Jordan Peterson is recovering from severe tranquiliser addiction in Russia

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Bestselling Canadian author and academic Jordan Peterson is undergoing rehabilitation from an addiction to the tranquiliser drug benzodiazepine, his family has said.

In a video posted to his YouTube channel, Mr Peterson's daughter Mikhaila said he has been suffering from a physical dependency on the drug for eight months, which he was prescribed for anxiety.

Mr Peterson initially went onto benzodiazepine when he had an "extremely severe autoimmune reaction to food", she said, with the dosage being raised after his wife was diagnosed with cancer.

Valium and Xanax are commonly known brands of benzodiazepine.

Author Jordan Peterson is recovering from severe tranquiliser addiction in Russia - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Some of you might ask, who is Jordan Peterson?

Jordan Peterson is a psychology professor at the University of Toronto, a widely cited scholar of personality, and the author of what’s currently the No. 1 best-selling nonfiction book on Amazon in the United States. The New York Times’s David Brooks, echoing George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen, calls him “the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now.”

Jordan Peterson is also a right-wing internet celebrity who has claimed that feminists have “an unconscious wish for brutal male domination,” referred to developing nations as “pits of catastrophe” in a speech to a Dutch far-right group, and recently told a Times reporter that he supported “enforced monogamy.”

When Cathy Newman, a journalist for the UK’s Channel 4, challenged Peterson’s arguments in a televised interview, she received so many death threats that she had to get help from the police. “There were literally thousands of abusive tweets — it was a semi-organized campaign,” she recalled in an interview. “ It ranged from the usual ‘****, bitch, dumb blonde’ to ‘I’m going to find out where you live and execute you.’”

Jordan Peterson, explained - Vox

He wrote a book on how to be a man.

He also pitches a diet his daughter came up with, the "carnivore diet" where you eat 100% meat.

I like some of his work and hope he recovers.

 

[Winston]

He's a quack. Hope he gets the help he needs to beat addiction. Just shows addiction knows no lines, race, class, or creed.

 

[JasperL]

Some of you might ask, who is Jordan Peterson?



He wrote a book on how to be a man.

He also pitches a diet his daughter came up with, the "carnivore diet" where you eat 100% meat.

I like some of his work and hope he recovers.

Sounds right - pushing a diet his daughter came up with. I'm sure an all meat diet is nutritionally just great. After all if it worked in a sample population of n=1, his daughter, surely it works for the rest of the population! Where can I sign up for his newsletter?

I really hope he recovers and leads a happy, healthy life, but I don't much care for the man.

 

[Mr Person]

Benzo addiction is said to have the worst withdrawal symptoms; a complete mental and physical cluster****.

 

[Drawdown]

Another person run over by the big pharma pill train. Not surprising.

 

[Winston]

Benzo addiction is said to have the worst withdrawal symptoms; a complete mental and physical cluster****.

It's deadly too.

 

[ecofarm]

What a daughter-abusing pro-rape scumbag. It's no wonder where his support comes from.

 

[Neomalthusian]

He also pitches a diet his daughter came up with, the "carnivore diet" where you eat 100% meat.

Sounds right - pushing a diet his daughter came up with. I'm sure an all meat diet is nutritionally just great. After all if it worked in a sample population of n=1, his daughter, surely it works for the rest of the population! Where can I sign up for his newsletter?

I'm pretty sure I've seen a video of his where he explicitly states "I do not recommend it," but concedes it worked for him and his daughter.

 

[Neomalthusian]

What a daughter-abusing pro-rape scumbag. It's no wonder where his support comes from.

WTF are you talking about?

 

[Neomalthusian]

Benzo addiction is said to have the worst withdrawal symptoms; a complete mental and physical cluster****.

He's a quack. Hope he gets the help he needs to beat addiction. Just shows addiction knows no lines, race, class, or creed.

It's not even entirely clear this was a basic addiction. It's been noted that he had a paradoxical reaction to a benzodiazepine, which while it might be easy to assume that since this is coming from his daughter who is seeking to protect her dad's reputation, the explanation does seem plausible, because most people who have merely developed a diazepam/lorazepam/clonazepam/alprazolam habit do not end up in near-death experiences needing to be put into a medically induced coma for over a week. That is an extreme reaction.

 

[The Mark]

I think he's saying Jordan Peterson abuses his daughter and approves of rape.

I don't know what that is based on though.

 

[Mr Person]

It's not even entirely clear this was a basic addiction. It's been noted that he had a paradoxical reaction to a benzodiazepine, which while it might be easy to assume that since this is coming from his daughter who is seeking to protect her dad's reputation, the explanation does seem plausible, because most people who have merely developed a diazepam/lorazepam/clonazepam/alprazolam habit do not end up in near-death experiences needing to be put into a medically induced coma for over a week. That is an extreme reaction.

From link: "Mr Peterson began taking benzodiazepine when he had an "extremely severe autoimmune reaction to food", she said, with the dosage being raised after his wife was diagnosed with cancer. Valium and Xanax are commonly known brands of benzodiazepine. "He has been in unbearable discomfort from this drug made worse when trying to remove it, because of the additional withdrawal symptoms stemming from physical dependence," his daughter said. Ms Peterson, who herself gives talks on self-help topics, said her father was suffering from an "endless, irresistible restlessness bordering on panic and an inability to sit still. The reaction made him suicidal."


It's not well worded. The extreme reaction appears to be to food. But then the drug also apparently created "unbearable discomfort." But he had been on it for long enough that he became physically dependent, even if not psychologically dependent. Withdrawal from the drug made things worse.

It's definitely a cluster**** of uncommon severe reactions, if that is all reported accurately. But whatever the sum total picture is, my statement (at least) stands: benzo addiction, as told by benzo addicts, is the worst to withdraw from. People addicted to both opiates and benzos, whether at the same time with staggered withdrawal or separately, will tell you as much.

 

[Hawkeye10]

Jordan is the best of the best, I wish him well. This guy has a mix of intelligence and moral fiber and good horse sense that almost is never found in the land of the Modern Morons.

Gad Saad is one of his few peers.

 

[Hatuey]

He writes self help books that did nothing to stop him from falling prey to the same vices he tries to distance people from. Nothing he talks about helped him stop fiending late at night.

For any other self help guru, addiction would be a career killer but Jordan leads a cult of self important cubicle dwellers and pseudo intellectuals.

I wish him a good recovery and maybe the realization he's not as enlightened as he wishes he was.






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[Lisa]

Some of you might ask, who is Jordan Peterson?



He wrote a book on how to be a man.

He also pitches a diet his daughter came up with, the "carnivore diet" where you eat 100% meat.

I like some of his work and hope he recovers.

He is a psychologist and he should have known better than to play with Benzos. They are very dangerous and extremely addictive. I have taken a similar drug and many Drs won't write the prescription because they are so addictive. I wonder how his persoanlity iwll change when he isnt an addict?

 

[Hawkeye10]

He writes self help books that did nothing to stop him from falling prey to the same vices he tries to distance people from. Nothing he talks about helped him stop fiending late at night.

For any other self help guru, addiction would be a career killer but Jordan leads a cult of self important cubicle dwellers and pseudo intellectuals.

I wish him a good recovery and maybe the realization he's not as enlightened as he wishes he was.






Я Баба Яга [emoji328]

They used to say the same thing about ALAN WATTS....he drinks too much, he likes drugs....nothing he has to say could possibly matter.

Luckily I knew better.

 

[Fred C Dobbs II]

He writes self help books that did nothing to stop him from falling prey to the same vices he tries to distance people from. Nothing he talks about helped him stop fiending late at night.

For any other self help guru, addiction would be a career killer but Jordan leads a cult of self important cubicle dwellers and pseudo intellectuals.
I wish him a good recovery and maybe the realization he's not as enlightened as he wishes he was.

He writes self help books? He wrote an insightful book, one you've obviously never read, called "12 Rules for Life" and is well worth the read.

 

[Fred C Dobbs II]

They used to say the same thing about ALAN WATTS....he drinks too much, he likes drugs....nothing he has to say could possibly matter.

Luckily I knew better.

None of these critics have read the book. Likely info they picked up from the Internet.

 

[Hawkeye10]

None of these critics have read the book. Likely info they picked up from the Internet.

Never read either book, never read anything else he has written, and never spent so much as 45 seconds honestly trying to understand him (A reference to the Brad Pitt speech at the Oscars).

 

[Hawkeye10]

Never read either book, never read anything else he has written, and never spent so much as 45 seconds honestly trying to understand him (A reference to the Brad Pitt speech at the Oscars).

With the Left now it is all about power, and destroying those who need to be destroyed to make a path to UTOPIA.....truth and decency now only happen on accidental chance.

 

[Hatuey]

He writes self help books? He wrote an insightful book, one you've obviously never read, called "12 Rules for Life" and is well worth the read.

They used to say the same thing about ALAN WATTS....he drinks too much, he likes drugs....nothing he has to say could possibly matter.

Luckily I knew better.

I don't care for your idols. I only care about their downfall.

You got me. I wouldn't spend money buying books on how to live better from a guy dependent on some Russian outfit to fix his addiction problems.

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[Hawkeye10]

I don't care for your idols. I only care about their downfall.

You got me. I wouldn't spend money buying books on how to live better from a guy dependent on some Russian outfit to fix his addiction problems.

Я Баба Яга [emoji328]

Nicely illustrating the cruelty of the modern American Left.

People used to be better you understand.....

They wanted the debate, examination..

Wanted Truth.

 

[Hatuey]

Imagine listening to this Peterson guy ramble, and thinking he's got our reality figured out, and you've learn something from him because he asked a lot of questions on meaning and never bothered to answer any of them.

That's what being a Peterson Stan is. Every day. As long he is alive. When he dies, we are going to see a lot of boneheads who haven't seen Peterson get his clock cleaned by anyone who isnt a complete right wing grifter.


Seriously.

Я Баба Яга [emoji328]

 

[Hatuey]

Nicely illustrating the cruelty of the modern American Left.

If only I could be compassionate about your idols. Is he the one who taught you things were better 1000 years ago?

I don't think he could have flown over to Russia 1000 years ago for private care.



Я Баба Яга [emoji328]

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Some of you might ask, who is Jordan Peterson?



He wrote a book on how to be a man.

He also pitches a diet his daughter came up with, the "carnivore diet" where you eat 100% meat.

I like some of his work and hope he recovers.

How to be a man...that's sorta veering into John Milius territory.
And look at Milius, everything he predicted might happen to this country, he claimed would happen because of the Left, when in reality it's Trump Nation instead.

It boggles the mind how Milius could have wound up one hundred and eighty degrees wrong, but he is.
I guess we can chalk Jordan Peterson right up there with him.
Oh and...by the way, I ceased "being a man" when I became addicted to drugs.
Thankfully that stopped twenty-five years ago.

You guys can't stop what's coming.