the tara bixby podcast 140. Scott Stossel: My Age of Anxiety
Today Scott Stossel is helping me create a conversation around anxiety and psych meds. You might recognize his name if you watched the Netflix documentary Take Your Pills: Xanax as he was featured in it.
Scott is the National Editor of The Atlantic, the author of My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind and Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver.
We're talking about...
- Why he wanted to share his mental health experience inside a documentary
- Where his mental health journey began
- What his experience with psych meds looked like
- What he believes is at the root of his anxiety
- Why being a man has made his anxiety worse
- How benzodiazepine use can lead to addiction
- How benzos impact GABA production
- The role the nervous system plays in anxiety
- What you can do to shift your nervous system back into a ventral state of calm
- How benzodiazepines impact your amygdala
...and so much more!
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