Anders Sørensen PhD

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Anders Sørensen PhD

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Anders Sørensen/Sorensen

Newsletter and community: https://crossingzero.substack.com/
English book: Crossing Zero (2025)
Dansk bog: Noget I Bør Vide - Om Udtrapning af Psykofarmaka (2024)

12/12/2025

Antidepressants don’t target depression with surgical precision.

They numb the whole emotional range — including the parts of you that shouldn’t be numbed.

For many people, the real question isn’t “Do they work?”

It’s: “What do they take from me in the process?”

Hear Lauren explain it here.

10/12/2025

“When are you starting a podcast, Anders?”
I guess… I just did.

Today I'm sharing a success story - of coming off antidepressants, surviving severe withdrawal, and reclaiming life.

Lauren’s journey has everything:
• trauma mistaken for disease
• medicated at age 14
• told she had a “chemical imbalance” and needed life-long SSRIs
• a diagnosis that became an identity
• a rapid taper that went terribly wrong
• severe withdrawal that nearly broke her
• … and that most psychiatrists still don’t believe exists
• and the long road back to now feeling better than ever

We sat down in a studio in Copenhagen and started talking.

Because what happens when a 14-year-old girl is told she has a “chemical imbalance” and will need SSRI medication for life? And what happens twelve years later, when she tries to come off it, exactly as instructed by her doctor?*

This is Lauren’s story.

It’s one of the clearest examples I’ve ever heard of what modern psychiatry gets wrong, and what a trauma-informed lens can make clear.

Lauren's story is not rare. It’s happening to hundreds of thousands of people right now.

If the conversation resonates, please share!
And if you like the episode, more will come in 2026.

Link to full episode below.

09/12/2025

Min indbakke flyder over.
Og henvendelserne handler næsten alle om det samme: hjælp til udtrapning af lægeordineret psykofarmaka.

Både til det tekniske – dosisreduktioner, abstinenser, tempo.
Og til det menneskelige – støtte, følelsesregulering, tankehåndtering, håndtering af frygt.

Det er langt flere, end jeg selv kan tage ind.
Og desværre er der stadig få steder at henvise videre til.

Det fortæller, at der mangler viden derude.

Når så mange mennesker søger hjælp til at komme ud af deres lægeordinerede medicin og navigere livet uden den, er det et systemisk problem.

Alt for få fagfolk er klædt på til opgaven – selvom vi faktisk har viden om, hvordan man gør (og ikke gør).

På det seneste er flere henvendelser kommet fra fagpersoner selv. De efterspørger viden om den medicin, deres klienter går og tager, men som deres uddannelser ikke rustede dem til at navigere i.

Derfor oprettede jeg Din Medicinerede Klient – et 3-dages kursus, som klæder dig på til netop det.
Det bliver evidensbaseret, det bliver praksisnært, og det er udviklet efter et årti i første linje med medicinudtrapning.

Detaljer i kommentarfeltet. Få pladser tilbage.

08/12/2025

Pharma taught us to see emotions as random “illness flare-ups.”

But nothing human happens without context.

If we ignore the story around our suffering, we make true recovery impossible.

07/12/2025

Every morning when I arrive at my office, I open the front door, step into the hallway, and immediately hear it:

BARK-BARK-BARK-BARK…

My neighbor has a dog.

And that dog barks every single time it hears the door open.
Every. Single. Time.

Lately, I've started imagining the situation from the dog’s perspective.

In dog world, the pattern looks like this:

1. Intruder appears.
2. I bark.
3. Intruder disappears.

From the dog’s perspective, the barking works!
It must be the barking that makes the intruder leave.

It has no idea that the person walking into the hallway was always going to walk back out again.

It never gets to experience what happens when it doesn’t bark.

So the dog keeps doing the only thing it knows:
It barks to regulate its world.

But what it’s actually doing is reinforcing a false belief that barking is necessary – and exhausting itself in the process.

We are all the barking dog.

This – surprisingly – is one of the clearest metaphors for emotional self-regulation my mind has come up with.

Humans do not bark, of course.

We:
suppress emotions
argue with our thoughts
seek reassurance
distract ourselves
analyze, interpret, rationalize
“think positively”

All of these acts serve the same psychological purpose as barking:

“If I do something to this feeling, it will go away.”

Or:

“If I don’t do something to this feeling, it will stay. And escalate. And overwhelm me.”

And just like the dog, many of my clients never get to see what happens when they don’t intervene with their thoughts or painful emotions. They never give the emotion or the thought a chance to show what it does on its own.

Because they always bark, their lived truth becomes this:
“The only way to manage my pain ..."

Story continues on Substack, link below :)

06/12/2025

Here's a cheap trick for reducing daily stress:

A few days ago, I was biking through Copenhagen, navigating some crooked roadwork detours. At one point, I had to stop and check Google Maps for directions.

No big deal.
Except apparently, it was a big deal… to my nervous system.

I had to:
1) Check the stupid traffic
2) Stop the stupid bike
3) Take off my stupid gloves
4) Wedge them under my arm
5) Dig into my pocket for my stupid phone
6) Try stupid face recognition (which failed)
7) Type in my stupid password with freezing fingers
8) Type in “Høkerboderne” correctly
9) Put the stupid phone back in without dropping it
10) Get back on the stupid bike

And then I noticed something: Every tiny part of that sequence annoyed me. It genuinely stressed me.

It wasn’t difficult. It didn’t take long.

But in my mind, I was still cycling and on my way to my destination. So the stop wasn’t “part of the journey.” It was a barrier to the journey. An interruption. A disturbance.

And so my emotional system reacted accordingly, because in that moment, my mind was fighting reality. It was already at the destination. Therefore, every tiny interruption felt like an obstacle – an attack even!

If this resonates, there’s a little something in the comments that might shift how you handle these moments. A cheap trick that dissolves that kind of stress almost instantly. And once you learn it, you can’t unsee it.

05/12/2025

We already have an epidemic of psychiatric drug dependence; it’s just invisible to most people, because withdrawal often looks like relapse.

Once people see it, everything will change.

03/12/2025

An emotion is…

01/12/2025

If a psychiatric drug is basically a medicalized emotion-regulation tool…

…then coming off it is the same psychological challenge as stopping any avoidance strategy.

In this clip, I explain why tapering is about more than just milligrams; it’s about learning to feel again.

30/11/2025

Today, a client told me he ate popcorn for breakfast.

He thought we were going to talk psychology – thoughts, emotions, boundaries, childhood patterns.

But before any of that, we had to talk about the popcorn.

Because you can’t regulate a mind that’s running on fumes.

You can’t think clearly, stabilize your mood, or work on your trauma if your brain is being powered like a carnival snack stand - let alone on the standard Western diet most of us grew up on.

We have to start with the basics.

And diet - especially blood sugar stability and metabolism - is one of the most overlooked foundations in mainstream mental health. But as it turns out, the biological side of mental health has far more to do with the brain’s energy than its chemistry.

And then it hit me:
I had nothing about diet on my Substack.
Time to fix that.
Link below.

28/11/2025

If hunger were pleasant, we’d starve.

If difficult emotions were pleasant, we’d never change.

Your discomfort isn’t a disorder - it’s the body asking for what it needs.

26/11/2025

For decades, psychiatry needed a clear target. A biomarker, a mechanism, something concrete they could point to.

So a simple, seductive story spread: depression is a chemical imbalance, and antidepressants fix it.

But that’s not how these drugs work. They don’t selectively remove depression or anxiety - they numb or alter entire emotional systems, including the parts you actually need to navigate life.

And that’s why so many people at some point want to come off.
We’re now seeing a shift back toward understanding the person and the causes of their suffering, not just prescribing a pill to mute it.

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