Is it normal to feel exhausted after stopping Seroquel? Are these other symptoms normal?

Question by Anonymous: Is it normal to feel exhausted after stopping Seroquel? Are these other symptoms normal?
I have been taking Seroquel for 6 years now since I was 13 because I could not fall asleep at night and I had mood swings as a teenager. I started on a lower dose and worked my way up to 400 mg. I have been on 400 mg for 2 years and before that I was on 300 for most of those other years, so a very high dose. I stopped taking Seroquel cold-turkey on February 1 (a month and 1 week ago) because I no longer need the medication. At first I couldn’t sleep at all and I had nightmares and would wake up in cold sweats. I also had severe headaches, my digestive system didn’t work right, I kept twitching, and it was difficult to breathe. It was severe for about a week and then lessened. Now I can sleep fine, but my problem is, no matter how much I sleep, I still feel exhausted. I have tried sleeping 7 hours, 8, 9, 10, and up but no matter how many hours I sleep, if it’s a normal amount or a lot, I still feel exhausted. It feels like I haven’t slept at all. I still have headaches and my head feels.. heavy. I also feel like a have a permanent mild case of a flu and cold. I am slightly nauseous and have cold-like symptoms like a runny nose and swollen glands. The exhaustion is really alarming me. I was wondering if it is normal to feel this way when getting off of Seroquel? And how long will it take before I start feeling normal again?

Also, I have been feeling very detached emotionally. I still feel some emotion, but at the same time I am very detached. I feel like I am here but not really living. Going through the motions but not really feeling. I should mention that I have gone through very traumatic emotional stress these past few months, an emotional rollercoaster in many ways… this includes dealing with all of my dreams in life going to hell, feeling like I failed at something extremely important, people I thought were good turning out not to be good, then everything turning out alright, then finding out a good friend who I invested so much of my time in, betrayed me, then losing the one I love and all of my future plans going to hell and finding out that I seriously hurt a good friend emotionally and I had no idea and then having to face my greatest fear for the second time when I haven’t recovered from the experience the first time. And on top of this, I have ocd which is very taxing on the mind. I am extremely resilient and can handle things that most people can’t. What is a lot to most people isn’t much on me but still, I have been under a lot of stress. And I am thinking that maybe the exhaustion could be coming from being under so much stress and the detachment may be a result of me needing to distance myself to cope? What do you think? Or do you think it is just the Seroquel withdrawals?

Sorry this is so long, I appreciate your help! 🙂

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Answer by Minister
Psychiatrists claim that a person needs a drug to combat their chemical imbalance in the brain which is causing a persons mental disorder. However, the concept that a brain-based, chemical imbalance underlies mental illness is false. While popularized by heavy public marketing, it is simply psychiatric wishful thinking. As with all of psychiatric disease models, it has been thoroughly discredited by researchers.

Diabetes is a biochemical imbalance. However, as Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Glenmullen states, the definitive test and biochemical imbalance is a high blood sugar balance level. Treatment in severe cases is insulin injections, which restore sugar balance. The symptoms clear and retest shows the blood sugar is normal. Psychiatrists do not draw blood to determine the presence of a biochemical imbalance in patients.

Bad past/putdowns,rejection/father gone lets other things start. Anorexia, cutting, OCD, anxiety, panic attacks, hearing voices, psychic dreams can all come from a tramautic past and verbal abuse. Its opens doors to the negative and they start to dwell closeby. They have problems not you. Its the hurting mean people that have caused your sadness. You are just reacting to it and having emotions. God allows emotions and docs try to cover it up.

Mens counseling is folly to Gods ways.

1. Read “Emotional abuse” websites see how people think. Read about 40.
2. Google “Deliverance Prayers”- stops sadness.
3. Google “Sinners Prayers”- makes a path to God
4. Google sites about “Bullying”.
5. Diet and Depression sites.

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