As someone with a few family members addicted to Xanax (long term) and have repeatedly bore witness to the destruction, I can say with certainty that it's an evil drug. It's like the person crawls inside a space where they can safely project all of their anxieties onto others. Their problems becomes your problems, a fully projected virtual experience. It's definitely psychosis-like, and I've always wondered if there was some brain damage involved. Well, here's the answer to that.