Med Stacked As a Teenager Until Young Adulthood, Now I'm Finding Home In A Body Once Silenced

In this episode, Rachel Reynolds shares her raw, decade-long ride through antidepressants—teen scripts, tricyclics, stacked meds, and a brutal side effect no one claimed: urinary retention that hijacked daily life.

She exposes the medication merry-go-round—Prozac lifts, amitriptyline dips, endless add-ons—and how side effects get mislabeled as “new symptoms.” We touch on the overlooked clash between acne meds like spironolactone and psychiatric drugs, and how quick fixes often skip over deeper drivers like inflammation and gut stress.

When Rachel tried tapering on her own, withdrawal hit hard. But beneath the nausea and emotional shutdown, something real emerged: sharper boundaries, clearer instincts, and work that finally matched who she was.

Her pivot? A terrain-based approach that helped her trust her body’s signals again—rather than silence them.