Question about Bliss Johns

[Guest [mu...]]

I know Bliss Johns said she played down her symptoms in "Recovery and Renewal," which is her more general book about benzo withdrawal (and not much help to me). I was hoping that her memoir, "With Hope in My Heart," would tell the real story of her "protracted and horrific withdrawal" with nothing held back. I was really disappointed. If she did indeed have a horrific withdrawal, that wasn't at all apparent form her memoir. She was going out on dates with men the whole time! I just felt really annoyed. She took around 2 years to be mostly healed, although I believe she had the dystonia for quite awhile longer. She also has a facebook page  called "Bloom in Wellness."

 

For anyone having a seriously difficult withdrawal experience, I recommend reading Matt Samet's book, "Death Grip: A Climber's Escape from Benzo Madness," instead. He's the one who took 5+ years to be healthy again, although he had a setback a couple of years ago ( http://www.madinamerica.com/2013/10/setbacks/ ).

 

Donald Killan's book, "From Fear to Freedom: A Story of Addiction, Misdiagnosis, Survival, Hope and Healing" is also very good, and very intense (nothing is held back, and he had a very severe cold turkey withdrawal experience). His success story is one of the more popular ones on BB and you will recognize it immediately if you read his book.

 

[[ra...]]

Wow, it is really helpful to know about the different editions of Bliss Johns's books! I feel like my mental symptoms are now much worse than my physical symptoms. I should just be grateful that I'm not having severe physical symptoms, but I'm really suffering with the mental ones.

 

Braban, I want to thank you for linking to Dr. Leigh's website. I nearly cried with relief just now when I read that she too obsessed about death daily, because that is my world right now. But she got better and I am determined to as well!

 

Love and luck to all of you 

[[Mo...]]

mutuuraia, I agree with you. Matt Samets Death Grip really helped me

to get through my recovery process after a brutal detox.

 

I just skipped his mountain climbing stories cause they nerved me a bit,

was too ill for it. He describes the physical sxs ever so well...

 

Also his Benzopedia is awesome...sxs listed, coping methods etc.....

 

http://www.benzosupport.org/benzopedia.htm