Subscription = prescription?

they are not the same.

lol perhaps you should pick up a dictionary - they are not the same thing.

OP may not know that though. People confuse similar sounding words with similar purposes all the time. Cut them a little slack.

LOL your right! I didn't notice until you pointed that out

only Losers do drugs.

Marijuana is a flower.

#69 : that's true (thumbs up) idiots do drugs!

Only close minded people and the stupid-ass government think that. War on drugs? let people do what they want, where's our war on POVERTY, huh?

You'd be surprised how many successful professionals light up a doobie. Your reaction stems from buying into mindless propaganda.

drug being a substance that CHEMICALY alters your state dumb *****. the ONLY thing wrong with pot is that it is illegal. and I'm sorry id rather hit the blunt than take something our government put out only to hear two years later 'have you or a loved one suffered from blah blah blah because they were prescribed blah blah blah?'

I have seen so many people ruined by drugs. I know weed itself is not a real harmful substance, but it's not like someone just decides one day to try some coke or shoot up some heroin. They start out with something like marijuana, then it progresses to more harmful drugs, then their addicts. If you want to become a slave to drugs, then you make all that right in your minds.

Nothings idiot-proof, weed included.

169 - So you're saying someone can just decide one day smoke weed, but not do cocaine or other hard drugs. It's not some linear process like stone - copper - bronze - iron ages, some cultures went from stone and straight to iron.

You keep telling yourself that. I just hope you don't get too far into drugs.

Haha!

Ignore this comment. Was posted in the wrong spot.

lol

61 win

OMG, GENIUS!! Where do they come up with people like you? M

If they're in need of their medication (hence their attempt to open the bottle), chances are they're not thinking clearly or rationally. That would be a good suggestion if they weren't panicking before they got to the bottle.

and yet they have time to write a FML

Quite possibly because most anxiety attacks don't last for the rest of the victim's life.

I didn't know that a panic attack was also an idiot attack.

That kind of medication doesn't work instantaneously. It works on a steady dose in your system. I'm sure OP had a few minutes to calmly figure out how to open the damn bottle. Probably just got pissed off and frustrated and freaked out a little prematurely.

AutoShot, you are such a ******* ignorant prick. Why don't you do a little research into the disorder before calling people idiots and telling them to nut up or shut up. Get your head out of your ass, cause people like you are the world's real problem. Asshole

123 - What if they're only supposed to take the pill "when they need it"? Then there's no steady dose in their system. My brother was told to do that.

Correct 139 :)

Doesn't sound like that's the case here. OP wasn't trying to take one to stop an anxiety attack. But sure, maybe. You can have the benefit of the doubt because we have no idea what the OP is prescribed. A good Omega 3 supplement can work wonders for anxiety. Just throwing that out there. Fish oil is soo important for our health overall and doesn't have weird side effects like lots of prescription drugs. just sayin

That's interesting. I didn't know Omegas worked for helping anxiety.

actually benzos (if thats what OP has) do take effect within minutes of taking them.

I'd like to see you open a child proof bottle with a gun to your face while being yelled at to hurry the **** up. Then maybe you'd understand what it is like to have a panic attack.

Thank you 151. There are reasonable souls left :)

What, I know how to open childproof containers so there's no way I could have ever had a panic attack? I have, but that has nothing to do with this. This person's anxiety could be very worse than mine, or may not be as bad. Regardless, 11 year olds can do it and this person can't. Not an FML.

Valid point but the essay is not needed

wow people are really open about their lives on this.

ignore the Emo. a bit of detail is good. at least you're pointing out the valid serious side and offering a solution. As someone who also suffers Anxiety/Depression, I can appreciate the solid advice. it balances the funny quips that abound.

awww so sad ='( RIP Bankrupt's Neighbor's dad

no joke 37

Sorry to have upset/offended anyone with the details but I didn't want to hear about what a terrible parent I am for having a small child and not demanding childproof caps. The point was to show situations in which they are unnecessary and in the case of my neighbor's dad, a detriment. I just read this FML, thought of that poor man, what the last moments of his life must have been and how avoidable his death was, and thought that information might be useful to others.

Word.

Weed doesn't always help people. In some cases it's calming while in others it can trigger more panic.

Weed is just gateway drug to becoming a drug addict. AKA, complete loser.

Tueday you are a complete idiot.

As I ofcourse fail to spell Tuesday.. ;(

Anyone who truly believes it is a gateway drug is a victim of the media.

80- Or they have literally seen it happen to multiple people over the years. . The truth is, most of the time it doesn't lead to other drugs, but it sometimes does. I've seen a lot of people start out smoking weed and drinking and eventually move onto drugs like ecstacy or cokaine. Don't act like it never happens.

Hey Auto, you're a ******* idiot too. Hypocritcal bastard.

83- correlation doesn't equal causation. Moving onto hard, dangerous drugs doesn't mean they did so because of weed. It's like saying breathing leads to death. People who breathe die, but we don't die because of breathing. Please refrain from replying with freshman philosophical mumbo jumbo.

Docscientist - While doing weed doesn't always mean a person will move on to harder drugs, it may have something to do with it. There aren't many (IME) who have started with hard drugs right off the bat. Weed is typically the "experiment" drug. Anyway the whole point is that weed doesn't always lead to harder drugs, but certainly have some influence. You can't really compare breathing and death like that since death is inevitable. If that were the case, eating, ********, speaking, blinking, digesting will all cause death. None of that's true, obviously. A better comparison would be saying smoking leads to cancer. Sometimes cancer does strike a person because they're a smoker, sometimes it doesn't. Smoking doesn't always cause cancer and may not be the sole cause of the cancer that person had, but it certainly affects the person enough to increase the RISK of getting lung cancer.

They aren't making that correlation. Essentially, it's the people who abuse weed to the point that it's not sufficient enough to get them high anymore move onto other more dangerous drugs. You'd learn this if you went into the medical fields of Neurology or Psychology. It's not just freshman philosophical bantering. In some aspects 83 is very much correct.

My analogy was somewhat exaggerated for humorous effect, and you are correct, that some people will take marijuana and move onto harder drugs. However, my point is that it is a complex issue with multiple influences in play as to why people start using harder drugs, and that you can't really claim that that marijuana is what led to someone's use of harder substances based on personal experience. Also, from my experience of what it means to be a gateway drug is from the early 90s DARE programs where, if marijuana were legal, then people are going to lose control and do harder drugs as if it were a slippery slope into chaos and decay. Gateway drug has a very negative and propagandized connotation for me.

157 - No worries, my statement about philosophical babble was referring to my analogy. Not about the causes of addiction itself.

actually 156. ******** and eating can cause death. if you get diarrhea and don't intake enough liquid, you can die of dehydration. or if you push too hard, a blood vessel could pop causing a hemorage (sp), leading also to death. as for eating, you can eat too much and die that way. or you can choke and die that way. btw. the eating too much doesn't correlate with those over weight. though in some cases, being over weight does lead to death. with all this being said, some of them are rare.

I never meant that anyone who smokes weed will end up a meth addict, just that it makes things more likely to turn out that way. Why take the risk? As for being "A victim of the media", the media these days screams drugs, alcohol, Partying and what not. There is nothing wrong with drugs and alcohol if you can have self control with it, but most people can't. I personally never want to be trapped in addiction, I have seen what it does to people, including my dad. I don't wish that on anybody.

Except maybe terrorists and michael Vick.

You guys shouldn't smoke weed. Nevermind the fact that it's just something that relaxes you and gives you a chill buzz, it will lead you to harsher drugs and drinking. I used to smoke weed when I was a wee lad of six years old. Now, I'm eighteen, have a drinking problem, smoke meth daily, shoot heroin daily, eat cocaine, and beat my sixteen year old kid with empty bottles of Jameson and 151. I pay for it by prostituting myself out to older Juggalo men. The 50 condom-wrapped dicks currently sliding in and out of my ass are said to resemble the tail of a peacock.

180 - I realize that in technical terms, you're right and eating and ******** can cause death. However I think you missed my point.

I think that's such a hasty generalization #209. It isn't such a bad risk to take, I mean sure it might have some bad effects but why take the risk in skydiving for example? anything could go wrong in so many situations. You say that most people don't have the self-control to handle drugs and alcohol but do you know most people? there are about 7 billion people on this planet, that's amazing that you know most of them. Then you go out of your way to say how OP should grow some balls in trying to open his pill bottle, anxiety attacks are no joke.

lol. it is. for most people at least. i would know.