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The Gaslit Truth Podcast is hosted by Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz, exploring mental health, psychiatric medication withdrawal, therapy culture, and informed consent.

In this episode, Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz discuss the martyrdom that exists in therapy practice and the dismissal of client violence. 

A therapist in Orlando was murdered by a former client—and our profession’s first reaction was to ask why she didn’t protect herself better. We refuse that narrative. We dig into the uncomfortable truth that mental health culture quietly rewards self‑sacrifice: late nights, weekend sessions, constant availability, and boundary‑blurring that puts clinicians and clients at risk.

We share what graduate training skipped and the prison system taught us: safety is not a nicety, it’s step one. You’ll hear blunt, lived stories of assault and near‑misses, how incidents go underreported, and why private practitioners often have no clear place to file a report. We unpack the data on workplace violence, the limits of risk assessments to predict harm, and the subtle gaslighting that calls violence “rare” while five‑fold risk tells another story. This isn’t fear‑mongering; it’s a blueprint for ethical care that starts with a secure clinician.

We challenge the myth of “meet clients where they are” when it becomes driving to cars, homes, or empty offices at night. We talk office layout, visible check‑ins, no‑nights policies, secure digital footprints, and ending treatment when risk or conflicts arise—without shame or accusations of abandonment. And we ask clients to consider a hard question: if your therapist is overextended and always on, is that truly the best care?

If you’re ready to replace martyrdom with sustainable practice, this conversation is your reset. Subscribe, share with a colleague who needs backup, and leave a review with one boundary you’re committing to this year. Your safety is not optional—and better therapy starts there.

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🔥 You’ve been harmed. You’ve been dismissed. It’s time to take your brain back—with guidance from people who’ve been there and know their stuff.

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The Gaslit Truth Podcast is hosted by Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz, exploring mental health, psychiatric medication withdrawal, therapy culture, and informed consent.

In this episode, Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz talk with Medical Journalist Rob Wipond author of Your Consent is Not Required. 

The stories we tell about “care” rarely match what happens behind locked doors. We sit down with journalist Rob Wipond, author of Your Consent Is Not Required, to unpack how ordinary people are swept into psychiatric detention through vague laws, crisis-line escalations, and everyday institutional habits that confuse safety with control. Rob begins with his father’s involuntary commitment after cancer surgery—a case that morphed from a plea for help into months of heavy drugs and ECT—and then widens the lens to show how schools, workplaces, airports, and social media interactions now feed a system built on subjective risk calls.

We dig into 988: how a call marketed as confidential support can trigger location pinging, police dispatch, and hospitalization. Rob explains why call centers record conversations, how AI scans for “risk” cues, and why corporations are rushing into crisis services for data and revenue. Inside hospitals, we examine the lived reality: chemical restraints, thin programming, and a compliance-first culture that many say feels more punitive than therapeutic. It’s no surprise some people prefer jail—fixed sentences and clear rules—over indefinite holds where release depends on a clinician’s mood and your willingness to take meds.

Legally, the net has widened. Beyond “danger to self or others,” states rely on grave disability and deterioration standards that hinge on prediction, not proof. We talk through how those standards play out on the ground, why insurance often dictates outcomes more than need, and how “community treatment” extends control into homes with long-acting injections and check-ins. Throughout, Rob challenges the left-right narratives that justify force as compassion or control. The data show coercion often backfires, undermining trust and discouraging help-seeking when it matters most.

What would a better approach look like? Real informed consent, peer-led crisis alternatives, transparent data practices, and response systems that people can trust. If you care about civil rights, mental health, and honest help, this conversation will shift how you see crisis care, 988, and psychiatric power. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs nuance, and leave a review telling us: what part of this changed your mind?

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🔥 You’ve been harmed. You’ve been dismissed. It’s time to take your brain back—with guidance from people who’ve been there and know their stuff.

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The Gaslit Truth Podcast is hosted by Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz, exploring mental health, psychiatric medication withdrawal, therapy culture, and informed consent.

In this episode, Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz talk with Chana Studley, trauma survivor to hollywood award winner. 

 You’ve been told you’re broken. Chana Studley arrived with police reports, X-rays, and years of panic to prove it. Three assaults in her twenties spiraled into PTSD and decades of chronic pain, yet the most life-changing shift didn’t come from retelling the worst moments. It came from recognizing how the mind’s “special effects” turn memory and prediction into present-tense fear—and how noticing safety lets the body unclench.

We sit down with Hannah to map the journey from being defined by trauma to reclaiming identity and health. She shares the pivotal moment a mentor asked if she was ready to let go of her story, why that felt like betrayal at first, and how it opened a door to resilience. We follow her into Hollywood creature shops, where patching a T‑Rex before dawn mirrored the improvisation of rebuilding a life. Imposter syndrome, yes—but also the dawning insight that thought colors experience, and that two people can live the same event and carry wildly different weight.

From there, we dive into the mind-body connection and the Three Principles. Hannah explains how chronic pain reduced when her nervous system stopped bracing for danger 24/7, and how listening to whispers—irritability, lost humor, urgency—prevented the screams of flare-ups, shutdowns, and risky coping. We unpack why “rehashing to heal” can keep people stuck, how to catch early warning signs before the slide, and what it means to build a resilient identity that isn’t fused to a diagnosis. We also take a hard look at Freud’s outsized shadow and offer a more useful frame: you have innate well-being, and it’s closer than you think.

If you’re ready to rethink labels, explore the roots of pain, and find solid ground in your own system’s design, this conversation offers both courage and tools. Subscribe, share with someone who needs hope, and leave a review to help more listeners find their way back to resilience.

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The Gaslit Truth Podcast is hosted by Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz, exploring mental health, psychiatric medication withdrawal, therapy culture, and informed consent.

In this episode, Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz explore the new USDA Food Pyramid.  Does food matter?  You would be surprised what some professions think. 

You’ve been told the food pyramid represents the best nutrition science. We pull back the curtain on how wartime scarcity and surplus grains set the foundation, how lobby power shaped what landed on your plate, and why flipping the model toward whole foods, protein, and healthy fats can be a breakthrough for mental health.

We walk through the real history—from cheap-calorie priorities to the rise of low-fat dogma—and explain how weak evidence turned into “settled science.” Along the way, we connect the dots between big food’s influence on curricula and policy, and why schools, licensed daycares, and federally funded programs still serve menus that lean on cereals, juice, and refined grains. If you’ve ever wondered why a “balanced breakfast” can leave you wired, then crashed, this is your map out.

Then we get practical. We compare saturated and unsaturated fats without fear-mongering and show how whole-food fats and adequate protein support neurotransmitters, mood stability, and steady energy. We talk gut health, fermented foods, and fiber diversity for a resilient microbiome, and we address cost with a good-better-best framework: canned, frozen, fresh. Expect label-reading tips, simple swaps (eggs over cereal, olive oil over seed oils), and a reminder that personalization matters—genetics, culture, and tolerance to dairy or gluten all count.

We also call on clinicians to make nutrition part of mental health care, because what you eat drives how you feel. Ready to rethink your plate with your brain in mind? Hit play, subscribe for more straight-talk on health, and drop a comment with the first swap you’re making this week. If you found this helpful, share it with a friend and leave a review to help others find the show.

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🔥 You’ve been harmed. You’ve been dismissed. It’s time to take your brain back—with guidance from people who’ve been there and know their stuff.

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The Gaslit Truth Podcast is hosted by Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz, exploring mental health, psychiatric medication withdrawal, therapy culture, and informed consent.

In this episode, Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz explore whether modern mental health care may be unintentionally perpetuating distress, through a candid conversation with Dr. Richard L. Blake on the limits of psychotherapy, rising anxiety despite treatment, and the evidence for breathwork as an alternative path to healing. 

What if the system designed to heal us is quietly keeping us stuck? We sit down with Dr. Richard L. Blake—psychologist, breathwork teacher, and lead author on the largest randomized controlled trial of conscious connected breathwork for anxiety—to interrogate the paradox at the heart of modern mental health: treatment and awareness keep climbing, yet anxiety, depression, and self-harm rise too.

Richard shares his own journey from early success and severe depression to evidence-based breathwork, and why his deep dive into psychotherapy research left him alarmed by modest effects and high relapse. We unpack hard questions that rarely make it into glossy wellness feeds: how false memories and suggestive therapy taint “trauma” narratives, why retrospective ACE correlations can mislead, and how retelling the past can literally make it feel worse over time. We examine PTSD myths, the overreach of “big T vs little t” trauma, and the uncomfortable truth that exposure therapy consistently outperforms many insight-heavy approaches—yet is often avoided because it’s challenging.

Then we get practical. Richard breaks down slow vs fast breathwork, safety screens, and how faster protocols can induce psychedelic-like states and neuroplastic windows without drugs when guided well. We compare risks to common treatments, discuss training standards, and outline where breathwork fits alongside sleep repair, movement, nutrition, light hygiene, and deprescribing done safely. We also explore the “comfort trap”: how easy environments can reveal genetic vulnerabilities like high neuroticism, creating distress without a single villain to blame.

If you’re tired of perpetual “healing” that never ends, this conversation offers a straighter path: less rumination, more rehearsal; fewer labels, more skills; and an honest blend of body-based tools with behavior change. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs a sanity check, and leave a review to tell us which idea flipped a switch for you.

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Psych meds have harmed us—and we’re not just survivors, we’re deeply educated in psychopharmacology, psychology, and nutrition. As hosts of The Gaslit Truth Podcast, we guide people safely off psychiatric medications with strategies grounded in science and brain health

🔥 You’ve been harmed. You’ve been dismissed. It’s time to take your brain back—with guidance from people who’ve been there and know their stuff.

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The Gaslit Truth Podcast is hosted by Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz, exploring mental health, psychiatric medication withdrawal, therapy culture, and informed consent.
In this episode, Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz discuss the billion dollar industry of sleep, including melatonin, sleep aids, and how therapy and psychology intersect with mental health care.
Ready to stop buying sleep and start getting it back? We went live for our 100th and pulled apart the billion-dollar promises of Big Sleep to reveal what actually works: aligning hormones, respecting your internal clocks, and building rituals your nervous system can trust. No fluff—just clear, doable steps that restore deep, natural rest.

We start with the biggest myths: nightly melatonin as a cure-all, “I’m fine on five hours,” and weekend sleep catch-up. You’ll learn how circadian and ultradian rhythms really drive energy and rest, why cortisol and melatonin work like a seesaw, and how shift work, screens, and late caffeine scramble that delicate timing. We share new concerns about long-term melatonin use, the hidden costs of Z-drugs and antihistamines, and how alcohol and sugar wreck every stage of sleep through blood sugar swings and adrenaline spikes.

Then we get practical. Think protein before bed to stabilize glucose and feed serotonin-to-melatonin production. Set a digital curfew and bring in real morning light to reset your master clock. Try alternate nostril breathing to flip your body from fight-or-flight to rest-and-digest in minutes. Make bedtime sacred: cooler room, paper book, chamomile or lavender, and a bedroom reserved for sleep and sex. For support, consider magnesium glycinate, GABA, or L-theanine—useful tools when paired with habits, not replacements for them. And if insomnia has dug in, CBT-I consistently outperforms pills by changing behaviors and beliefs that block sleep.

If you’re tired of chasing gadgets and gummies, this conversation hands you a simpler map: manage cortisol, protect your rhythms, and let your brain remember how to sleep. Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s struggling at 3 a.m., and leave a review to help more people find real rest without the hype.

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Psych meds have harmed us—and we’re not just survivors, we’re deeply educated in psychopharmacology, psychology, and nutrition. As hosts of The Gaslit Truth Podcast, we guide people safely off psychiatric medications with strategies grounded in science and brain health

🔥 You’ve been harmed. You’ve been dismissed. It’s time to take your brain back—with guidance from people who’ve been there and know their stuff.

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The Gaslit Truth Podcast is hosted by Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz, where they examine mental health myths, psychiatric medication harm, therapy culture, informed consent and brain-based healing.

In this episode, Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz sit down with author and clinician Ryan Rogers to discuss political bias within therapy and trace how graduate programs, professional culture, and social media turned “therapy as activism” into a norm—and why that trade-off leaves people in pain without the skills they need.

 From classrooms that replace modality training with slogans, to ethical “safety” claims used as weapons, we examine how politics in the therapy room narrows access, inflates labels like trauma and gaslighting, and distracts from the daily work of recovery.

Ryan shares personal stories of being “gaslit” in school, where neutrality was dismissed and advocacy was framed as the real treatment. We contrast that mindset with the realities of addiction, suicidality, and severe mental illness, where clients need concrete interventions: motivational interviewing, ACT values work, behavioral activation, risk assessment, and careful deprescribing. We talk about the intersectionality hierarchy that subtly teaches clinicians to treat clients unequally, and the online culture that encourages clients to choose therapists by party affiliation instead of competence.

Across the hour, we keep pulling the focus back to the here-and-now. Limit the doomscrolling that fuels panic. Ask what’s in your control today. Use precise language so diagnoses guide care instead of becoming weapons. And recover the old but vital stance of therapeutic neutrality: a disciplined, curious, client-led posture that serves change rather than signaling virtue. If you’ve felt the profession drift from evidence toward performance, this conversation offers clarity, language, and tools to re-center the work.

Subscribe, share with a colleague, and leave a review to help more people find honest, skills-first mental health conversations. Got a story or question? Email [email protected] and let us know what you want us to tackle next.

We're recruiting for a first-of-its-kind psychiatric medication withdrawal research study. If you've experienced psychiatric medication withdrawal, you may be eligible to participate.  Email [email protected] to learn more. 

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Psych meds have harmed us—and we’re not just survivors, we’re deeply educated in psychopharmacology, psychology, and nutrition. As hosts of The Gaslit Truth Podcast, we guide people safely off psychiatric medications with strategies grounded in science and brain health

🔥 You’ve been harmed. You’ve been dismissed. It’s time to take your brain back—with guidance from people who’ve been there and know their stuff.

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The Gaslit Truth Podcast is hosted by Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz, where they examine mental health myths, psychiatric medication harm, and informed consent.

In this episode, Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz explain blind tapering, the psychology of psychiatric medication withdrawal, and the role of therapy in tapering safely.

What if knowing your dose cut is coming makes you feel worse? We dig into blind tapering—masking dose reductions during psychiatric medication withdrawal—to explore how anticipation, nocebo, and hypervigilance can drive symptoms. Drawing on research from benzodiazepines, hypnotics, and even methadone programs, we unpack why combining taper protocols with behavioral therapy often improves short‑term discontinuation and reduces withdrawal complaints. More importantly, we translate those findings into practical strategies for antidepressants and antipsychotics, where data are thinner but psychology still matters.

We're recruiting for a first-of-its-kind psychiatric medication withdrawal research study. If you've experienced psychiatric medication withdrawal, you may be eligible to participate.  Email [email protected] to learn more. 

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🔥 You’ve been harmed. You’ve been dismissed. It’s time to take your brain back—with guidance from people who’ve been there and know their stuff.

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Psychiatry shouldn’t make people doubt their own pain. We open with a hard truth—gaslighting is baked into too many mental health encounters—and then chart a different route with psychiatrist Dr. Hector, who practices “medicine for the soul.” He shares how the White Butterfly ethos grew from Greek mythology and how SPECT imaging can reveal recognizable trauma patterns without reducing people to a diagnosis list. You’ll hear about the “diamond” and “triangle” signatures in the brain, why chronic gaslighting and prolonged stress can hit just as hard as a single event, and how validation becomes a catalyst for change when science meets story.

From there, we get practical. Real collaboration means quick, focused huddles between psychiatrist, therapist, and medical providers so nothing blocks deeper work like EMDR. We talk about using targeted supports such as GABA and tyrosine to balance arousal and motivation, and how to avoid numbing the very emotions therapy needs to reach. Dr. Hector argues that connection is a clinical tool: changing your visual presence to build safety, sharing your humanity without dumping, and using humor to lower cortisol and strengthen attachment. Creativity isn’t a luxury—it’s how a nervous system learns to live beyond survival, building resilience that transfers to any room you walk into.

Telehealth becomes another bridge to safety, letting people open up from their own space, dogs and all. We also get honest about clinician boundaries: sometimes the most caring move is to reschedule when you’re flooded, rather than fake your way through. The takeaway is simple and radical: you’re not a permanent label or a broken brain. With compassion, teamwork, and thoughtful tools, the brain changes toward connection. Subscribe, share this with someone who needs hope, and leave a review telling us which moment shifted your view of mental health.

We're recruiting for a first-of-its-kind psychiatric medication withdrawal research study. If you've experienced psychiatric medication withdrawal, you may be eligible to participate.  Email [email protected] to learn more. 

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Psych meds have harmed us—and we’re not just survivors, we’re deeply educated in psychopharmacology, psychology, and nutrition. As hosts of The Gaslit Truth Podcast, we guide people safely off psychiatric medications with strategies grounded in science and brain health

🔥 You’ve been harmed. You’ve been dismissed. It’s time to take your brain back—with guidance from people who’ve been there and know their stuff.

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The moment you think you’re doing the right thing for your child’s mental health can be the moment everything turns. Sheila joins us to tell Tre’s story—a 25‑year‑old nurse, athlete, and gentle soul whose life unraveled in a matter of months after a cascade of psychiatric prescriptions, missed medical workups, and a system that documented his suicidality yet never built a safety plan.

We start where too few clinicians do: the biology. Tre’s persistently low testosterone never received proper endocrine evaluation. Instead, treatment pivoted to antidepressants and mood stabilizers. Rage appeared within days of the first medication, then the list grew: Cymbalta, Effexor, lamotrigine, Ativan, buspirone, Vyvanse—paired with a doubling of testosterone. The result was a storm of side effects: personality changes, violent outbursts he couldn’t recall, intense restlessness that looked like akathisia, and sexual dysfunction consistent with PSSD. Records show he repeatedly reported feeling suicidal. What’s missing is even louder: no safety planning, no calls to the person he lived with, and telehealth check-ins so short they could never capture the risk.

We pull back to the wider picture—why diagnoses assigned during active drug effects often mislead, how black box warnings for young adults are routinely minimized, and where scope of practice and supervision fail patients. Sheila walks through her paper trail: retroactive physician sign-offs months after Trey died, single-hour multi-diagnoses, and the absence of informed consent about withdrawal and risk. Her grief now fuels action: pushing for tighter controls on high-risk psych meds, mandatory safety plans when suicidality is disclosed, better endocrine screening, and boards that respond with transparency and urgency.

This is a tough listen, but it’s a necessary one for parents, clinicians, and anyone navigating mental health care. If you’ve ever wondered how “standard care” can go so wrong, or how to protect someone you love, this conversation offers guardrails, questions to ask, and steps to take before medications multiply. If the story resonates, share it with someone who needs it, subscribe for future episodes, and leave a review to help this message reach more families.

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