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Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Apr 26 6:32pm | Replies (327)

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What is your suggestion? Eliminate benzodiazepines? For some people they are therapeutic and provide quality of life that otherwise doesn’t exist. I think there is a risk/benefit to every medication and—after proper informed consent—we should be able to take what helps our quality of life.

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I agree. It's the proper informed consent piece that was missing all those years ago when many of us were promised a safe and effective answer to our insomnia, anxiety, etc. No mention that one will become dependent on them if taken more than a couple of weeks nightly. No mention of risks, only benefits. No mention of a withdrawal so hard and so long it will bring you to your knees and make you wonder how you will make it through another day. Quality of life? Benzos took that from me. If you have your eyes wide open to risks, and there are many, and you are taking them as they were intended, very occasionally to address an acute episode, they may afford you increased quality of life. For many of us, benzos have annihalated our quality of life, permanently. I wish you continued therapeutic value from these drugs, be careful with them.