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Take Your Pills: Xanax

If you take them every day,multiple times a day, you know, abruptly discontinuingthese...

If you take them every day,
multiple times a day, you know, abruptly discontinuing
these medicines is very uncomfortable

Full Transcript

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If you take them every day, multiple times a day,
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you know, abruptly discontinuing these medicines is very uncomfortable.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
00:41:42
Uploaded
Apr 26, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Shriver Media,Motto Pictures

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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.
I've even seen the distress of benzodiazepine withdrawal - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:09
I've even seen the distress of benzodiazepine withdrawa...
It was the biggest... ...it was the biggest mistake of my life. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:06
It was the biggest... ...it was the biggest mistake of my li...
I love white-water rafting and kayaking. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:05
I love white-water rafting and kayaking.
In fact, I love so many high-risk, adrenaline-type sports, - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:14
In fact, I love so many high-risk, adrenaline-type sports,
I think I was maybe on one milligram of Xanax in college, or half a milligram. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:07
I think I was maybe on one milligram of Xanax in college, or...
And then over the years, it creeped up to one milligram, - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:16
And then over the years, it creeped up to one milligram,
And I never took any more than my exact daily dose. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:07
And I never took any more than my exact daily dose.
So in about 2013, - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:15
So in about 2013,
He reduced my Xanax from three milligrams to two-and-a-half milligrams. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:08
He reduced my Xanax from three milligrams to two-and-a-half ...
And then, out of the blue, - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:08
And then, out of the blue,
Things like sounds and smells being overwhelming. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:06
Things like sounds and smells being overwhelming.
Random muscles would just twitch. I had this horrible, um, brain fog. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:07
Random muscles would just twitch. I had this horrible, um, b...
And the physical fatigue is one of the worst symptoms. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:05
And the physical fatigue is one of the worst symptoms.
I went to see rheumatologists - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:07
I went to see rheumatologists
Finally, uh, a doctor said, - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:16
Finally, uh, a doctor said,
The Mayo neurologist said, "I think you have autoimmune encephalitis." - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:20
The Mayo neurologist said, "I think you have autoimmune...
And along this journey, I started asking the doctors - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:24
And along this journey, I started asking the doctors
"I don't know where else to go with this, - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:07
"I don't know where else to go with this,
February of 2018, - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:10
February of 2018,
I could hear the kids downstairs, - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:08
I could hear the kids downstairs,