EP 123 - Holly's Benzodiazepine Anxiety Experience

The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast

Drew Linsalata

Anxiety Attacks, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, Health Anxiety, Agoraphobia, Anxiety Help, Panic Attacks, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Ocd, Mental Health

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Holly is back in this episode, sharing her long experience using benzos as part of her anxiety management strategy. Holly shares how she started on benzos, what her doctor told her, and how she actually did use them. We talk about "as needed" use, daily use, dependency (addiction), effectiveness, and how the use of benzos interferes with learning recovery lessons. Holly shares her recovery story and how we gradually stopped taking benzos altogether after many years of use.&n...

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0:00.0	Dudes and duets. This is episode one twenty three of the
0:15.7	podcast one two three of the anxious truth. Welcome back. Thanks for taking the time
0:19.7	to be with me today. We're going to be joined by a special guest you haven't heard from her in quite a long time, my friend
0:25.3	Holly coming to us from Mayorka. Today we're going to cover a topic that I know a lot of people are
0:30.4	interested in. Holly has direct experience with this. She has been generous enough
0:34.9	to share her experience with us. We're going to talk about the use of benzodiazepines to deal with anxiety and using them, using them judiciousiciously what happens when you try to come off them all of that stuff
0:46.9	So we'll be joined by Holly in a second
0:49.2	Before we do that I have to do my usual plug here for the book, The Anxious Truth,
0:53.5	A step-by-step guide to understanding and overcoming anxiety, panic, and agoraphobia.
0:57.8	It is at the Anxious Truth.com slash recovery guide.
1:00.7	It is essentially a 400-page written course on how to recover from an
1:03.9	anxiety disorder. So if you're looking for that kind of help, head on over there
1:07.3	check it out. I would appreciate it. If you've already read it or you are
1:10.2	reading it and it is helping you, a review on Amazon, we're most
1:12.8	appreciated and yeah that's it I don't want to spend any time on that today I want to
1:16.5	get right into a holly so I'm going to bring her on in a second and we're
1:20.2	going to talk about Benzo's Benzo withdrawal and what that's all about so here we go
1:26.4	okay folks here she is all the way from her exotic patio in Mayorka
1:30.8	welcome back holly haven't done an episode with you in a long time.
1:34.0	What's going on?
1:35.0	I know it's been a while.
1:36.0	It's been a while, isn't it?
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