{"podcast":{"title":"Side Effects with Dr. Josef","slug":"side-effects-with-dr-josef-6454703","podcast_index_feed_id":6454703,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/taperclinic/feed.xml","website_url":"https://taperclinic.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16689236/Podcast-cover.jpg","author":"Josef Witt-Doerring","episode_count":100,"summary":"Life on Less Meds is a podcast that reveals the truth about drug side effects and the best strategies to manage them. Your host, Josef Witt-Doerring interviews patients, victims and experts to cover topics such as adverse reactions, post acute withdrawal, benzodiazepine withdrawals, PSSD, and drug tapering. His mission is to raise awareness about the side effects and injuries caused from psychiatric medications to improve informed consent. This podcast is brought to you Witt-Doerring Psychiatry, a private practice that specializes in 1) the treatment and management of adverse drug reactions 2) the management of most psychiatric conditions for patients who are seeking psychiatrists who try to manage their conditions with the lowest necessary medication use. Come visit us at: https://www.wittdoerringpsychiatry.com/ Or watch our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@witt-doerringpsychiatry Disclaimer: All of the information on this podcast is for educational purposes and not intended to be specific/ personal medical advice from me to you. Listening to this podcast does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. The views and opinions of the podcast guests are their own and shou…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T04:19:16.012462+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/side-effects-with-dr-josef-6454703"},"episode":{"title":"50 Ways to Avoid Psychiatric Medication","slug":"50-ways-to-avoid-psychiatric-medication","published_at":"2026-04-09T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/side-effects-with-dr-josef-6454703/50-ways-to-avoid-psychiatric-medication","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/side-effects-with-dr-josef-6454703","url":"https://taperclinic.podbean.com/e/50-ways-to-avoid-psychiatric-medication/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/invptugvfp8j6wy2/Sequence_02a0mma.mp3","summary":"Click here if you need help quitting psychiatric medications: membership.taperclinic.com/signup/?utm_source=podcast Most people don't need psychiatric medication. What they need is a serious look at how they're living, what they're eating, who they're spending time with, and whether their life has any real meaning in it. In this video, I walk through 50 rules I give patients who want to protect their mental health and stay off the prescription treadmill. These aren't theories. They're the same principles I come back to again and again in my practice, because they work, and because the alternative starting down the road of psychiatric medications is something I've seen go badly for too many people. I cover what to eat and what to avoid, how to protect your sleep, why daily movement matters more than most people realize, and why taking responsibility for your own health is something no fifteen-minute doctor visit can replace. I talk about building discipline, creating distance from your own thoughts, refusing a victim mentality, and acting before you feel ready. I go through the substances that quietly wreck people's mental health caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, high-potency cannabis and explain why I'm cautious about routine prescriptions and deeply cautious about psychiatric medications in particular, which tend to lead to more medications, not fewer. I also talk about the things that don't show up on a lab report but matter enormously: writing down your values, doing work that means something, living in service to other people, mentoring someone coming up behind you, and fighting for what you believe in. And I talk about relationships calling your friends, choosing a partner who wants you to grow, practicing forgiveness without becoming a doormat, and getting involved in…","meta_description":"Click here if you need help quitting psychiatric medications: membership.taperclinic.com/signup/?utm_source=podcast Most people don't need psychiatric med…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":716,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/side-effects-with-dr-josef-6454703/episodes/50-ways-to-avoid-psychiatric-medication/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/side-effects-with-dr-josef-6454703/50-ways-to-avoid-psychiatric-medication.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}