How I Quit Benzodiazepines | FLESH SIMULATOR

You got me off my meds. Thanks 👍

Every time I rewatch this video I'm reminded of how you sorta line up with the science fiction character Louis Wu.

cf. The Ashton Manual. Sometimes it is worth listening to someone named Heather.

Got put on benzo's before rehab and felt straight retarded, props to getting off those

I'm lucky I didn't fall down this way, I was prescribed Clonazepam for anxiety "as needed' during an extremely rough period. It felt great, I requested a refill at a higher dose multiple times and realized I was going through more of it faster and faster. I stopped requesting refills and I fell into a dangerously suicidal state for a while. I can't imagine trying to get off of a dependency as severe as yours was. I respect it, I'm glad you've been sober for so long.

How I got of benzodiazepines sponsored by domino’s pizza 🍕 😀

I dunno what that is but… good job quitting.

I’ve only ever been addicted to benzos, back in the day when I used to sell them. Such a weird kick, wouldn’t recommend.

Orthogonal to the point? why don’t you just say besides the point? what is your motivation for using a word that 99% of people have never heard?

RC benzos are still very much a thing, you just have to pay with Bitcoin. Many of the old ones have been outlawed in the US, but they are still available. Of course new benzos are being introduced faster than the existing ones can be outlawed. Hooray for prohibition!

I once pressed a creepy dude in to leaving a girl alone at a pool hall one night, only to have me and my buddies pitcher of beer spiked by same creepy dude with some sort of benzo. All yhree of us had very fucked up nights (fucked up cars, doors kicked in, pissing in laundry baskets at gf's house). That night alone was enough to tell me I need to stay away from that shit

Depending on your particular drug use, another key factor that helped me stop a four year hard drug bender was having two distinct social groups.

One was my drug buddies. Always high, always had something on them, cycling out based on when they weren't locked up or mysteriously gone.

The other was my work buddies. These people didn't do anything harder than occasional alcohol and tobacco. They were more into media and sports than anything illegal.

I was able to keep these groups distinct by being a functional user. I was high as hell at work frequently, but also still able to work. The sober group knew nothing of my use, and the high group didn't know any of my work friends.

This was important, because when I stopped using, two things became clear – high people are annoying when you're sober, and also really uncomfortable that you're not using anymore. People I'd known for four years dropped me within a month of quitting, and in a way I was almost relieved to see them go.

While this did remove a lot of the temptation, it also would have left me incredibly isolated – except I had my other group. I won't lie, this group was also a bit annoying at first. They would go on long rants about some new film and how it doesn't match the comics, and all I could think about was how these people could not have handled shit I had gotten used to as everyday occurrences from the drug scene. But, as that annoyance gave way to deeper conversation and finding mutual interests, it helped settle that urge to just dive back into whatever the first dealer I could find had on hand.

Without a sober connection to a non-using world, I don't know how well I'd have made the transition. It's been a decade now, and while I still think of drugs on occasion, there's no real pressure to use.

As a final bit of advice – I've known people that tried to quit by pretending drugs just don't exist, and they inevitably go back. I instead advise you acknowledge your use, but don't romanticize it. Yes, there were fun times, but if that's all you had, you wouldn't be trying to quit – always remember the bad times that made you decide you were over it. I had plenty of profound and inspiring moments while high, but they don't begin to equal all the deaths, violence, and losses surrounding them.

And, you didn't waste your time getting high for however long it took to quit – you needed that experience to know why you're never going back.

im glad i dont have a very addictive personality. i do tread lightly to make sure i dont find the one thing that strikes my bodys fancy though

I had a lorazepam addiction in my very early teens, and went through withdrawal by myself in my bedroom for about a week. it was a prescription drug that was specifically perscribed to me because Gods chosen land of eastern europe is very advanced with medical tech and treating various mental conditions, AKA "benzo benzo benzo, hey maybe try melatoni- benzo benzo benzo hey wanna try this pill the soviets invented benzo benzo benzo"

My withdrawal was fucking awful, and i was on it for only 5 months. I have so much respect for people who were on benzos for much longer periods of time and somehow manage to wean off them, that shit is not easy. Kudos to you man, i can only imagine what you went through.

Real G

I was super bad on clam for a while. Jail pills.

I took benzos one single time for what I t ought was a panic attack and it was a horrible experience because my face was pleasant and smiley, my brain felt like I hadn't slept all night, and the panick feeling just kept going and going and going.

Wow, benzos suck.