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What They Don't Tell You about Xanax

31 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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Dr. Don Wood argues that commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs (example: antidepressants, and implied benzodiazepines like Xanax) chemically alter brain serotonin processing and can produce major personality changes. He frames these medications as often prescribed for anxiety, depression, and mood disorders, criticizes their use as a permanent solution, and gives anecdotal examples of people becoming shut down and losing interest in prior activities.

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This drug is changing your personality and turning you into somebody you don't even recognize. These drugs are really designed to try to help people who are suffering with mental health issues. The issue is, is it really changes the personality of the person. It'll start to make changes to the way you think, the way you interact with people, your job, your friends, even your social life. That's what they're designed to do. These prescriptions for these drugs are usually given to people who are dealing with anxiety or depression, mental health issues, mood disorders, unfortun. Unfortunately, these drugs are not a permanent solution to the problem. Unfortunately, a lot of times they're used that way as a permanent solution. These drugs, for example, antidepressant medication, are designed to chemically change your brain. Depression is considered a chemical imbalance in the brain. It's a serotonin imbalance. These are designed to then change the way the serotonin is being processed in the brain. Let me give you an example on what you see in a personality change. Have you ever met somebody who they may be depressed? The medication is designed to try to help them deal with that depression, and yet their personality completely changes. It's difficult to get them to do the things that they used to do before, the things that they loved to do before. It's really shutting them down to deal with that depression that they're dealing with, or even the anxiety they're dealing with, depending on the type of medication. But you definitely see a major change in personality.