The Gaslit Truth

Why It Took Me 1,139 Days to Taper Off Lexapro | The Gaslit Truth Podcast with Dr Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz

Send us Fan Mail Day one at zero sounds like a finish line, but for Therapist Jenn Schmitz it is also the start of a whole new chapter. After roughly 26 years on SSRIs and 1,139 days of tapering Lexapro, she finally crosses “zero” and tells the unfiltered truth about what it took: the fear, the patience, the symptom tracking, and the moments where withdrawal did not look like “anxiety” so much as a nervous system on overload. We rewind to how it began: teenage pressure, disordered eating, he...