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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