What a load of bollox that person said.

There are times when we need medication to get through.

I've been on benzos for over a year.

Admittedly the amount of time I've been on it isn't good. But my old pdoc kept handing them out like candy.

I know my new pdoc will eventually start weaning me off them. When the time is right.

I have never ever taken more than that which has been prescribed to me.

But I will never forget the one Sunday when I had run out. Wasn't seeing pdoc til that week. Went in to see a regular doc who s hat all over me, I got such a lecture on how I shouldn't be on this medication yadda yadda yadda.

I left there feeling like an absolute criminal.

Or a junkie on the side of the street.