Agreed. I don't think I was ever full-on addicted to benzos, but during the most severe parts of my last episode I used them a lot more than I would have liked. At some point the insomnia was so bad and had such a negative effect on my stability that my treatment team told me to just take lorazepam for sleep as long as I needed and not worry about withdrawal for now.

I still limited it to 2mg once a day (with the occasional 4mg), in the evening only, for about 6 weeks. But even then it was hard to stop. If I recall correctly, going from 2mg to 1.5mg and then to 1mg was okay-ish. The step from 1mg to 0.5mg was very hard for me, so I decided to step down in increments of 0.25mg instead. From 1mg to 0.75mg for one or two weeks, then 0.5mg for another one or two weeks, then 0.25mg, and then nothing. That was manageable for me. It was just a major pain trying to cut the pills so precisely. I believe there is a lorazepam solution on the market, which would be easier to dose than pills, but I don't know how easily available it is. There are also 0.5mg pills. It should be easier to cut those in half than it is to cut 1mg pills into quarters.

Keep in mind that if you keep the absolute step size constant (let's say a 0.5mg decrement every time), then percentage-wise the step size increases every time. For example, 0.5mg is only 25% of a 2mg dose, but it's 50% of a 1mg dose.