Back for some mental anxiety support - free for 3 years and 6 months

Hi all,

 

I have returned for some general mental anxiety support that I am experiencing. Going a bit nuts from the COVID19 lockdown.

 

Anyways, I am indeed 3 years and 6 months free of benzos. Maybe one day every two months I wish I had an emergency dose just in case - but then I realize that it isn't worth the risk. I am on Antenolol (beta blocker, low dose) and it stops the anxiety from getting chronic, so that'll do. My post withdrawal and protracted withdrawal issues are mainly healed now - except my sleep habits are still messed up to this day, I go to bed very late, roughly 3am and get up in the early afternoon (unless I have work), trying to work on that now.

 

Anyway - hope everyone is doing really well!

 

Regards,

 

MLC

I believe many people are having stress issues due to the COVID virus, even those never on benzos.  I've been recovered for a long time but I still use the tools I garnered to help with stress due to the pandemic. It's a surreal new world out there.

 

Thanks for checking in, and I'm glad you've stayed away from emergency doses, they may create a new kind of emergency.

 

pianogirl 

Matt,

 

being free 3 years and 6 months IS success! Congrats for that. No anxiety on the earth can change that.

 

Well done!!

Marigold

Yes this COVID thing is an awful trigger for those of us recovering from benzos.  I try not to watch TV very often, just enough to know what is going on.  Now it is really springtime here in upstate New York and perhaps I will have a better outlook as the winter here was hard.