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Originally Posted by IndieVisible
All I read was you had trouble sleeping and have vivid dreams. Are you attributing that as withdrawal? The reason I ask this is I often wonder how much of this "benzo withdrawal" is real and how much is physiological. I even read about AD withdrawal. I'm 58 been on AD's and benzos of various kinds thru out 3 decades. I've never had withdrawal from ADs or benzos. I do get pissed off when a pdoc wants me to stop using them. But that's hardly withdrawal. I know how opiate withdrawal feels like that is verry real. I know what cocaine withdrawal is that is also very real. I have no idea how real benzo withdrawal or AD withdrawal is because I have never experienced it.
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What is your definition of "withdrawal"? Benzos are not the same as hard drugs such as opiates and cocaine, so the symptoms might be different for lower doses. I was talking to people on another forum, and one of them was on the highest possible dose of a benzodiazepine. Her doctor tried taking her off cold turkey, and she had intense heart palpitations, anxiety attacks, migraines, double vision, etc. and ended up in hospital.
Regardless of the definition of "withdrawal" and its constituent symptoms, the fact is that people struggle when taken off their benzos (and these are real, not "imagined", struggles). This thread is about seeking help. If you want to assert that every response to medication changes has a psychological and a physiological component - then yes, you're correct. However, it still remains that there is a physiological effect. These are chemicals, and they obviously affect one's body.