“It was even suggested that Valium should be added, like fluoride, to the drinking water. Together people would be blessed both with tranquility and strong teeth.” – Prof. Heather Ashton, December 2011
“A woman is safer in a park at midnight than on a psychiatrist’s couch.” – David Miscavige, October 2006
“Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs.” – Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, June 1995
“Nearly eight years ago, I first gained some very limited access to the Internet. I correctly diagnosed myself in about an hour.” – Benzo Buddies founder Colin Moran, January 2006
“7 Barbican Road is occupied by Colin Moran who has a secure tenancy. We are hoping that the time will come when he will want to move on.” – Calvary Chapel York, December 2008
“Drug users who are trying to kick their habit are perfect prey for cults like Scientology.” – Arun Arora, Director of Communications for the Diocese of Birmingham, March 2003
“I must confess, I have thought about becoming either a phone sex operator or a cam sex operator, probs phone first. I wish I knew some girls who would show me the ropes. I can’t seem to get any info online.” – Benzo Buddies member Journey, September 2012
“Did huffing gas do this to me? When I was about 12 or so I huffed gas.” – Benzo Buddies member jr991, March 2011
“I have been told countless times at Benzo Buddies not to listen to my doctor. ” – Benzo Buddies member jessiccarabbit, October 2012
“There are thousands of members on Benzo Buddies and there are bound to be some real loons, sociopaths, psychopaths and downright cruel freaks.” – Benzo Buddies member ld1, May 2013
“Go to hell you quack fucking bitch!” – End Psychiatry leader Daniel Carter to a registered nurse, April 2015
“Benzo Buddies members are usually anti-psychiatry because they have suffered at the hands of the profession.” – Angela, Benzo Buddies member
“Who are all you freaks? WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?” – Benzo Buddies member Whoopsie, February 2013
To me that sounds like anxiety. Benzos are very useful for quelling the symptoms ***while the patient does something to address the root cause of the anxiety***. Magic pharmacuetical cures for life-problems do not exist.
The trouble with most of the people I encountered at benzobuddies was the insatiable need to believe that chemicals solve the problems we all have in our lives. They don’t.
They then decide to remove the medication and without having addressed the cause for the anxiety, or any form of strategy to deal with the return of it, they experience chronic anxiety-related symptoms and will bame everything on “hellish” benzos, the “useless” doctors that prescribed the benzos and then the “conspirators” at companies that manufactured the benzos. This is blame-shifting at its finest, and it doesn’t help relieve symptoms while withdrawing from medication, nor does self-diagnosis via the Internet!
Listening to trained professionals with years of experience tends to produce far better results than listening to less-than-sane people that are justifying their own symptoms on an Internet forum.
When you’re listening to people that rigidly believe things that are demonstrably false, the narrative one tends to build in one’s own mind is almost certainly just as flawed.
This is precisely how any cult brainwashes its followers, and nobody in the cult ever believes that a cult is what they’re involved in!
Personally, I’d rather think for myself, and that’s why I’m now benzo free without one single withdrawal symprtom. Breaking away from the cult was one of the few good things I’ve done for myself over the past couple of years.
I hope she manages to find the same enlightenment and help herself.