You’re Not Broken.

You were Harmed.

This is a safe space for truth and clarity. Here, you can reclaim your story, your body, and your voice taken by benzodiazepines, antidepressants & psychiatric drug harm.

The systems meant to help you failed you.

The systems meant to help you failed you.

The prescriptions, the diagnoses, the dismissals — they left you with more questions, more harm, disabled, and nowhere to turn. I’ve been there. And I built this space so you don’t have to walk this alone.

Here, you’ll find the resources, tools, and lived wisdom I wish I had when I was in the darkest times — alongside the hard truths no one else is saying.

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Hi. I’m Malissa:
Advocate, educator,
and survivor.

I’m a specialist in psychiatric medication injury and formally trained in benzodiazepine and antidepressant withdrawal. Shaped by lived experience, I’m unapologetically committed to giving others the words for what they’ve endured and helping them reclaim their lives through and after psychiatric harm. This work isn’t about labels or platitudes — it’s about reclaiming truth, agency, and finding our way forward to wholeness.

Read my Story
I’ve walked this path — and I’m still standing.
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Find the support you need
to reclaim your voice

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Resources & Guides

News articles, research, guides, and downloadable letters to help you advocate for yourself.

02
Drug Insert Database

A searchable database that lets you input your medication and access the latest FDA updates and prescribing information.

03
Book & Podcast Recs

Trusted recommendations for books, podcasts, documentaries, and other psych drug harmed warriors on social.

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Trusted Practitioners

A trusted network of psych drug–harmed practitioners, coaches, mentors, and spiritual guides that are trauma-informed.

podcast

The conversations
no one else is having

The Face of MALpractice is where survivors, experts, and advocates come together to name the harm and push for change. No filters. No sugarcoating. Just the truth, raw and real.

Watch and Subscribe:

“A version of us dies in this, but with death comes the opportunity to rebuild, and we get to rebuild the way we want this time”
Jake Ressler's Benzo Harm Story
Jake Ressler
Play Episode
The Silent Damage: How an Antibiotic Floxed Her—Not Once, But Twice
Lauren Saikkonen
Play Episode
She Sued Her Doctor for Benzo Harm — And Won
Deborah Schwartzkopf
Play Episode
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Personalized
support for your
healing journey.

Malissa offers limited one-on-one guidance for those navigating psychiatric harm and the road back to self. If you’re looking for grounded insight and lived-experience support, she’s here to help.

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book coming 2026

This is the story of how antidepressants &
benzodiazepines nearly killed me

It’s the story of how losing my mind, body, and spirit forced me to reclaim the truth of who I am. Recklessly prescribed without informed consent and misdiagnosed, I was left 98% disabled and abandoned by the very system meant to help me. But rock bottom became the doorway.

Where the ground gave way, I was forced to face myself—peeling back trauma, conditioning, and blind trust until I uncovered the blueprint beneath it all. This is more than a story of psychiatric drug harm. It’s a story of awakening, of shattering illusions, healing trauma, and the journey back home to yourself.

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