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Take Your Pills: Xanax

It made me feel likea better version of myself, and I think in some ways, I was

It made me feel like
a better version of myself, and I think in some ways, I was

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It made me feel like a better version of myself,
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and I think in some ways, I was.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
60
Timestamp in Movie
00:07:28
Uploaded
Apr 25, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Shriver Media,Motto Pictures

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Movie Summary

A cure for some and a curse for others, widely prescribed anti-anxiety medication is examined by patients and experts in this revealing documentary.
By the time I was in second grade, I knew I was a nervous kid. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:06
By the time I was in second grade, I knew I was a nervous ki...
Um, I knew that I had a nervous stomach, um, and I didn't like it. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:06
Um, I knew that I had a nervous stomach, um, and I didn'...
Very early in life, I developed an acute phobia - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:10
Very early in life, I developed an acute phobia
From the time I was like six years old, - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:11
From the time I was like six years old,
And sort of the amount of time that I spend surveying my environment - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:10
And sort of the amount of time that I spend surveying my env...
As I got older, um, I would start to get panic attacks. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:06
As I got older, um, I would start to get panic attacks.
Flying still provokes overwhelming physical anxiety. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:06
Flying still provokes overwhelming physical anxiety.
If I have to do public speaking, overwhelming physical anxiety. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:07
If I have to do public speaking, overwhelming physical anxie...
As I, you know, went through my career in journalism and writing and editing, - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:11
As I, you know, went through my career in journalism and wri...
Over my thirties and into my forties, - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:11
Over my thirties and into my forties,
And I still felt anxious - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:11
And I still felt anxious
When the red light on the camera goes on, - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:06
When the red light on the camera goes on,
And then, in 2014, I published the book My Age of Anxiety... - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:14
And then, in 2014, I published the book My Age of Anxiety...
A, I'd be cured, which would be the main thing, - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:15
A, I'd be cured, which would be the main thing,
Imagine having all your everyday activities crippled - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:07
Imagine having all your everyday activities crippled
Its author, Scott Stossel, is the editor of The Atlantic and a Harvard graduate. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:07
Its author, Scott Stossel, is the editor of The Atlantic and...
I think in the short term, it had a paradoxical effect - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:06
I think in the short term, it had a paradoxical effect
Like, my levels of, you know, benzodiazepine consumption went up. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:07
Like, my levels of, you know, benzodiazepine consumption wen...
So I have tried lots of things, - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:10
So I have tried lots of things,
But I take antidepressants, benzodiazepines, which are... - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:07
But I take antidepressants, benzodiazepines, which are...