Blood Orange Night: A Memoir of Insomnia, Motherhood, and Benzos Bond Melissa
Blood Orange Night: A Memoir of Insomnia, Motherhood, and Benzos Bond Melissa Brain on Fire meets High Achiever in this "page-turner memoir chronicling a woman's accidental descent into prescription…
Specifikacia Blood Orange Night: A Memoir of Insomnia, Motherhood, and Benzos Bond Melissa
Blood Orange Night: A Memoir of Insomnia, Motherhood, and Benzos Bond Melissa
Brain on Fire meets High Achiever in this "page-turner memoir chronicling a woman's accidental descent into prescription benzodiazepine dependence--and the life-threatening impacts of long-term use--that chills to the bone" (Nylon).As Melissa Bond raises her infant daughter and a special-needs one-year-old son, she suffers from unbearable insomnia, sleeping an hour or less each night. Her doctor casually prescribes benzodiazepines--a family of drugs that includes Xanax, Valium, Klonopin, Ativan--and increases her dosage regularly.Following her doctor's orders, Melissa takes the pills night after night until her body begins to shut down. She loses her job as a journalist (a casualty of the 2008 recession), and her relationship with her husband grows distant.
Only when she collapses while holding her daughter does Melissa learn that her
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