Beware of Benzos

Let’s say you can’t get an unpleasant compulsive liar out of your life. Every time he sees you, he says something designed to upset you: “You look terrible… you’re falling apart, your wife doesn’t love you… your job is in jeopardy… your kids will end up badly….” He lobs a malignant whopper every time he sees you. Knowing this, would you take dangerous and addictive drugs to prevent feeling anxious around him? Or as a mature person would you try to avoid him as much as possible?

Your brain can be that compulsive fibber, throughout the day telling you distressing lies about danger and disappointment. Your heart, an organ without reasoning capacity, replies by beating faster, to which your brain replies, “Wow! My heart is really beating – there must be danger, I gotta get outta here!” This gossip between your brain and cardiovascular, and other neurological reactions is termed anxiety.

Taking anxiolytic medication, especially the benzodiazepines, to numb the unpleasant feelings of anxiety amounts to poisoning yourself in response to an empty lie.

March 21, 2020

Beware the Benzos

By Deborah C. Tyler

in American Thinker