Lena Dunham revealed she once misused pills for three years and is now six months sober during an emotional interview on actor Dax Shepard’s podcast, “Armchair Expert.”Shepard, who has struggled with both addiction and anxiety, guessed that the actress was taking benzodiazepines (also known as benzos) as she is also an anxiety sufferer. My particular passion was Klonopin,” Dunham said. The “Girls” star said she began taking them to deal with anxiety and realized that they helped make her “feel like the person I was supposed to be.”“I was diagnosed with pretty serious PTSD. I have a few sexual traumas in my past, and then I had all these surgeries, and then I had my hysterectomy after a period of really extreme pain,” the 32-year-old said. “It stopped feeling like I had panic attacks and it started feeling like I was a living panic attack.”Over time, the actress and director became taking the pills more and more, and doctors continued to prescribe it for her.

Source: Huffington Post October 29, 2018 18:45 UTC