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Zombie Dope The Dangerous Psych Meds Destroying Your Brain

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"Zombie dope is all the psych meds — the psychotropics, the benzodiazepines, heavy on benzos, usually mixed in." Boone naming the zombie cocktail and what it actually contains. This is the combination that's destroying warfighter brains while the VA calls it treatment. The first step to getting off it is knowing what you're on.

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Sure. Sure. Zombie dope is all the psych meds. It's all the psychotropic meds. It's all the benzodiazepines, heavy on benzodiazepines, usually mixed in with an opiate and some sort of SSRI or SSNRI. I think that's how you say it. And it's just this cornucopia of drugs. And at the end of the day, it turns you into a zombie. You're just completely detached. And if you're trying to work through any issues with traumatic brain injury, it makes that pretty much impossible. If you're trying to work through any issues with PTSD, well, you can forget that. You're not going to work through anything. You're just going to be numbed out. Excuse me. And so that's a major problem. It was a major problem for me. And then I got fed up with it. What's that? I'm sorry. Please keep going. That was a major problem for me. It was just the zombie dope. And I couldn't, I just could not do the things that needed to be done. I couldn't get better. I couldn't heal. I couldn't think. I couldn't function. So it took away your ability to process. Yeah, it took away my ability to process. And, you know, I'll just say outright, I think anybody who is Treating people with, I think it's criminal. I think it's a criminal act to treat people with traumatic brain injury with psych meds. I think it's disgusting. I think it's sick. I think everybody should be either using stem cells or cannabinoids or something that's not affecting the long-term chemistry of the brain. It just doesn't work. It just doesn't work. And I don't know why I would keep trying to do that. And the zombie dope was just all bad and I had to get off of it. And I got off of it and I got off of it. And I was still having insomnia issues. I mean, I had insomnia issues on the zombie dope. I had insomnia issues off the dope. And then one night I was just kind of laying in bed and thought, you know, I've tried everything there is. Literally, I've tried everything medical science had to offer for four or five years. Did everything. And it didn't work. The only thing I hadn't tried was cannabis. And there was this kid the day before who had asked me at work, young guy, he goes, Hey, you look like hell what's wrong? I had just gotten out of the hospital. So I was off to zombie dope. And I said, I can't sleep. And it'd been like two days. I hadn't gotten any sleep at all. And for those that don't know out there, you know, if you're dealing with, you know, some serious PTSD issues, and you don't sleep for two days, you're kind of funky. I mean, it's just a fact. You're just funky. I mean, shit's going to go funky. And he offered me weed. He goes, why don't you just smoke pot? And I was like, dude, that ain't me, man. I'm not one of those guys. I smoke pot. And I just completely blew him off. And then that night, I... I'm laying there in bed and I'm like, I've done everything. I've literally done everything medical science has to offer. I can't do anything else. None of this has worked. What's the only thing I haven't tried? Well, cannabis. And it was a total fuck it moment. And I was like, fuck it, bring it on. You know, I cannot do this anymore. I'm going to fucking die. And I, the next day I say, give me some weed. And he like hooked it up quick. And I, that night I went home, I smoked weed and I slept for five hours. And it was like, what in the holy fuck?

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