The goal is a sedated society, a sedated population is a compliant and unquestioning population. Remember benzodiazepines, the opium of the masses? What has replaced them? Antidepressants. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

38 years on benzos I'm finally at the last taper and she's going to go slow I found a good Clinic with a supportive NP, therapy, peer support. At my worst they had me up to 10 mg a day of lorazepam I didn't realize that was truly sick. Down to 75 mg clonazepam per day. Thank you!

Isn't lorazepam much "milder" than clonazepam? I admitted myself to a psych ward when 12mgs clonazepam couldn't calm me down and I had symptoms like slowness, and slurred speech, and I struggled to walk already.

12 mg clonazepam that's a lot of clonazepam my dear I hope you are better now I know you must have felt like you were fighting your way uphill through split pea soup. The intermediary put me on gabapentin again, hydroxyzine tried to talk me into SSRI I said no and got away

Well, I also developed "tolerance", but as I experienced abuse at that moment, the pleasant effect I had before from it wasn't there anymore, just adverse ones, as if I was heavily drunk.

I had a huge tolerance developed and I had a very active career traveling globally and I still somehow managed to stay together despite that. My husband was a physician's assistant and had been in Vietnam as a Navy corpsman brutal job but he knew how to help me taper down to 1 mg

I've read about it, I googled you . Haha Not randomly, but I felt your opinions about your field and history reminded me of my roots, and who I was at that time. It feels like a serendipity, that I commented on an unrelated thing to it when I saw your tweet on my TL, but it was

still connected to that serendipity I mentioned somehow. I will DM you about it, if you don't mind?

But, simply said, it felt like an honor. It still does. And magic of some kind. Not literally, but... I have my personal reasons.