Xanax detox is a life threatening event, it must be done medically supervised. One needs to be supervised as one winds down the dosage, there's really no two ways about it.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ditzyklanmail <carc...@...> wrote: > > From close experience these past few months and this past week, a very good > friend of the family was on Zanax went cold turkey and got seizures so the > doc put the friend on klonopin and a few suicide attempts were had by a young > person in their early 20's. Never before suicidal. The friend said the drugs > make one wish to get out of the body because of discomfort. The friend is an > athiest and does not meditate from any Guru lineage. The weird thing is, at > the psycho ward, the doctors and program kept suggesting he should believe in > God, by their daily prayer circles. When the friend asked the doctor about > meditating, one doctor answered with " You mean that Hindu, eastern stuff?" > The friend just realized they were all crazy at the psycho ward and now is > trying to find a doctor who can help wean off the pills. The friend's close > family member works in the medical field. It is usually the answer to the > friend's family. > > There is nothing spiritual about clutching a knife and razors. > > > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Buck <dhamiltony...@...> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thu, 3 June, 2010 8:35:34 PM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Acedia & Fairfield > > > > > > > > In the news, a young person of the meditating community put an end to his > > life this last week. > > > > http://preview.tinyurl.com/34a3rnz > > > > Does taking Anti-depressants preclude spiritual experience? > > Just wondering given the recent experience of exulted experiences and suicide. > > Exulted transcendental experiences and depressed. Does taking > anti-depressants also shut off the spiritual experience? Get in the way of > transcending? > > I don't know. I'm just wondering given the recent example. Spiritual > experiences and anti-D's? Anybody got real experience to relate to? Dr. > Pete, what do you know? > > Acedia as spiritual depression, is there a place for anti-D's in spiritual > depression? Should meditators be afraid of taking anti-D's? Anti-psychs? > > Thanks in advance, > > -Buck >
