6 Comments

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   Brian on March 14, 2014 at 2:33 pm

   I just want to wish everyone here the very best of everything in their healing and their lives. I am have been suffering so brutal that it has destroyed my life and everything in it… I will no longer be able to be a part of this wonderful website for withdrawal but I wish is for all of you not to end up like me….. Take care…. Good Bye!!! PS Thanks for all the great support that I got from everyone!!!

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   Virginia r schwerin on March 18, 2014 at 1:31 pm

   Is this person all right?

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   Dr. Jennifer Leigh on March 18, 2014 at 2:16 pm

   Yes. I reached out to Brian and asked if he was suicidal. He assured me he was not. I will check in with him in the future. Thanks for asking. I meant to leave a reply here and forgot. Benzo brain still hard at work. 🙂

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   Virginia r schwerin on March 18, 2014 at 3:07 pm

   Thank you for replying! That message made me frightened for him, no explanation, so final sounding. I’m so glad he’s okay. I have wondered if life is worth living in this hellish w/d but something tells me it will be, and so I continue to hope.

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   Dr. Jennifer Leigh on March 18, 2014 at 3:15 pm

   Virginia,
   life is worth living through the nightmare. It’s not easy, and it is SO FUCKING PAINFUL.. I know… BUT… when you begin to heal, the joy you felt before this nightmare comes back tenfold… colors are more vibrant. Pleasures more pleasurable. Love is beyond amazing. I am SO thankful I didnt kill myself. I wanted to, many, many, many, many times. Life is so sweet now that I don’t really have a pallette by which to paint it. Words fall so short…. Keep fighting. Just don’t give up and die or reinstate. Your brain will HAVE to heal. Its what it knows to do without your doing anything. Sending you good thoughts.

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   Virginia r schwerin on March 19, 2014 at 10:45 am

   Thank you again, Dr Jenn. You continue to be an inspiration and I so need to hear your words. Many times a day I think about ways I could reinstate. Perhaps it’s a blessing that there are no psychiatrists taking new patients in this town. My boyfriend keeps trying to get me to take some of his K, but I have refused due to your message about the dangers of reinstating. I think some of my sx are due to all the meds I have to take for my diabetes and the blood clot. But I must accept, and I will. I am so glad you have been able to start your counseling biz and I thank you again for taking time out for me and everyone else! Hope your summit goes well, as I cannot fly cannot be part. I’m willing to sign any petitions or do whatever is in my power to educate this country about benzos!

   Ginny