Thinking of my mother today and wishing benzos had never entered into our lives.

Were you given them by a psychiatrist, in what year, and for what reason if may be so bold as to ask?

A neurologist prescribed them for myoclonic jerks in 1975, within a few months I was very unwell and deemed to have a psychiatric disorder, thereafter I was a patient with a psychiatric disorder and that lasted for decades. The real reason for my being unwell was never noticed.