I'm currently on alprazolam (xanax) and when I've explained to some people I know that I'm on it, they get very excited and ask me how to get it. They look at it as a sort of a 'party' to be on and I just sit there like 'do you not understand that what I go through is terrible and this is the only thing that helps me? and you think it's for fun?'


it bothers me. Last night I was talking to a group of my friends and I said 'i hate being on xanax, I don't like the way it makes me feel for the 20ish mins it's working" and this one girl turns to me with a shocked look and was like " How can you not like it? I wish I could understand that!" as in genuinely shocked.

Another girl I know, I was explaining to her why it wouldn't be a good idea for me to move out right now because of my panic attacks and she asked if I took anything for them and I told her and she goes "WOAHWOAHWOAH You have xanax for panic attacks?! howd you get them?!" and i was like my psychatrist...and shes like "wait so you just went in to his office, sai dyou had panic attacks and he gave you xanax?!" all excited like and I was like well theres more to it then that but she didnt hear me she was so excited that to her xanax seemed to be easily obtainable


I dont understand, I try my hardest not to need it and these people are enjoying it?? it makes me feel awkward and uncomfortable.

:/ does anyone have any advice or anything on this?

Hi Meg, yes it is sad. My newly 16 yr old son has lost a lot of friends to the prescription crowd. Not because they died or anything, yet, but because he chooses to avoid them. His best friend was found od'ed on Xanax in a bathtub full of water with his clothes on not long ago. These kids are getting these meds from their parents who are either addicted and/or not paying attention or parents or other kids who get them and sell them. Not just Xanax either.

I made the mistake of leaving my med drawer on my table one day after loading my pill minders and my son came home with a bunch of his teenage friends while I was gone, unannounced, he was smart enough to keep them from taking any and they were too dumb to know what the generic names were for many of my meds. Otherwise they could have cleaned me out. I will never do that again. I have many pain meds, and psych meds. If I were you I just wouldn't mention it. Obviously they really don't know what it is really like to be ill and have to rely on something like that.

They don't realize that when we have a mental illness we react differently to the meds because our brain chemistry is different. I mean duh, that's why we have to take them.

well now im perscribed valium, i duno i havent gotten it yet and im afraid.

It really burns me how docs and such are so quick to presrcibe pills to kids. I have a son that was a little busy when he started Pre-K, and the teacher said I should put him on prozac! I wanted to tell her to get bent right there. After he started summer camp and then Kindergarten, he is fine and doing well in class. Another school person thought he might have a form of autism! Like they have the knowledge to dx that! Autism is the new ADHD. There are some kids and young people who really do need these drugs, but i think it is too widely given out. We are going to end up with a generation of medicated people who can't do anything.