The Gaslit Truth Podcast

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She Watched Psychiatry Fail Her Mother. Then It Happened to Her. | Ann Bracken | The Gaslit Truth Podcast with Dr Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz

She Watched Psychiatry Fail Her Mother. Then It Happened to Her. | Ann Bracken | The Gaslit Truth Podcast with Dr Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz22. Sept.1 Std. 02 Min.

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...