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"My daughter was suffering, I wanted to help her": they themselves give anxiolytics to their children without knowing the risks

2023-03-16T13:43:22.377Z


TESTIMONIALS - The consumption of hypnotics and anxiolytics increased by 35% between 2010 and 2021, according to Health Insurance. This does not take into account the drugs given by parents without a prescription, a dangerous phenomenon.


Margaux*, 24, is a woman of character, independent and resilient.

But at 16, she was fragile, anxious and subject to many ocds (obsessive compulsive disorders).

The reason, his complex family environment at the time.

There was the divorce of his parents, the depression of his mother.

Her psychiatrist then put her on Atarax - a sedative antihistamine that has moderate anxiolytic properties -.

While it alleviated her symptoms in the very short term, the medication didn't do her any good, she says.

On the contrary.

When I came home from school, I no longer knew which way I should go

,” she recalls.

Faced with these effects, her mother made the decision to stop the treatment.

Instead, she gives him Lysanxia - an anxiolytic used in the treatment of anxiety -.

She has several pads at home, her doctor prescribes some for her depression.

Margaux gets into the habit of swallowing a pill for everything and nothing.

She ends up using it...

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Source: lefigaro

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