EP 223 - Anxiety And Benzo Withdrawal : Pain vs Suffering

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

🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week I'm joined by therapist and author Jennifer Swantowski as she shares her ongoing experience with benzodiazepine withdrawal and anxiety. Jennifer is the author of "The Waiting Room" a most excellent book that anyone dealing with this challenge will find useful and inspiring. For full show notes on this episode: https://theanxioustruth.com/223 --- My books, social, and other links: https://theanxioustruth.com/links Support The Anxious Truth: https://theanxioustruth.com/support M...

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0:00.0	This week on The Anxious Truth, we have a guest in the podcast. It's a story about Benzo
0:04.0	Diazepine withdrawal. But more important, it's a story about knowing the difference between
0:08.7	pain and suffering and how not to fall into a perpetual victim mindset. So my new friend,
0:14.0	Jennifer Swantowski is here. It's a great interview. I know you're going to dig it. So let's get going.
0:18.8	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to The Anxious Truth. This is podcast episode number 223 recorded in
0:33.4	July of 2022. Are we going to be seeing this somewhere around the end of August? I'm not sure.
0:38.1	Anyway, I am Drew Lins, a lot of creator and host of The Anxious Truth. I am happy that you are
0:42.5	here. This is the podcast that focuses on all things anxiety, anxiety disorders, and recovery.
0:47.9	Now, before we get started on this week's podcast episode, I just want to remind you that The Anxious
0:52.4	Truth is more than just this podcast episode. There are hundreds of other free podcast episodes.
0:57.4	There's a ton of free social media content. There's a free morning newsletter called The Anxious
1:01.6	Morning. As of this recording, I have written three self-help books on anxiety and anxiety recovery
1:06.4	that are helping tens of thousands of people around the world. All of those things could be found
1:10.1	on my website at TheAnxiousTruth.com. And if you are finding my work helpful and you would like to
1:16.0	help me keep it free of sponsorships and advertising, all the ways to do that can be found on my
1:21.0	website at TheAnxiousTruth.com. Support. It's always appreciated but never required. So thank you
1:26.8	to all of you guys for your support. Appreciate it. So today we're going to talk to Jen Swantowski.
1:32.0	Jen is a clinical social worker, a therapist, if you will, practicing in Houston, Texas.
1:37.1	She's written a book called The Waiting Room, which is a book about her continuing journey
1:42.4	through medication injury and benzodiazepine withdrawal. And this could have been a book about
1:48.2	symptoms and managing doses and tapering methods and and and and serves and ways to manage your
1:55.2	symptoms, but it is not. This is really an inspiring and I think encouraging and educational story
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