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Here I Am At Last! April 2023

2nd April 2023

I want to finally update the last few months now the website has been republished so I can give hope for healing for those of you long protracted. It gets better but most important to remember is that it can get a lot worse b ...

Never Give Up - Update October 2022

1st October 2022

I’ve learnt a lot over the last week. I’ve been coming through an intense period of readjustment and thought it would never end. Today I’m ok and feel back on full recovery road at last. I’ve listened to various podcasts and v ...

Update for September 2022

12th September 2022

I’m writing this at a sad time for the U.K. Our Queen, Elizabeth 11, died yesterday and so ended her 70 year reign. She never failed in her duty to serve her people. RIP and thank you. I am still holding back the writing of m ...

Update for June 2022

1st June 2022

Many people have asked how things are going for me now. I’m always positive as you’re aware and I continue to recover but not necessarily from the benzodiazepines for 40 years. Since February 2021 I’ve suffered histamine issue ...

Update, April 2022, We Are Real!

1st April 2022

After a long and difficult ten years I believe it’s now time to try and explain my journey to all those who disbelieve that a low dose of a prescription drug given to me fifty years ago for sleep could possibly cause so much suf ...

Update for November 2021

1st November 2021

From the Beating Benzos Facebook Group..... A brief update on the benzo situation as David and I see it at this moment in time. It’s now ten years since we started investigating Benzos and the withdrawal phenomenon and fifty ye ...

October 2021

1st October 2021

Update for Oct. 2021 I haven’t written my final success story as promised in my previous blog posts but the reason is obvious, it just hasn’t fully materialised yet. Whether it will now after so long I don’t know but neither ...

Hope from the Hopelessness

22nd March 2021

You’re going to be ok. Never give up on hope as it’s your best medicine of all. Never think any of this is going to be permanent as you’re healing all the time you’re freeing yourself of psychotropic drugs. Your body and brain ...

Unconscious Blocks to Healing

14th January 2021

The body holds a lot of unconscious blocks to the healing process and here I’m listing just a few. Benzo withdrawal activates the stress response and this response is far more intense than ‘normal’ anxiety due the chemical imb ...

Keep Calm and Carry On Coping

11th December 2020

How to Keep Calm and Carry On Coping After weeks or months of suffering difficult withdrawal symptoms we can become scared, demoralised and frustrated. With no evidence of healing due to the non linear nature of recovery from ...

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