The Gaslit Truth Podcast
The Gaslit Truth Podcast is a mental health podcast hosted by Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz, focused on psychiatric medication harm, withdrawal, therapy culture, and informed consent.
Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz bring clinical experience, research literacy, and compassionate honesty to conversations about psychiatric medication withdrawal, tapering strategies, the psychology of dependence, and the long-term impacts of mental health treatment.
The Gaslit Truth Podcast challenges outdated mental health narratives while empowering listeners with evidence-based insight, critical thinking, and practical understanding of therapy and psychiatric medications.
Episodes
101 episodes
The Political Bias of Mental Healthcare | The Gaslit Truth Podcast with Ryan Rogers, Dr Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz
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 thi...
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Season 3
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Episode 99
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55:18
Blind Tapering Vs. Informed Consent | The Gaslit Truth Podcast with Dr. Teralyn Sell & Therapist Jenn Schmitz
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 Thera...
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Season 2
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Episode 98
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57:24
What If Psychiatry Meant Medicine For The Soul Again | The Gaslit Truth Podcast with Dr. Teralyn Sell & Therapist Jenn Schmitz
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.” H...
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Season 2
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Episode 97
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58:14
Psych Meds Took My Son's Life: A Mother's Tribute to Tre | The Gaslit Truth Podcast with Dr. Teralyn Sell & Therapist Jenn Schmitz
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 af...
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Season 2
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Episode 96
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1:00:37
Mark Horowitz: My Own Withdrawal Rewrote the Science Behind Hyperbolic Tapering | The Gaslit Truth Podcast with Dr. Teralyn Sell & Therapist Jenn Schmitz
What if the hardest part of coming off an antidepressant isn’t the first cut, but the last milligrams? We sit down with Dr. Mark Horowitz—clinician, researcher, and someone who’s been through withdrawal himself—to unravel why standard advice fa...
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Season 2
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Episode 95
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56:34
Blowing the Lid off the Chemical Imbalance Myth with Dr Joanna Moncrieff | The Gaslit Truth Podcast with Dr. Teralyn Sell & Therapist Jenn Schmitz
The story you’ve been told about depression is tidy, catchy, and comforting—and it doesn’t match the evidence. We sit down with Professor Joanna Moncrieff to unpack why the “chemical imbalance” narrative took hold, what her 2022 umbrella review...
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Season 2
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Episode 94
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1:01:32
ECT, America's Darkest Medical Scandal with ECT Warrior Sarah Price Hancock
Electricity doesn’t care about intent—and when it meets the human brain, biology, physics, and ethics collide. We sit down with Sarah Price Hancock, a nationally certified rehabilitation counselor and former professor who became an advocate aft...
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Season 2
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Episode 93
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1:00:45
Med Stacked As a Teenager Until Young Adulthood, Now I'm Finding Home In A Body Once Silenced
Start with a simple premise: what if the “problem” wasn’t you, but a system that muted your body’s signals and called it care? We sit down with Rachel Reynolds—garden coach, sensitive soul, and antidepressant survivor—to trace a decade-long arc...
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Season 2
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Episode 92
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47:34
Antidepressants Increase Violent Behaviors with Forensic Psychologist Dr Toby Watson | The Gaslit Truth Podcast with Dr. Teralyn Sell & Therapist Jenn Schmitz
Most headlines shrug and say, “we may never know why.” We refuse that answer. With clinical psychologist Dr. Toby Watson, we examine the uncomfortable pattern linking widely prescribed psychiatric medications to spikes in suicidality, aggressio...
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Season 2
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Episode 91
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1:01:03
Hard Truths, Real Recovery Surviving Spinal Cord Injury with Daniel West
Comfort can feel caring—and still cost you your future. We sit down with Daniel West, a rule-breaking physical therapist who argues that “slow and safe” rehab keeps people stuck, while blunt truth and early, focused movement produce real functi...
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Season 2
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Episode 90
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47:46
Antidepressants Stole My Wife & Marriage with LA's Comedy Cop, Cliff Yates
The spark didn’t just fade—it was blunted. We bring on Cliff Yates, a 35-year veteran of the LA County Sheriff’s Department and stand-up comic, to unpack how SSRIs can quietly reorganize a relationship’s core: intimacy, memory, judgment, and ev...
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Season 2
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Episode 89
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47:30
Beyond Pills: The Metabolic Truth of Mental Health with Ruth Dottin, Psychiatrist
What if the root of mental illness isn't just in your brain, but in how your entire body processes energy? Dr. Ruth Dottin, a board-certified psychiatrist, takes us on a journey that challenges everything we've been told about psychiatric care....
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Season 2
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Episode 88
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47:10
Bipolar Disorder: Shattering Myths with Michelle Reittinger
"Does that mean I'm broken?" This question haunted Michelle Reittinger after her bipolar disorder diagnosis in 1998. Like countless others, she believed the psychiatric narrative that her condition was incurable, neurodegenerative, and would re...
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Season 2
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Episode 87
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1:02:04
The Pill That Steals Lives Katinka Newman's Terrifying Journey to find the Truth about Antidepressants
What happens when the medication meant to help you becomes the very thing that steals your life? Katinka Blackford Newman's journey from successful documentary filmmaker to psychiatric patient began with something deceptively simple: stress-ind...
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Season 2
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Episode 86
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59:28
From OCD to Polypharmacy Hell: Safa Asgari's Fight for Mental Health Truth
Psychiatry's dark patterns know no borders. In this eye-opening conversation, Safa Asgari reveals his three-year journey through psychiatric treatment in Iran that mirrors the experiences of countless patients worldwide.What begins as a...
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Season 2
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Episode 85
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48:01
Beyond Control: Psychiatry's War on Minorities with Rev. Fred Shaw Jr.
What happens when psychiatric systems designed to "help" actually hurt the most vulnerable among us? Minister Fred Shaw Jr., a powerhouse advocate with decades of experience fighting for children's rights, pulls back the curtain on psychiatry's...
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Season 2
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Episode 83
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56:57
Mental Health in Family Court: A Safeguard or a Weapon?
Mental health stigma becomes a weaponized battleground in divorce and custody proceedings—a reality that impacts countless families navigating the family court system. In this eye-opening conversation with family law attorney McKenna Zimmerman,...
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Season 2
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Episode 82
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48:05
Charlie Kirk: A Lesson in Ethics, Neutrality, and Freedom of Speech
Freedom of speech lies at the heart of democracy, but what happens when speaking your truth is met with violence and death? The tragic loss of Charlie Kirk has revealed a disturbing trend among mental health professionals who have abandoned the...
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Season 2
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24:30
My Doctor Was My Dealer: A Healthcare Worker's Descent Into Benzo Dependency
"They told me Ativan would be a part of my life for the rest of my life. Well, they were right—but not in the way they thought it would."Meet Luanne Wall—registered nurse with 41 years of critical care experience, wife, mother, grandmot...
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Season 2
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Episode 80
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59:33
Stimulants, Schools, and the Scam You Never Saw Coming with Sheila Matthews Co-Founder AbleChild.org
Have you ever wondered why schools seem so quick to suggest ADHD medication for children who don't sit still? The truth behind this practice is more disturbing than most parents realize.Sheila Matthews never expected a single school mee...
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Season 2
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Episode 79
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49:40
Crossing Zero: The Art & Science of Deprescribing with Anders Sorensen | The Gaslit Truth Podcast with Dr Richard Blake, Dr Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz
When you've been told your brain chemistry is permanently broken, the idea of coming off psychiatric medication can feel terrifying—or even impossible. But what if everything you've been told about these drugs is based on an outdated model?...
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Season 2
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Episode 78
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1:04:13
Rethinking My Own True Acceptance: Willy Millard’s Journey to Authenticity
The moment Willy Millard walked in on his parents meeting with school officials asking "What did we do wrong?" after he came out at age 12, he knew the journey ahead wouldn't match the promised narrative. That painful memory still resonates yea...
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Season 2
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Episode 78
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56:56
Antidepressants Steal Your Sexuality and Humanity | Cael's Story of PSSD & Psych Med Harm
What happens when the medication prescribed to help you ends up stealing fundamental aspects of your humanity? We sit down with Cael, a courageous 22-year-old who sought help for college anxiety at 19 and ended up trapped in a web of psychiatri...
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Season 2
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Episode 77
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45:45
Kim Witczak Exposes Dangerous Drug Practices: SSRI, Su!c!de, Violence, and Big Pharma’s Deadly Secrets
How can a seemingly harmless prescription for a sleep aid turn fatal? When Kim Witczak's husband Woody died by suicide after just five weeks on Zoloft—a medication prescribed not for depression, but for trouble sleeping—she was thrust into an u...
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Season 2
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Episode 76
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1:02:58
Breaking Free from Chronic Pain with Dr Clayton Dir Physical Therapist
Have you been told your pain will never get better? That surgery is your only option? That you just need to learn to live with it?Dr. Clayton Durr, performance physical therapist who has worked with champion athletes across powerlifting...
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Season 2
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Episode 75
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49:13