Age is No Barrier for Recovery (email)

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Age is No Barrier to Healing

 

Some encouragement this morning for all those members who consider themselves elderly or too old to recover successfully!

This is a lovely email I received from a benzo recoverer yesterday and he has given me permission to share it with you all. He was on benzos 56 years but I never realised his age as he was asking about muscle strength so I assumed he was a younger man…

 

“Hi Rosalind,

 

Thanks, but don’t think you are old at a mere 76. I am 88 and I feel great except for the Benzo w/d problems. People cannot believe I am 88. It’s true. I feel about 48 since I started walking. I have high hopes of swimming. I am in Gran Canaria for 6 months of the year and have my own pool and the sea only 5 minutes away.

 

I don’t feel old and I don’t think old. I am even making travel plans (finance permitting) for the next 10 years.

Rosalind, you are a great lady who has helped so many. Please don’t let age restrict you. I recall you had severe health problems earlier in your life. So have I. I was taking benzos from the age of 30 up to 86 but now, with a fantastic healthy plant-based diet, a little exercise, and a positive attitude, I feel I can do anything and I want you to feel that way, too.

 

Onwards and upwards!!”

 

Remember age is all in the mind and we are conditioned by society to expect ill health when past a certain age. This doesn’t have to be true for any of us. Don’t let age prevent you believing in your own healing.