Posted by Paul Smith on November 27, 2004, at 17:01:20
Has anyone else discovered this? Where are the well thought out, foot noted, sourced rebuttals? I find none. They seem to own the net when it comes to information about benzos, how to come off them (which they think everyone should do at least eventually), and what to expect and do once you are off. How much of this material is accurate or responsibily presented? At the nucleus is writings from M.D.s in England and the Netherlands. From there spawns larger symptom lists, support forums, prohibitions on all sorts of foods, beverages, antibiotics, anti-depressants of course, beta blockers, and natural remedies. Published "success stories" abound, and about all are tales of many months or years of horror literally not unlike Dante`s "Inferno." We are told in no uncertain terms that we have been brain damaged, and that the time frame for real improvement is long, and that full recovery is questionable. And to make it worse, it is affimed often that once off benzos users can experience no withdrawals for months at a time then be slammed with them again out of the blue. There seems to be no end to the fear that is implanted...
Well,I have literally not been the same person since I discovered all of this. I am afraid to take pills, even get anxious eating certain foods, even though I question the veracity of all this. But I have no real intellectual source for rebuttal. And I sit here wondering, off the benzos a while, how much of my anxiety is from the fear induced by all I have read on the net and how much is related to adaptions the drug made in my brain which needs correcting. I once obessessed over my love life. Would love those days back. Now I tend to obsess about this information that dominates the net, wondering what is accurate and what is not. Commments? My life is on hold and I need it back. Thanks. :-)
poster:Paul Smith
thread:420999
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