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In 1979, in a writing class called “Exposition and Experience” with Sanford Kaye at Harvard Extension School, I wrote the first version of this unpublished essay. In subsequent writing groups, classes, and seminars over the decades, I’ve at...
The Xanax Files, Part II
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In Part I, which posted last week, I shared the lead-up to becoming physically dependent on Xanax, the anti-anxiety medication, so much so that I needed outpatient medical supervision to reduce my dose saf...
The Xanax Files, Part I
In the summer of 1996, I attempted to withdraw from a very high dose of the popular prescribed benzodiazepine Xanax through a highly regarded, medically supervised taper program. It was not a pretty picture but I learned a lot about myself....
Threshold
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This essay, originally written in 2014, appeared in the online literary magazine The Manifest-Station on May 17, 2018. It’s bittersweet to look back on a time when my nonagenarian parents and their long...
"You're Too Sensitive!"
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When the AQI (air quality index) hit 132 last week (“unhealthy for sensitive groups”), I put a mask on in my car, AC blasting. Still, tight chest, stinging eyes, burning throat.
Driving across town, I noticed...
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Deborah Sosin, writer & therapist, has published in the NY Times, Boston Globe, elsewhere. Her set of 70 micro-memoirs, 70 words each, “Escape Velocity: How One 70-Year-Old Push-Pulled Her Way Out of Her Too-Much-Not-Enough Family,” is now available.
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