Jane, I hope you can try to just live in the moment a bit more. Doing so may help manage feelings that you won't succeed with a complete benzo cessation. Just don't think of the struggle, constantly. Only sometimes. Mindfulness might also help put the stressors of the world aside a bit, though I know well how difficult that is. I can't stop watching news...or caring...but sometimes I take a break from it.

My sister sometimes seems blissfully ignorant of what is going on in the world. She seems not to care. Oblivious. For better or for worse, she's not the only one like that. The US could become an autocracy led by the devil and she would casually say "Oh, that doesn't seem that good." Or "Are you sure?" OR, "I didn't know that." While my brother is scarily too far right (and angy/upset) to my more upset liberal progressive. So, we are not all feeling and thinking the same thing.