Benzo Blues: Overcoming Anxiety Without Tranquilizers

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Summary: The best book on detoxing from benzodiazepines!
Review: For some reason, every site refers to Shirley Trickett's book as "The Bible" to BZD detox. I got it and read it in one sitting and didn't gain much from it. On the other hand, "Benzo Blues" is thorough and raises the standard by which books should be judged in helping those of us hoping to kick benzodiazepines. He has a few too many anecdotes, but the book is useful for chapters 10 and 11 alone. I highly, highly recommend this book to anyone coming off Xanax, Ativan, Valium, and all the other benzos that doctors just love to prescribe. Definitely 5 stars...

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Summary: The best book on detoxing from benzodiazepines!
Review: For some reason, every site refers to Shirley Trickett's book as "The Bible" to BZD detox. I got it and read it in one sitting and didn't gain much from it. On the other hand, "Benzo Blues" is thorough and raises the standard by which books should be judged in helping those of us hoping to kick benzodiazepines. He has a few too many anecdotes, but the book is useful for chapters 10 and 11 alone. I highly, highly recommend this book to anyone coming off Xanax, Ativan, Valium, and all the other benzos that doctors just love to prescribe. Definitely 5 stars...

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Summary: just talking
Review: i've been taking xanax's for over 20 years weather i got them off the street or from a doctor i got them. sometimes i would have to go without for a few days. well on dec. 08 2003 i had a prescription. i was taking them and i had a wreck. well to make a long story short my wife lost her right arm, i broke every bone in my face expect my skull, and my 7 month old boy broke his leg. but by the Lords grace he let us live. well i decided i was going to quit taking the xanaxs(after the wreck i was on pain pills to) i decided i was going to quit taking all medication all together. well guess what? i had 2 seizures one in feb. and one in march. i had to start taking my xanaxs again but i,ve cut way back and i hope i can gradualy quit taking them all together.

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Summary: SIMPLY A GREAT BOOK AND YOU ARE GOING TO NEED IT IF
Review: YOU HAVE BEEN ON BENZOS FOR LONGER THAN 6 MONTHS! Now this includes Valium, Xanax, Ativan, Librium, Tranxene, Klonopin, and a lot of others. I received a wonderful e-mail from a wonderful lady who will be nameless. She's on Librium. This review is for her. Because I believe I didn't give a satisfactory answer. That I was basically the same as I was a year ago. But I have learned. BUY AND READ THIS BOOK. It's really the best on benzodiazepene addiction. Drummond is a fully qualified pasychiatrist who will help you get off these killers. It tells you HOW to stop. HOW to taper the dosages. Now most doctors and psychiatrists don't know how to do this. So please buy this book. After you are off benzos in 6 weeks ( a program no one recommends now), you will have what they call "rebound anxiety". This means that your anxiety will jump 6 times the normal level. So do the 10-percent solution. You will find this in Peter Breggin's "Your Drug May Be Your Problem". Also buy Breggin's book along with this one. Be a little cautious about Breggin. He is also strongly against Ritalin and Prozac. Drummond's book stands in the middle of this controversy. I went from 24 mgs. of Valium to 18 mgs. I feel so much better. Stable. Less crazy. This is the way it works with BENZO ADDICTS. Get off it and only use them for emergencies. I have a friend in San Antonio named Ed. He is stuck on Xanax. We are doing research on this. We do feel better off these drugs. But they very well might not be the WHOLE answer as Breggin implies. Drummond in "Benzo Blues" does not imply this. He gives many healthy alternatives to the "leveling off" effect of Benzos. Ed and I are having trouble with this problem (I have been a Valium addict for 30 years)because personal problems hit us and WHAMMO! Choke on blood or take a BENZO. Drummond does seem to say that seeing a psychotherapist is mandatory. Maybe YES maybe NO. To date, it hasn't helped Ed nor I. There is one more book that I hope you will order. "Coming Off Tranquilizers" by Shirley Trickett. She has schedules that you can pick among many. And she gives a real healthy view on how to get off. Drummond, Breggin, Trickett. According to my psychiatrist, I should have been off Valium 29 1/2 years ago. It's only caused tremendous damage. And I am fighting for my life. So buy Drummond's book and those two others. Get a good alternative (mine is 2 hours of meditation daily! No, I haven't started yet! Not even 10 minues daily. If the truth be known, I'm scared to get off it. Oddly enough). Now "Benzo Blues" is 300 pages. It IS hard reading. But if you are a BENZO freak, you will need it along with those two other books. I was going to a mental center, and they cut me from Valium without any consultation. They demanded that I come in even though my brother has picked them up before. I alledgedly made a threat because going "cold turkey" off a Benzo can cause seizures. I was put in a booby hatch for 5 1/2 days. Get off this junk. But be wary of the "witch hunters". I don't know whether Trickett and Breggin are such. But with this book, which is quite academic and pragmatic, you can make accurate decisions. And if you've been on benzos for over a year, you are an addict. Don't go through what I did and may never get over. Valium is now part of me, my brain, my perceptions. I wish you very good luck and Godspeed.

Rating:
Summary: SIMPLY A GREAT BOOK AND YOU ARE GOING TO NEED IT IF
Review: YOU HAVE BEEN ON BENZOS FOR LONGER THAN 6 MONTHS! Now this includes Valium, Xanax, Ativan, Librium, Tranxene, Klonopin, and a lot of others. I received a wonderful e-mail from a wonderful lady who will be nameless. She's on Librium. This review is for her. Because I believe I didn't give a satisfactory answer. That I was basically the same as I was a year ago. But I have learned. BUY AND READ THIS BOOK. It's really the best on benzodiazepene addiction. Drummond is a fully qualified pasychiatrist who will help you get off these killers. It tells you HOW to stop. HOW to taper the dosages. Now most doctors and psychiatrists don't know how to do this. So please buy this book. After you are off benzos in 6 weeks ( a program no one recommends now), you will have what they call "rebound anxiety". This means that your anxiety will jump 6 times the normal level. So do the 10-percent solution. You will find this in Peter Breggin's "Your Drug May Be Your Problem". Also buy Breggin's book along with this one. Be a little cautious about Breggin. He is also strongly against Ritalin and Prozac. Drummond's book stands in the middle of this controversy. I went from 24 mgs. of Valium to 18 mgs. I feel so much better. Stable. Less crazy. This is the way it works with BENZO ADDICTS. Get off it and only use them for emergencies. I have a friend in San Antonio named Ed. He is stuck on Xanax. We are doing research on this. We do feel better off these drugs. But they very well might not be the WHOLE answer as Breggin implies. Drummond in "Benzo Blues" does not imply this. He gives many healthy alternatives to the "leveling off" effect of Benzos. Ed and I are having trouble with this problem (I have been a Valium addict for 30 years)because personal problems hit us and WHAMMO! Choke on blood or take a BENZO. Drummond does seem to say that seeing a psychotherapist is mandatory. Maybe YES maybe NO. To date, it hasn't helped Ed nor I. There is one more book that I hope you will order. "Coming Off Tranquilizers" by Shirley Trickett. She has schedules that you can pick among many. And she gives a real healthy view on how to get off. Drummond, Breggin, Trickett. According to my psychiatrist, I should have been off Valium 29 1/2 years ago. It's only caused tremendous damage. And I am fighting for my life. So buy Drummond's book and those two others. Get a good alternative (mine is 2 hours of meditation daily! No, I haven't started yet! Not even 10 minues daily. If the truth be known, I'm scared to get off it. Oddly enough). Now "Benzo Blues" is 300 pages. It IS hard reading. But if you are a BENZO freak, you will need it along with those two other books. I was going to a mental center, and they cut me from Valium without any consultation. They demanded that I come in even though my brother has picked them up before. I alledgedly made a threat because going "cold turkey" off a Benzo can cause seizures. I was put in a booby hatch for 5 1/2 days. Get off this junk. But be wary of the "witch hunters". I don't know whether Trickett and Breggin are such. But with this book, which is quite academic and pragmatic, you can make accurate decisions. And if you've been on benzos for over a year, you are an addict. Don't go through what I did and may never get over. Valium is now part of me, my brain, my perceptions. I wish you very good luck and Godspeed.