by Jennifer Leigh | Oct 29, 2018 | Recovery |
Coping skills for protracted benzo withdrawal symptoms. (If you’d like to watch the video that goes with this post, please visit fb.me/Benzowithdrawalhelp) If you’ve been in the benzo withdrawal community for any length of time, you’ve heard the... 
by Jennifer Leigh | Oct 22, 2018 | Recovery |
Intrusive thoughts are a classic benzo withdrawal symptom. I hated most of my benzo withdrawal symptoms—they were all tortuous, painful, and frightening. But I really, really, hated my intrusive thoughts. Not only were they vile, twisted and ugly, they were also... 
by Jennifer Leigh | Oct 15, 2018 | Recovery |
Heart Symptoms Are Common In Benzo Withdrawal Does your heart flutter? Skip beats? Race? Pound? Does it feel as if something is pinching it, or constricting it? Do you feel that your chest is heavy or sore and painful? These are the common complaints people have about... 
by Jennifer Leigh | Oct 8, 2018 | Recovery |
It’s one of the most disturbing mental symptoms in benzodiazepine withdrawal: life review. We become obsessed with the past—negative things that we did, or hurtful things that were done to us. We obsess, filled with unwanted emotions. No matter how hard we try... 
by Jennifer Leigh | Sep 24, 2018 | Recovery |
Withdrawing from our benzodiazepine can be the most challenging experience we will ever have to live through. Not only do we have to manage the symptoms from the changes the drug has caused in our brain and central nervous system (the downregulation of GABA... 
by Jennifer Leigh | Sep 18, 2018 | Recovery |
Dear Friends, I’ve been working diligently on giving Benzo WIthdrawal Help a much-needed makeover. I hope you like the new look, and I hope that information is more easily available to you. I’m excited about two new features of the website. The first is...