Jenny Taitz
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 30 Mar
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Or you have like an issue at work and then you're an asshole at home. And then that's like, let's just make your whole life terrible. Now everything's bad. Those places are bad.
I have a cure for panic. No, no, no, seriously. Nothing makes me more excited. This is my Christmas gift. I feel like you're giving me a Christmas gift. Another thing that is on the list of things that backfire that was the impetus for writing this book is so many people, especially people that are lucky enough to get help. 30 million Americans take benzodiazepines.
Yeah, and I'm happy to talk a little bit about what my issues are with it. Yeah, tell me. So, I mean, a few things. the first thing to realize is, do you know about their history? Like how they were developed? They were testing antibiotics basically. And they noticed that mice on the verge of being electrocuted were acting passively when they were given this compound.
And so I don't know about you, but if I was about to be electrocuted, I would like to be on high threat alert. And so then Arthur Sackler of the opioid crisis started marketing these to women in the 1950s.
Exactly. It was the Sacklers? Yeah.
Yeah, but I don't know about you, but I don't think a pill is a cure for an unsatisfying life. And my goal wouldn't be to, like, be drugged into submission if my days are dissatisfying. I also just think it's interesting that when you need to be your sharpest... When you're stressed and you need to have your full brain to solve problems in front of you, you're taking something.
Well, the thing that breaks my heart, Dax, is that so many of my patients come to me not realizing that there are other options. I love people and I think people are amazing. But these people seem like they might have had a brain injury sometimes. People that are incredibly privileged that keep going up on the dose because like a concierge physician is willing.
to keep you habituate to it then you need to keep raising the dose both things are true you're abusing it more and you're building a tolerance yeah and like you I believe of course if you need this take you know a patient of mine was like I feel so bad I have to take this I'm finding out tomorrow if this ailment is terminal or not I'm like oh my goodness for me like to tell you what to do I think there's some acute use which is great one cool thing for people that are
are listening that are thinking, I tried to detox once and it was hell. I don't know if this is anecdotal or larger, but I've had a couple of clients recently that are taking drugs like GLP-1s and finding that their detox is going a little bit better on the benzene.
One person that has tried that I'm thinking of in particular, he was on like six milligrams and really his whole life was on hold. Like, yeah, OK, your body is not stressed, but you're not able to get a job.
I'm not a psychiatrist, so I can't say for sure, but this person has found that really helpful.
And so one of the things coming back to UCLA that brought me into writing this book was a colleague of mine, a psychiatry resident, Neil Hoffman, was saying in the peak of COVID when people were super stressed, like, hey, did you see this new paper that found that this song called Weightless was found by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania to reduce anxiety before surgery almost to the same effect as a benzo?
And I was like, what? That's crazy. Listening to a song for five minutes, actually the song is so relaxing. What's the song? It's called Weightless. This is what I play for my kids if they're not going to sleep. Wow. You could do that for your middle of the night. Oh, it might help. Yeah.
It just opened my mind that there's so many things we don't realize that are free of side effects. We live in this world where it's like the fancier, the better, but like there's simple things.
Man's Search for Meaning.
Yeah, there's so many things we could do moment to moment to make it a little easier. Maybe when emotions are super high, you can't do the hardest thing, but you could do something like relax your face, which automatically signals to your brain that I need to stop judging and thinking this is the worst. And then that maybe allows you to find your breath and then maybe you could do the next thing.
And there's all these things you could stack together.
If we could really normalize that our body's serving us. and we don't need to judge it and we don't need to be ashamed of it, then it automatically stops the cycle of your body does something, your mind makes it worse, your body then gets worse and then it's a tornado.
I love that. And I think you could also swap the word stress for emotions. Like this is also so relevant with emotions or people judge their emotions and then judge their body's emotional response. But you could use the two synergistically.
So many ways to regulate our emotions. I keep coming back to this three part sequence of our thoughts, our physical sensations and our behaviors. So if you dissect an emotion into like its fundamental ingredients, its thoughts, physical sensations, behavior.
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