Posted by laima on February 7, 2007, at 17:29:01
In reply to Re: Benzo Confidential - trigger certainly, posted by willyee on February 7, 2007, at 17:02:01
I agree that a lot of the claims on the site seem extreme, exaggerated--but that doesn't mean it lacks any scraps of useful or accurate information. You know a bit of how it helped me? To learn that such a thing as withdrawal exists, I was't going insane, some description of how withdrawal effects differ from the base anxiety, and by bringing up the possibility of withdrawal while still taking prescribed dose-due to tolerance. I did find her estimates of how long it would all take to be considerably, extremely longer than what I experienced, though. And yes, the site seems to endorse a specific agenda, rather than being purely unbiased. The cold withdrawal from clonazapam, in my case, was every bit as horrific as she described-but again, reading what she wrote helped me to know why I felt that way, to know I wasn't going insane, to get an idea of what else might happen. To realize my sudden severe depression was also likely a drug effect-and would pass- not a clue that life should end. To give myself a break, and to get the guts to go back to the doctor and tell him what happened.
>this benzo.org site,really seems grossly anti-benzo and beyone.
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> In fact down right upsetting,that information put the way it is seems as if its casualy trying to scare the hell out of people,it lists almost a hundred side effects of withdrawal,..i dunno its just down right disturbing to me,after reading that i know i cant and i know i dont have to,but i wish you cease the benzo info,its out there for people to get,but seeing pages like that isnt helping anyone in my opinion,why would you even want a reader to read that horrid grossly exgagerated crap,........crap total crap is what it is.
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