What makes me mad is the doctors that over prescribe these things for normal, healthy anxiety and get their clients addicted to them. Especially young women who want to medicate normal anxiety away. People have anxiety is natural. Generations before were taught how to deal with it without taking a pill. I understand that some need the meds, but way over prescribed.
I went to a doctor right about when the prozac craze came out. I went in for a heart issue. The doctor, a young guy, walked in with a bag full of “free” prozac samples and handed them to me. WTF does that have to do with an irregular heartbeat? (Turns out it was a food allergy) Never went back to him.
Yesterday, I had a patient at the pharmacy who was so panic-stricken that she and her voice were shaking as she spoke. She was waiting on her lorazepam, and quite a lot of it. She said, “I’m just a very nervous person.”
Therapy would do her wonders to get over that kind of anxiety. Long-term sedative use isn’t ideal.
I’ve been on it in the past, and not naïve to those kinds of drugs, but I’d be in a perpetual sleep if taking what she was prescribed.