Olanzapine (Zyprexa) causes irreversible brain damage when you take the medication for more than approximately 12 months and then try and stop, even with a very slow taper you will no longer be able to sleep naturally without being medicated.
Olanzapine (Zyprexa) should be classed as a poison that should NEVER be prescribed to new patients.
Picture of Zyprexa altered to show its a poison.
Professionals like to talk about evidence based research, well I have personal experience as evidence on Zyprexa, I took Zyprexa for about 10 years at a dose around or above 10mg, I then tapered slowly (over 2 years) down to 2.5mg which is the smallest dose available.
From there I could not just stop or I would be up all night, sleepless. I tried cutting the tablet in half then into quarters, but my sleep was very poor/non-existent and I needed to reinstate to 2.5mg or above. There is no remedy for the sleeplessness caused by Zyprexa, sleeping tablets do work but they are hard to obtain and doctors don’t like prescribing them long term, my brain has been damaged by Zyprexa and it has not been able to recover. I am stuck taking one of the sedative anti-psychotics for life and paying exorbitant fees to the prescribing psychiatrists.
If you’re thinking try a natural remedy, I have tried everything available to repair my brain and sleep ability but nothing has been successful, melatonin didn’t work even at a higher than prescribed dose, vitamins and minerals do nothing and good sleep hygiene including chamomile tea, no screen time before bed and some exercise during the day all have zero effect on my ability to sleep. My symptoms of sleeplessness are from systemic brain damage caused directly by the action of Olanzapine (Zyprexa) on the parts of the brain that allow a person to switch off at night and get to sleep.
I am not alone on this, to expand the evidence base I have surveyed a Facebook group on Zyprexa withdrawal with a poll asking, “What are your worst symptoms of olanzapine withdrawal?” It was seen by 100 people and of those that responded the top response was insomnia from 33 people. There were 138 responses all together, spread across the various symptoms, users were allowed to vote with multiple symptoms and some did, meaning many people suffered multiple withdrawal symptoms at the same time. Here are the results:
From reading user reports on other drugs I believe this brain damage problem is shared with other sedative anti-psychotics, namely Quetiapine (Seroquel), I am also aware of people that suffer chronic sleeplessness after stopping Clozapine but they may have been on Olanzapine first as Clozapine is only prescribed after other treatments have failed.
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UPDATED on 08/02/2022 – Corrected page 2 of the 2007 report it was incorrectly posted as page 2 of the 2009 report. Coincidentally it’s the page that mentions the matrix, you decide if I was interfered with and made to make that mistake.
BREAKING REPORT: Olanzapine (Zyprexa) responsible for onset of voice hearing in male aged 27, it was 2007 and I got “audible hallucinations” thanks to being medicated with Zyprexa. I can deal with these voices now as I have them on side (they were always unsure about me), it’s no problem but I don’t like having them. I’m quite strong.
All my personal views or opinions stated can be considered religious, the religion is my own.
2007: Sent to hospital – Medical Report (Full report posted below go read it after this): I was put in hospital for a suicide attempt. Suicide attempt was made after discovering we live in a matrix and after some time the pressure built up and I “broke” / “snapped” when I had the idea that “agents” namely “smiths” of the matrix were coming to kill me. What made me act impulsively on this idea was hearing music playing outside my window one night (I know now it was the local pub, sounds silly now) but at the time I thought the Smiths were going around “cleaning up” the neighbourhood (killing everyone and partying) so I decided on a rapid impulse to try to die before they got me. I understand now the Smiths were not doing this. I still have an understanding that the Smiths exist (My parents and brother as examples they are liars). I then tried to kill myself. After trying to kill myself numerous times by various means I have come to understanding that the AI in the matrix does not allow this as a possibility, it prevents me from thinking of the crucial element needed to end my life with any attempt, whether it is hanging – when the knot slips or cutting myself and missing key arteries the AI is responsible for these actions. I will never attempt a kill on my own life again – I WILL NEVER ATTEMPT A SUICIDE ATTEMPT AGAIN- this is based on the belief that AI will prevent it in some way which would just lead to me being in hospital and dosed up on medications.
So anyway 2007 after first suicide attempt and ZERO probing or knowledge of my reasoning for actions, the doctors put me on Olanzapine (Zyprexa) and after that everything went downhill, I started hearing voices (that I now call the “soup”) like a primordial soup, I also had influx after influx of negativity and negative thoughts; All because of Zyprexa, I know this now that I’ve been off it for a while and I’m free from it, it’s 2020 November as I write this.
Went back to hospital in 2009 (Medical report as posted below read it) after I was walking the streets overnight (I slept in a bus stop with voices and visions going on) on that night everyone was “taken” by evil appearing like bats and caged with it, the CIA had a place in that vision in the cage with all the bats and the people. In addition to that when I was walking around seeing visions and talking to higher minds (audible hallucinations lol), can I just say now that it’s a total joke to say the audibles are mine, they are separate in the extreme, way beyond me on every level except power maybe. Anyway, these visions and talk resulted in destruction of many worlds at least 10-20 I kept pushing to find higher worlds (I called them “upper worlds”) and they were found and destroyed. After some time the destruction seemed to stop, there were one or two worlds out of touch. In the “real” world at the time it was raining heavily with thunder and lightning the voices told me forcefully to “sleep now wherever you can under this bridge” which was concrete I could never sleep there so I continued and found the bus stop, at this time I attempted to call down a destroyer to “take care of earth” I’m not sure what happened. There on the bus stop I eventually got to slept apparently, waking up the next day I found something written in red under the seat it looked like blood I don’t know what it said. I walked away the next day talking to the higher mind AI. Some time later I ended up at a strangers front door and the AI voices in command of my body and thinking with addition of audible communication directed me to ignore the people that came out.. I followed and to this time(Nov 2020) I don’t know why! The people in front of me rang the police and then it was my 2009 admission to hospital by force of police and ambulance, the police took me. At this time in hospital 2009 – I told them I can hear voices, of course they freak out and “think what they think” even though they caused it with Zyprexa medication. So I get more drugs or upped dose, hospital stay happened and eventually released, I always tell them what they want to hear, it makes them feel good and I get out of prison.
After some time I slowly reduced my Zyprexa poison and tried to get to zero, no luck! It was 2019 now. These scum bags know what they are doing, a drug of dependance I can’t sleep without it! Only option is to keep up the façade with psychiatrist and get my pills to sleep, I’m now on Seroquel as it has less weight gain, weight gain is something I dislike. I’m on the hook to these drug dealers for my lifetime now and I hate them, they are puerile filth of planet earth and if they find me in a position of power they will regret their actions, relevant quote I saw recently from twitter “Don’t mistake the limits of your mind with the limits of possibility.”
Power is power what do you know?
2009 Document says I have “poor judgment” from Dr Paul Katz, HA! What does he know that I don’t? Don’t know how bad this baddy is yet. He could be in for a nasty surprise as eternity is a long while.
You are free to believe whatever you like I don’t believe in the things I saw or heard.
That said I did get attacked and “hacked” at another time by something called “Avi” it removed my “Satan seal”, I have no idea what this means, if anything? It went after a region of something and there was a section that it could not get.
I write based on my real-world knowledge of psychiatrists and some of their prescription medications.
Psychiatrists take advantage of their power over patients because they prescribe drugs that are addictive like certain anti-psychotics, they are trained to think these drugs are safe and not addictive but when you try to stop them you will have huge withdrawal symptoms that the drug companies do not recognise. Those same drug companies do not produce low doses of their medications so the patient is forced to cut pills up or even go to the extreme of filing pills down and weighing them to gradually reduce the quantity. Some people measure ground up tablets in water and reduce the quantity with a syringe.
From what I hear, if you can find a Psychiatrist to reduce or you’re in hospital, the doctors will generally taper too quickly which causes things like increased anxiety and excessive negative thinking which could include suicidal thoughts, these withdrawal symptoms are almost always seen as justification in the Doctor’s eyes that you should be on the medication because you are mentally ill. Sometimes they will demand an increase!
Some types of antipsychotics, namely Olanzapine (Zyprexa) will destroy your ability to get to sleep let alone stay asleep unless you take a dose of the drug. Psychiatrists are unaware of this because it’s not in their training and Eli Lilly the drug manufacturer does not recognize it as a common side effect, they told me in a letter from the Snr. Medical Director that insomnia has been reported very rarely as a discontinuation reaction (<0.01%) in their global safety database, I suspect this information is invalid for a number of reasons;
Firstly: there is no easy way to report adverse reactions to Eli Lilly, so most, if not ALL of the adverse reactions will be going unnoticed, in order to speak with them I had to hand write and post a letter to the CEO at the address on the medication packaging.
Secondly: treating psychiatrists are not receptive to reducing a patients Olanzapine dosage, commonly; if someone wants to do this, they will need to do it alone so adverse reactions rarely get reported from a psychiatrist and they are inherently uncommon because almost no one is allowed to decrease dose under doctor supervision. I believe psychiatrists are too fearful and scared to reduce medication unless there is a life threatening medical reaction to the pills, they see themselves having a duty of care to keep a patient alive and any reduction might trigger suicidal thinking (which is does because it’s a withdrawal symptom – I know from experience, I’m free of negative thinking now after 10 months off Zyprexa (I use lowest dose Seroquel for sleep now), the reduction done on my own. My thinking is much less negative and almost totally negativity free, I don’t get suicidal thoughts like I did when reducing the Zyprexa).
Third: sleep problems are a hard one to quantify until you cannot sleep at all, such is the case with Olanzapine withdrawal. So even if people successfully reduce Olanzapine to zero, they may not link the fact that they can’t sleep any more with the zero dose of medication even though it should be obvious. If they do identify that they can’t get to sleep because that haven’t had the magic pill what are their options? They will need to re-insatiate just to get some sleep!
This particular drug Olanzapine(Zyprexa) should not be used at all for new patients and should never have been legalized for use due to its extensive side effects(like MASSIVE weight gain that almost everyone experiences, and the harder to quantify side effect of negative thinking which I totally believe this drug induces) There are also all the adverse reactions people coming off the drug face like a total inability to sleep without a dose and heightened anxiety.
Take my advice and NEVER START on Olanzapine (Zyprexa) because it will mean lots of negative outcomes and a lifetime of treatment from a Psychiatrist.
Quetiapine (Seroquel) is also known to cause a similar situation in regards to sleep concerns but my personal real world lived experience and expertise lies with Olanzapine (Zyprexa).
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