Xanax and the Rabbit Hole [View all]

[Kwarg]

Xanax just may be the most dangerous prescription drug out there... Let me tell you how.
When I was 18 I started having andiety attacks. No idea why.... At the time. So my parents shuffle me off to the shrink and thus begins my 20 year affair with the Little blue devils.
So whats xanax like? Well imagine relaxation and an unending sense of contentness. Everything is good. Not like pot relaxed but relaxed from the brain stem out...
Xanax alters the passage of time. Sleep for 12 hours? Cool. Take a lil extra before bedtime and you wake up at 2 in the afternoon.
So what could possibly be the downside? Well to start with, memory loss. I would frequently answer the phone in the morning and talk to my mom for 10 minutes and have no recollection later in the day.
One side effect of xanax is the statue stare. You catch yourself freezing and fixating in thought staring at an item.
Now for the unpleasant side. If you are prone and susceptible to anxiety attacks you will begin to have anticipatory anxiety at the end of the dosages effectiveness. If you miss a dose by more than an hour or two... You start getting full blown anxiety attacks. Logic says you need the medicine to keep the attacks away. But thats the dark secret here. Danax actually creates more anxiety attacks as the levels in you bloodstream drop.
So... You are flat out addicted and aren't cured of the anxiety attacks.
The only way I got off of it was by switching to Klonopin for a couple years then tapering off of it. The resulting anxiety attacks from quitting were fierce but I succeeded. In retrospect I feel that it was bad to take the medicine in the first place. Some people just naturally have overactive sensitivity to outward stimulus. My mind races, when I hear a creak on an airplane and the creak quickly becomes a hydraulic system failure...
I have a high IQ and am quire a thinker... For good or bad you cant change that and trying to change that causes more problems.
So... I feel for Whitney Houston... I know what she went thru...