I shared this story at an Icarus meeting in Olympia attended by Will Hall. Will encouraged me to write it down and share it with the Icarus community at large - here it is!

Kirk told me that he, Ben and Ben's brother Nick were going to drink mushroom tea and go for a walk in the woods, and that I was welcome to join if I was so inclined.

I have been taking klonipin for the past 11 years for severe anxiety and panic attacks.It worked however I ran into  an addiction problem. I was told to go to Butler Hospital for a week and they gave me lorazapam for 3 days  when I got home it hit me. It was an anxiety that was absolutely cippled me for 2 months while they told me it would get better it did not. I 

finally got back on and within an hour I was a different person. Now it is true I had anxiety before that,s why it was given to me however it

1. was nothing remotely similar to what I experienced i,m on it now but if I slip up hell returns.

The Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs, published by The Icarus Project and Freedom Center, is now available in German - thanks to the dedicated volunteer translation work of Inez Kochius.

i would have made a suicide attempt whether the cymbalta was present or not.