy drags four years behind other industrialized nations and ranks OUTSIDE the top 50 in the world. The system is a disaster, yet it's broadcast as 'the greates ...
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In the introduction I give you a little bit of my background, my experience with benzodiazepines and discuss some of the topics I would like to tackle moving forward with the podcast.
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61: Josef Witt-Doerring | Psychiatry is Not What You Think
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Dr. Josef shares surprising truths he's uncovered while working in the field of psychiatry. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/psychologyis/support
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15.3 Overdosed: The 2nd Wave: Heroin and IV Drug Use
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Thanks for listening. I recommend watching this entire series on my YouTube channel due to there being several charts and graphics that you won't be able to see on other platforms; just search 'Renegade Psych' on YouTube to find our page. Future episodes will be live video recordings, but we'll still produce our audio-only version as well, so view …
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15.2 Overdosed: The 1st Wave: An Increase in Opioid Prescribing
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Madi's Law: Mother Advocates for Family Inclusion in Consent after Losing Daughter
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15.1 Overdosed: The Worst Drug Epidemic in Human History
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Life on Less Meds is a podcast that reveals the truth about drug side effects and the best strategies to manage them. Your host, Josef Witt-Doerring interviews patients, victims, and experts to cover topics such as adverse reactions, post-acute withdrawal, benzodiazepine withdrawals, PSSD, and drug tapering. His mission is to raise awareness about …
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14.1 Interview with Dr. Nassir Ghaemi, MD, MPH
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Thanks for listening. RENEGADE PSYCH NOW HAS A YOUTUBE CHANNEL; just search 'Renegade Psych' to find our page. Future episodes will be live video recordings, but we'll still produce our audio-only version as well, so view on YouTube, listen on other platforms, or don't do either, Life is full of choices! This interview is with Dr. Nassir Ghaemi, MD…
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Nausea Treatment Gone Wrong: Mother's Life Altered Forever
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13.2 What's Wrong With Modern Psychiatry, Pt 2 with Josef Witt-Doerring
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Thanks for listening. RENEGADE PSYCH IS GOING VIDEO and starting our very own YouTube channel, just search 'Renegade Psych' to find our page. All future episodes will be live video recordings, but we'll still produce our audio-only version as well, so view on YouTube, listen on other platforms, or don't do either, Life is full of choices! In this 2…
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'Accutane Changed My Son Forever': Poorly Recognized Side Effects Triggers an Absolute Catastrophe
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13.1 What's Wrong with Modern Psychiatry - Interview 1 with Josef Witt-Doerring
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Thanks for listening. For the first time, RENEGADE PSYCH is GOING VIDEO on YouTube, just search 'Renegade Psych' to find our page. All future episodes will be available for video viewing or audio listening, depending on the platform. In this 2-part series, I talk to Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring, MD, from the Life on Less Meds podcast (Life on Less Meds …
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Life on Less Meds is a podcast that reveals the truth about drug side effects and the best strategies to manage them. Your host, Josef Witt-Doerring interviews patients, victims, and experts to cover topics such as adverse reactions, post-acute withdrawal, benzodiazepine withdrawals, PSSD, and drug tapering. His mission is to raise awareness about …
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12.3 Safer Drug Use: Rules to Reduce Harm from Illicit Drug Use
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In this series, Dr. Stephen Love, MD, and I discuss a vitally important aspect of substance use treatment that is not discussed enough as a society or in our medical training, educating users on how to reduce the harms associated with substance use. In this episode, we focus on HARM REDUCTION, and identify several rules of Safer Drug Use. Though ab…
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An 8 Years of Hell: Healing After Benzo's - A Recovery Story
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In this series, Dr. Stephen Love, MD, and I discuss a vitally important aspect of substance use treatment that is not discussed enough as a society or in our medical training, educating users on how to reduce the harms associated with substance use. We delve into what addiction is in this episode and discuss whether the causes are biological or env…
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Life on Less Meds is a podcast that reveals the truth about drug side effects and the best strategies to manage them. Your host, Josef Witt-Doerring interviews patients, victims, and experts to cover topics such as adverse reactions, post-acute withdrawal, benzodiazepine withdrawals, PSSD, and drug tapering. His mission is to raise awareness about …
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12.1 Safer Drug Use with Stephen Love, MD: INTRO
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In this series, Dr. Stephen Love, MD, and I discuss a vitally important aspect of substance use treatment that is not discussed enough as a society or in our medical training, educating users on how to reduce the harms associated with substance use. Just as we would not neglect treatment for an uncontrolled diabetic who refuses to comply with diet,…
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What To Do During the Day with Severe Protracted Withdrawal
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Here I reveal some exciting new upcoming changes to the podcast, starting in July of 2024. Hope you enjoy.By Ethan P. Short, MD
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Caffeine & Nicotine: Unexpected Gateways to Antidepressants?
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11.4 Consequential Chemicals: Closing Thoughts, Solutions, and SONG
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Here, I summarize my closing thoughts, then Adam and I talk about how we fix the systemic and multifactorial problems that in the American healthcare system. As always, to bring my angst down a notch at the end of the series, I've included a local artist and song, again featuring Jared Foos inaugural solo album, Who Loves You Baby, with the song, "…
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11.3 Consequential Chemicals: Antidepressant Risks during Pregnancy
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Dr. Urato has been talking about the risks of SSRIs (Prozac, Zoloft, Lexapro, Paxil, etc.) during pregnancy for almost as long as he was talking about the risks of Makena, nearly two decades. He reveals to us the data behind the FACT that there are risks to the developing fetus of maternal SSRI use during pregnancy, starting with the common sense e…
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How to Prepare for Surgery with Protracted Withdrawal
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11.2 Consequential Chemicals: Makena, COVID vaccine, and TinFoil Hats
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In this segment, Dr. Urato and I talk about his history with getting Makena removed from the pharmaceutical market after 20 years and how the pharmaceutical industry rolls out products with a relatively consistent M.O. and playbook. Adam talks about how a lot of treatments don't 'work' from a medical standpoint, but that they 'work' from a financia…
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11.1 Consequential Chemicals: RANT + Guest Intro, Adam Urato, Md
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For this series, Harvard-trained Dr. Adam Urato, MD, Maternal-Fetal-Medicine specialist joins us to discuss his experiences with Makena, a synthetic progesterone allowed to remain on the market for a convenient 20-year period despite true evidence of its safety and efficacy. His stance established intellectual clout and authority that bolsters his …
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“I wanted to shoot my doctor”- how to come to terms with a protracted withdrawal injury- Interview with Chris Paige
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11.0 Consequential Chemicals with Adam Urato, MD: TEASER
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Welcome to another series. This one features Dr. Adam Urato, MD, a Maternal-Fetal-Medicine specialist living and working in Framingham, MA, near where he trained at Harvard. Adam is in a unique position in medical culture because of his past experience sounding the alarm on Makena, a synthetic progesterone FDA approved for preterm labor in 2013, de…
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Extra: Pitfalls of Modern Medical Training and the Dr/Primary Care Shortage
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Join us for this episode outlining modern medical training and discussing some of the medicine cultural issues that contribute to a lack of critical thinking, and the primary care shortage, which is the worst in the world, by a landslide. Only 11.5% of U.S. Medical graduates go into primary care, which easily ranks as the lowest in the world (Germa…
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Unlocking the Connection: Diet & Depression with Dr. Ede
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Extra: Resident Exploitation and their True Value
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In this extra segment, recorded with Taylor Beckman, DO, from the "Inherent Problems" series, we discuss how the medical training system exploits students/residents, and acts like a monopoly, paying all residency positions nearly the same amount, with minimal pay increases each year, despite their skill level drastically improving. We give specific…
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Surviving Valium: Recovery After Decades of Use and Protracted Withdrawal
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60: Steven Hassan | Cults and Mind Control
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Dr. Hassan is the world’s foremost expert on mind control and the psychology of cults and we have a fascinating conversation based on his seminal book, Combatting Cult Mind Control. We are all vulnerable to mind control because we are all vulnerable to the situational factors that make an individual vulnerable to mind control.Learn more about Dr. H…
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10.6 Inner Excellence/ACT: EXTRA: ACT with Rob
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This is the 2nd part of my original recording with Rob Goodknight, my audio engineer and friend, who helped me get the podcast started and provided a studio for our first several recordings. After explaining RFT in the first EXTRA segment, here we turn our focus to outlining the core processes of ACT, Acceptance, Defusion, Mindfulness, Self-as-Cont…
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10.5 Inner Excellence/ACT: EXTRA: RFT with Rob
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So, Rob Goodknight, my audio engineer and friend, helped me get the podcast started and the first several episodes/series were recorded in his studio. This is from one of the first times we ever recorded, and it was just me and Rob talking about RFT, or Relational Frame Theory, the neurolinguistic theory behind the 6 core processes of ACT, or Accep…
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Rapid Klonopin Taper after 23 Years Causes Severe Neurological Damage
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10.4 Inner Excellence/ACT: Closing Thoughts and Song
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Hope you enjoyed my conversation with Jim Murphy about his book, Inner Excellence, and its convergence with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Here we present some of our closing thoughts, followed by a song, "Found," by Jared Foos, off his inaugural solo album, "Who Loves You Baby." ENJOY and Spread the word about Jared, he's mega-talented and nee…
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10.3 Inner Excellence/ACT: Principles of Inner Excellence
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Here, Jim talks about his underlying principles of Inner Excellence. He has taken a lot of core concepts of psychology and sports psychology, and used some of his experience with neurolinguistics to supplement what he has learned, imploring patients to reprogram their subconscious, let go of self-centeredness and be selfless to reduce anxiety, and …
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Seroquel-Induced Catatonia Leads to Years of Psychosis Misdiagnosis in 15-Year-Old Girl
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10.2 Inner Excellence/ACT: A Convergence of Ideas
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Here, Jim and I outline Inner Excellence alongside ACT therapy and the concepts that predecess it. It's so interesting to me that so many of our ideas seem to converge despite coming from drastically different backgrounds. It's also telling that someone who works with high-performance athletes from around the world is utilizing some of the same con…
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10.1 Inner Excellence & ACT: RANT + Guest Intro
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Here, I introduce this series' topic, ACT, through an interview with mental coach, Jim Murphy, whose book, Inner Excellence, and work, has inspired so many to be their best selves. Here, I start out with my typical rant on the topic, followed by a guest introduction and background. Hope you enjoy our conversations. Thanks for listening. For more s…
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Klonopin Stole the Prime of my Life - Severe Benzodiazepine Injury at Age 24
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9.4 Low-Dose Lithium: Solutions, Closing Thoughts, and Song
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Here, Dr. Gadh first talks about a necessary step to rectifying the system we currently operate within, in campaign finance reform, and electing conscientious people into positions of power. We then give some of our closing thoughts and wrap up with a mix created by Dr. Gadh's alter ego, DJ Dr. Gadh, titled "Apni Jaise remix," and available on Soun…
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This is the newest release from RenegadePsych and is on a slightly different topic, ACT therapy. I interview Jim Murphy, a renowned high-performance athletes mental coach who has written an incredibly moving and motivating book, Inner Excellence, summarizing what he has learned in his personal and professional journey. Though he does not have a bac…
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9.3 Low-Dose Lithium for COVID (+ other viruses) and Personal Experiences
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In this segment, Dr. Gadh and I discuss his research on lithium's effects on reducing COVID infection severity and its' ability to keep our immune responses within the guardrails. He tells us about a co-authored Spanish study in which 14 lithium-treated, COVID-hospitalized patients are compared to 14 non-lithium-treated COVID-hospitalzied patients,…
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59: Patrick Hahn | ADHD and Medicalization of Childhood
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In this conversation, Nick interviews Dr. Patrick Hahn--author of multiple books, including Obedience Pills--about the nature of an ADHD diagnosis, the way that the public has been misled about it, and the problems with the most common treatments for it. Nick boldly asserts that the way that ADHD diagnoses halt the search for an actual condition ex…
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9.2 Low-Dose Lithium (+ ADHD treatment) in Detox/Addiction
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Dr. Gadh and I review his evidence of the benefits of using low doses of lithium to reduce impulsivity that may lead to substance use relapse, as well as the use of low doses of (primarily) stimulants for untreated or undertreated ADHD in the addiction setting. The reality of our current drug epidemic is: WHAT WE'RE DOING IS NOT WORKING. These trea…
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Here, I rant about the underutilization of lithium and all of its potential benefits, setting the stage for more in-depth conversation and discussion about its array of uses, then introduce Dr. Sudhir Gadh, a New York City psychiatrist who has had tremendous success utilizing low dose lithium in the addiction setting, as well as in his non-addictio…
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Abandoned by Medicine: Navigating the Journey Off Antipsychotics
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9.0 TEASER: Low-Dose Lithium with Sudhir Gadh, MD
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This series is about all of the potential mental and medical benefits of low doses of lithium, featuring New York City psychiatrist and low-dose lithium expert, Dr. Sudhir Gadh, MD. We talk about several potential benefits of low dose lithium, from reducing the risk of suicide, to aiding in detox and addiction recovery, as an antiviral, as a neurop…
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