I'm sad to hear how many of us are out there, we truly are victims of doctors who don't do their jobs effectively. I'm a senior woman 71 years old and also addicted to Ativan, a brand name for benzos and I've taken them for over 20 years. I've looked into getting help online because getting another doctor is difficult to do, I say this only because younger doctors today won't easily prescribe these drugs and this always stops me. I'm between a rock and a hard place, I have very little faith left in my doctor but not entirely due to my drug problem, he isn't supportive to me, in fact he makes me feel like an inconvenience to him. He makes bad choices in how to deal with me, I've seen him twice in 3 years to remove stitches from cancer surgery but I just get phone appointments. If I complain he just brushes it off, it's something you get to see if you're fortunate to grow older, i.e., doctors age just like we do but they can do more damage to us than good. I did get off the drug twice but sadly I relapsed and with his help I went back on them, still he doesn't take any responsibility for my problem. I could write an essay on the subject but I won't, everything is changing today and I'm not sure it's all for the better. I realize now my struggle is my own, I don't want to give up on myself but I'm very tired and mentally drained. I shall continue to try getting help and perhaps reading all the different stories of other souls out there going through the same nightmares might be of some help, amen.

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