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Take Your Pills: Xanax

You don't really get "Whoo's,"it's more like, "Yeah." Benzodiazepines

You don't really get "Whoo's,"
it's more like, "Yeah." Benzodiazepines

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You don't really get "Whoo's," it's more like, "Yeah."
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Benzodiazepines.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
42
Timestamp in Movie
00:06:31
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.
Klonopin. Ativan. One of the first ones is called Librium. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:07
Klonopin. Ativan. One of the first ones is called Librium.
Benzodiazepines enhance a neurotransmitter in the brain called GABA. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:07
Benzodiazepines enhance a neurotransmitter in the brain call...
That is, it reduces the communication from one brain cell to another. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:06
That is, it reduces the communication from one brain cell to...
So it calms the brain down. It's like, "Shh." You know? - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:06
So it calms the brain down. It's like, "Shh."...
It calms all of these fight-flight responses that we have. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:06
It calms all of these fight-flight responses that we have.
So it's depressing all of those activations. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:06
So it's depressing all of those activations.
And as a result, - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:07
And as a result,
I could think clearly. Um, my thoughts would flow smoothly. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:05
I could think clearly. Um, my thoughts would flow smoothly.
It made me feel like a better version of myself, - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:06
It made me feel like a better version of myself,
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