00:00Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
00:30...that we have created this whole infrastructure to promote.
00:34We live in this age of over-prescribing and over-supply,
00:37which means you're more likely to try it and more likely to get addicted to it.
00:41Knowing what I know now, I would never have taken that first prescription.
00:47There's this huge Xanax crisis.
00:50Now we're seeing younger and younger age groups not only being prescribed benzodiazepines,
00:54but being kept on them.
00:56Xanax works more quickly than most other benzodiazepines and wears off more quickly.
01:00So you get into that dysphoric, wanting, craving state.
01:04And those patients who are dependent upon the medication, they just can't function without them.
01:08That's the nature of tolerance and withdrawal.
01:11We are stuck in this old story, fixing something that's broken instead of building resilience against it.
01:16What's going to get you on the other side of the anxiety is to actually go through it.
01:22There is something awfully shaming for someone to say,
01:25pull yourself up by your bootstraps, just do it, if you can't.
01:30Learning how to cope with the world is a journey.
01:35It's something that you learn to do over time.
01:37I'm going to get you on the other side of the anxiety.
01:38I'm going to get you on the other side of the anxiety.
01:39I'm going to get you on the other side of the anxiety.
01:40I'm going to get you on the other side of the anxiety.
01:41I'm going to get you on the other side of the anxiety.
01:42I'm going to get you on the other side of the anxiety.
01:43I'm going to get you on the other side of the anxiety.
01:45I'm going to get you on the other side of the anxiety.
01:46I'm going to get you on the other side of the anxiety.
01:47I'm going to get you on the other side of the anxiety.
01:48I'm going to get you on the other side of the anxiety.
01:49I'm going to get you on the other side of the anxiety.
01:50I'm going to get you on the other side of the anxiety.
