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The Gaslit Truth Podcast

Dr. Teralyn Sell & Therapist Jenn Schmitz

The Gaslit Truth Podcast is a mental health podcast hosted by Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz, focused on psychiatric medication harm, withdrawal, therapy culture, and informed consent.Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz bring clinical experience, research literacy, and compassionate honesty to conversations about psychiatric medication withdrawal, tapering strategies, the psychology of dependence, and the long-term impacts of mental health treatment.The Gaslit Truth Podcast

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53:01

Why It Took Me 1,139 Days to Taper Off Lexapro | The...

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2026/10/06

Send us Fan Mail Day one at zero sounds like a finish line, but for Therapist Jenn Schmitz it is also the start of a whole new chapter. After roughly 26 years on SSRIs and 1,139 days of tapering Lexapro, she finally crosses “zero” and tells the unfiltered truth about what it took: the fear, the patience, the symptom tracking, and the moments where withdrawal did not look like “anxiety” so much as a nervous system on overload. We rewind to how it began: teenage pressure, disordered eating, he...

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45:21

The psychiatrist who stopped believing psychiatry: Dr...

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2026/09/29

Send us Fan Mail A psychiatrist with 37 years in the field and more than 30,000 patients sits down with us and says something most professionals won’t say out loud: he knew from day one that parts of what he was taught were wrong. Dr. Fred Moss joins the Gaslit Truth Podcast to unpack how the mental health system can turn normal human struggle into pathology, why DSM diagnosis often becomes “alphabet soup,” and how quickly a label can shift from helpful language to a lifelong identity. If you...

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61:58

She Watched Psychiatry Fail Her Mother. Then It...

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2026/09/22

Send us Fan Mail A brutal headache sounds simple until it becomes the doorway to years of antidepressants, benzodiazepines, opioids, and a procedure that can erase memories. We’re joined by writer and poetry therapist Ann Bracken, whose life mirrors a painful family pattern: she watches her mother get treated for depression and anxiety through heavy medication and dozens of ECT treatments, vows it won’t happen to her, then finds herself pulled into the same current. We talk through how...

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61:41

The Psychiatry Trap: How One Prescription Turned Into...

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2026/09/15

Send us Fan Mail One medication switch shouldn’t be able to rewrite your whole life, but that’s exactly what a prescribing cascade can do. We sit down with Senthil, who traces a startling path from long-term blood pressure treatment to an ER visit, an “anxiety” label, and a rapid pileup of prescriptions that includes benzodiazepines, SSRIs, sleep meds, and an antipsychotic. The most chilling part is how quickly the experience changes his mind and body: insomnia, racing thoughts, GI distress, ...

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42:32

Eating Yourself Sick: The Longevity Diet We’re...

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2026/09/08

Send us Fan Mail You keep hearing that longevity is about pricey supplements, constant lab tests, and the latest biohacking gadget. We don’t buy it, and neither does our guest, Ron Russell, author of Longevity Visa and founder of LongevityVisa.com. Ron is also a longtime vegan chef who has cooked for clinical cardiology patients and taught hundreds of plant-based cooking classes, so he lives at the intersection of real-world food and longevity science. We start with a question most of us are...

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59:26

Stop the Pain Lie: What We’re Getting Wrong About...

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2026/09/01

Send us Fan Mail “Bone on bone.” “You’re just getting older.” “PT didn’t work.” Those phrases can trap people in fear, passivity, and expensive next steps. We sit down with Dr. Clayton Durr, PT, DPT, host of Heal Without Harm, to break down what effective physical therapy should look like when the goal is real recovery, not cookie-cutter visits and endless appointments. We talk about why strength training is one of the most underprescribed tools in healthcare, and how building muscle over ti...

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66:53

Dr. Peter Breggin: The Story He's Never Told | The...

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2026/08/25

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Peter Breggin has spent more than 50 years challenging psychiatry. But this is the story behind the man who challenged it. In this rare and deeply personal conversation, Dr. Peter Breggin and Ginger Breggin take us beyond psychiatric drugs, diagnoses, and controversy—and into the experiences that shaped his life. Peter shares stories he says he has never publicly told before. He talks about growing up without the love he needed from his mother and the 16-year-old Black gi...

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54:20

The Truth About Gut Health Nobody Talks About with ...

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2026/08/18

Send us Fan Mail Normal labs. Normal CT scan. Abnormal suffering. That gap is where millions of people live with chronic nausea, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, and pain, then get brushed off as “just anxiety.” We sit down with Dr. Rick, an ER doctor and founder of Belly MD, to unpack why “mystery belly pain” has become a huge slice of emergency medicine and why the old hardware-only mindset fails people when the real problem is nervous system signaling. We dig into the gut-brain con...

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67:01

The Lindsay Clancy Lawsuit And The Dangers Of...

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2026/08/11

Send us Fan MailA case like this doesn’t just raise questions about one family, it forces us to confront what happens when postpartum mental health care becomes a series of disconnected appointments and escalating prescriptions. We dig into the civil lawsuit tied to the Lindsay Clancy case and lay out the documented timeline: worsening insomnia, severe anxiety, dissociation, emotional numbing, intrusive thoughts, and ultimately command hallucinations, all while medications are started, stopped,

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54:16

Once a Cheater, Always A Cheater and Other Affair...

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2026/08/04

Send us Fan Mail“Once a cheater, always a cheater” is one of the stickiest relationship clichés on the internet, and it shapes how people judge themselves and their partners after betrayal. We sit down with psychologist Dr. Kathy Nickerson to put real data next to the hot takes, including findings from her large infidelity survey and her work alongside Dr. John Gottman. What emerges is a more complex, more human picture of cheating, regret, and why many couples choose reconciliation after

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46:22

When SSRI's Turn On You with Mark Pescetti | The...

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2026/07/28

Send us Fan MailFeeling “better” on an SSRI is real and so is the moment it stops feeling like you. We talk with Mark, known as The Health Files, about his citalopram (Celexa) experience: a first year of relief followed by a slow slide into emotional blunting, lost sleep, memory problems, irritability, and sexual side effects that shook his identity and his relationship. As he tells it, the most destabilizing part wasn’t only the symptoms, it was being repeatedly dismissed by clinicians and told the

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44:37

Akathisia And Medical Gaslighting with Kathy Toll |...

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2026/07/21

Send us Fan MailA single hospital IV can change the next 27 years of your life, especially when the system decides your body’s alarm is “just anxiety.” We sit down with Kathy Toll, a relentless advocate whose TikTok accounts get shut down again and again, and she tells the story behind the bans: akathisia, medication injury, and the kind of medical gaslighting that turns a clear adverse drug reaction into a lifelong psychiatric label.Kathy walks us through the moment it started, how an anti-nausea

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59:38

Lexapro For Kids: Unsafe, Ineffective, Approved...

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2026/07/14

Send us Fan Mail “Safe and effective” sounds like a promise, but what if it’s just a marketing stamp pasted over weak benefit and loud safety signals? We sit down with psych nurse David Wayne (Describe Health on X) to dissect the Strawn et al. clinical trial that helped push Lexapro (escitalopram) for pediatric anxiety and to ask the question parents deserve answered: what does “works” mean if the child doesn’t actually feel better? We dig into how anxiety outcomes are measured using tools l...

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56:26

The IEP Fight - How Parents Get Stalled in Reasonable...

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2026/07/07

Send us Fan Mail Schools are getting sued, teachers are burning out, and parents keep hearing the same slippery phrases: “reasonable accommodations,” “board policy,” and “trust the process.” We’re not buying it. We sit down with family law attorney Jason Wright to explain why special education support so often turns into delay, confusion, and conflict, especially when districts treat every request like a threat to their limited resources. We get specific about how the system works in real li...

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36:13

From 9/11 Anxiety to Restless Leg Syndrome caused by...

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2026/06/30

Send us Fan Mail Nobody tells you that one “helpful” prescription can echo for decades, but that’s exactly what Martin Cranford lived. After 9-11, with aviation layoffs looming and a first baby on the way, anxiety shows up fast and an SSRI seems like the obvious answer. Years later, a new problem appears: Restless Leg Syndrome. What follows is a real-world look at how SSRI side effects, dopamine agonists like pramipexole, and the nightmare of augmentation can collide with a too-fast taper and...

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59:42

Recovery Beyond Abstinence with Celebrity...

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2026/06/23

Send us Fan MailThe recovery world loves simple rules, but real people are complicated. We’re joined by Michael Gonzales, a veteran interventionist known for challenging the one size fits all approach to addiction treatment. Michael gets brutally honest about the years he spent presenting an abstinence-only story while privately using cannabis to manage PTSD, function in daily life, and keep moving forward. We talk about the hidden shame that comes with “purity tests” in recovery culture, and what

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35:05

Psychiatric Drugs and Nutrient Loss: The Missing...

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2026/06/16

Send us Fan MailMedications can change symptoms, but they can also drain the nutrients your brain depends on to function. We get blunt about the trade-offs people rarely hear when they start psychiatric meds, and we connect the dots between nutrient depletion and the exact complaints that get labeled as “depression,” “anxiety,” or “brain fog” in the first place. If you’ve ever wondered why you feel worse over time or why tapering feels impossible, this conversation gives you a clearer, more grounded

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51:16

Rehab Scams Exposed: Body Brokering, Insurance Fraud...

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2026/06/09

Send us Fan MailThe rehab world sells hope, but what happens when the business model rewards volume over care? We sit down with Ronnie Costa, a recovery coach and chemical dependency counselor whose life began in Providence’s crime-heavy mob culture, where money, status, and violence looked like a plan. Ronnie shares how that environment shaped his choices, how opioid addiction with OxyContin and later heroin nearly ended everything, and what finally made sobriety stick after years of chaos,

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38:58

RFK Jr. and Psych Med Overprescribing: A Disruption...

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2026/06/02

Send us Fan MailA federal plan says it wants to curb psychiatric overprescribing and elevate informed consent. That sounds like progress until you remember informed consent was always supposed to be the standard, and most people never received it.We unpack the HHS MAHA action plan and the “dear colleague” guidance that urges shared decision making, regular risk-benefit reviews, and more non-medication approaches like psychotherapy, nutrition, and movement. We also cut through the noise about the

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57:04

Addiction Industry Games, Shame & Secrets with Dr....

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2026/05/26

Send us Fan MailRehab can make millions and still send people home sicker, more medicated, and more likely to relapse. That’s the uncomfortable starting point for our conversation with Dr. Cali Estes, a global leader in addiction recovery who’s trained tens of thousands of professionals and also paid the personal price of loving someone who couldn’t stop using.We dig into the addiction treatment industry from the inside: rushed assessments during detox, questionable diagnosing, and the quiet

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