Welcome to Beating The Benzo

We can’t trust Drs to give us the right guidelines. You could go through 30 Drs and never get the right diagnoses, being ‘benzo withdrawal, Benzo tolerance’, or ‘Antidepressant and Antipsychotic withdrawal’ sadly they all do exist, and to a severe degree.

Drs often blame the patient for their symptoms, as all this is still very much not recognised by medical professionals. Drs are putting people on Benzos as an everyday medication, when it’s meant for short term or crisis, often to then cold turkey people off it, with no taper, or a taper but it’s nowhere near long enough. The need to taper very slow can also be the case for many people who want to come off their Antidepressants or Antipsychotics, again a Dr will tell you things like, ‘just stop taking these or a 2 week taper should be fine.’

Tapering needs to be done carefully. Tapering guidelines are shared on this website also. We are all different and everyone’s story is going to be different, some get off lightly, as our individual make up is never the same. But through my experience I have been shown the many suffering and harmed by medication. Before this the word medication would mean very little to me, I had no idea about any of this! For those reading this going through withdrawal, you are not alone. 

People are often polly drugged in benzo withdrawal, due to Drs thinking you’re crazy and then medicating your ‘craziness,’ when it just makes you worse, this is my personal challenge also, so I have a very overall experience of the dangers of big Pharma, I now have many medications to be free from. I have shared my story on the podcast recordings and videos here, covering many different topics in this very layered terrifying experience. Offering help and guidance, from all the sources that have helped me get to where I am so far. Do check out the useful info page for links and contacts to help you along your way.