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Training Days: Surthriving an Execution, Antidepressants, then Myself — A Cop’s Tale

Mad in America

But that day, September 4, 2019, everything changed. One was for anxiety, one was for sleep, one was to help my heart rhythm for panic attacks—something for everything I described and couldn’t understand was happening to my body. I began to finally heal and take my mental health seriously. I deserved to be Meagan again.

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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step in Life

Mad in America

Would you tell us a little bit about what it was like for you in the mental health system before you went into withdrawal? It was also then that I started taking quetiapine (Seroquel) in addition to citalopram for a better night’s sleep. When I did manage to taper off a bit, I felt an immediate improvement in my health.