Looking for support: South Africa

Hi there, I am 40 months off and have had no support in South Africa. The doctors here are clueless and dont want to understand. It has been really really hard and I am at present in a severe wave. I was on benzos for 25 years and taken off abruptly. I had the worst of worse symptoms and my hubby and daughter were my only support. Of which I am so very grateful.  I was wondering if there are others from South Africa that have come off Benzos?  Sometimes I feel these symptoms are never going to end.

 

Thanks so much 

 

 

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I’m sorry that you are having a difficult time. It is hard to find support in many places including the  U.S. If I lived there, I would be your friend. Just keep reading the posts of healed persons and BELIEVE that you can be healed in time.

Fellow South African here, stumbled across your post looking for a numbness/ weakness support group....

Shucks 40 months and still struggling, I'm so sorry.. I've only just started quitting valium, really having a hard time here.

Most people, doctors don't get it. My Gp wants to cut my dose in half and I now don't have medical aid or a prescription.

 

Went to a rehab/psych ward a while back and they took me off valium in 3 days. it sucked.

I somehow managed to find and speak to a government hospital psychiatrist about 2 weeks ago. I dislike shrinks but this one kind of gets it and its free, also just cut my dose in half, also wants to send me to rehab as I'm a recovering addict, but I've been clean for a long time except for the benzos, which the psychiatrists colleagues prescribed to me for anxiety.( people say there are good shrinks, yet to find one) Out of all the drugs, I can honestly say benzos are by far the worst, its truly a crime that they're legal.

 

I refuse to go to rehab, I don't see sense in it, been there done that, refuse to let anyone make those choices for me if I can help it. and now I'm probably at risk of losing the support and prescription if I don't agree to jump through their "hoops"

 

I have an appointment in 3 weeks again, which I'm very reluctant to do, and I have about 38 or so 5mg pills which I'll be taking once a week or whenever withdrawals become too intense/ as needed. It may be the last time I ever get my hands on any. I hate the stuff, and I want it out of my life asap even if I go through hell to do it.