Stevie in all her Klonopin glory!! - Page 2

JazmenFlowers · #16 02-11-2006, 01:13 AM

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Originally Posted by JWS

Thanks for this. I've read reports Stevie was popping 8 pills a day. I don't know what an appropriate dosage is...but 8 seem excessive.

You say you have taken Klonopin...what's the effect, if any...tired, lithargic?

ok, if ole girl was taking 8, yeah I can see it - I'm surprised she isn't dead

I started taking half a pill just to calm nerves and progressed to a full pill. I didn't feel lethargic or tired, I felt really, really relaxed. I would compare the feeling to taking a good 250 mg muscle relaxer. Speaking of which...

JWS · #17 02-11-2006, 01:35 AM

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Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

ok, if ole girl was taking 8, yeah I can see it - I'm surprised she isn't dead

This seems to be a common statement about our dear Stevie Nicks..."I'm surprised she isn't dead". Ms. Nicks is lucky to be alive. She has said so herself. Stevie seriously abused heavy narcotics for 18 years...plus alcohol and smoking!

Any of these things can be handled in moderation, not that I condone it...but in Stevie's case...it's full blown addiction.

JazmenFlowers · #18 02-11-2006, 01:40 AM

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Originally Posted by JWS

This seems to be a common statement about our dear Stevie Nicks..."I'm surprised she isn't dead". Ms. Nicks is lucky to be alive. She has said so herself. Stevie seriously abused heavy narcotics for 18 years...plus alcohol and smoking!

Any of these things can be handled in moderation, not that I condone it...but in Stevie's case...it's full blown addiction.

yep, which is why I treasure her

amber · #19 02-11-2006, 01:58 AM

Thank you for bringing my attention to this. I've only watched part one (because South Park is on) and my impression is that although her eyes are incredibly flat, her words make sense, her attitude seems to be just the attitude I would expect her to have at that point in her life.

She's kind of disillusioned about people, some probably took advantage of her and now she sings things clearly because she's relatively sober, she's older, she's probably feeling her age a bit, people keep asking her the same questions over and over, her last couple albums sold fewer, (I think she was probably proud of OSOTM, too - she should be) and didn't she get a little skewered for RAL?
I would probably be just as irritated. Hell, I was just as irritated this afternoon for way fewer reasons.

And I've certainly been that bored before.

But *so far* she is expressing herself well and clearly, and saying a few insightful things - I like her opinion about paying a lot of money for things that belonged to other people.

even though she's lying or mistaken about a few dates...I would probably do that too....

I can't wait to see the rest.

JazmenFlowers · #20 02-11-2006, 02:02 AM

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Originally Posted by amber

I can't wait to see the rest.

it's some pretty interesting stuff...the uncut behind the music segments are cool too

(I feel slightly awkward saying uncut)

GarboSpeaks! · #21 02-11-2006, 02:43 AM

Yea, she doesn't seem THAT dazed. I mean yea, she's a bit out of it, but real snotty IMO. I know I have seen this and You-Tube is real selective about what it runs all of and doesn't. Atleast for me. Sure I have high speed interent, but paying my monthly bill punctually doesn't ensure me top notch service.

Might I add, weren't we talking bout her wearing gawd awful stuff on occasion? I hate that dress/coat combo. Blech!

Mokona · #22 02-11-2006, 02:44 AM

Ugh, she has that dead look in her eyes, which is something I guess I've had until recently, according to my nurse practitioner. I've been taking Klonopin daily (1-3 mg. depending on how bad the anxiety is) for about 4 years, and she is just now weaning me off of it because my mind has really become dulled (memory, being able to think quickly, etc.) and also my anxiety has improved. I had a very bad day last week where I was all jitters and it felt like my body was turning to Jell-O, so she told me to come down even more slowly with just half a pill a day, and then a quarter pill. At first, Klonopin makes you tired, and then you just feel relaxed, and once you've been on it for a long time, you don't feel anything other than the absence of anxiety.

This is basically what she told me: 1 mg of Klonopin is equal to 20 mg of Valium. The doctors like to prescribe it for panic/anxiety because it stays in your system for 12 hours versus something like Xanax, which is much shorter-acting and sort of gives you a very relaxed feeling, but you "crash" sooner and can have rebound anxiety. Picture a kiddie roller coaster versus an adult one. Klonopin is like the kiddie one, with smoother dips and slopes, whereas Xanax is like the adult one, with sharper climbs and drops.

Anyway, if Stevie was taking 8 mg a day, it's amazing she was able to even give an interview. Seriously, you become so dulled that it seems as if your IQ has dropped 50 points. Interesting interview though.

Janis_no1 · #23 02-11-2006, 03:30 AM

i've only gotten like 30 seconds into part 1.... up to the part where she says with the flat, almost bored non moving stare "you dont want to hear what we sung".... pretty intimidating i would think for the interviewer...seems scary

Now i'll go see the rest

Janis_no1 · #24 02-11-2006, 03:57 AM

oh my goodness.... there's some great amazing interviews and shows i would never see if youtube didn't exist... lots love going out....

Oh it hurt when she said the in the doing the best clip how she couldnt' take anymore of people advice etc, and that she is a big girl now and so on...

StreetAngel86 · #25 02-11-2006, 03:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Janis_no1

i've only gotten like 30 seconds into part 1.... up to the part where she says with the flat, almost bored non moving stare "you dont want to hear what we sung".... pretty intimidating i would think for the interviewer...seems scary

Now i'll go see the rest

forget being fired by her
i would have quit

Scary Stevie............not cool

my poor baby/ glad the 90s are over

StreetAngel86 · #26 02-11-2006, 04:02 AM

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Oh it hurt when she said the in the doing the best clip how she couldnt' take anymore of people advice etc, and that she is a big girl now and so on...

that song just rules so much.
i just saw that clip for the first time last night
and that made me sad ....... because you know she DOES try to please everyone. and if they were still asking too much of her and not letting her do her ****..........that clip really showed me why/how she would develop another drug addiction.

BombaySapphire3 · #27 02-11-2006, 04:10 AM

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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 · #28 02-11-2006, 04:43 AM

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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 · #29 02-11-2006, 07:11 AM

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.

Janis_no1 · #30 02-11-2006, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Kelly

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.

I haven't heard that....