Dax Shepard

Aww.

Oh, fuck, dude.

I was very hesitant on doing that.

So basically my conditional discharge was I had to see substance use group therapy, substance use counselor, nurse practitioner, mental health counselor, four things every week.

I didn't even need to be told to do that.

I was like all about it.

I was like, I'm going to take full advantage of it.

all these resources in my community and it was actually my nurse practitioner I'm taking 10 milligrams of Zyprexa they started me and that in jail so I'm continuing to take that you know he has at some point an idea to potentially wean me off can I ask you is it miserable being on that medication

Yeah, so when I was taking it, it reduced my creative thoughts.

It made me feel sedated all the time, like struggling to think and foggy, like definitely.

I don't think anyone wants to be on medication.

Yeah.

And I still get that, but how I view medication and how I learned through that in my therapy was that it's a very ineffective tool to kind of

be in a place where to me what was most important to my recovery was the therapy talking through it learning the skills learning about the the symptoms having these terms having this knowledge and practicing with it i was hesitant to go off medication but i would have not done that without a professional's guidance that is very very important so since he was willing to work in that space all my treatment providers knew that i was tapering starting to taper off

Yeah.

And I would use the eight dimensions of wellness.

I'm not sure if you're familiar with those.

No, tell us those.

But it's spiritual wellness, intellectual wellness, physical wellness, emotional wellness.

man it's a lot it's a lot but i remember you have the mental illness the diagnosis the dsm-5 which gives you this language to help you understand these symptoms that's one part of it and then you just have general mental health and wellness where like you're working on making sure that you feel like you're financially well you're physically well and that you kind of feel good in those spaces as well because when you start to lose some of those things they add stress they add