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Take Your Pills: Xanax

A cure for some and a curse for others, widely prescribed anti-anxiety medication is examined by patients and experts in this revealing documentary.

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Blair Foster

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I felt so distant from the students
that I was studying with - Take Your Pills: Xanax

I felt so distant from the students that I was studying with

And for me, sitting in that classroom - Take Your Pills: Xanax

And for me, sitting in that classroom

Also, my brain was sort of forcing me
to start confronting - Take Your Pills: Xanax

Also, my brain was sort of forcing me to start confronting

And that's when I was
first prescribed medication, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

And that's when I was first prescribed medication,

I was thinking last night,
before I went to bed, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

I was thinking last night, before I went to bed,

"No, no. No, doc."
I need to speak to a doctor or a psychic. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

"No, no. No, doc." I need to speak to a doctor or ...

So, uh, two weeks into the pandemic,
I lost my job. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

So, uh, two weeks into the pandemic, I lost my job.

I mean, I remember thinking,
"What am I gonna do about rent?" - Take Your Pills: Xanax

I mean, I remember thinking, "What am I gonna do about ...

And then, I actually found out
that he had been cheating on me, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

And then, I actually found out that he had been cheating on ...

Um, I didn't have a car, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

Um, I didn't have a car,

And so, I had to,
like, hide this immense pain, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

And so, I had to, like, hide this immense pain,

And that's what I was like,
"This is anxiety." - Take Your Pills: Xanax

And that's what I was like, "This is anxiety."...

And then I had a friend
who had Xanax, and I was like, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

And then I had a friend who had Xanax, and I was like,

I was like, "What the hell?" - Take Your Pills: Xanax

I was like, "What the hell?"

Like again, like that reassurance
of a therapist who said, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

Like again, like that reassurance of a therapist who said,

Benzodiazepine prescriptions
have essentially been rising - Take Your Pills: Xanax

Benzodiazepine prescriptions have essentially been rising

When you even just look at the numbers
of people who struggle with anxiety. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

When you even just look at the numbers of people who struggl...

And that... that means
that you are debilitated by anxiety - Take Your Pills: Xanax

And that... that means that you are debilitated by anxiety

Trust me, I've known
enough celebrities. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

Trust me, I've known enough celebrities.

I think we're fed a myth
that everybody else has it together. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

I think we're fed a myth that everybody else has it tog...

"I'm the only one struggling.
I'm the only one who has trouble." - Take Your Pills: Xanax

"I'm the only one struggling. I'm the only on...

It's a cycle that keeps...
that spirals up at different times. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

It's a cycle that keeps... that spirals up at different...

Not only create it
but then curate it on social media - Take Your Pills: Xanax

Not only create it but then curate it on social media

You're comparing
your internal true experience - Take Your Pills: Xanax

You're comparing your internal true experience

IPhones over eye contact
has now become status quo. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

IPhones over eye contact has now become status quo.

If we're in our heads, on our phones, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

If we're in our heads, on our phones,

Maybe psychotropics are a way
to adapt to a world that we, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

Maybe psychotropics are a way to adapt to a world that we,

Oh my... - Take Your Pills: Xanax

I grew up in a time where the news was on
only about three times a day. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

I grew up in a time where the news was on only about three t...

Now you can get
the news cycle going 24/7. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

Now you can get the news cycle going 24/7.

It's the sort of background hum - Take Your Pills: Xanax

It's the sort of background hum

"Eco-anxiety." - Take Your Pills: Xanax

We were already not in great shape
before COVID-19 came. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

We were already not in great shape before COVID-19 came.

Anxiety had already overtaken depression
as sort of the diagnosis du jour. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

Anxiety had already overtaken depression as sort of the diag...

Child Care is one of the greatest sources
of stress. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

Child Care is one of the greatest sources of stress.

The only, uh, solution I had
was to go into a closet, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

The only, uh, solution I had was to go into a closet,

Primal scream therapy. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

Primal scream therapy.

If you can get in a time machine
and go back to the past, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

If you can get in a time machine and go back to the past,

Whether someone gets relief
from the bottle of alcohol - Take Your Pills: Xanax

Whether someone gets relief from the bottle of alcohol

The human equipment
for what we today call anxiety - Take Your Pills: Xanax

The human equipment for what we today call anxiety

We have called it melancholia, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

We have called it melancholia,

And neurasthenia was kind of the disease
of Gilded Age capitalism. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

And neurasthenia was kind of the disease of Gilded Age capit...

They saw neurasthenia
as this new type of illness, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

They saw neurasthenia as this new type of illness,

People moving into cities,
factories came online, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

People moving into cities, factories came online,

The steam engine,
the daily press, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

The steam engine, the daily press,

People would read
in their newspaper in the morning - Take Your Pills: Xanax

People would read in their newspaper in the morning

Technology-induced anxiety - Take Your Pills: Xanax

Technology-induced anxiety

A typical symptom would be
an inability to turn off your thoughts. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

A typical symptom would be an inability to turn off your tho...

Morbid thoughts, insomnia, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

Morbid thoughts, insomnia,

Sexual dysfunction, tooth decay. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

Sexual dysfunction, tooth decay.

A very lucrative market developed, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

A very lucrative market developed,

"You feel this way, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

"You feel this way,

You know, you'll talk to a friend,
and the friend says things like, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

You know, you'll talk to a friend, and the friend says ...

I feel like
I always knew I had anxiety, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

I feel like I always knew I had anxiety,

It's like, "I don't want to go down
that road that makes me weaker." - Take Your Pills: Xanax

It's like, "I don't want to go down that road...

Joan, girl, Black people don't go
to therapy, girl, they go to church. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

Joan, girl, Black people don't go to therapy, girl, the...

And I think for a lot of us,
it was like they'd pray it away. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

And I think for a lot of us, it was like they'd pray it...

Pray away illness,
pray away this, pray away that, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

Pray away illness, pray away this, pray away that,

When I was a kid,
I was loud, a bit nervous, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

When I was a kid, I was loud, a bit nervous,

I was just like,
"Yeah, this is fun. This is who I am." - Take Your Pills: Xanax

I was just like, "Yeah, this is fun. This is who I am.&...

But I think I was funny.
I was always a pretty funny kid. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

But I think I was funny. I was always a pretty funny kid.

My parents put me in figure skating,
and I was like, "I'll be an Olympian." - Take Your Pills: Xanax

My parents put me in figure skating, and I was like, "I...

And I gained some weight,
which freaked me out, and then I was like, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

And I gained some weight, which freaked me out, and then I w...

In college, I found a lot of relief
in the party scene. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

In college, I found a lot of relief in the party scene.

It was really sophomore year
where I just couldn't keep it all - Take Your Pills: Xanax

It was really sophomore year where I just couldn't keep...

In my head, I was like,
"Yeah, it's because I can't focus." - Take Your Pills: Xanax

In my head, I was like, "Yeah, it's because I can&...

...anxiety reared its head
because that was really the problem. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

...anxiety reared its head because that was really the probl...

It was the anxiety
and trying to keep the anxiety at bay, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

It was the anxiety and trying to keep the anxiety at bay,

I like, went in and I was like,
"I can't sleep anymore." I was like... - Take Your Pills: Xanax

I like, went in and I was like, "I can't sleep any...

He's like, "Oh, okay, so do you feel
anxious or anything like that?" - Take Your Pills: Xanax

He's like, "Oh, okay, so do you feel anxious or an...

No dreams, just hardcore, blackout sleep,
um, which was great. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

No dreams, just hardcore, blackout sleep, um, which was grea...

But I was never addressing my anxiety,
and I never thought I had anxiety. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

But I was never addressing my anxiety, and I never thought I...

So it was, "Oh no, I have anxiety
from my Adderall." - Take Your Pills: Xanax

So it was, "Oh no, I have anxiety from my Adderall.&quo...

It was always the result
of something else for a long time. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

It was always the result of something else for a long time.

And then, as I met other people, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

And then, as I met other people,

The introduction
of medical treatments - Take Your Pills: Xanax

The introduction of medical treatments

If you have glaucoma in your eye
and have trouble seeing, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

If you have glaucoma in your eye and have trouble seeing,

If you have diabetes
and have insulin dysregulation, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

If you have diabetes and have insulin dysregulation,

So why is it a moral failing
that, um, I am susceptible to panic? - Take Your Pills: Xanax

So why is it a moral failing that, um, I am susceptible to p...

There's a biological problem,
and you fix it. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

There's a biological problem, and you fix it.

Benzodiazepines were invented
in the 1950s, early '60s. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

Benzodiazepines were invented in the 1950s, early '60s.

There was a great deal of excitement
because they were to replace barbiturates. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

There was a great deal of excitement because they were to re...

There's a strong possibility that
at this moment, in your medicine cabinet, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

There's a strong possibility that at this moment, in yo...

The number one cause of death
by poisoning in the United States. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

The number one cause of death by poisoning in the United Sta...

You wake up a few hours later,
and you forgot how much you've taken. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

You wake up a few hours later, and you forgot how much you&#...

So by the 1970s,
benzodiazepines topped the charts - Take Your Pills: Xanax

So by the 1970s, benzodiazepines topped the charts

There is something to the idea - Take Your Pills: Xanax

There is something to the idea

It is the literal opium of the masses.
It's the benzodiazepines of the masses. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

It is the literal opium of the masses. It's the benzodi...

On an individual level,
the unhappy housewife, - Take Your Pills: Xanax

On an individual level, the unhappy housewife,

I can't believe the two of you are eating
in the middle of a crisis like this. - Take Your Pills: Xanax

I can't believe the two of you are eating in the middle...

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A cure for some and a curse for others, widely prescribed anti-anxiety medication is examined by patients and experts in this revealing documentary.

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Director: Blair Foster

Writer: Claire Gordon

Production: Shriver Media,Motto Pictures

Genre: documentary

Year: 2022

MetaScore: N/A/100

ImdbRating: 6.1

BoxOffice: N/A

Released: 30 Nov 2022

Awards: N/A

Homepage: https://www.netflix.com/title/81251342