Are you seeing a therapist, Eternal Winter? Stress is important to control, and I can
see your psychiatrist's viewpoint in only one way: that is, that many of them are
addictive, and he wants to avoid that for you. If you are able to keep the dosage
at a minimum and use it only when under very strong stress, I think he would be happy
to continue to prescribe them for you.

I'm sorry that you're having these things that upset you. I know how it is, and I hope
you'll have better feeling tone soon and the stress just drops out of your life.

Take care.