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522: Is This Anxiety Or Medication Withdrawal Listener Q and A

  1. 522: Is This Anxiety Or Medication Withdrawal Listener Q and A Gina Ryan 20:14

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In today’s episode, Gina answers a listener question left on the ACP website about stopping benzodiazepine medication (Xanax). The listener is concerned about the withdrawal process and how she should go about stopping the medication. Gina advises how to go about stopping the medication (with the help of the prescribing physician) and what to expect as far an anxiety and withdrawal symptoms are concerned.

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Gina Ryan is the producer and host of the top 50 Mental Health shows on Apple Podcast -The Anxiety Coaches Podcast. Gina is a Nutritionist and coach who, in 1993, opened New Health Natural Products in NY and also struggled with stress, anxiety, and panic for over 20 years.

Before the internet, she was able to climb out of her fear and panic to peace, calm, and well-being by finding what did and did not work. She now teaches thousands of others how to do the same in a fraction of the time.

After moving to Maui in 2005, Gina spent 12 years as a nutritionist/consultant for the Intensive Outpatient Eating Disorder Center and, the only Residential ED Facility in Hawai'i. She shared her compassion, along with her knowledge and wisdom of the mind-body-spirit connection, helping clients clear their food-related anxiety, obsessions, and compulsions.

Gina is dedicated full-time to anxiety-clearing, coaching, writing, and teaching clients worldwide. She considers her work her calling and lives a mindful and compassionate life.