Hello [...],
[...] told me that you had posted your success story, and I think [...] told me about it, too. I just now took the opportunity to read it, and all the responses that your buddies have given you. I had to join in with all of them in sharing my gratitude to you, for being available day after day (night after night) to those of us who (thankfully) were led to this incredible website. The many, many times that I kept doubting that klonopin withdrawal could REALLY be causing all of the symptoms I was (am) having...you would gently (but firmly), speak out of your own experience and tell me, "it is the klonopin". I don't know what I would have done if I had not providentially discovered Benzobuddies. Were it not for you, and [...], and Theresa 2 (and many others) I would have been left absolutely hopeless and terrified, thinking that I was dying of an unknown ailment.
Your story is really very astounding to me. First, I cannot believe someone could survive being made to cold turkey as you were. I get angry when I think that anyone in the "medical" field would do this to someone and consider it humane treatment. I am thankful that you have been able to come out of that experience without succumbing to bitterness and that you have seen the blessing that you can be to all of the others who enter into this experience with very [...] knowledge of what to expect. You were such a help to me as I was trying to taper and when I couldn't think straight enough to figure it all out.
Thank you, [...], for all those volunteer hours spent helping just because you knew we needed help. There are probably so many people (I am one of them) that can owe, in great part, our (coming) recovery to you. Your sacrificial hours spent helping all of us are paying off by not only helping us get well, but then in inspiring us to want to help the ones that come along behind us.
With much, much gratitude,
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