Benzo Withdrawal Is Like . . .

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Benzo withdrawal is like selling your soul in exchange of hopes of a finding a new healthy one in a black abyss.

 

Benzo withdrawal is like restarting your brain in troubleshoot mode and only being able to access basic functions until the "virus" is cleared.

 

Benzo withdrawal is like giving yourself a severe concussion  in trade for psychological freedom.

 

Benzo withdrawal is wondering if you're crazy or if you always have been.

 

Benzo withdrawal is being like a prisoner of war in an army of one.

 

Benzo withdrawal is giving up control so you can have it again.

 

Cheers we're all going to make it!

 

Good ones. Identify with all of them 

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Benzo withdrawal is like selling your soul in exchange of hopes of a finding a new healthy one in a black abyss.

 

Benzo withdrawal is like restarting your brain in troubleshoot mode and only being able to access basic functions until the "virus" is cleared.

 

Benzo withdrawal is like giving yourself a severe concussion  in trade for psychological freedom.

 

Benzo withdrawal is wondering if you're crazy or if you always have been.

 

Benzo withdrawal is being like a prisoner of war in an army of one.

 

Benzo withdrawal is giving up control so you can have it again.

 

Cheers we're all going to make it!

 

Thanks.  These are good ones.

[[fi...]]

a big-wave wipe out... the epic crash,  spinning in the depths, trying to find "up", seeing the distant light, hoping you have enough air to make it to the surface.

 

http://www.clubofthewaves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/big-wave-wipeout-andrew-chisholm.jpg

 

 

 

On a hopeful note - As a surfer, I can tell you there is no feeling like breaking through (what feels like a watery grave) to the surface; all of your senses are heightened and awakened as you fill your lungs with air.  The smell of the salt-air is sweet even as the waves pound around you like the beat of your thankful heart.  You hop onto the safety of your board with a smile on your face.  Life is a gift and your living it.  Despite what you thought "would have been."

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Benzo withdrawal literally defines "Orange (clonazepam pill) is the new Black (Hole)! 

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Benzo withdrawal is like wishfully thinking it will just take 8 hours to drive to Disneyland. Only the bus ride keeps on perpetually looping, so the hoped for 8 hour drive ends up lasting an eternity.

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This is the world's best thread. Thank you, everyone who contributes. So many beautiful metaphors. You're all fantastic.

 

Here is mine:

 

This whole experience has been like being forced to watch a torture-porn horror movie; shown in a burning theater; tied to a rickety, sharp-edged chair infested with fire ants; on a crashing airplane; into an ancient burial ground haunted by restless vengeful spirits; in a harsh language I can't understand, with the sound too loud, and subtitles just good enough I understand the evil being done but otherwise so bad I wish I didn't; with a crowd of discontent ex-lovers, school-playground bullies from my childhood, one-time bosses and high-school teachers and step-parents, all as unhappy to be there as I, but blaming me for their plight and showing no signs of holding back from carrying out some of the more creative onscreen violence on my person....

 

Sort of like that, but much, much worse.

 

And lasting way longer than I thought it possibly could.

 

And when it all ended like a bad dream, I awoke to find myself alone, with no one to celebrate my escape.

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fighter SC, you might like to read "Barbarian Days" by William Finnegan. It's all about his younger days, searching for the best waves around the world. I don't understand the surfing lingo so much (chandeliers?), but I'm reading it, anyway. He's been obsessed with surfing since very young.

 

Anyway, sorry to interrupt, but I had to mention it since you're a surfer.

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Thanks Terry!  I'll check into it :-) There is no feeling like surfing. It's definitely a passion and brings me a lot of joy.  I'm land locked right now, but if I watch a surfer doc or have a dream, i experience that same incredible feeling of being on a wave.

 

Side note:  I didn't realize waves had such a negative connotation here because of what they are associated with.  In fact, when I used that analogy I was totally clueless.  I guess I lost points for originality. 

 

So to clarify - there is no feeling like being on an "ocean wave".  Ha!  Thanks for the recommendation.  I love travel stories too.  Add traveling to find great surf.  I'd say you've found a winning genre ;-) ....at least for me!

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Benzo withdrawal is basicaly swallowing a red pill instead of the blue one.

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Then I hope you read the book, fighter SC. I think you would really enjoy it! It just came out this year.

 

Yeah, the wave analogy on BB, a negative connotation. But reading the book, I can see why there's such a passion for surfing!

 

 

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Like your worst best friend, yeah due to if it where not you would not of befriended in the 1st place.

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hell on earth and no one believes you but others who are going through it and GOD.

 

Veryy very nicely put. Couldnt have said better.You win the challenge.

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Benzo withdrawl is like dying in every way, but living through the death.

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Agree with Kian. Something good will come from this

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Being stuck in the worst horror movie and reliving it over and over and over again..

 

Stay strong BB'S!! 

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BW is like falling in love with a narcissist...

 

http://abusesanctuary.blogspot.ca/2006/05/from-penny-drops-site-of-insightful.html

 

v

 

wow. profoundly true! all the lies and false presentation  that hook you into trusting them, then the hardcore reality that sets in once you're under their control...

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...having one's self perseverance, patience and survival skills challenged every day!

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...having one's self perseverance, patience and survival skills challenged every day!

:thumbsup:

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Benzo withdrawal is like running endlessly in a human-sized hampster wheel.

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Seeing this thread breaks my heart because I saw the name Kian for the first time in a very long time.  He was one of the worst off I had ever seen if not the worst.  I went and looked up his profile and he hasn't been on since 2016 and one of his last posts was a breakdown of his horrific symptoms.  I really hope he is better today. 

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Staying with the light vein: Benzos are the gift that keeps on giving.  Too bad we can't return them. 

 

 

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Benzo withdrawal is like being thrown in a deep dark hole all alone while someone removed the ladder.

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Can I do more than one? 

 

Benzo withdrawal is like walking barefoot on a slackline between two landmarks without any safety equipment.

Dave. 

[[Lo...]]

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin."

- Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

 

THIS

 

LC

 

[[Lo...]]

Benzo Withdrawal is like . . .

 

having to repeat your last day on death row over and over again, wondering if you'll be pardoned on time.

 

 

Bulls-eye