Addiction to Benzos
Problems with benzodiazepines only develop when there is a moderate to severe underlying brain disorder, or more usually several underlying brain disorders.
Even if you manage to get off benzos you will probably keep relapsing to alcohol, marijuana or tobacco until the underlying brain disorders are found and fixed. It is rare for anyone to get addicted to anything unless they have more than one moderate to severe nervous disorder.
And no matter what your drug of addiction is, you can only finally be sure of beating it permanently by discovering all of your underlying disorders and getting them all successfully treated. Just getting detoxed off a drug is rarely enough – the underlying disorders must also be fixed.
The Problem with Benzodiazepines
1. Your brain soon develops a tolerance to benzos and this tolerance causes the benzos to lose much of their helpful effect, especially if your nervous problems are moderate to severe. The first few benzo tablets give you wonderful initial relief, but after that if you are taking benzos every day the benefit gets less and your anxiety or insomnia aren’t much better than before you started the benzos.
2. At first if you run out of benzos then start them again you get that wonderful initial effect again. But if your anxiety, sleep disorders or other similar nervous disorders are moderate to severe you will try to avoid running out of benzos and will probably try to get the initial relief back again by taking more and more as the tolerance develops, especially if and when any new problems or crises arise in your life.
3. It doesn’t take long on doses of more than 2 or 3 tablets per 24 hours for you to become dependent on or addicted to benzos. Then if ever you can’t get your benzos you feel much more anxious and unable to sleep than you ever did before you first started on the benzos.
4. For a few people benzo addiction and withdrawals are every bit as severe and as difficult to beat as heroin addiction and withdrawals.
Treatment Program
Self-Assessment
Even if you manage to get off benzos you will probably keep relapsing to alcohol, marijuana or tobacco until the underlying brain disorders are found and fixed. It is rare for anyone to get addicted to anything unless they have more than one moderate to severe nervous disorder.
And no matter what your drug of addiction is, you can only finally be sure of beating it permanently by discovering all of your underlying disorders and getting them all successfully treated. Just getting detoxed off a drug is rarely enough – the underlying disorders must also be fixed.
The Problem with Benzodiazepines
1. Your brain soon develops a tolerance to benzos and this tolerance causes the benzos to lose much of their helpful effect, especially if your nervous problems are moderate to severe. The first few benzo tablets give you wonderful initial relief, but after that if you are taking benzos every day the benefit gets less and your anxiety or insomnia aren’t much better than before you started the benzos.
2. At first if you run out of benzos then start them again you get that wonderful initial effect again. But if your anxiety, sleep disorders or other similar nervous disorders are moderate to severe you will try to avoid running out of benzos and will probably try to get the initial relief back again by taking more and more as the tolerance develops, especially if and when any new problems or crises arise in your life.
3. It doesn’t take long on doses of more than 2 or 3 tablets per 24 hours for you to become dependent on or addicted to benzos. Then if ever you can’t get your benzos you feel much more anxious and unable to sleep than you ever did before you first started on the benzos.
4. For a few people benzo addiction and withdrawals are every bit as severe and as difficult to beat as heroin addiction and withdrawals.
Treatment Program
Self-Assessment
