I'm off to California tomorrow on business. I have just enough Xanax to get through the air travel experience, provided that alcohol is also available to wash it down. I understand that Delta is already sorry for my inconvenience, and I don't get on a plane until tomorrow.
I am being deposed as the "person most knowledgeable" for one of the companies that I use to be a VP of. As flattering as that sounds, it's actually a huge honking pain in the ass. And while I am, in fact, the most knowledgeable person in the whole world about the topics of the deposition, the information that I keep in my brain about the issues is next to nil.
I don't memorize reports and facts and what have you. On the contrary, I keep them in files and refer to them when I need to. Ten minutes after reading a report or attending a meeting, unless there is some decision to be made or some follow up to be done, I have almost completely forgotten everything. So, when the lawyers ask me about the issues, I'll point them to the reports and the correspondence already turned over to them and inform them that I have nothing to add to them. That's going to fluster the crap out of them.
Frequently, I'll be asked what the company's position is on some factual matter, and I'll point out that the company has no influence on what is or is not a fact about the universe. The objective reality of the universe will be borne out in the fullness of time without the company's weighing in with an opinion. Especially since the company is a fictitious person that lacks the capacity to opine or to believe or to think or to know. Lawyers sometimes forget that the company isn't real.
I'll try to have fun.
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My name is Robert Kegan and i would like to show you my personal experience with Xanax.
I am 19 years old. Have been on Xanax for 60 days now. I have periodic panic attacks, particularly at social gatherings, riding in cars, and walking into rooms full of people (i.e. late to class). I felt that the medicine worked, but I felt that it created urges to take more than directed when the rebound anxiety hit, so I switched from alprazolam to clonazepam (Klonopin). I think xanax is great for airplanes and adjunctive treatment with ssri's, but by itself I don't think xanax has much too offer except as a short term treatment for panic attacks, klonopin is less sedating and seems to prevent future anxious episodes without causing cravings, and tolerance seems to build up much slower than xanax does.
I have experienced some of these side effects -
I sometimes felt invisible, like nobody could notice anything I was doing. Occasionally it would make me fall asleep if I had to stay in one spot for too long. After a fairly short period of time I would feel moderate rebound anxiety.
I hope this information will be useful to others,
Robert Kegan
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