Baylissa Frederick - World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2020
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🗓️ 11 July 2020
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Summary
For our second interview for this World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day podcast I'm so pleased to get the chance to chat with Baylissa Frederick.
Baylissa is a psychotherapist, coach, and author with two decades of experience working with people from all over the world. She holds a Master's degree in therapeutic counseling and is involved in helping people affected by prescribed antidepressants tranquilizer and opiate physical dependence and withdrawal.
Baylissa is the author of the internationally successful self-help book Recovery and Renewal, the memoir With Hope in my Heart and two journals; Dearest Me and Dearest Friend. Baylissa herself was prescribed the benzodiazepine clonazepam, also known as Klonopin, for a form of dystonia, an involuntary movement disorder and she survived an intense withdrawal experience when coming off. She is now fully recovered and dedicates her time to helping and supporting others.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry and social justice. |
| 0:13.4 | Hello, this is James, and welcome to the second interview for our special podcast for World |
| 0:19.8 | Benzadazabine Awareness Day 2020. |
| 0:22.9 | And I'm so pleased to get chance to chat with Baylissa Frederick. |
| 0:27.7 | Baylissa is a psychotherapist, coach and author with two decades of experience working with people |
| 0:34.3 | from all over the world. She holds a master's degree in therapeutic counselling |
| 0:39.2 | and is involved in helping people affected by prescribed antidepressant tranquilizer and opiate |
| 0:45.5 | physical dependence and withdrawal. Baylissa is the author of the internationally successful |
| 0:51.5 | self-help book, Recovery and Renewal, The Memoir with Hope in |
| 0:55.8 | My Heart, and Two Journal's Dearest Me and Dearest Friend. |
| 1:00.9 | Baylissa herself was prescribed the benzodiazepine, clonazepam, also known as Clonopin, |
| 1:06.5 | for a form of dystonia, an involuntary movement disorder, and she survived an intense withdrawal |
| 1:13.3 | experience when coming off it. She is now fully recovered and dedicates her time to helping and |
| 1:19.2 | supporting others. Baylissa, welcome. Thank you so much for joining me for the Mad in America |
| 1:25.6 | podcast, and I have to to say I've been so |
| 1:28.6 | looking forward to getting to chat and um to begin with I wanted to ask a little bit if it's okay |
| 1:35.0 | about your own experiences of taking and withdrawing from clonazepan which is also known as |
| 1:41.0 | clonopin and you know also then if those experiences kind of contributed |
| 1:46.1 | or led to your work that you do now in supporting those |
| 1:49.7 | who are struggling with prescribed drug injury. |
| 1:53.2 | Thank you, James, and thanks for having me. |
| 1:56.5 | It is a privilege and an honor to be here. |
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