I quit weed and alcohol back in 2003, but had gone to psychiatry for help, so I was immediately put on antidepressants. *rolls eyes* Things got pretty out of hand with that, where side-effects of the pills were labeled as mental illness rather than effects of the drugs. Eventually I was on stuff that was worse than weed and alcohol, but I kept playing along thinking psychiatry had the answer. It didn’t. In retrospect it was a nightmare and a hoax.

Finally four and a half years later, a new doctor easily saw during our first meeting that I was misdiagnosed and overmedicated. My life had pretty much been ruined at that point. I was unemployed and applying for Social Security Disablity for mental illness. He got me off everything except Prozac, which included an antipsychotic (Seroquel), a mood stabilizer (Trileptal), a benzodiazephine (Klonopin). It took several months of tapering the dose down a tiny bit at a time and every time the withdrawal was really something else… waking up in the middle of the night scared and that type of thing. Those drugs are just awful even though they’re prescribed like candy, even to small children.

Well, in mid-April of 2008 I discovered Falun Dafa. Two weeks into it, I quit Prozac and Wellbutrin cold turkey. No withdrawal. None of the usual nausea, vertigo or depression relapses I’d had every other time I’d tried to _taper_ off antidepressants, let alone when I quit all at once! Nothing happened. At the very least I would have had a depression spell worse than anything before the drugs. Instead, absolutely nothing happened. It was over.

A week after that I was doing Exercise 2. In the middle of the exercise I grabbed my last pack of smokes, broke them each in half one by one and threw them away. I quit smoking cigarettes cold turkey that day and haven’t had an urge since. It’s been over two months now without one single urge or mood swing. I can even be at a convenience store staring right at the cigarettes with money in my pocket and think, “Do I need a cigarette?” The answer is always, “No.” I just couldn’t care less. I just shrug it off, but it’s really quite amazing.

All I can say is that Falun Dafa will save your life. For me it was a 360 degree turnaround in mental and physical health in such a short time… I know it sounds too good to be true… but it’s not. It’s just good. Falun Dafa is good.

I don’t know how it works, but it’s easy and powerful. You don’t even need to know. It’s the one thing you can just do and not think about. I do the exercises pretty much everyday, even getting out to the local practice site to be with others. It’s always free. There’s never an obligation to anyone. All anyone in Falun Dafa ever wants to do is share the practice with you.