I started doing drugs since my teenage, got addicted to opioid. Spent my whole life fighting opioid addiction. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Was actually diagnosed with cptsd. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 4 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
I love hearing great life changing stories like this. I want to become a mycologist because honestly mushrooms are the best form of medicine (most especially the psychedelic ones) There are so many people today used magic mushrooms to ween off of SSRI medication- its amazing! Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death buddy, lets be honest here.
Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? I'm really interested in treating my mental health without Rxs. I live in Australia don't know much about these. I'm so glad they helped you. I can't wait to get them too. Really need a reliable source 🙏
Thanks for sharing your story. That's rough I sympathize. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health. I will pray for you all.
@A Google user Wait, so this shocks you? You abused your script and you ran out of your meds early and your freaking out because you can't get your script filled?
@A Google user go detox, they will taper you off most likely depending where you live or where your going . Benzo withdraw isn't fun. Can't take them daily if you gonna abuse them, because shit like this happens. Wish you well
I was heavily addicted to xanax from 2014-2018 and alcoholic from 2018-2021. Thank you God for changing my life! 5 years sober from xanax 2 years sober from alcohol 🙏
100% agree. i think if we knew our addiction and withdrawl was just as serious as coke,opiats, yatta yatta we wouldent have been addicted for so long. stay away from the devils drug
@Cantwait4summer the way to do it is with alot of cbd and\or thc edibles. Another form of benzo with a small dosage to taper off. With an anti seizure medication. And pure prayer. The first 3 days are the hardest. Get through that you'll start feeling "eh i can beat this". Im the biggest xanax addict. Plz trust me. I was on 6mgs a day. Yes 60mgs. 30 bars. Not no more in Jesus name. Well like down to 4-5 but graudually going down 💯💨🤙🙌🙌🙌
Cantwait4summer I didn’t get addicted I just bought about 50 bars as a one-off and kept eating them till I came out of a blackout being told and shown videos of myself being a zombie. My weakness is in binging not addiction
My doctor prescribed me 2mg Xanax a day. She said it would just be for 2-3 weeks until the anti-anxiety medication kicked in. She did not tell me the next 6 months of my life would be hell trying to quit. The panic attacks I got trying to quit were 10X worse than any panic attack that I had before.
Xanax is usually prescribed for it's almost instant anti-anxiety properties. It doesn't take a few weeks to start working. One pill is all it takes. They can even be taken during a panic attack and are commonly prescribed for that because they work so well. There are plenty of anti anxiety medications that do take a few weeks to work. Most are non Benzos though.
Same. The cure was worse than the ailment imo. Hardest withdrawals I ever had out of all the withdrawals was Xanax. Coming off each time I was usually in jail lol go figure. Glad I’m 15 years off from playing with psyche meds.
Multiple studies have been done where it's basically do "x" amount of exercise for this long and the amount of people who report positive effects are like 60%
I got Xanax prescribed by a doctor for anxiety. I had never even heard of Xanax. Was fully hooked after the first bar. I did them for about 9 months. Most of that time was a complete blackout. Wrecked a car, lost a job, went to jail and even pissed the bed a time or two. So I decided to quit cold turkey. I went from have hundreds of milligrams in my system to zero. Was the worst 2 weeks of my life. Have never been so sick and literally thought I was gonna die. The irony is, I took them for anxiety and the addiction and all the bs that comes with it caused way more anxiety. I really can’t believe that doctors put people on that drug everyday.
After 10 years of living on Benzos and alcohol i finally ended up in a psychiatric ward before going into rehab. I was so paranoid, anxious, neurotic and in so much pain that every day i thought i was going to die. It was like having a panic attack 24/7. It took at least 10 months before I started feeling somewhat "normal" in my own skin. Xanax and other benzos are no joke.
The issue with severe depression and anxiety is that when people tell you to do exercise you don’t have the confidence or motivation to do so and the longer it goes on the worse it gets and the harder it is to do that, feels like you’re stuck in a deep hole and it just keeps getting deeper
idk you but i love you. it’s hard to not beat yourself up about that stuff but don’t let em have access to your emotions like that. People say that stuff to try to get a reaction out of you.. i’ve also been in that severe depressive state as well I was addicted to adderall from 15-18 and i’m 21 now and still recovering.. It feels like a hopeless cycle of guilt and shame but don’t give up! say your affirmations/prayers/manifestations and keep pushing💯Trust me it’s tough thinking about the big picture/end goal when you can barely get out of bed or brush your teeth but when you hit rock bottom the only way is up🙏You don’t gotta become some body builder, just focus on making ONE small tiny change at a time. Whether that’s go to bed earlier or eat X food instead of Y. Reach out if you ever need a friend you got me!
@@sarahko1014 I’ve never read such an accurate description of what I go through daily. Additionally, I also feel like beating myself up for not being in a position to be motivated/confident and as a result, not being able to exercise or do simple things like that. Thank you kindly for your words and I wish you all the best with your journey as well. - a Canadian
The thing is thought, that you can exercise even in your home, no need to go anywhere, but I get it can be difficult if you just can't find the motivation to even start it. If you don't exercise at all, this will surely on it's on cause a depression.
I take psych meds, and I wish I didn’t, and I do all the other stuff: ie lots of exercise, healthy food, meaningful social life, etc. It’s best to not take anything if you can, but it’s obnoxious to hear people who don’t need psych meds to tell you about them. Obviously they’re overprescribed, pharmaceutical companies have a profit incentive, and changing your habits is the best thing, but maybe Joe Rogan and Dr Wily Beardo here don’t know exactly what’s going on with me or other people
Mark D dude it’s not like that at all...10x the flu? Have you ever had the flu? Benzo withdrawal is worse than the flu and certainly much worse than opiate withdrawal.
Bullshit. I sat in jail for 30 days due to a bar fight coming off Xanax 2mg and booze been taking it everyday for 2 to 3 years at 30 years old. 7 days in i was feeling normal again. Unless you are a weak minded fuck you are not dying.
@@michaelcapo5512 I took 10mg of zanax a day for 20 years at 30 years old and got off of it in 24 hours, no problem. yall are just weak little people and I'm alpha AF!
Me to friend. Was clean for four years until two Weeks ago. Now I'm 2 Days clean and feel like Hell. Guess my brain had forgotten the withdrawel from these little suckers. It's torture.
Illtempo 1980 ...got that right. klonopin withdraw is worse than oxycontin. i took both for 15yrs. got off the oyxes in 6mo. it took over a yr.of "all my bones are trying to climb out of my body" to get off the klonopin .
@@fourdeadinohio8303 i honestly dont think ones worse i think its based on the person and the ammount because oxycontin was way harder then xanex to quit for me.. like 10 times harder physically and mentally
@@user-vz2sy7tx3w ..i can relate. i had 3 back surgeries in the 90s and was taking 8 vicodins a day when oxycontin came out. i stared out with 2 5mg. by 2015 i was taking 4 90mg. and 2 percs a day plus 3 klonopins. i look back and can't even think how i functioned. just glad i'm not going thru withdraw any more.
I had a few years where panic attacks were killing me. They were so bad I lost control of motor functions. Tried Xanax twice and chose the panic attacks - that is one nightmare of a drug. Ultimately, going to the gym every morning and then swimming at night fixed me right up.
There is no doubt that benzodiazepines are bad…but I work out daily as well.. I still have major sensory panic attacks with extreme dizziness..actually they are getting worse..my BP is super low..so that’s being looked into.. Exercise is amazing..no question But it didn’t cure all for me..at least for anxiety Really there’s kinda nothing that works for some people…
I'm suffering greatly day 6 Xanax withdrawal. I feel insane, detached broke reality. Such weird insane stuff going on, I feel like I'm losing my mind. I thought I might be getting better but it's gotten worse the last couple days. Lots of panic attacks too. Praying this nightmare will end soon.
@@robertalust5466 benzos are the reason why the blood pressure is low. I experience that. I really wanna get off Xanax. Went from 3mg a day to 1,5mg 1,75 yesterday. I wish I could just wake up and my panic disorder disappears.
@@Topofthetopapex I hear you.. I wish mine would disappear too… It’s a tough existence to struggle with panic disorder..and all the tools learned in therapy can go right out the window in the middle of a severe attack…it’s why benzodiazepines really work as that rescue…but they aren’t good long term at all.. Good for you for tapering..that must be difficult My low BP is from really severe anemia.. Blood transfusions and iron transfusions can help with that..
I remember quitting Xanax my first week at college in 2013. I had taken adderal and Xanax every single day in high school as my doctor prescribed. I still remember withdrawing in my dorm room, forcing myself to go to the library to study, and literally hearing sounds and voices in my head in the quiet library. Took about 3 weeks to feel “normal” after 4 years of every day use. I would go on to substitute alcohol for the Xanax for the next 3 years until I quit drinking cold turkey too. That was much harder, took 5 months clean before I felt better and not in a mind fog. Sober life is boring but life gets boring as you get older anyway.
First off it depends on how much MG Xanax u were taking. I had a seizure taking 4-5 Xanax a day and decided to go cold turkey. The worse mistake ever. Xanax is a med where u NEED TO WEEN or taper off of. Even an ER doctor told me that. If you are just taking 1 mg it shouldn’t. 4-5 bars a day and cold turkey u will go into a seizure and the only way to counter that is take a bar and u will snap out of it.
Benzo withdrawal is absolutely awful. You take the drug in the first place to mitigate anxiety. Withdrawal for me was anxiety so terrible that my skin was crawling.
YEa. It just defers the anxiety so when you stop it all hits you at once. I just remember for 3 weeks my vision was blurry and my head was at war. Fireworks going off.
In my humble opinion, the worst kind of addiction is that of alcohol. Not only does it deprive you of any human dignity, but it also ruins your entire body.
Real panic attacks are just as intense as a withdrawal. If you live with insane ptsd style anxiety all your life... Withdrawals are laughable. Pint in 15 seconds when I was 12.. 58 cans in one day , 15 top shelf long Islands. Almost a whole bag of wine, 12 pack, half gallon of whiskey and vodka.. That Almost killed me. Bartenders thought I was a freak of nature. I started shaking when I smelled whiskey.. stopped immediately no problem. Just blacked out for a week from Xanax last refill. Will easily forget about them again. Meth and Opioids were laughable. Cigarettes I need intense work outs and keep busy. But I'll suck ya off for a can of soda.. I need my high fructose and caffeine. everyone is different
From 24 yrs old to 29. 2 years straight of minimum 1mg xanax a day and 5 years of minimum 40mg of hydrocodone a day. Was a living hell to kick. DONT EVEN START!!!
Been sober from cocaine and Xanax for 3 years now , sadly though my friend did not make it , he passed about 3 years back from Xanax pressed with fentanyl . If you struggle you can get better , it’s hard but it’s possible , you got this ❤️
Depression is debilitating and is a disease...try and tell a person that can't eat,shower get out of bed or even feel love to just go exercise.Dont act like an expert until you are in that situation
I agree completely! It’s bothersome that people who have never experienced major depression tend to liken it to a more intense version of sadness. It is nothing slightly related to sadness. Unexplainable really.
@Deborah Hesselblad. Well said. Easy to talk about how bad it is. But when you feel better from taking medicine that helps you. It’s a lifeline to many.
Yes you’re right. For some people like me however we had symptoms of anxiety/depression in response to trauma. I was prescribed a cocktail of meds for my PTSD and it helped rid me of the pain of it in the short term. 8 years after the initial prescription I felt it was time to come off. I think the point of what the doctor is saying is that these medications are over prescribed which I think they are.
I had taken Xanax for 10 years! I’m two years sober now. I had to gradually get off them with small dose or tiny pieces also I found Rhodiola and Ashwagena worked wonders for my anxiety, not having a panic attack, and overall withdrawal. First year was uplifting momentum for being strong enough to know to get out now. And year 2 here I am researching chemical reaction and effects it has on the mind and body. I think that’s awesome about GABA because I started taking supplements for my chemical imbalance and Gaba I take daily. I miss the high of being “Happy” all the time. I was addicted to instant gratification. I had to re learn my emotions again because I had forgotten what it was like to feel anything other than happy. Someday I want to write a book. The toll it has on your mind and body is something I never saw or heard about to anyone who has got off Xanax. I just want to say you are stronger than you know! 🏆And I hope you are now living life to the fullest!❤️✊
I've been on Xanax for about 20 years. I've tried tapering for months to like .5 most but I usually take 3mg a day and that's what I'm on and been on for years now. How do I get off this crap. It's terrible withdrawals, horriblle
@@NonBathingApe6969 i would buy me Gold scale (precision scale) and crush those pills and take every week 1% of the pills in less than of 2 years you are drug. Your body will change but your mind has also to change you have to hate those Xanaxs.
It's easy to say but it's worse than anything I've ever been on. And believe me I've done my share of substances in my life. Hands down the worst withdrawal, it's like opioid withdrawal but hallucinating, seizures, 4 times I've tried and failed. Damn near thought I was gonna die the last time. I have bad anxiety and panic attacks but I'm so sick of being dependent on it. The only way I could see it might happen would be a slow snail taper for a year smh
I’ve been clinically depressed most of my life and I have also been sober for eight months from alcohol and this clip inspired me to write a book about it
I got 7 months clean off the xannys feel good.... I miss them tho floating around in the plaid pantry for 20 mins getting snacks then I time travel back to my place and wake up in my computer chair covered in twinky rappers
@@devantepoe2684 It is a devilishly good feeling, stupid though it may sound to non-users. With all the time I wasted nodding out in my teens and twenties, I could've had a PhD! I kicked a nasty heroin habit _in a flash_ compared to the trouble I've had with benzos, especially Xanax. Now the cartels are making their own 'bars' and putting fentanyl in them -- plus y'know Flacco's dirty hands are touching 'em -- so if there ever was a reason to stay away, that's two.
@@bveracka I'm kicking a 23 year long Xanax habit right now. Been 4 1/2 months clean after tapering off for a while with medical assistance. I took them as prescribed cause of severe anxiety and never did them to get high really. An average of 0.5-0.75mg 4-5 times a week. Now I'm struggling with terrible head tremors and muscle spasms. Like my central nervous system is in a constant fight or flight mode. Inner tremors, muscle tension, body "zaps", uneven heart rate, heat waves, constant anxiety. The list of withdrawal symptoms is long. Some say the symptoms could last for years, ref Ashton Report.
He’s spot on with how drug companies are trying to convince everyone that regular human emotions and times of sadness and anxiety are somehow not normal and need to be treasured with a drug. People, everyone gets sad, everybody gets nervous or anxious. It passes, and there are ways to fix it that don’t involve highly addictive drugs
My dad was schizophrenic. He would hallucinate sometimes, but mostly it manifested as severe crippling depression, the kind where he was practically catatonic. After his first suicide attempt via overdosing on his meds, he lost his job. Later mom left for another man because she couldn't handle working 2-3 jobs anymore just to make ends meet, and honestly I couldn't blame her, though I sure as hell tried to. Shit was fucked up. But from the lowest point of his life he got back up on his feet and made something of his life again. He seemed...maybe not exactly happy but content with his life. Then one day he decided he felt so good about himself and where he was at that he went off his meds without anyone knowing. A week later he shot himself in the heart. He didn't come back from that. Fucking rebound.
Vorpal Cheezit I got cut cold turkey off valium after 5 years..I ended up in the ICU after a failed suicide attempt.It took me 6 months after that.Constant suicidal ideation. Sorry for your loss.
Vorpal Cheezit I’m so sorry, I can’t imagine your pain and loss. Doctors really need to emphasize with their patients that yes you will start feeling better on these meds, and that means that they are working, it does not mean you are cured and should stop the medication but if your thinking about it please come see me immediately before doing so. But they don’t do that, but they need to. They overlook to many things. My doctor years ago failed to tell me that you can’t take benzos and ambien together it can be deadly, and I did that a lot. All the docs wanna do is push the latest and greatest they get kickbacks for prescribing. Anyway, again I’m sorry about your dad. God bless and happy holidays.
My Mistake was taking Way too many Shrooms without Waiting a single Day Between each Trip - HPPD isn't too Fun; 8 Months Later and I have Anxiety, Constant Tracers and "Flashbacks" where I start to Trip a Bit. Shrooms are Fun, but you Gotta be Careful as you should with Any Other Drug!
I have a friend finishing up med school who’s probably the smartest person I know. He’s experimented with all kinds of drugs (weed, coke, acid, shrooms, ketamine, etc.) but Xanax is the one thing he said he would never touch.
im on an anti psychotic, before i was on meds i was stuck in my bed with crippling anxiety, i understand that pills are the last resort but without what im on , i would be dead.
Which anti psych out of curiosity? I was given an anti-psych for an extreme migraine in the hospital, just one dose. It gave me RLS for 3 weeks, for every hour of the day. And it also gave me extreme dysphoria, I felt like I was on a bad trip for those whole 3 weeks. Fast forward a year later - another extreme migraine. When I get to the hospital I let them know "No anti-psychs". And what do they do? They IV me one. Two minutes pass and I turn to my sister with tears in my eyes and tell her I think they gave me one. She didn't believe me at first, but after another minute half my face was drooping and my leg muscles tightened so hard my fucking leg almost broke. So it gave me dystonia for a couple days. Had to stay on the cardio floor because my resting heart rate was 150-180 resting. They treated me like royalty those few days, I was on fentanyl+ativan almost 24/7. I'm not a very vocal person, so I didn't try to take action against the hospital. But that whole hospital visit was essentially free, so I'm not complaining. Anyways my body chemistry is very weird. I'm hyper sensitive to DXM, cannabis makes me vomit profusely, and a lot of other things. I just wish I could remember what medication they gave me so I can put it on my record/file not to ever administer it again. Aside from that, the only drug I take daily is morphine/other opiates. Fortunately (and unfortunately) opiates are the only drug I don't get extreme side effects from.
I was already on 180 mg methadone when a dr prescribed four klonopins and four seroquels daily- for six and a half years I didn't miss a day and then he died and I couldn't get any more. It took my will to live. I lost almost 60 lbs in two months. You are right- it's much worse than opiates. Your brain is out of control for two months and I couldn't talk. I couldn't drive and lost the methadone two months later. I'm probably lucky to be alive! I was 66 years old when this happened.
I can get anything I want already. The last thing I'm going to do is start taking pins again. It's been several years and my mind is still messed up. I quit taking methadone after taking it for forty years about six months ago.
I stopped consuming alcohol, stopped benzo addiction and antidepressants. It was so hard, the withdrawal symptoms were hell, even after 2 years still had symptoms, and detox teas and exercise really helped me.
The problem with joes simple take on ssri's is the semantics of the word "depression". Depression is a normal human emotion, you lose a loved one or a job and you feel sad. This is not what ssri's are for. Major Depressive Disorder aka Clinical Depression is an entire different ball game and is a medical emergency. Dramatic biological and physical effects that make simply getting out of bed near impossible let alone being productive or going to work. Thats why it is so simple for the 95% of the population who have never had clinical depression to say "ahhh just toughin up think positive"... I assure you if that was possible these people would do so. Imagine being surrounded by billions of dollars puppies and the people you love the most and feeling no joy and all you have is dizziness mind fog and gut wrenching hopelessness. Thats what clinical depression is, its not effected by your life situation or thinking patterns. Its a biological disorder where the feeling of calm or joy is impossible to experience. Its an isolating nightmare I wouldnt wish on my worst enemy, like sinking into an abyss and nobody can pull you out as you spiral down. For these people with the actual medical condition of mdd/clinical depression, ssri's are a life raft in the darkest of seas. If you dont understand what I am saying consider yourself lucky you arent in the percentage of people who have to go through that living hell.
Yep. People who say "omg I'm like so depressed I felt sad for like, a long time" can come talk to me when they have lost any will to live to the point where they piss themselves in bed rather than move a single muscle. If maintaining a heart beat required conscious effort, I would have stopped that too. Fuck, I was so bad I may as well have literally been dead for several months.
In the video they mention that it should be used short term for major depression. Which yes it should cause all drugs have deminishing returns. It should just be used to stabilize someone and then get them psychological help. Psychiatrist have become the voodoo witch doctors of the current age.
Depression is like sharing a room with a giant black bear. Can't play dead like one would to get rid of a grizzly, it must be fought. Some days you'll wake up with that black bear sitting right on your chest and it won't move an inch if unless you fight. You're still fighting a wild animal that outweighs you by 800 pounds, but even putting up a small fight will make it back off a little. That bear will never go far, but you don't have to let it eat you, there are options out there.
Very insightful. Everything is subjective. With todays rampant sin/cruelty apathy is a go to for egophiles and average people alike. Pathy must be pounded into many people with a sledgehammer, or putting them in that position so they can feel it. Not everyone of course....but trends are not built on humanity.....it's virtue signaling, short term reward, applying labels, shifting blame....etcetera. Net benefit for me and F U because your problems must be self induced. A common social construct among populations (whom are no longer the ones creating social constructs) is that all fixes are available to those whom attempt to seek them as our countries are superiour so F everyone and I will just work to prove how virtuos I am. BS. In my country it is an absolute socialist illusion that fools everyone. Your description of this disorder is excellent however it was required that you deliver it in a way that a child could grasp it.....would anyone even bother reading it all? Everyone is already so great and brilliant that many I would bet would immediatly feel superiour......I'm really guessing here, but we do have serious problems ingrained in society threw engineered constructs.
youre not understanding what Joe is saying. There may be imbalance chemically in the sufferers of depression but there are many many other means to achieve improvement on there mental health that don't involve taking a serious medication with serious side effects and also can generally out perform these drugs. Unfortunately it's the fact that a pill is easier to swallow then making serious lifestyle changes like beginning to exercise, getting a healthy diet, enough sleep, sun exposure etc etc.
I feel very fortunate to have escaped this horrible drug, I had it prescribed to me in high school and I took it for years before it was taken away, and it was tough no doubt but I didn’t even realize I had been addicted to it.
I’m a 25 year old fit male eat healthy and workout and I had social anxiety so bad my face would turn red anytime someone talked to me and anti depressants cured that and now I can stay calm in any social situation so they clearly work
The problems is when someone (like myself) was given SSRIs as a kid or someone decides to just trust their doctors decision and finds themselves now on them for nearly 18 years. There seems to be no going back. They are too integrated into your brain and any attempt to remove them is a waking nightmare.
Exactly. I was prescribed them and left to my own devices for a decade. A periodic evaluation with a “professional” was required in order for the prescriptions to be refilled but it was more of a checkbox activity. At the time I trusted them and the process. You really do have to take hold of your own healthcare. Medical “professionals” in most cases can’t be trusted either due to lack of knowledge of lack of caring for the patient unfortunately. After a decade I was able to come off them with awful side effects. But these were something I shouldn’t have been on longer than 6-12 months just to get me through PTSD which was triggered by a terrible divorce I was going through and not some chemical imbalance or mental health issue.
I have worked out hardcore my whole life. However, I actually discovered at some point that a lot of my anxiety was actually because of too much exercise. It increased my cortisol levels too high, too often. Generally, exercise is obviously good for you, but I don't think that hardcore exercise or even a little exercise will cure everyone's problems.
Dated a girl who has been on a rather large dose of Xanax most of her life.....she’d blackout conversations, run into furniture, very emotionally volatile, and her immune system was very weak and always low energy. Avoid at all costs.
Can we talk about the fact that at 17 yrs old I described symptoms of social anxiety disorder to my GP and was given 1mg of xanax per day... 18 yrs later I've been moved to 4mg a day and asked repeatedly to be weened off the drug with no assistance so I'm doing it myself
I was on escitalopram (SSRI) for almost a year. It made it difficult to sleep, it barely worked, it destroyed my attention span, and the physical withdrawals were disgusting. I kept getting this nauseating electric shock sensation throughout my body every 20-30 seconds for a few weeks after stopping I recently started self-medicating with marijuana edibles after it became legal here in Canada, and I've noticed a dramatic improvement in almost every aspect of my life. My stress and anxiety is reduced. My attention span has improved dramatically. It's as if I've gone back to having as much energy as I did in my early teen years. This is just from having a 10mg dose every couple days to keep a baseline amount in my system over time. I'm not even getting high.
Lexapro withdrawals made me absolutely lose my shit. I took 10mg a day (sometimes 15mg) for a year, and it helped me a bit for about 2 months. After that it was just side effects so I went off them cold turkey. The next 2 weeks of my life were absolute hell. Fevers, insomnia, insane mental instability (crying to laughing hysterically within minutes), terrible mental fog, just to name a few. All of that just from an SSRI 😳. I cannot imagine what benzo withdrawals would be like... I self medicated with indica THC oil for a bit, but eventually every single experience I had would turn into wild paranoia, even if I took as little as 10mg of THC... Nowadays working out, meditation and journaling keep me relatively sane. Hopefully THC still does the job for ya, anxiety can be incredibly overwhelming at times.
I was on xans for months. When I quit the withdrawals were terrible I felt like I was outside of my body looking over myself dying. And 7 seizures I thought I was gonna die. plz don’t take them
How do you know you had 7 seizures? Ive been on klo opin for over a year and tried to quit. I would get delusional paranoid go into psychosis. This past Tuesday I was over at my mom's because I was scared to be home alone I was so sick. My aunt,my mom's sister, stopped by to bring my mom and new phone cover and while she was over there they said I had two seizures but I do not remember any of it and I thought they were lying to me until I could feel the hard knot on the back of my head caused from me falling out in the kitchen floor and hitting my head really hard and having two seizures. It's very scary. I'm going back to my doctor Thursday and demanding that he put me back on it and safely wean me off of them. A seizure can literally kill you
Fuck off is it my dad got some we had a few drops and sat there like ehh fuck all's happening about 3 hours later we had a legitimate sword fight with the old swords above his fireplace then had an argument
Been strung out on benzos many times over the years, Xanax/ benzo addiction is one of the worst chemical dependencies you can acquire. I love the feeling of freedom and blankness of emotions for a while, but it makes me do reckless shit.
Did for me too. Took a bar, had a couple of drinks, I was at a restaurants with some friends and one of them was heckling me a bit, so I stood up and just knocked him out cold. Didnt feel anything. He was fine just had a concussion but I never touched the stuff again.
@@andersonandrew112 yeah man when I go out it’s one or the other. Xanax lowers my inhibitions and, at least to me, feels like a cleaner version of being drunk. Lets me strike up conversations pretty easily, but I don’t mix that shit. I’ve been out with friends that didn’t start fights or anything, but I had to basically babysit.
I’m 43 yrs old an have been taking Xanax since I was 20. It’s done nothing but make my mood worse an panic horribly. I just about died coming off of them on a rehab floor, been clean for 2 months an it’s a very good feeling 🙏
@kikelomoedward4964 I’ve heard that Telegram an Insta are beat bogus an to stay away. I’d love to try DMT but have no clue where to actually get real stuff
He’s absolutely right about how horrific Benzo addiction is - I’ve been through it and go through it now bc of panic disorder and just weaning off a little bit is complete hell That said, breathing techniques are total junk science for real panic disorders and have been shown to be ineffective in several studies Most people don’t know what real anxiety and panic is and have no frame of reference. Unless you’ve gone to the ER thinking you’re dying , you don’t know what a panic attack is. And unless you’ve had a panic attack so bad that you ran away into the bathroom freaking out in a grocery store due to how intense the attack is, you can’t grasp panic disorder I know I couldn’t until it happened to be. Breathing techniques are useless there. The only real things that help are a) benzos for immediate relief b) exposure therapy which is hard and few doctors know how to execute it (dr Claire weeks wrote a book about it in the 60s and she experienced it so any sufferer who reads her book knows it’s legit by the way she describes it) Real anxiety is not just feeling nervous and uncomfortable in social situations because you’re awkward and lack confidence. It’s not that normal nervousness of knowing you have to present to a huge crowd at work. It’s a fight or flight adrenaline dump that can’t be comprehended until you experience it
Exactly. Well said. It’s being indistinguishable from a heart attack. Then if you have health and heart issues it can cause an actual heart attack. So u run around the room thinking I’m about to die, this is it, I’m about to die. Omg omg omg my heart is thumping so much. Elephant on my chest. Excessive sweating. Intense dysphoria. Omg I’m about to die right here right now. Hand goes numb. Face goes grey. It feels like a stroke. These were my last symptoms during a panic attack. I went to ER. Blood pressure 160/105 . Pulse 175. It was horrible.
@@tysonsimmons2295 I can tell from your description you’ve had a really bad one before I don’t think most people have had one anywhere near close to that - and they just don’t know any better (lucky them) The ones you’re describing - my first one ever was like that, and then since then it was only whenever I’d smoke weed that they could completely take me over like that - for up to four hours at a time. Just one panic attack rolling into another. Tracked it on my Fitbit too. Completely terrifying experience. Absolutely horrifying and frankly I think death is better because at least death just takes you - rather than steeping your in fear for hours like some kind of unholy tea bag. I clocked 210/105 or something like that one night in the midst of a bad one after a little tiny piece of a thc gummy and a couple glasses of wine. Chewed and aspirin immediately. Anyhow I don’t bother trying weed anymore. Used to be fine, then it wasn’t. Then I tried microdosing because I thought confronting the fear could be therapeutic - and that worked for a time. Until I had just a teeny bit too much and it didn’t.
@@Merknilash holy smokes man! Your blood pressure was 210/105!!? That’s insane. You must’ve felt terrified and awful. May I ask what they did for you at the hospital. If you feel up to it, I wouldn’t mind reading the entire process, from when you walked in to the moment you walked out of there. The weed induced attacks happen often to people who used to smoke a lot say as a youth, but quit for a time and went through some serious medical issues, or other traumas which then comes in to cause these heavy episodes from marijuana. I go through minor attacks when I smoke sometimes (twice a month about for smoking), but they are no where near that bad and are all in my head. I found that the only times I am able to smoke marijuana and enjoy it is when I have benzos and booze on board. And I either go straight to bed or have something to occupy my mind like music or film. Have you ever heard about microdosing?
@@tysonsimmons2295 I didn’t go to the hospital - I went once years and years ago (2008) when I woke up with a bad panic attack and didn’t know what was happening to me Doc tried to tell me it was SVTs or some crap - which it wasn’t - and that I was fine On the occasion where my home reader said 210/105 - that was with my heart rate pounding at 150-160 I chewed an aspirin and took 4x my usual dose of Xanax and it calmed down But yep that’s my history - used to smoke Schwag from 15 to early 20s and I can barely even smell the stuff without it sending me on an insanely strong panic attack I tried micro dosing but it just didn’t matter so I gave up - sadly But I suspect a lot of my issues are due to a 10 year + low dose Xanax dependency. Even at only .25mg or less per day (usually .125) it’s enough to make the brain so sensitive to stimulants that anything can set you off
I refused to take meds for my generalized anxiety disorder. I started taking Indica edibles and they work great. I take them twice a week and they keep my anxiety in check for the whole week.
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I love marijuana. I like to smoke good bud- I don't like the concentrates- it reminds me too much of crack. It makes a dreary usual day interesting.I could see religions with marijuana as the Sacramental host like the Rastafarians. I'll be the rasta- man!
73 year old male , been on valium zanax for 40 years, had hip replaced 21 years ago, i need 4mgs a day or it is no sleep, then no sleep, day three, no sleep. Day four crazy horrible mental dilutions, vertigo, dry heaving , I CAN NOT STAND IT. I THINK I WILL BE HOOKED FOR LIFE. GODDAMN YOU FOR MAKING THIS DEMON DRUG.
I've been injured a few times...had a lot of trauma from my youth and the good ole Dr's just prescribed Xanax, Valium, shoulder injury that led to painkiller prescriptions... screwed up my life for a bit. Proudly sober from pills for 6 Years now
Getting off benzos was an incredible experience to say the least. My ears were ringing for over six months. I couldn’t sleep for almost two months. Then I found a new doctor and I took one zyprexa. Poof! My nightmare ended. I slept for 14 hours and my life returned to normal. Now I take a zyprexa maybe once every two weeks or so to break my anxiety cycle. I would be bat-shit crazy by now if it wasn’t for antipsychotics. Call it what you will….
Interesting. I do think antipsychotics could be helpful, I noticed particularly with stopping Xanax that I would get so anxious that it would get to the point of paranoia, so it makes sense. I’ll have to think about that. I’m almost done with a taper but terrified of stopping this last little bit because of what I’ve been through before. Had ringing in my ears too, burning pain between my eyes that nothing would soothe, afraid to sleep and afraid to wake up. There was no sense of well-being in my life or that anything could ever be ok again. Everything terrified me.
As a chronic heroin and benzo addict from 15yrs to 35yrs old, coming off any benzo (not just Xanax) is worse. Like cessation from chronic alcoholism, it can kill you through seizures and convulsions. Heroin is more severe than anything else to withdraw from though. Edit : There are many pills that make you feel like that Joe.
I had West Nile Virus letting in Encphalitis... I have to take xanax to stop the rining in my ears... Without xanax I have a 40% hearing loss and it is so painful I would stay awake for 2-3 days in a fog... Until they tried xanax...My life was HeII...I wasn't depressed, but with all the brain damage, xanax was the only medication that gave me peace and actually allowed me to start exercising again, going out and leading a productive life.
i usually exercise regularly and did for the past 2 years. then hit a depressive episode and found myself unwilling to do many things all of a sudden; i quit my job, my exercise club, my gym, i didnt get out of bed to eat. i didnt feel terrible but i felt very numb and neutral with no desire for anything at all. this was actually really helpful with my sobriety, as i was newly sober and having no desire to even leave the house, see people and drink because i was so depressed was actually a benefit for that aspect of things. i started going to therapy and that helped and also taking an SSRI that is helping which I don't intend on staying on long term. my mood is drastically better, i found a new job i can do and although my desire to exercise hasn't come back yet, I'm sure it will in due course. exercise is wonderful for the mood but not the be all end all, i think.
@@kcheema4807 no no. All that’s bad but those two together trust me you would know if u had a bad bar like that Ud be close to death if not there. Xanax and Benzos by themselves become easy to build a tolerance to, and people start taking more than a mg or 2 of xan a day, Man U could be in big trouble. U may be the sickest u ever been for months on months way worse than a couple of weeks like w opiates. I’m glad I never got too heavy on the xans. If u gonna do any of those drugs u better know what ur doing and take em once in a blue moon
Harder to get off of than opiates? You’re goddamn right it is. I have kicked heroin and methadone at the same time, yet that was an absolute cake walk compared to benzodiazepines. It took me over 5 years to finally get off of Xanax…..it was the most terrifying time of my life, and I’m still not out of the woods yet
@@lucarossi9453 I did to....a year later I started benzos....for 3 years I battled to get off them...full blown withdrawal symptoms compared to H and methadone...lol....I nearly almost jumped off my balcony on the 4th floor...no joke..been clean 16 years...but there are times when I still think about them..extremely dangerous drug...
@@thanosnwo5034 damn man that’s crazy.. happy for you that ur clean.. opiate withdrawals are definitely absolutely no easy thing to kick so I couldn’t imagine how hard benzos are
This is someone who doesn’t think adults can make up their own minds about how to treat their mental issues. These drugs are able to help people suffering chronic and debilitating anxiety illnesses when nothing else works. We can’t help our genes, and if our parents have high amounts of cortisol we will too. They’re used quite safely, and it’s nearly impossible to actually die of an overdose on a benzo unlike opioids. It’s people like this who make it harder for doctors to help sufferers who could be living functional lives on medications.
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The anti-antidepressant chat these days bothers me... I was chronically depressed for 5+ years and the ONLY thing that saved me was SSRIs. Because they AFFORDED me the opportunity to actually get out of the house, and do all things Joe talks about (exercise, eating healthy etc).
I love how 99% of people saying you don't need drugs are talking about feeling a little low. I excercise 5 - 6 days a week, eat healthy, do productive things and try and be positive, yet I still need medication due to the chemical Imbalance in my brain. I know now that it's always been there I just didn't have a name for it to label. There is so much ignorance still around and it stinks.
@@WisdomPrevails369 He isn’t talking about Xanax you idiot. There are lots of anti depressants that don’t fuck you up. Xanax is what the people with SEVERE issues get prescribed. I’ve seen things like Prozac in low doses help people a lot. It scientifically fixed a chemical imbalance in your brain.
I love that he said, “we’re not supposed to be happy” hahaha so true you have to make happiness for yourself and create a good life. Also you have to be physically active. Run, lift weights, yoga, hit a punching bag have a lot more sex anything to get a work out. Another big one is fulfill goals you set for yourself even small ones. You’ll start to realize how you never see things all the way through. One more huge thing to keep you happy Is be humble (you’re no better or worse than anyone else) and help your fellow human beings for their sake not for anythingin return besides the good feeling of helping someone. I went from heroin addiction being on the streets for a little while to having a pretty awesome life and I accomplished that in a year after getting of dope. What’s your excuse now, besides you don’t want to put in the work. I know everyone listening to this has some kind of warrior spirit in them. Harness it and rise out of the hole you’re living in. Good luck fuckers.
Hey I agree with you But what happens when you do everything right…everything you’ve said and you are still sad…despite success, gratitude….,exercise, and hard work.. I’ve had all of that…and now I’m grappling with some physical health issues..that’s grief..and you can’t just yoga that away Clinical depression is real
Was prescribed Valium for PTSD & Anxiety, Vicodin for pain and Anti-Depressant for depression back in 1991 by the Veterans Administration. I can tell you the benzo was by far the hardest both physically and mentally to stop taking. I went through almost 1.5 years of mental issues before my brain finally balanced back out. Today all I take is a multi vitamin and I can not tell you how grateful I am for my life. ✌🏽🇺🇸🙏
I used to pop benzos like skittles and didn't find coming off them all that difficult. You need to do it slowly so your body can adjust, not cold turkey. I still use them today for intense situations. I thank God for benzos, life would be an ordeal without them.
I remember not liking my prescription Xanax and came off of them after 3 months of use. I looked like death for a week straight. I couldn't eat anything, shakes, insomnia, and mental shutdown. I can't recall any other drug making me withdraw, not even after years of alcohol abuse and stopping.
@@scentlessxapprentice If xanax gives you munchies wouldn't it stand reason you would have no appetite when trying to stop, in withdrawal? Fucking moron.
I was prescribed Lyrica for my neuopathy (my hands often went numb) after chemotherapy. Nobody told me that it was also prescribed for anxiety, and so when it didn't work to treat the neuropathy, and I quit it cold-turkey, I had INSANE mood swings.
Exercise and diet do not guarantee that depression will go away. The pill helped me greatly. Some people really do need them. I am a lifelong exerciser and eat healthy. I am not overweight in any way. So dont go around using sweeping generalizations, we are individuals not dehumanized examples of things you dont even take but make you seem like people should listen to. And I did the fish oil thing. Give it a rest.
I took Xanax for the first time I think half way through the year. And I didn’t feel hooked. I took it only when my friend would because for some idiotic reason I didn’t want him going at it alone. We would black out plenty of times. At one point my girlfriend snapped a picture of us drooling on a park slide. My friend and I popped a cab or two every other week. There was a point where we took two per day for about three days straight. And these were prescription grade. But one thing was weird. One thing I will always be thankful for, is I never suffered withdrawal. I never got dependent. It was all just popping a pill with my friend. Until one day I just said, I’m done. And it’s been that way with everything I’ve touched. Weed. Xanax. Oxy. Random Alcohol. Etc. I just don’t have dependency. I am ashamed I even went further than alcohol, but am glad I was raised by an ex addict. Because the one thing that is always drilled into my head, is to not succumb to that addiction. It’s been a shitty young life. Already had a rough few years. So bad I’ve had many mental breakdowns and manic episodes. But somehow, drugs won’t ever take me. Some have said to be careful because that’s when you get dependent, when you feel you can’t. But anything I pick up, I put down without pain. And I am so thankful for that. Plenty of my friends cannot. Including my dear brother. My most trusted friend who experimented with me, still can’t stand life without drugs.
as someone who was casually put on 3mg of klonopin a day for several years and nearly died trying to get off them I have to agree. I am still not off them to this day, even after tapering down to taking nothing for an entire week i had to give in and take klonopin again because i was in so much mental and psycho-somatic pain
they are way harder to get off of. it's always doctors who have no experience in the drugs who speak for those who do have the experience. i'm going to go back to school and i've already made a few videos speaking on my addiction on here. once i learn to edit well i'm going to put some real information out here. right now the videos i made are more for me, but once i learn to edit i'm gonna put some real stuff out there unlike garbage like this from people who have no experience going through either. you can come off xanax and manage it's withdrawal with a doctors help no problem. opioids no matter what you do you're going to suffer long and hard. yes, xanax withdrawal can kill you, but if you have half a brain you will check into a detox/rehab and get some real help from someone who can get you off it with little to no pain.
When i go for 20-30km runs Its incredible how well i feel afterwords. Mental chatter disappear, i feel no anxiety , no guilt eating unhealthy foods or no rush to do anything. It isn’t fun to run long distances, but have’nt found anything that comes close to these effects besides for long runs. I hav’nt taken any antidepressants in my life. Which im grateful for.
I take Sertraline for my anxiety and have taken it for years now. I can honestly say that my ability to control my anxiety is FAR better than what it used to be. I used to have panic attacks on a daily basis and now the worst I get is a little nervous before giving a presentation or going on a roller coaster. So if you are taking antidepressants realize that YES they do work, but not for everybody. Don’t use antidepressants unless absolutely necessary. And if you are current taking them don’t just go cold turkey on them. They take two weeks to work usually and if after a month you are still experiencing extreme levels of anxiety or depression, then consider changing your medication or looking for an alternative method. If you are prescribed Xanax only use it when you feel it’s absolutely necessary.
he didn't say SSRI's don't work, just that they have no advantages over a placebo in the long term. the only reason i hesitated to get off cymbalta myself was fear of the lengthy withdrawal, but i'm glad i stuck it out.
I had a severe Xanax addiction. I almost died. If you stop them you have seizures and shit and wake up in your yard, on the floor, not knowing what the hell happened. It really really sucks huge ones.
Xanax addiction, specifically withdrawals is terrifying. Anti depressants however completely changed my life. Developing PTSD changed the chemistry in my brain and I struggled for 10 years and almost died. I exercised too and it did nothing in the way of actually really helping. I developed a serious mental illness. I was not just feeling a little “not good”. I hate how people who obviously have no idea what serious clinical depression or other mental illnesses feel like talk about the dangers of these life saving drugs or say just exercise. It’s obnoxious. Im sure there are certain side effects and dangers, in fact I know there are but if it’s that or feeling the way I felt than I will choose the medication every time. This is just plain ignorance. That’s all it is. That’s why we talk about and anti depressants and other similar medications as if they are saving lives, because they actually are!!
Yeah but your case is one in 10,000 they're handing these pills out like M&M's most of these people don't need to be on benzodiazepines just because they're having a bad week
The panic attacks in my mid 30s were absolutely debilitating and only progressed to a point of agoraphobia before being prescribed Xanax. At the time it felt like a miracle in the shape of a small blue football. The problems started when in my late 40s the habitual alcohol abuse coupled with the Xanax which led to a considerable tolerance of both. Long story short a DUI changed everything for me. A ten year habit of drunk then treating the hangover with Xanax came to an abrupt end. The sobriety reduced the Xanax to only side effects that felt like a perpetual robotic haze. I began reducing the dosage. Yes began because it was a process that is most likely unique to the person. As for me, I found accidently, that the use of concentrates had a profound effect and still do. Not as a replacement therapy! It really has the ability to address ones perception of what use to be triggers for anxiety or panic attacks. I'm sure if some have made it this far in my babbling the eyebrows are squeezing closer together. The emphasis here is cannabis concentrate. Not flower, although it has it's place as well. Concentrates. I don't have the science behind it but simply, for me, the two have a much different effect. I realize not for everyone but this with a splash of meditation has given me freedom. Freedom from a cycle that cost me ten years of real fatherhood with my daughter and untold $$$$$. I'm not an expert, I'm just sharing my experience. First time doing so but hey if anyone benefits, great! Peace and Humptiness!
Xanax is the worst thing in the World to quit i had sezuries and was hospitalised for 1 week felt like i was going to die for 3 weeks and worst anxiety of my life for 3 months. Quitting oxy was like a walk in the park compared to Quitting xanax. If somone thinks about trying remember things Will get 100till harder and the anxiety u get from them are worst Than any anxiety u ever had it gets like 20 times worse then before and the more u tolerance increase the worse the anxiety gets. Im so glad i made it out alive i was close to dying for 1 week with serious sezuires like 5-10 sezisures a day for 1 week each sezisure lastet for 10-15 minutes and i even stopped breathing doctors Said i was lucky to be alive today. I never wanna go back. Been clean for 4 months and just got my life back im getting bettet every day and the anxiety is gone now i can allso eat and sleep again
Its scary for somebody like me who since the age of 12 has had terrible PTSD, OCD and GAD. If it wasn't for my Paxil I couldn't work and honestly probably would of committed suicide. Ive tried multiple forms of other treatments including high doses of Fish Oil, THC, CBD which DOES HELP but doesn't take it away, as well as multiple exposure therapies.
Having suffered from depression all my life, i was reluctant to use SSRI's but they've changed my life And, I'm perfectly ok with being on these for the rest of my life And.... This always sounds weird to people who have never had depression xD
This, I suffered from depression since 12 (now 25) I started taking zoloft 8 months ago... I had forgotten what it was like living like a normal human being, and not thinking about effing my self every single day. I had no idea I was so messed up before.
@@EDALLSANT I’m where you were at glad you got out of this. Where can I get the zoloft thing that helped you go back to living like a normal human being
It’s been a year since I had a seizure from Xanax withdrawal, it’s taken my money, my cars that I’ve crashed , 3 of em … and now I’m taking the bus to work 😢
I started doing drugs since my teenage, got addicted to opioid. Spent my whole life fighting opioid addiction. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Was actually diagnosed with cptsd. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 4 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
I love hearing great life changing stories like this. I want to become a mycologist because honestly mushrooms are the best form of medicine (most especially the psychedelic ones) There are so many people today used magic mushrooms to ween off of SSRI medication- its amazing! Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death buddy, lets be honest here.
Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? I'm really interested in treating my mental health without Rxs. I live in Australia don't know much about these. I'm so glad they helped you. I can't wait to get them too. Really need a reliable source 🙏
YES very sure of mycologist Predroavaro. This treatment worked for me. Helped me got rid of my life long depression and BPD.
Thanks for sharing your story. That's rough I sympathize. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health. I will pray for you all.
How do I reach out to him? Is he on insta
I called Xanax the "tomorrow" pill. Minutes after you take em it's tomorrow
Alan sad but true
Yep, yup yup yup
Flubromazepam does that, too.
@A Google user Wait, so this shocks you? You abused your script and you ran out of your meds early and your freaking out because you can't get your script filled?
@A Google user go detox, they will taper you off most likely depending where you live or where your going . Benzo withdraw isn't fun. Can't take them daily if you gonna abuse them, because shit like this happens. Wish you well
I’ve been sober from alcohol and Xanax for 8 months today. Wish me luck guys! Cheers from SF
Best of luck and well done!
Cheers, couple years off Xanax for me. Are there any support groups here in SF that you go to?
Keep pushing!
Dont crack..he or she is never worth it.
Blessings!
I was heavily addicted to xanax from 2014-2018 and alcoholic from 2018-2021. Thank you God for changing my life! 5 years sober from xanax 2 years sober from alcohol 🙏
Congrats to you man 🥳 I've been on xanax since 2007 and a binge drinker since 2010. It's ROUGH to get off of
No you are not...
@@Claire-zg2diit is hard to get off of
No you are not…..what?
What is he not?
@@srdjanpiper6159 who are you talking to
You never, ever want to find yourself addicted to Xanax. I've been there, and I never want to go back. Xanax is not your friend.
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An insanely wild ride from a mellow high. I can’t comprehend it. Agree - stay away
100% agree. i think if we knew our addiction and withdrawl was just as serious as coke,opiats, yatta yatta we wouldent have been addicted for so long. stay away from the devils drug
@Cantwait4summer the way to do it is with alot of cbd and\or thc edibles. Another form of benzo with a small dosage to taper off. With an anti seizure medication. And pure prayer. The first 3 days are the hardest. Get through that you'll start feeling "eh i can beat this". Im the biggest xanax addict. Plz trust me. I was on 6mgs a day. Yes 60mgs. 30 bars. Not no more in Jesus name. Well like down to 4-5 but graudually going down 💯💨🤙🙌🙌🙌
Cantwait4summer I didn’t get addicted I just bought about 50 bars as a one-off and kept eating them till I came out of a blackout being told and shown videos of myself being a zombie. My weakness is in binging not addiction
My doctor prescribed me 2mg Xanax a day. She said it would just be for 2-3 weeks until the anti-anxiety medication kicked in. She did not tell me the next 6 months of my life would be hell trying to quit. The panic attacks I got trying to quit were 10X worse than any panic attack that I had before.
If you can go 5 to 6 days of those panic attacks, they are easy because the worse of it goes away after like 5 days
Xanax is usually prescribed for it's almost instant anti-anxiety properties. It doesn't take a few weeks to start working. One pill is all it takes. They can even be taken during a panic attack and are commonly prescribed for that because they work so well.
There are plenty of anti anxiety medications that do take a few weeks to work. Most are non Benzos though.
@@josephgeorgeejr7039search ‘benzo PAWS’
Same. The cure was worse than the ailment imo. Hardest withdrawals I ever had out of all the withdrawals was Xanax. Coming off each time I was usually in jail lol go figure. Glad I’m 15 years off from playing with psyche meds.
So true 😖😖
Xaxax is hell
Physical Activity: improves mood and libido
Side effects: strong ass core
Multiple studies have been done where it's basically do "x" amount of exercise for this long and the amount of people who report positive effects are like 60%
Nothing beats coke and booze.
@@skrelentless nothing besides my 500 morning ab crunches duudeeee
anxiety causes tiredness and high stress controls the way of breathing. physical activity is the last solution.
@@sidahmed789 haha..
I got Xanax prescribed by a doctor for anxiety. I had never even heard of Xanax. Was fully hooked after the first bar. I did them for about 9 months. Most of that time was a complete blackout. Wrecked a car, lost a job, went to jail and even pissed the bed a time or two. So I decided to quit cold turkey. I went from have hundreds of milligrams in my system to zero. Was the worst 2 weeks of my life. Have never been so sick and literally thought I was gonna die. The irony is, I took them for anxiety and the addiction and all the bs that comes with it caused way more anxiety. I really can’t believe that doctors put people on that drug everyday.
It’s not the doctors fault you abused your medication
@@Joel-cw1gd think b4 talkin bro THINK
@@Joel-cw1gd how does the Xanax work for your anxiety?
Good thing you’re okay bro quitting benzos cold turkey can kill you. Hope ur doing netter
Did you suffer any seizures?
Who’s Sarah Tonin? And how do I meet her
I've been looking for the bitch 4 while, I give up now.
She lives in alaska I think.
Garry's benevolent sister
I heard that she’s related or closely associated to Sharon Peters, but I’m not positive.
She’s 5ft11
Nearly died on xanex. It’s a beast. 4 yrs sober from it.
Juke congrats man, you're a beast
how ya feel today?
What?! Congratulations man God bless you!
Good 4 you. I got a benzobeast wearing me down right now. I hate that guy...
Good job! Keep it up!
After 10 years of living on Benzos and alcohol i finally ended up in a psychiatric ward before going into rehab. I was so paranoid, anxious, neurotic and in so much pain that every day i thought i was going to die. It was like having a panic attack 24/7. It took at least 10 months before I started feeling somewhat "normal" in my own skin.
Xanax and other benzos are no joke.
I enjoy Xanax.
@@OrangeDiamond33 Yeah, that's the problem. They make you feel great. But if / when they get a hold of you then you're in deep shit.
I bet half his elves are on drugs.
Hahahhahahah rite over my head first time around how else could they get it all done in one night with out the oxycontin and adderall
You miss a lot but this was good
Hahaha! Fuckn gold
Lmao. Yes
Rudolph need a little boost this year
One year clean of Xanax I was addicted for three years, I wasted away to nothing. But everyday I'm thankful to be here
C G great job! Keep it up
hope its still going well for you bud!
I was on ativan for years and went the through the same thing. Its tough man. Good for you stay strong.
Congrats bro. I'm in 8 months, let's try to keep it up ight?
Me too man !
The issue with severe depression and anxiety is that when people tell you to do exercise you don’t have the confidence or motivation to do so and the longer it goes on the worse it gets and the harder it is to do that, feels like you’re stuck in a deep hole and it just keeps getting deeper
idk you but i love you. it’s hard to not beat yourself up about that stuff but don’t let em have access to your emotions like that. People say that stuff to try to get a reaction out of you.. i’ve also been in that severe depressive state as well I was addicted to adderall from 15-18 and i’m 21 now and still recovering.. It feels like a hopeless cycle of guilt and shame but don’t give up! say your affirmations/prayers/manifestations and keep pushing💯Trust me it’s tough thinking about the big picture/end goal when you can barely get out of bed or brush your teeth but when you hit rock bottom the only way is up🙏You don’t gotta become some body builder, just focus on making ONE small tiny change at a time. Whether that’s go to bed earlier or eat X food instead of Y. Reach out if you ever need a friend you got me!
@@sarahko1014
I’ve never read such an accurate description of what I go through daily. Additionally, I also feel like beating myself up for not being in a position to be motivated/confident and as a result, not being able to exercise or do simple things like that. Thank you kindly for your words and I wish you all the best with your journey as well.
- a Canadian
@@sarahko1014what are u talking about people are not telling u to try exercise to provoke you they are trying to be caring and give genuine advice
The thing is thought, that you can exercise even in your home, no need to go anywhere, but I get it can be difficult if you just can't find the motivation to even start it. If you don't exercise at all, this will surely on it's on cause a depression.
I take psych meds, and I wish I didn’t, and I do all the other stuff: ie lots of exercise, healthy food, meaningful social life, etc. It’s best to not take anything if you can, but it’s obnoxious to hear people who don’t need psych meds to tell you about them. Obviously they’re overprescribed, pharmaceutical companies have a profit incentive, and changing your habits is the best thing, but maybe Joe Rogan and Dr Wily Beardo here don’t know exactly what’s going on with me or other people
I agree, benzos are monsters! Alcohol and benzo withdrawal can kill you.
@Артём Волков
It's not a myth.
Most deaths from alcohol withdrawal are due to delirium tremens, an extreme form of alcohol withdrawal.
Try to go through an oxycodone withdrawal!! Good luck my friend. Just imagine the worst flu possible x10.
Mark D dude it’s not like that at all...10x the flu? Have you ever had the flu? Benzo withdrawal is worse than the flu and certainly much worse than opiate withdrawal.
Bullshit. I sat in jail for 30 days due to a bar fight coming off Xanax 2mg and booze been taking it everyday for 2 to 3 years at 30 years old. 7 days in i was feeling normal again. Unless you are a weak minded fuck you are not dying.
@@michaelcapo5512
I took 10mg of zanax a day for 20 years at 30 years old and got off of it in 24 hours, no problem. yall are just weak little people and I'm alpha AF!
Xanax made me forget litteraly a decade of my life and nothing to show for it glad I'm off that I was prescribed for 15 years straight
Me to friend. Was clean for four years until two Weeks ago. Now I'm 2 Days clean and feel like Hell. Guess my brain had forgotten the withdrawel from these little suckers. It's torture.
Mann I don’t remember my 20s it’s unreal such a stupid move
@@Herbalattraction3000 stay up bro! Withdraw will pass eventually , I know it doesn’t seem like it sometimes
@Ian Dixon You can do it Ian. You gotta let people know you want to stay clean!
Did you take it daily? That’s insane!!
It amazes me people still think Pharma companies have your best interests at heart.
Benzo withdrawals are like that feeling you get from nails on a chalkboard..... except you feel like that all the time
A safe taper is a lot better than cold turkey. You still feel bad, but not like you're dying
Illtempo 1980
...got that right.
klonopin withdraw is worse than oxycontin. i took both for 15yrs. got off the oyxes in 6mo.
it took over a yr.of "all my bones are trying to climb out of my body" to get off the klonopin .
@@fourdeadinohio8303 i honestly dont think ones worse i think its based on the person and the ammount because oxycontin was way harder then xanex to quit for me.. like 10 times harder physically and mentally
@@user-vz2sy7tx3w ..i can relate.
i had 3 back surgeries in the 90s and was taking 8 vicodins a day when oxycontin came out. i stared out with 2 5mg.
by 2015 i was taking 4 90mg. and 2 percs a day plus 3 klonopins.
i look back and can't even think how i functioned. just glad i'm not going thru withdraw any more.
I had a few years where panic attacks were killing me. They were so bad I lost control of motor functions. Tried Xanax twice and chose the panic attacks - that is one nightmare of a drug. Ultimately, going to the gym every morning and then swimming at night fixed me right up.
There is no doubt that benzodiazepines are bad…but I work out daily as well..
I still have major sensory panic attacks with extreme dizziness..actually they are getting worse..my BP is super low..so that’s being looked into..
Exercise is amazing..no question
But it didn’t cure all for me..at least for anxiety
Really there’s kinda nothing that works for some people…
I'm suffering greatly day 6 Xanax withdrawal. I feel insane, detached broke reality. Such weird insane stuff going on, I feel like I'm losing my mind. I thought I might be getting better but it's gotten worse the last couple days. Lots of panic attacks too. Praying this nightmare will end soon.
@@robertalust5466 benzos are the reason why the blood pressure is low. I experience that. I really wanna get off Xanax. Went from 3mg a day to 1,5mg 1,75 yesterday. I wish I could just wake up and my panic disorder disappears.
@@Topofthetopapex I hear you..
I wish mine would disappear too…
It’s a tough existence to struggle with panic disorder..and all the tools learned in therapy can go right out the window in the middle of a severe attack…it’s why benzodiazepines really work as that rescue…but they aren’t good long term at all..
Good for you for tapering..that must be difficult
My low BP is from really severe anemia..
Blood transfusions and iron transfusions can help with that..
Tried Xanax twice..... That's ridiculous
I remember quitting Xanax my first week at college in 2013. I had taken adderal and Xanax every single day in high school as my doctor prescribed. I still remember withdrawing in my dorm room, forcing myself to go to the library to study, and literally hearing sounds and voices in my head in the quiet library. Took about 3 weeks to feel “normal” after 4 years of every day use. I would go on to substitute alcohol for the Xanax for the next 3 years until I quit drinking cold turkey too. That was much harder, took 5 months clean before I felt better and not in a mind fog. Sober life is boring but life gets boring as you get older anyway.
Sick Revolting Piss nah, you just have to find sober people to be around. Sobriety trumps addiction...hands down!
LOL it does get more boring as you get older, for sure. 😂
@Sick Revolting Piss You are a champion! I hope you are doing well even if you are bored. Peace
First off it depends on how much MG Xanax u were taking. I had a seizure taking 4-5 Xanax a day and decided to go cold turkey. The worse mistake ever. Xanax is a med where u NEED TO WEEN or taper off of. Even an ER doctor told me that. If you are just taking 1 mg it shouldn’t. 4-5 bars a day and cold turkey u will go into a seizure and the only way to counter that is take a bar and u will snap out of it.
life doesn't have to get more boring as you get old. just find new hobbies and things that interest you
People completely underestimate simple things like: good sleep, diet and exercise.
Shit crazy bro
Benzo withdrawal is absolutely awful. You take the drug in the first place to mitigate anxiety. Withdrawal for me was anxiety so terrible that my skin was crawling.
YEa. It just defers the anxiety so when you stop it all hits you at once. I just remember for 3 weeks my vision was blurry and my head was at war. Fireworks going off.
Feeling of an inexplicable dark coldness, not even a hot bath can heat u up
I didn’t take it very many times , but when I did the anxiety the next day was off the charts
Lol how much were you taking
That's why there is a process of getting off of it that takes a few weeks to many months.
In my humble opinion, the worst kind of addiction is that of alcohol. Not only does it deprive you of any human dignity, but it also ruins your entire body.
Real panic attacks are just as intense as a withdrawal.
If you live with insane ptsd style anxiety all your life...
Withdrawals are laughable.
Pint in 15 seconds when I was 12..
58 cans in one day
, 15 top shelf long Islands.
Almost a whole bag of wine, 12 pack, half gallon of whiskey and vodka..
That Almost killed me.
Bartenders thought I was a freak of nature.
I started shaking when I smelled whiskey.. stopped immediately no problem.
Just blacked out for a week from Xanax last refill.
Will easily forget about them again.
Meth and Opioids were laughable.
Cigarettes I need intense work outs and keep busy.
But I'll suck ya off for a can of soda.. I need my high fructose and caffeine.
everyone is different
@DevilFetusso can benzo wirhdraw
Alcohol is insidious because it is so culturally accepted and is basically everywhere.
Yes ! Almost got me. 4 years sober from good ol Captain Morgam March 2.
From 24 yrs old to 29. 2 years straight of minimum 1mg xanax a day and 5 years of minimum 40mg of hydrocodone a day. Was a living hell to kick. DONT EVEN START!!!
I was addicted to Xanax about 15 years ago...the withdrawal is insane
It is hell, well done for kicking it,im still a long way to go yet 😔
@@TommyTripper hey tommy , just seeing this. How’s it going man?
Hope you kicked it brother! @TommyTripper
Been sober from cocaine and Xanax for 3 years now , sadly though my friend did not make it , he passed about 3 years back from Xanax pressed with fentanyl . If you struggle you can get better , it’s hard but it’s possible , you got this ❤️
Sooo sorry I sure hope so I know the fucking feeling
Ur friend's name wouldn't be lil peep would it?
@@jcruz3114 hilarious
Depression is debilitating and is a disease...try and tell a person that can't eat,shower get out of bed or even feel love to just go exercise.Dont act like an expert until you are in that situation
Deborah Callahan Just go exercise you lazy fuck.
I agree completely! It’s bothersome that people who have never experienced major depression tend to liken it to a more intense version of sadness. It is nothing slightly related to sadness. Unexplainable really.
@Deborah Hesselblad. Well said. Easy to talk about how bad it is. But when you feel better from taking medicine that helps you. It’s a lifeline to many.
Thank you!
Yes you’re right. For some people like me however we had symptoms of anxiety/depression in response to trauma. I was prescribed a cocktail of meds for my PTSD and it helped rid me of the pain of it in the short term. 8 years after the initial prescription I felt it was time to come off. I think the point of what the doctor is saying is that these medications are over prescribed which I think they are.
I had taken Xanax for 10 years! I’m two years sober now. I had to gradually get off them with small dose or tiny pieces also I found Rhodiola and Ashwagena worked wonders for my anxiety, not having a panic attack, and overall withdrawal. First year was uplifting momentum for being strong enough to know to get out now. And year 2 here I am researching chemical reaction and effects it has on the mind and body. I think that’s awesome about GABA because I started taking supplements for my chemical imbalance and Gaba I take daily. I miss the high of being “Happy” all the time. I was addicted to instant gratification. I had to re learn my emotions again because I had forgotten what it was like to feel anything other than happy. Someday I want to write a book. The toll it has on your mind and body is something I never saw or heard about to anyone who has got off Xanax. I just want to say you are stronger than you know! 🏆And I hope you are now living life to the fullest!❤️✊
Can I ask what your daily dose was at the time of kicking it?
2 years sober? Congratulations.
How did you determine you were "addicted"?
I've been on Xanax for about 20 years. I've tried tapering for months to like .5 most but I usually take 3mg a day and that's what I'm on and been on for years now. How do I get off this crap. It's terrible withdrawals, horriblle
@@NonBathingApe6969 i would buy me Gold scale (precision scale) and crush those pills and take every week 1% of the pills in less than of 2 years you are drug. Your body will change but your mind has also to change you have to hate those Xanaxs.
It's easy to say but it's worse than anything I've ever been on. And believe me I've done my share of substances in my life. Hands down the worst withdrawal, it's like opioid withdrawal but hallucinating, seizures, 4 times I've tried and failed. Damn near thought I was gonna die the last time. I have bad anxiety and panic attacks but I'm so sick of being dependent on it. The only way I could see it might happen would be a slow snail taper for a year smh
I’ve been clinically depressed most of my life and I have also been sober for eight months from alcohol and this clip inspired me to write a book about it
Good job man. Gabaergics are the absolute worst substances to use daily.
I honestly think alcohol is far worse than benzos as well.
Good man.
What was causing self-educating?
Yep great idea 💡
write another generic book about sobriety-
Just what the world needs.
@@wilyinfidel1091 💀💀
"Xanax is terrible!"
- So how much did you take?
"25mg a day"
- Come again?
This is way too common
I got 7 months clean off the xannys feel good.... I miss them tho floating around in the plaid pantry for 20 mins getting snacks then I time travel back to my place and wake up in my computer chair covered in twinky rappers
@@devantepoe2684 It is a devilishly good feeling, stupid though it may sound to non-users. With all the time I wasted nodding out in my teens and twenties, I could've had a PhD! I kicked a nasty heroin habit _in a flash_ compared to the trouble I've had with benzos, especially Xanax. Now the cartels are making their own 'bars' and putting fentanyl in them -- plus y'know Flacco's dirty hands are touching 'em -- so if there ever was a reason to stay away, that's two.
I was taking 8 of the 4mg pills a day
@@bveracka I'm kicking a 23 year long Xanax habit right now. Been 4 1/2 months clean after tapering off for a while with medical assistance. I took them as prescribed cause of severe anxiety and never did them to get high really. An average of 0.5-0.75mg 4-5 times a week. Now I'm struggling with terrible head tremors and muscle spasms. Like my central nervous system is in a constant fight or flight mode. Inner tremors, muscle tension, body "zaps", uneven heart rate, heat waves, constant anxiety. The list of withdrawal symptoms is long. Some say the symptoms could last for years, ref Ashton Report.
He’s spot on with how drug companies are trying to convince everyone that regular human emotions and times of sadness and anxiety are somehow not normal and need to be treasured with a drug. People, everyone gets sad, everybody gets nervous or anxious. It passes, and there are ways to fix it that don’t involve highly addictive drugs
You've apparently never had a panic attack. It's not just being nervous occasionally.
@@aedsell youve apparently never tried sacking up and dealing with your shit
We're not talking about being sad every once in a while. You really don't know what chronic depression is?
I died from xanax 5 years ago. Still don't feel the same.
Try interval training, if you're having trouble exercising in the coffin look up Dr. Sperg, has some good tips on micro exercises.
lenikrof you died from Xanax? No you didn’t. You can’t fatally overdose on Xanax alone.
r/quityourbullshit
@@Gamerfanize well I did, and there is nothing anyone can do to prove otherwise. r/ekt
VillYum lol seriously?
Green Legend google it
My dad was schizophrenic. He would hallucinate sometimes, but mostly it manifested as severe crippling depression, the kind where he was practically catatonic. After his first suicide attempt via overdosing on his meds, he lost his job. Later mom left for another man because she couldn't handle working 2-3 jobs anymore just to make ends meet, and honestly I couldn't blame her, though I sure as hell tried to. Shit was fucked up. But from the lowest point of his life he got back up on his feet and made something of his life again. He seemed...maybe not exactly happy but content with his life. Then one day he decided he felt so good about himself and where he was at that he went off his meds without anyone knowing. A week later he shot himself in the heart. He didn't come back from that.
Fucking rebound.
Vorpal Cheezit I got cut cold turkey off valium after 5 years..I ended up in the ICU after a failed suicide attempt.It took me 6 months after that.Constant suicidal ideation. Sorry for your loss.
Vorpal Cheezit I’m so sorry, I can’t imagine your pain and loss. Doctors really need to emphasize with their patients that yes you will start feeling better on these meds, and that means that they are working, it does not mean you are cured and should stop the medication but if your thinking about it please come see me immediately before doing so. But they don’t do that, but they need to. They overlook to many things. My doctor years ago failed to tell me that you can’t take benzos and ambien together it can be deadly, and I did that a lot. All the docs wanna do is push the latest and greatest they get kickbacks for prescribing. Anyway, again I’m sorry about your dad. God bless and happy holidays.
Vorpal Cheezit
I’m so sorry for your loss, God be with you and God bless you. 🙏🙏🙏💯
Vorpal Cheezit so sorry you had to witness that. Must have been so hard for all involved. May he RIP.
sorry for your loss
For me, a 1.5g shroom trip lying on a field watching the clouds go by with a couple of good friends worked very well.
Amen
Eat the whole eighth mannn
I’ve done this and can agree with your statement
agreed
My Mistake was taking Way too many Shrooms without Waiting a single Day Between each Trip - HPPD isn't too Fun; 8 Months Later and I have Anxiety, Constant Tracers and "Flashbacks" where I start to Trip a Bit. Shrooms are Fun, but you Gotta be Careful as you should with Any Other Drug!
I have a friend finishing up med school who’s probably the smartest person I know. He’s experimented with all kinds of drugs (weed, coke, acid, shrooms, ketamine, etc.) but Xanax is the one thing he said he would never touch.
TRUE MAN
im on an anti psychotic, before i was on meds i was stuck in my bed with crippling anxiety, i understand that pills are the last resort but without what im on , i would be dead.
Which anti psych out of curiosity? I was given an anti-psych for an extreme migraine in the hospital, just one dose. It gave me RLS for 3 weeks, for every hour of the day. And it also gave me extreme dysphoria, I felt like I was on a bad trip for those whole 3 weeks.
Fast forward a year later - another extreme migraine. When I get to the hospital I let them know "No anti-psychs". And what do they do? They IV me one. Two minutes pass and I turn to my sister with tears in my eyes and tell her I think they gave me one. She didn't believe me at first, but after another minute half my face was drooping and my leg muscles tightened so hard my fucking leg almost broke. So it gave me dystonia for a couple days. Had to stay on the cardio floor because my resting heart rate was 150-180 resting. They treated me like royalty those few days, I was on fentanyl+ativan almost 24/7.
I'm not a very vocal person, so I didn't try to take action against the hospital. But that whole hospital visit was essentially free, so I'm not complaining.
Anyways my body chemistry is very weird. I'm hyper sensitive to DXM, cannabis makes me vomit profusely, and a lot of other things. I just wish I could remember what medication they gave me so I can put it on my record/file not to ever administer it again. Aside from that, the only drug I take daily is morphine/other opiates. Fortunately (and unfortunately) opiates are the only drug I don't get extreme side effects from.
Meds make me feel like a zombie fuck that I’ll take the lows and the highs
I’m not addicted to Xanax but if you have some I’m buying them all
Dick Gozinya lmao that sounds like me same with painz
Research tolerance withdrawal..I may have pottenialy saved your life. Type in Benzo withdrawl hell on TH-cam
Juney Lo look into it bro
I was already on 180 mg methadone when a dr prescribed four klonopins and four seroquels daily- for six and a half years I didn't miss a day and then he died and I couldn't get any more. It took my will to live. I lost almost 60 lbs in two months. You are right- it's much worse than opiates. Your brain is out of control for two months and I couldn't talk. I couldn't drive and lost the methadone two months later. I'm probably lucky to be alive! I was 66 years old when this happened.
I can get anything I want already. The last thing I'm going to do is start taking pins again. It's been several years and my mind is still messed up. I quit taking methadone after taking it for forty years about six months ago.
I stopped consuming alcohol, stopped benzo addiction and antidepressants. It was so hard, the withdrawal symptoms were hell, even after 2 years still had symptoms, and detox teas and exercise really helped me.
how are you feeling these days?
If detox teas and excersise was enough then you clearly wasn't depressed.
The problem with joes simple take on ssri's is the semantics of the word "depression". Depression is a normal human emotion, you lose a loved one or a job and you feel sad. This is not what ssri's are for. Major Depressive Disorder aka Clinical Depression is an entire different ball game and is a medical emergency. Dramatic biological and physical effects that make simply getting out of bed near impossible let alone being productive or going to work. Thats why it is so simple for the 95% of the population who have never had clinical depression to say "ahhh just toughin up think positive"... I assure you if that was possible these people would do so. Imagine being surrounded by billions of dollars puppies and the people you love the most and feeling no joy and all you have is dizziness mind fog and gut wrenching hopelessness. Thats what clinical depression is, its not effected by your life situation or thinking patterns. Its a biological disorder where the feeling of calm or joy is impossible to experience. Its an isolating nightmare I wouldnt wish on my worst enemy, like sinking into an abyss and nobody can pull you out as you spiral down. For these people with the actual medical condition of mdd/clinical depression, ssri's are a life raft in the darkest of seas. If you dont understand what I am saying consider yourself lucky you arent in the percentage of people who have to go through that living hell.
Yep. People who say "omg I'm like so depressed I felt sad for like, a long time" can come talk to me when they have lost any will to live to the point where they piss themselves in bed rather than move a single muscle. If maintaining a heart beat required conscious effort, I would have stopped that too. Fuck, I was so bad I may as well have literally been dead for several months.
In the video they mention that it should be used short term for major depression. Which yes it should cause all drugs have deminishing returns. It should just be used to stabilize someone and then get them psychological help. Psychiatrist have become the voodoo witch doctors of the current age.
Depression is like sharing a room with a giant black bear. Can't play dead like one would to get rid of a grizzly, it must be fought. Some days you'll wake up with that black bear sitting right on your chest and it won't move an inch if unless you fight. You're still fighting a wild animal that outweighs you by 800 pounds, but even putting up a small fight will make it back off a little. That bear will never go far, but you don't have to let it eat you, there are options out there.
Very insightful. Everything is subjective. With todays rampant sin/cruelty apathy is a go to for egophiles and average people alike. Pathy must be pounded into many people with a sledgehammer, or putting them in that position so they can feel it. Not everyone of course....but trends are not built on humanity.....it's virtue signaling, short term reward, applying labels, shifting blame....etcetera. Net benefit for me and F U because your problems must be self induced. A common social construct among populations (whom are no longer the ones creating social constructs) is that all fixes are available to those whom attempt to seek them as our countries are superiour so F everyone and I will just work to prove how virtuos I am. BS. In my country it is an absolute socialist illusion that fools everyone.
Your description of this disorder is excellent however it was required that you deliver it in a way that a child could grasp it.....would anyone even bother reading it all? Everyone is already so great and brilliant that many I would bet would immediatly feel superiour......I'm really guessing here, but we do have serious problems ingrained in society threw engineered constructs.
youre not understanding what Joe is saying. There may be imbalance chemically in the sufferers of depression but there are many many other means to achieve improvement on there mental health that don't involve taking a serious medication with serious side effects and also can generally out perform these drugs. Unfortunately it's the fact that a pill is easier to swallow then making serious lifestyle changes like beginning to exercise, getting a healthy diet, enough sleep, sun exposure etc etc.
I work out 6 days a week and have taken cbd my anxiety levels have stayed the same don’t shoot down stuff you don’t know
I feel very fortunate to have escaped this horrible drug, I had it prescribed to me in high school and I took it for years before it was taken away, and it was tough no doubt but I didn’t even realize I had been addicted to it.
prescribing benzos to high school kids, holy fuck
I started talking Xanax in my early 20s now 30 years later they want me to stop , it's going to be Hell , I wish I'd never started taking them .
If you're on Xanax for years these fool Dr's should keep u on them the problem isn't being on them the problems start when they take them away!!!
I’m a 25 year old fit male eat healthy and workout and I had social anxiety so bad my face would turn red anytime someone talked to me and anti depressants cured that and now I can stay calm in any social situation so they clearly work
Me too man they worked me for me- I got my life back thanks to Xanax
The problems is when someone (like myself) was given SSRIs as a kid or someone decides to just trust their doctors decision and finds themselves now on them for nearly 18 years. There seems to be no going back. They are too integrated into your brain and any attempt to remove them is a waking nightmare.
Hey buddy it's been 4 years now but just wanted to know how ur doing! Hope ur ok
@jonsegarra7308 I love the internet sometimes you are so sweet. Also wanted to check in hope you're well!!
@@slothonastick32 way too many negative and toxic people on the internet. I try to be 1 of the good ones! Thanx for the kind words
Exactly. I was prescribed them and left to my own devices for a decade. A periodic evaluation with a “professional” was required in order for the prescriptions to be refilled but it was more of a checkbox activity. At the time I trusted them and the process. You really do have to take hold of your own healthcare. Medical “professionals” in most cases can’t be trusted either due to lack of knowledge of lack of caring for the patient unfortunately. After a decade I was able to come off them with awful side effects. But these were something I shouldn’t have been on longer than 6-12 months just to get me through PTSD which was triggered by a terrible divorce I was going through and not some chemical imbalance or mental health issue.
I have worked out hardcore my whole life. However, I actually discovered at some point that a lot of my anxiety was actually because of too much exercise. It increased my cortisol levels too high, too often. Generally, exercise is obviously good for you, but I don't think that hardcore exercise or even a little exercise will cure everyone's problems.
Dated a girl who has been on a rather large dose of Xanax most of her life.....she’d blackout conversations, run into furniture, very emotionally volatile, and her immune system was very weak and always low energy. Avoid at all costs.
She spread em tho? Bad. Did u help her?
Can we talk about the fact that at 17 yrs old I described symptoms of social anxiety disorder to my GP and was given 1mg of xanax per day... 18 yrs later I've been moved to 4mg a day and asked repeatedly to be weened off the drug with no assistance so I'm doing it myself
I was on escitalopram (SSRI) for almost a year. It made it difficult to sleep, it barely worked, it destroyed my attention span, and the physical withdrawals were disgusting. I kept getting this nauseating electric shock sensation throughout my body every 20-30 seconds for a few weeks after stopping
I recently started self-medicating with marijuana edibles after it became legal here in Canada, and I've noticed a dramatic improvement in almost every aspect of my life. My stress and anxiety is reduced. My attention span has improved dramatically. It's as if I've gone back to having as much energy as I did in my early teen years. This is just from having a 10mg dose every couple days to keep a baseline amount in my system over time. I'm not even getting high.
i also took escitalopram and had the electric shock thingy after i stopped taking them.
i found it to be very annoying...
Lexapro withdrawals made me absolutely lose my shit. I took 10mg a day (sometimes 15mg) for a year, and it helped me a bit for about 2 months. After that it was just side effects so I went off them cold turkey. The next 2 weeks of my life were absolute hell. Fevers, insomnia, insane mental instability (crying to laughing hysterically within minutes), terrible mental fog, just to name a few. All of that just from an SSRI 😳. I cannot imagine what benzo withdrawals would be like...
I self medicated with indica THC oil for a bit, but eventually every single experience I had would turn into wild paranoia, even if I took as little as 10mg of THC...
Nowadays working out, meditation and journaling keep me relatively sane. Hopefully THC still does the job for ya, anxiety can be incredibly overwhelming at times.
Depends on how bad the anxiety and depression are. If I only had to exercise to feel better I'd be sooo happy. Wish it was that easy
I was on xans for months. When I quit the withdrawals were terrible I felt like I was outside of my body looking over myself dying. And 7 seizures I thought I was gonna die. plz don’t take them
How do you know you had 7 seizures? Ive been on klo opin for over a year and tried to quit. I would get delusional paranoid go into psychosis. This past Tuesday I was over at my mom's because I was scared to be home alone I was so sick. My aunt,my mom's sister, stopped by to bring my mom and new phone cover and while she was over there they said I had two seizures but I do not remember any of it and I thought they were lying to me until I could feel the hard knot on the back of my head caused from me falling out in the kitchen floor and hitting my head really hard and having two seizures. It's very scary. I'm going back to my doctor Thursday and demanding that he put me back on it and safely wean me off of them. A seizure can literally kill you
One of the worst drugs ever offered to the public. I have heard so many horror stories.
Super male vitality is the way to go!
HGH, elk meat and kettlebells
Fuck off is it my dad got some we had a few drops and sat there like ehh fuck all's happening about 3 hours later we had a legitimate sword fight with the old swords above his fireplace then had an argument
SMV is pretty dope! Gotta make sure you're working out though or else you get a boost in something else😏
Welcome to jonestown...!!! 🤦🏽♂️🤣🤣
Duane Rackham What do you get a boost in if you’re not working out? 🤔
Man I was addicted to Xanax since 12 years old I’m 23 now almost year sober
Damn 12 years old ? Fuck who ever put you on em
@@krisrivera3514 Lucky bastard should have sold em.
How you doing now
@@krisrivera3514 Im not assuming his race but in some countries you can just buy them over the counter
Im also interested,how are you now?
Been strung out on benzos many times over the years, Xanax/ benzo addiction is one of the worst chemical dependencies you can acquire. I love the feeling of freedom and blankness of emotions for a while, but it makes me do reckless shit.
Yeah you’re taking way too much of it or you’re mixing it with alcohol.
Normal pharmaceutical doses do not make you do reckless shit.
Did for me too. Took a bar, had a couple of drinks, I was at a restaurants with some friends and one of them was heckling me a bit, so I stood up and just knocked him out cold. Didnt feel anything. He was fine just had a concussion but I never touched the stuff again.
@@andersonandrew112 Damn, hell yeah, theyre so dangerous. I'm currently on probation for my 3rd DUI, all from Xanax, almost never drank.
@@andersonandrew112 yeah man when I go out it’s one or the other. Xanax lowers my inhibitions and, at least to me, feels like a cleaner version of being drunk. Lets me strike up conversations pretty easily, but I don’t mix that shit. I’ve been out with friends that didn’t start fights or anything, but I had to basically babysit.
Oh hell yeah it makes you do reckless s*** things that you would never do like going in stores and steal they call it the Rambo effect
I’m 43 yrs old an have been taking Xanax since I was 20. It’s done nothing but make my mood worse an panic horribly. I just about died coming off of them on a rehab floor, been clean for 2 months an it’s a very good feeling 🙏
@kikelomoedward4964 I’ve heard that Telegram an Insta are beat bogus an to stay away. I’d love to try DMT but have no clue where to actually get real stuff
@kikelomoedward4964 what’s their name on telegram?
He’s absolutely right about how horrific Benzo addiction is - I’ve been through it and go through it now bc of panic disorder and just weaning off a little bit is complete hell
That said, breathing techniques are total junk science for real panic disorders and have been shown to be ineffective in several studies
Most people don’t know what real anxiety and panic is and have no frame of reference. Unless you’ve gone to the ER thinking you’re dying , you don’t know what a panic attack is. And unless you’ve had a panic attack so bad that you ran away into the bathroom freaking out in a grocery store due to how intense the attack is, you can’t grasp panic disorder
I know I couldn’t until it happened to be. Breathing techniques are useless there. The only real things that help are a) benzos for immediate relief b) exposure therapy which is hard and few doctors know how to execute it (dr Claire weeks wrote a book about it in the 60s and she experienced it so any sufferer who reads her book knows it’s legit by the way she describes it)
Real anxiety is not just feeling nervous and uncomfortable in social situations because you’re awkward and lack confidence. It’s not that normal nervousness of knowing you have to present to a huge crowd at work.
It’s a fight or flight adrenaline dump that can’t be comprehended until you experience it
That’s so true
About what it actually is
Exactly. Well said.
It’s being indistinguishable from a heart attack.
Then if you have health and heart issues it can cause an actual heart attack.
So u run around the room thinking I’m about to die, this is it, I’m about to die.
Omg omg omg my heart is thumping so much. Elephant on my chest. Excessive sweating.
Intense dysphoria.
Omg I’m about to die right here right now.
Hand goes numb.
Face goes grey.
It feels like a stroke.
These were my last symptoms during a panic attack.
I went to ER. Blood pressure 160/105 . Pulse 175.
It was horrible.
@@tysonsimmons2295 I can tell from your description you’ve had a really bad one before
I don’t think most people have had one anywhere near close to that - and they just don’t know any better (lucky them)
The ones you’re describing - my first one ever was like that, and then since then it was only whenever I’d smoke weed that they could completely take me over like that - for up to four hours at a time.
Just one panic attack rolling into another. Tracked it on my Fitbit too.
Completely terrifying experience. Absolutely horrifying and frankly I think death is better because at least death just takes you - rather than steeping your in fear for hours like some kind of unholy tea bag.
I clocked 210/105 or something like that one night in the midst of a bad one after a little tiny piece of a thc gummy and a couple glasses of wine. Chewed and aspirin immediately.
Anyhow I don’t bother trying weed anymore. Used to be fine, then it wasn’t. Then I tried microdosing because I thought confronting the fear could be therapeutic - and that worked for a time. Until I had just a teeny bit too much and it didn’t.
@@Merknilash holy smokes man! Your blood pressure was 210/105!!?
That’s insane. You must’ve felt terrified and awful.
May I ask what they did for you at the hospital. If you feel up to it, I wouldn’t mind reading the entire process, from when you walked in to the moment you walked out of there.
The weed induced attacks happen often to people who used to smoke a lot say as a youth, but quit for a time and went through some serious medical issues, or other traumas which then comes in to cause these heavy episodes from marijuana.
I go through minor attacks when I smoke sometimes (twice a month about for smoking), but they are no where near that bad and are all in my head.
I found that the only times I am able to smoke marijuana and enjoy it is when I have benzos and booze on board. And I either go straight to bed or have something to occupy my mind like music or film.
Have you ever heard about microdosing?
@@tysonsimmons2295 I didn’t go to the hospital - I went once years and years ago (2008) when I woke up with a bad panic attack and didn’t know what was happening to me
Doc tried to tell me it was SVTs or some crap - which it wasn’t - and that I was fine
On the occasion where my home reader said 210/105 - that was with my heart rate pounding at 150-160
I chewed an aspirin and took 4x my usual dose of Xanax and it calmed down
But yep that’s my history - used to smoke Schwag from 15 to early 20s and I can barely even smell the stuff without it sending me on an insanely strong panic attack
I tried micro dosing but it just didn’t matter so I gave up - sadly
But I suspect a lot of my issues are due to a 10 year + low dose Xanax dependency. Even at only .25mg or less per day (usually .125) it’s enough to make the brain so sensitive to stimulants that anything can set you off
I refused to take meds for my generalized anxiety disorder. I started taking Indica edibles and they work great. I take them twice a week and they keep my anxiety in check for the whole week.
Link up this dude I ordered from his shit is dhope as fuck. He got shrooms, chocolate bars, LSD,MDMA,DMT and other dope psycy products well treated. It has really helped me treat my depression, anxiety and even help in exploration of my human psyche and delivers to any location.
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I love marijuana. I like to smoke good bud- I don't like the concentrates- it reminds me too much of crack. It makes a dreary usual day interesting.I could see religions with marijuana as the Sacramental host like the Rastafarians. I'll be the rasta- man!
lol thats not even possible bud
"I refuse to take meds, instead I take meds"
I've seen a guy withdrawing from Xanax before who was having severe hallucinations
73 year old male , been on valium zanax for 40 years, had hip replaced 21 years ago, i need 4mgs a day or it is no sleep, then no sleep, day three, no sleep. Day four crazy horrible mental dilutions, vertigo, dry heaving , I CAN NOT STAND IT. I THINK I WILL BE HOOKED FOR LIFE. GODDAMN YOU FOR MAKING THIS DEMON DRUG.
I've been injured a few times...had a lot of trauma from my youth and the good ole Dr's just prescribed Xanax, Valium, shoulder injury that led to painkiller prescriptions... screwed up my life for a bit. Proudly sober from pills for 6 Years now
Happy for you 🙏
Getting off benzos was an incredible experience to say the least. My ears were ringing for over six months. I couldn’t sleep for almost two months. Then I found a new doctor and I took one zyprexa. Poof! My nightmare ended. I slept for 14 hours and my life returned to normal. Now I take a zyprexa maybe once every two weeks or so to break my anxiety cycle. I would be bat-shit crazy by now if it wasn’t for antipsychotics. Call it what you will….
Interesting. I do think antipsychotics could be helpful, I noticed particularly with stopping Xanax that I would get so anxious that it would get to the point of paranoia, so it makes sense. I’ll have to think about that. I’m almost done with a taper but terrified of stopping this last little bit because of what I’ve been through before. Had ringing in my ears too, burning pain between my eyes that nothing would soothe, afraid to sleep and afraid to wake up. There was no sense of well-being in my life or that anything could ever be ok again. Everything terrified me.
the fact that these sick corporatists can get away with this stuff to this day is sad proof of how screwed our society is.
Perdue Pharma had to pay a shit ton but its still not enough.
As a chronic heroin and benzo addict from 15yrs to 35yrs old, coming off any benzo (not just Xanax) is worse. Like cessation from chronic alcoholism, it can kill you through seizures and convulsions. Heroin is more severe than anything else to withdraw from though.
Edit : There are many pills that make you feel like that Joe.
I had West Nile Virus letting in Encphalitis... I have to take xanax to stop the rining in my ears... Without xanax I have a 40% hearing loss and it is so painful I would stay awake for 2-3 days in a fog... Until they tried xanax...My life was HeII...I wasn't depressed, but with all the brain damage, xanax was the only medication that gave me peace and actually allowed me to start exercising again, going out and leading a productive life.
i usually exercise regularly and did for the past 2 years. then hit a depressive episode and found myself unwilling to do many things all of a sudden; i quit my job, my exercise club, my gym, i didnt get out of bed to eat. i didnt feel terrible but i felt very numb and neutral with no desire for anything at all. this was actually really helpful with my sobriety, as i was newly sober and having no desire to even leave the house, see people and drink because i was so depressed was actually a benefit for that aspect of things.
i started going to therapy and that helped and also taking an SSRI that is helping which I don't intend on staying on long term. my mood is drastically better, i found a new job i can do and although my desire to exercise hasn't come back yet, I'm sure it will in due course.
exercise is wonderful for the mood but not the be all end all, i think.
I think I was addicted to xanax in my teens , but I took so many I dont remember lol,,,
maybe cause u took the fentanyl ones bro
@@kcheema4807 no no. All that’s bad but those two together trust me you would know if u had a bad bar like that Ud be close to death if not there. Xanax and Benzos by themselves become easy to build a tolerance to, and people start taking more than a mg or 2 of xan a day, Man U could be in big trouble. U may be the sickest u ever been for months on months way worse than a couple of weeks like w opiates. I’m glad I never got too heavy on the xans. If u gonna do any of those drugs u better know what ur doing and take em once in a blue moon
Lmfaooo fr
Fentanyl
Harder to get off of than opiates? You’re goddamn right it is. I have kicked heroin and methadone at the same time, yet that was an absolute cake walk compared to benzodiazepines. It took me over 5 years to finally get off of Xanax…..it was the most terrifying time of my life, and I’m still not out of the woods yet
That is so awful I am sorry.
Damn did u quit methadone and heroin cold turkey at the same time?
@@lucarossi9453 I did to....a year later I started benzos....for 3 years I battled to get off them...full blown withdrawal symptoms compared to H and methadone...lol....I nearly almost jumped off my balcony on the 4th floor...no joke..been clean 16 years...but there are times when I still think about them..extremely dangerous drug...
@@thanosnwo5034 damn man that’s crazy.. happy for you that ur clean.. opiate withdrawals are definitely absolutely no easy thing to kick so I couldn’t imagine how hard benzos are
This is someone who doesn’t think adults can make up their own minds about how to treat their mental issues. These drugs are able to help people suffering chronic and debilitating anxiety illnesses when nothing else works. We can’t help our genes, and if our parents have high amounts of cortisol we will too. They’re used quite safely, and it’s nearly impossible to actually die of an overdose on a benzo unlike opioids. It’s people like this who make it harder for doctors to help sufferers who could be living functional lives on medications.
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Thank you
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The anti-antidepressant chat these days bothers me...
I was chronically depressed for 5+ years and the ONLY thing that saved me was SSRIs.
Because they AFFORDED me the opportunity to actually get out of the house, and do all things Joe talks about (exercise, eating healthy etc).
I love how 99% of people saying you don't need drugs are talking about feeling a little low. I excercise 5 - 6 days a week, eat healthy, do productive things and try and be positive, yet I still need medication due to the chemical Imbalance in my brain. I know now that it's always been there I just didn't have a name for it to label. There is so much ignorance still around and it stinks.
You don't need Xanax bud
@@WisdomPrevails369 He isn’t talking about Xanax you idiot. There are lots of anti depressants that don’t fuck you up. Xanax is what the people with SEVERE issues get prescribed.
I’ve seen things like Prozac in low doses help people a lot. It scientifically fixed a chemical imbalance in your brain.
Sounds like you're just being a biznitch
I love that he said, “we’re not supposed to be happy” hahaha so true you have to make happiness for yourself and create a good life. Also you have to be physically active. Run, lift weights, yoga, hit a punching bag have a lot more sex anything to get a work out. Another big one is fulfill goals you set for yourself even small ones. You’ll start to realize how you never see things all the way through. One more huge thing to keep you happy Is be humble (you’re no better or worse than anyone else) and help your fellow human beings for their sake not for anythingin return besides the good feeling of helping someone. I went from heroin addiction being on the streets for a little while to having a pretty awesome life and I accomplished that in a year after getting of dope. What’s your excuse now, besides you don’t want to put in the work. I know everyone listening to this has some kind of warrior spirit in them. Harness it and rise out of the hole you’re living in. Good luck fuckers.
Did you go to AA or NA program?
Hey I agree with you
But what happens when you do everything right…everything you’ve said and you are still sad…despite success, gratitude….,exercise, and hard work..
I’ve had all of that…and now I’m grappling with some physical health issues..that’s grief..and you can’t just yoga that away
Clinical depression is real
Was prescribed Valium for PTSD & Anxiety, Vicodin for pain and Anti-Depressant for depression back in 1991 by the Veterans Administration.
I can tell you the benzo was by far the hardest both physically and mentally to stop taking.
I went through almost 1.5 years of mental issues before my brain finally balanced back out.
Today all I take is a multi vitamin and I can not tell you how grateful I am for my life.
✌🏽🇺🇸🙏
I used to pop benzos like skittles and didn't find coming off them all that difficult. You need to do it slowly so your body can adjust, not cold turkey. I still use them today for intense situations. I thank God for benzos, life would be an ordeal without them.
I remember not liking my prescription Xanax and came off of them after 3 months of use. I looked like death for a week straight. I couldn't eat anything, shakes, insomnia, and mental shutdown. I can't recall any other drug making me withdraw, not even after years of alcohol abuse and stopping.
PT Xanax gives you the munchies though. Quit lying
@@scentlessxapprentice If xanax gives you munchies wouldn't it stand reason you would have no appetite when trying to stop, in withdrawal? Fucking moron.
U0
How often were you taking it and what dose? Just curious
@@scentlessxapprentice I couldn’t eat shit on xanax lost hella weight. I took like 3 of em
I have been sober from xanax for a year and 5 months now. I still struggle with temptation but its not impossible to beat your addiction!❤
Stay strong brother! May God be your shield and sword in your battle.
@@cesarvargas3994 you never beat an addiction….you manage it. If you think you e beat it, you will fall again.
I was prescribed Lyrica for my neuopathy (my hands often went numb) after chemotherapy. Nobody told me that it was also prescribed for anxiety, and so when it didn't work to treat the neuropathy, and I quit it cold-turkey, I had INSANE mood swings.
Wher talking about Xanax not lyrica buddy
God bless this man. We need more doctors with integrity
I’m glad I found this. I feel like this man could do a lot of positive for me
Thumbs up if you’re hooked on nasal decongestant!
Good ol Afrin lol
Fentanyl nasal spray
I would thumbs up but I'm superstitious of the number 13... But I been using it for 15 year and I'm hooked.. Lol
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I’m a recovering addict lol. FLONASE people, use it everyday! No rebound effect!!!!
Exercise and diet do not guarantee that depression will go away. The pill helped me greatly. Some people really do need them. I am a lifelong exerciser and eat healthy. I am not overweight in any way. So dont go around using sweeping generalizations, we are individuals not dehumanized examples of things you dont even take but make you seem like people should listen to. And I did the fish oil thing. Give it a rest.
I took Xanax for the first time I think half way through the year. And I didn’t feel hooked. I took it only when my friend would because for some idiotic reason I didn’t want him going at it alone. We would black out plenty of times. At one point my girlfriend snapped a picture of us drooling on a park slide. My friend and I popped a cab or two every other week. There was a point where we took two per day for about three days straight. And these were prescription grade. But one thing was weird. One thing I will always be thankful for, is I never suffered withdrawal. I never got dependent. It was all just popping a pill with my friend. Until one day I just said, I’m done. And it’s been that way with everything I’ve touched. Weed. Xanax. Oxy. Random Alcohol. Etc. I just don’t have dependency. I am ashamed I even went further than alcohol, but am glad I was raised by an ex addict. Because the one thing that is always drilled into my head, is to not succumb to that addiction. It’s been a shitty young life. Already had a rough few years. So bad I’ve had many mental breakdowns and manic episodes. But somehow, drugs won’t ever take me. Some have said to be careful because that’s when you get dependent, when you feel you can’t. But anything I pick up, I put down without pain. And I am so thankful for that. Plenty of my friends cannot. Including my dear brother. My most trusted friend who experimented with me, still can’t stand life without drugs.
Of course physical exercise calms your mind, you're to tired to give a damn...lol
Preach bro
It actually tends to boost your energy levels...
I love it, and need it don’t get me wrong, working out helps depression…but can amp up my anxiety and mania especially if I push myself too far…
as someone who was casually put on 3mg of klonopin a day for several years and nearly died trying to get off them I have to agree. I am still not off them to this day, even after tapering down to taking nothing for an entire week i had to give in and take klonopin again because i was in so much mental and psycho-somatic pain
How are you now
No real doctor will ever prescribe something they can't profit off of.
Sober since 8/11/2011. Off Xanax since 1/24/16 after being on it for over 20 years. Prayers sent to those still suffering. One day at a time.
And yet some dirt bag is trying to sell me "psychedelic stuff from an online drug store" based on my comment. What a weasel.
@Barbaradapic-hn4ij Scum bag
I have done plenty of opiates and xanax in my life. I will say opiates were harder to get off than xanax, but thats just me
I agree
Everyone is different..but Xanax take a whole lot longer to get off of
they are way harder to get off of. it's always doctors who have no experience in the drugs who speak for those who do have the experience. i'm going to go back to school and i've already made a few videos speaking on my addiction on here. once i learn to edit well i'm going to put some real information out here. right now the videos i made are more for me, but once i learn to edit i'm gonna put some real stuff out there unlike garbage like this from people who have no experience going through either. you can come off xanax and manage it's withdrawal with a doctors help no problem. opioids no matter what you do you're going to suffer long and hard. yes, xanax withdrawal can kill you, but if you have half a brain you will check into a detox/rehab and get some real help from someone who can get you off it with little to no pain.
The physical addiction may be similar, but I think the mental addiction to the opiod high is much more intense
Gambit no doubt.! Everyone is different, I feel the benzos were much harder to get off of, kind of like alcohol oh, you feel so very very ill.!🤢🤢🤢🤢
When i go for 20-30km runs Its incredible how well i feel afterwords. Mental chatter disappear, i feel no anxiety , no guilt eating unhealthy foods or no rush to do anything. It isn’t fun to run long distances, but have’nt found anything that comes close to these effects besides for long runs. I hav’nt taken any antidepressants in my life. Which im grateful for.
I take Sertraline for my anxiety and have taken it for years now. I can honestly say that my ability to control my anxiety is FAR better than what it used to be. I used to have panic attacks on a daily basis and now the worst I get is a little nervous before giving a presentation or going on a roller coaster.
So if you are taking antidepressants realize that YES they do work, but not for everybody. Don’t use antidepressants unless absolutely necessary. And if you are current taking them don’t just go cold turkey on them. They take two weeks to work usually and if after a month you are still experiencing extreme levels of anxiety or depression, then consider changing your medication or looking for an alternative method. If you are prescribed Xanax only use it when you feel it’s absolutely necessary.
Jacob very well written. I couldn’t agree more
he didn't say SSRI's don't work, just that they have no advantages over a placebo in the long term. the only reason i hesitated to get off cymbalta myself was fear of the lengthy withdrawal, but i'm glad i stuck it out.
How's the sex life? Non existent, I presume. SSRI's and SNRI's are the worst. I'd rather be depressed than depressed and limp..
Hey I’ve just started taxing lexapro for my anxiety. It’s been two weeks and haven’t notice much of a difference. What works for you?
Please don't tell people to take drugs in the TH-cam comment section when you're talking from only one personal experience.
That's why i smoke tree
@Leisure cant tell if u sarcastic or fr
youre still a drug addict
steve b and you know that about me for a fact?
You dirty vegan why don't you do hard drugs instead of killing are trees
@@lol_0kkay weed is a drug, you use it, there for making you a drug addict.
I had a severe Xanax addiction. I almost died. If you stop them you have seizures and shit and wake up in your yard, on the floor, not knowing what the hell happened. It really really sucks huge ones.
Xanax addiction, specifically withdrawals is terrifying. Anti depressants however completely changed my life. Developing PTSD changed the chemistry in my brain and I struggled for 10 years and almost died. I exercised too and it did nothing in the way of actually really helping. I developed a serious mental illness. I was not just feeling a little “not good”. I hate how people who obviously have no idea what serious clinical depression or other mental illnesses feel like talk about the dangers of these life saving drugs or say just exercise. It’s obnoxious. Im sure there are certain side effects and dangers, in fact I know there are but if it’s that or feeling the way I felt than I will choose the medication every time. This is just plain ignorance. That’s all it is. That’s why we talk about and anti depressants and other similar medications as if they are saving lives, because they actually are!!
Anti depressants still working for you ?
Yeah but your case is one in 10,000 they're handing these pills out like M&M's most of these people don't need to be on benzodiazepines just because they're having a bad week
The panic attacks in my mid 30s were absolutely debilitating and only progressed to a point of agoraphobia before being prescribed Xanax. At the time it felt like a miracle in the shape of a small blue football. The problems started when in my late 40s the habitual alcohol abuse coupled with the Xanax which led to a considerable tolerance of both. Long story short a DUI changed everything for me. A ten year habit of drunk then treating the hangover with Xanax came to an abrupt end. The sobriety reduced the Xanax to only side effects that felt like a perpetual robotic haze. I began reducing the dosage. Yes began because it was a process that is most likely unique to the person. As for me, I found accidently, that the use of concentrates had a profound effect and still do. Not as a replacement therapy! It really has the ability to address ones perception of what use to be triggers for anxiety or panic attacks. I'm sure if some have made it this far in my babbling the eyebrows are squeezing closer together. The emphasis here is cannabis concentrate. Not flower, although it has it's place as well. Concentrates. I don't have the science behind it but simply, for me, the two have a much different effect. I realize not for everyone but this with a splash of meditation has given me freedom. Freedom from a cycle that cost me ten years of real fatherhood with my daughter and untold $$$$$. I'm not an expert, I'm just sharing my experience. First time doing so but hey if anyone benefits, great! Peace and Humptiness!
I wish cannabis/concentrates worked for my anxiety but they just make it worse
Nothing is worse than opioids .
100%
Just remember this person is also SELLING SOMETHING
Who are you talking about
Xanax is the worst thing in the World to quit i had sezuries and was hospitalised for 1 week felt like i was going to die for 3 weeks and worst anxiety of my life for 3 months. Quitting oxy was like a walk in the park compared to Quitting xanax. If somone thinks about trying remember things Will get 100till harder and the anxiety u get from them are worst Than any anxiety u ever had it gets like 20 times worse then before and the more u tolerance increase the worse the anxiety gets. Im so glad i made it out alive i was close to dying for 1 week with serious sezuires like 5-10 sezisures a day for 1 week each sezisure lastet for 10-15 minutes and i even stopped breathing doctors Said i was lucky to be alive today. I never wanna go back. Been clean for 4 months and just got my life back im getting bettet every day and the anxiety is gone now i can allso eat and sleep again
Its scary for somebody like me who since the age of 12 has had terrible PTSD, OCD and GAD. If it wasn't for my Paxil I couldn't work and honestly probably would of committed suicide. Ive tried multiple forms of other treatments including high doses of Fish Oil, THC, CBD which DOES HELP but doesn't take it away, as well as multiple exposure therapies.
Sorry to hear that nizzy good luck to you man. Do whatever works
You should try ayahuasca treatment
thanks brother @@ajwtube
Ive thought about it, at this point i fear id loose my mind if i did it. im pretty stable at the moment, thanks @@humzilla707
I’ve just started taking lexapro. It’s been two weeks and don’t feel much different. Is Paxil better? Should I change it
Having suffered from depression all my life, i was reluctant to use SSRI's but they've changed my life
And, I'm perfectly ok with being on these for the rest of my life
And.... This always sounds weird to people who have never had depression xD
@Cantwait4summer Sertraline, had to increase the dose slowly over time tho
Nothing wrong with being on antidepressives. But other things should be tried first
This, I suffered from depression since 12 (now 25) I started taking zoloft 8 months ago... I had forgotten what it was like living like a normal human being, and not thinking about effing my self every single day. I had no idea I was so messed up before.
@@EDALLSANT I’m where you were at glad you got out of this. Where can I get the zoloft thing that helped you go back to living like a normal human being
I really enjoyed this full interview, great guy!
It’s been a year since I had a seizure from Xanax withdrawal, it’s taken my money, my cars that I’ve crashed , 3 of em … and now I’m taking the bus to work 😢