If you’ve ever felt like electricity is shooting through your brain, you are not alone. ⚡️

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]If you're dealing with medication withdrawal, if you're dealing with chronic withdrawal symptoms, and if you're dealing with brain zaps, then make sure to check out this content. And if you know somebody who would benefit, then please share this with them, too.

[00:00:12]Because 56% of people who are withdrawing from medications, getting brain zaps like electricity shooting through their brain, they need res, they need resolution. They need solutions that can help them feel better. So when it comes to the cause of brain zaps, it's we think based on a threeprong approach and that is structural, functional, and genetic. And so when it comes to structural, there's research that has come out talking about brain zaps as it relates to the motion of your eyes. And so what they've observed is that people when they're withdrawing or tapering off of an anti-depressant that when they look left and right, which is a lateral rotation of the eye, that it can provoke the brain zaps. That feeling of electricity or vibrating or shaking or nerve pain shooting through the brain. And so they're thinking, okay, when you have the lateral movement of the eyes, there's pain provoked in the brain or amplification of existing pain in the brain. And so they're surmising that there's a structural component to it. This isn't the first time we've seen movement of the eyes aggravating pain in the brain. Lots of migraine sufferers will report that when they have terrible migraine pain that even moving their eyes can make the pain worse. So it's not really a stretch to link brain zaps to motion of the eyes. Then they've done a little bit of a deeper dive into that and they found that brain zaps may be related to REM movement of your eyes. So when you go to sleep, you'll enter REM sleep, which stands for rapid eye movement sleep. Your eyes while you're asleep will go back and forth, left and right, that same lateral movement. And after a night of that happening, some people awaken and they're experiencing more brain zaps in the first part of the day than perhaps in the latter part of the day when their eyes aren't moving as much. And the interesting thing that also happens during REM sleep is your brain is processing memories, but your neurochemicals are also changing. In particular, a chemical that's being changed is your serotonin. So, this brings us to the second possible factor of why you may be experiencing brain zaps, and that's serotonin.