Hi BB...update 18 months

[[Buddie]]

What a great story!  I have goosebumps.
Live your life and be happy, [...].
 

[[Buddie]]

Congratulations!  So happy you for you.  Thank you for taking the time to write about your recovery, its much appreciated.
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[[Buddie]]

Congratulations!!!  You made it.  Thanks for posting your story

[[Buddie]]

So nice to hear from a familiar face! I cried reading this. I too am measuring benzo-free time PLUS the 18-month mark instead of UNTIL then ... and reveling in awe at how wonderful it is to get my life back. So glad you made it here. You will too, anyone else reading this. You will too.

[[Buddie]]

What a wonderful story!!! It's so hard for us on this side to understand that life can return to normal again, that we will feel happy and free of anxiety. It's so good to have you come back and tell us!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!! I wish all the best for you!!! 

[[Buddie]]

[...],
Thank you for the update, it is so much appreciated.  This made me cry as I can so relate to wanting to feel good, alive  and happy about something especially my kids and their accomplishments. You did it, well done my friend!  May God continue to bless your path❤
Best wishes,
~Guida~

[[Buddie]]

Dear [...],
   Wonderful...just wonderful! Your news brings hope to all of us...thank you for coming back to post. Please keep us up to date. Your words have been very helpful to me. It's a long journey and knowing someone has made it to the end is encouraging.

With love and compassion,
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[[Buddie]]

[...] you were always so positive and for that I was grateful to read your stuff.Now I am reading you are well again,that is beautiful words to my ears.Thanks for being you,and thanks for sharing your break through to health!!!
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[[Buddie]]

hello

Thanks so much for such a lovely success story.
It really helps to read something like this.
Wishing you all the best for the future.
Thank you!
 
Lib 

[[Buddie]]

Hi [...],

This is so wonderful to read. You did amazing    Can I just ask, how did you manage to keep positive? I sort of feel so worn down now at over 27 months. It's sort of getting tougher to keep hope alive and I'm so incredibly exhausted. The slightest stress just knocks me for six.

This is a great update. Thankyou for coming back 

Hello [...]. Thank you for responding. To be brutally honest about your question, I just pushed thru one day at a time and one moment at a time. There were months on end that ANY positive feeling was just impossible. I was so sick, full of panic and so afraid, that it is really hard to put into words. I think the thing that helped me really get thru those tough times and they were 24/7 for the first several months, was KNOWING what I was feeling was chemical and from the WD of the drug. My mind was sick and had the "flu" so to speak...THAT truth, really helped me, it helped me to push thru and KNOW that the hopelessness, fear and utter emotional exhaustion, was not "real" but part of the recovery process. I hope that will help you too. It really does get better. I am a positive and fun loving person by nature, so maybe that helped, but I was just not willing to settle for anything but ME, fully back, 100% and I kept on until I saw glimpses of that. Once I felt a day here and there between the waves, that was better, I knew it was possible. Somtimes it was ony for 5 minutes, but I held onto that.

God bless and just keep moving, let the time stack up!  It takes so darn long, but it DOES happen!


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