Xanax (anxiolytic addiction and withdrawal)

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Gwen Olsen spent fifteen years as a pharmaceutical sales rep working for such health care giants as Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Abbott Laboratories. She enjoyed a successful, fast-paced career until several conscious-altering experiences began awakening her to the dangers lurking in every American medicine cabinet. Her most poignant lessons, however, came as both victim and survivor of life-threatening adverse drug reactions. After leaving pharmaceutical sales in 2000, Gwen worked in the natural foods industry first as an Account Manager for Nature's Way, and then as a Regional Sales Manager for Gaia Herbs. She is currently a writer, speaker, and natural health consultant.

In this video Gwen discusses anxiolytics (anti-anxiety medications). These medications are sometimes also called minor tranquilizers. These drugs include the benzodiazephines such as Valium, Xanax and Ativan. Buspar is also non-benzodiazephine anxiolytic.

These drugs are highly addictive and people experience severe withdrawal symptoms when coming off of these drugs.

Gwen specifically talks about her own Xanax addiction.

She also discusses "rebound syndrome" and "discontinuation syndrome", which are basically just withdrawal symptoms.

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[tien714]

@pnpny04

What medical, chemical, lab test are available today for diagnosis? Answer it with proof or get the fuck out out.

[madtownband]

You never quite a medication cold turkey, everyone know this.

[pnpny04]

@tien714 Wow! All I can say is Wow! You should talk!! Yea right! I'm stupid but I want you to read that first sentence there. Let me guess, your husband wrote it? You called me "stupider." WTF is that! If you don't want embarrass yourself I suggest you grab a dictionary. Don't say "stupider" ever again. Especially in public. Take that advice at the very least.

[pnpny04]

@kevschweik Congratulations to u as well. You too have a brain and can obviously detect bull shit when you hear it.

[pnpny04]

@tien714 I'm going to tell u again.Put down ur Peter Breggin book and at least make believe ur busy for a day or two because evidently you're having a difficult time getting me and my "excellent points (lol at that)" out of your brain. When u come back from planet Moron,maybe the DEA, FDA, Supreme court, Congress...etc will make Cocaine legal and recognize it as a dangerous addictive drug just like SRI's.I wouldn't count on it though so u STFU about Cocaine already.

[tien714]

@pnpny04

The more you comment the stupider you get so If I were I would stop. You keep jumping over my questions so that means you lost so stfu and get the fuck out of here because your on the wrong channel.

[pnpny04]

@tien714 You should stfu and stop making stupid comments like "oh, well then ppl should be allowed to take cocaine if it helps them feel better." Read a f'n medical book or shit, even a nurses handbook. If you read one Breggin book u read them all. Crack Cocaine makes one feel euphoric within seconds. It's what's called "an immediate drug."SRI's and antipsychotics are delayed drugs which gradually take effect over the course of 5 to 6 weeks.PPl don't take them to get high u idiot.Plz get a life

[pnpny04]

@tien714 U deny mental illness exists unless a blood test can prove otherwise.U deny the fact that millions of people around the world are helped by psych meds which were found serindipitously.You're stupid tests are inconsequential.Again, if sufferers are experiencing minimal side effects from a benzo and or an SSRI ,why should they stop feeling better because some bitter cranky negative person declares they must take a blood test to prove that what they were suffering from is real? Ur dumb!

[tien714]

@pnpny04

I'm going to ask you again, what medical, chemical, lab test are available to take for diagnosis? I'm done with you because you keep jumping over the question answer it or stfu. You have no proof of anything and yet you expect people to believe you get out of here.

[pnpny04]

@tien714 The same goes for a paranoid schizophrenic who hears imaginary voices and talks to invisible people.Depressed people can't get out of bed.People with Panic disorder or PTSD spend their days locked up in the house suffering from all kinds of pathological anxiety symptoms (look up Dr. Claire Weekes and her books.GOOGLE IT).At her time it was called "Nervous Breakdown" or "Shell Shock."These ppl need to prove they're suffering is real by taking a blood tests?If u say yes, then I give up.