Episode 507: Benzos Addiction and Recovery with Melissa Bond

Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Andrea Owen

Education, How To, Self-improvement

4.8 • 516 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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We have another thrilling and exciting interview for you today around recovery. Melissa Bond joins me to discuss her story of addiction and recovery from benzodiazepines, more specifically, Ativan. Melissa is a narrative journalist and poet. In the years of her dependence on benzodiazepines, she has blogged and become a regular contributor for Mad in America. She is also the author of the memoir Blood Orange Night where she writes about becoming dependent upon and then withdrawing from benzodiazepines. Some of the topics we discussed include: Melissa shares her story of addiction to benzodiazepines and how it affected her life with her family (5:53) “Benzos are the thieves that take everything.” (21:29) How Melissa decided to withdraw from benzos and took it upon herself to do it (24:19) Identifying as an addict and why as a culture we must ask, “What is addiction?” (38:12) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.8	There's still times where I don't sleep or where my suffering feels really great,
0:34.9	but I now know that those medications, what they ended up doing to
0:41.0	my body and the degree of suffering I had to go through just to get off of them, I would have
0:46.4	never chosen that.
0:50.6	You're listening to Make Some Nice Podcast, episode number 507 with guest Melissa Bond.
0:59.8	Welcome to Make Some Noise Podcast, your guide for strategies, tools, and insight to empower yourself.
1:11.6	I'm your host, Andrea Owen, global speaker, entrepreneur life coach since 2007,
1:16.9	an author of three books that have been translated into 18 languages and are available in 22 countries.
1:23.8	Each week I'll bring you a guest or a lesson that will help you maximize unshakable confidence,
1:29.4	master resilience, and make some noise in your life.
1:33.4	You ready?
1:34.2	Let's go.
1:39.2	Hey, everyone.
1:40.2	Welcome to another episode of the podcast.
1:41.8	I am so glad that you are here.
1:43.5	We have another thrilling and exciting interview for you today around recovery. This one is especially interesting. So I have two around the same topic. This one for Melissa Bond and then one coming up soon from my friend Lauren Cathcart-Robbins, who's been on the show before,
2:05.0	both about benzo addictions, specifically Ambien.
2:08.6	As someone who's been prescribed Ambien two different times,
2:13.4	let me just let these stories speak for themselves.
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