Podcast 37: One therapist’s fight to help patients escape from Mental Health medications, Part 2

This is Part 2 of a 2-part podcast with Neseret Bemient, a therapist with a difference. Part 1 was on podcast 36. 

Are you on medications to help alleviate your mental health? Have you noticed a number of side effects that nobody warned you about? 

Did you know that suicidal thoughts are often directly linked with anti-depressants? 

If you believe that the current mental health system is designed to help people get over their mental illnesses, you will often be wrong. Once a person starts down the road of a medication, in many instances it can be almost impossible to stop, and often the side effects have not been fully discussed with the patient. 

That’s the comment from a therapist who has found herself on both sides of the “counter”. This episode 36 chats in detail about the mental health system, and most importantly, how people who go into it with an ambition to be made healthy again, generally stay in the system forever. 

Neseret Bemient has been a therapist for decades, but also found herself as a patient, also for decades. This is a very interesting, and often polarising, frank discussion about her own plight, and how she finally broke away, but not before falling into a deep dark hole that even included thoughts of suicide.  

If you’d like to follow Neseret, she has a YouTube channel called “Confessions of a psych nurse” . Here’s the link: https://youtu.be/tbN_UpwKeEc?si=hOYh8Te293b7Ul9D

You can also follow her on X at @JourneyofHope4U

Please note that at no time in this podcast do we suggest you change any of your prescribed medications without seeking advice from your doctor first. This conversation is our opinions only and does not constitute medical advice in any form. If you want to make changes to your life, please don’t stop your current medications until you have been allowed to do so by your physician!