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Understanding anxiety —and its surprising upside

Life Examined

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Is There a Good Way to Treat Anxiety?

There's been a lot of talk about the over prescription of things like benzodiasopines, this is clonapin a and xanax. I think that medication can be a very important helpmate when we need to seek therapy for debilitating anxiety. But i at the same time, believe that benzodiazopines in particular, are radically over prescribed. And theyre prescribed in irresponsible ways,. Because what people have not been tauht properly or to the full extent, is the risks that they pose both for adiction as well as for other kinds of side effects with other substances.

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