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Know Yourself

4th May 2020

There are now many Facebook groups dealing with the problems of Benzo withdrawal. There are also many websites and Blogs that have been created to try and help others through including my own. However, one of my greatest concer ...
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The Movie of the Mind

30th April 2020

Cars, computers, washing machines, TVs and so on come with instruction manuals, but our minds and brains don’t. Something to think about perhaps because our minds and brains are our most precious resources. They allow us to see ...
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Resilience Visited Again

15th April 2020

I urge everybody who feels that their recovery is taking too long to please hang in there and don’t give up. Your body and brain are readjusting and this process is far from easy for most of us and that’s why we are here. Recov ...
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The Anchor

1st April 2020

I have a blank page in front of me and wondering what to write? Sometimes nothing jumps out at me immediately and there’s very little I haven’t said before. We are in the midst of a world crisis but benzo withdrawal doesn’t all ...
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The World Crisis

19th March 2020

We are in lockdown here in the UK. As David and I belong to the group of vulnerable over seventies all we can do is sit tight. I’m not going to write about the virus as every post on my Facebook feed this morning does this and ...
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The Three Principles

4th March 2020

Something a little different today.In order to help myself through the worst of my withdrawal experience I became familiar with something known as the Three Principles way of understanding life. This is based on the insights a ...
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Warrior or Peacemaker

25th February 2020

Those that know me will know that I don’t believe in labelling us as warriors. I understand why it’s a term that is often used in benzo withdrawal but the noun ‘warrior’ has a dictionary meaning of a soldier or fighter albeit a ...
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Renovations!

24th February 2020

We’re having a new kitchen at long last. Today the old kitchen is being taken out. It’s dusty, noisy and disruptive but we’re coping. It’s going to take awhile before the new kitchen is installed so we have to put up with the m ...
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#StepAside

17th January 2020

#Getting in the way of your own healing. #Step aside, let it happen. #Don’t fight it. I’m seeing this more and more as time goes by and I continue to be involved with the benzo world. Healing happens faster if you do nothin ...
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Where Am I Now?

11th January 2020

I’ve never denied being in a long protracted withdrawal after 40 years of Benzos plus many other drugs in the early years, many times kindled, a severe tolerance then cold turkey off nearly 7 years 2 months ago and now 74 years ...
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