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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 681264" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>I agree that he doesn't sound ready yet. It sounds like he is more interested in rehab as a way to meet girls, and as a way to make new "connects".</p><p></p><p>I'll keep posting that message about benzo and alcohol addiction and withdrawal. I lost a couple of friends to withdrawals from those two drugs, back in my "partying" days. Luckily, I never came up with a dependency or addiction during that time.</p><p></p><p>It took a shrink prescribing me 2 benzos. One for anxiety and one for sleep, and keeping me on them for years, for me to develop a dandy benzo dependency. Not an addiction apparently, because I don't crave the specific drugs. </p><p></p><p>The withdrawal is so bad, physically AND mentally, that my new psychiatrist is keeping me on the benzos this point because right now she doesn't figure I'll be able to handle the mental withdrawal. At least she's willing to a slow taper when she and I agree that I am ready. Then comes up to 6 months of active withdrawal and then up to 2 years of Post-acute Withdrawal Syndrome, or PAWS, where my brain and mind (hopefully) recover from the damage the benzos have done</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 681264, member: 1963"] I agree that he doesn't sound ready yet. It sounds like he is more interested in rehab as a way to meet girls, and as a way to make new "connects". I'll keep posting that message about benzo and alcohol addiction and withdrawal. I lost a couple of friends to withdrawals from those two drugs, back in my "partying" days. Luckily, I never came up with a dependency or addiction during that time. It took a shrink prescribing me 2 benzos. One for anxiety and one for sleep, and keeping me on them for years, for me to develop a dandy benzo dependency. Not an addiction apparently, because I don't crave the specific drugs. The withdrawal is so bad, physically AND mentally, that my new psychiatrist is keeping me on the benzos this point because right now she doesn't figure I'll be able to handle the mental withdrawal. At least she's willing to a slow taper when she and I agree that I am ready. Then comes up to 6 months of active withdrawal and then up to 2 years of Post-acute Withdrawal Syndrome, or PAWS, where my brain and mind (hopefully) recover from the damage the benzos have done [/QUOTE]
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