Stevie in all her Klonopin glory!!

[goldustsongbird]

I have to admit to laughing my ass of at part six. She just wants to get the hell out of there! See the look she gives when they ask her do the promos?

*sideways glance*
"oookay..."

She's just so sarcastic during that part, I can't help but crack up. That aside... The rest of it is just.... :\

[The Tower]

Originally Posted by ReFleetwoodMac

She thinks 1986 to 1991 is seven years.

No, dear- 1986 to 1994 is eight years. It was eight years of her life that was lost to Klonopin.

[The Tower]

Originally Posted by ReFleetwoodMac

This is from 1991 right? She said she had been sober for seven years in 1991.

Ohhh, yeah- that's what you were referring to. Yeah, I noticed that as well. I thought- Honey you ain't been sober for seven years.

Sorry, BoBo.....

[JWS]

I just don't understand how Stevie got bogged down on Klonopin for eight years! Certainly after the first year she should have realized there was an addiction problem and where where her doctors? Were they prescribing this for eight years? Why would she wait eight years to get treatment?

IMO, when she realized she couldn't do cocaine anymore she was devastated...it was such a major part of her life. Perhaps Klonopin eased the mental pain.

Does anybody know someone that has taken Klonopin?

[gldstwmn]

One minute she's happy the next, slightly hostile. There's that familiar listlessness in her voice that I remember from that period. Thank god she made it.

[JazmenFlowers]

Originally Posted by JWS

I just don't understand how Stevie got bogged down on Klonopin for eight years! Certainly after the first year she should have realized there was an addiction problem and where where her doctors? Were they prescribing this for eight years? Why would she wait eight years to get treatment?

IMO, when she realized she couldn't do cocaine anymore she was devastated...it was such a major part of her life. Perhaps Klonopin eased the mental pain.

Does anybody know someone that has taken Klonopin?

I do and have taken it myself a few times. It never zonked me the way she says and it didn't seem addictive, but I know that it is - then again, I didn't and don't take it every day...

[Bryan]

Originally Posted by JWS

Does anybody know someone that has taken Klonopin?

There's a bunch of people's experiences (including Stevie'shttp://www.benzo.org.uk/nicks.htm) of it on here: http://www.benzo.org.uk/index.htm click 'stories'

[seekerj]

Originally Posted by JWS

I just don't understand how Stevie got bogged down on Klonopin for eight years! Certainly after the first year she should have realized there was an addiction problem and where where her doctors? Were they prescribing this for eight years? Why would she wait eight years to get treatment?

IMO, when she realized she couldn't do cocaine anymore she was devastated...it was such a major part of her life. Perhaps Klonopin eased the mental pain.

Does anybody know someone that has taken Klonopin?

Yeah... me. It took me 4 and a half years to realize this. You're in such a zombie state and can't really react to anything and don't understand consequenses as you are always only living only in that one moment. Someone could tell you "the house is on fire.... RUN!!" and you'd be like, "ok... (sigh)... oh well, I guess I have to get up now, but no big deal". As for the doctor, he just wanted to keep increasing my dosage, and since I was so zombied out, I would just say "ok". Then there's just the pure fatigue all day long. You're just too tired to take any kind of action. Then one day, I woke up and thought, "hey, I haven't gotten angry in years. I haven't yelled at the cat in years. I haven't laughed in years. I haven't cried, either. Maybe I should see what happens if I stop taking this drug." For me , as I said, it took 4 and a half years. Everyone is different.

[AliceLover]

Originally Posted by The Tower

No, dear- 1986 to 1994 is eight years. It was eight years of her life that was lost to Klonopin.

Its weird it was the worst part of her life but my favorite song came from that time.

[StreetAngel86]

Originally Posted by AliceLover

Its weird it was the worst part of her life but my favorite song came from that time.

yah i know
2 of my 3 fave songs came outta THAT era too
so it cant have been all that bad

[BombaySapphire3]

Originally Posted by AliceLover

Its weird it was the worst part of her life but my favorite song came from that time.

For the record she has stated" I wrote most of the songs for the TOSOTM before I starting taking the Klonopin so I kind of slipped by on that one"

[StreetAngel86]

Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3

For the record she has stated" I wrote most of the songs for the TOSOTM before I starting taking the Klonopin so I kind of slipped by on that one"

so *all* those songs were written in 87?

drugs or no drugs Street Angel/Running the the Garden/Blue Denim & Love is Like a River are top **** even tho LiLaR says it was written in 94 i doubt the demo was

[Kelly]

She said all of the songs on the Mirror album were written before she got too heavily into the klonopin.

Any interview from the early ninties is sad for me to watch. I esp. hate the OSOTM int. from England where she reads the Children Go On poem. I know some people think it is so beautiful and just lovely but I hear it as a cry for help. Pretty blatantly.