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Free Yourself from Tranquilizers and Sleeping Pills: A Natural Approach

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I bought this book to help me detox from Valium. While I think her intentions are good, the information is pretty general and not that useful. Instead, I highly recommend "Benzo Blues" by Dr. Edward Drummond, to someone contemplating coming off benzodiazepines. It's about 10 times better than this slight, not very informative book.

To make it short, after half of my life of taking tranquilizers and sleeping pills for my insomnia, and being completely unable and handicaped,this book has finally given me an answer to the never-ending horrifying symptoms that have chronically taken my mind and body, which didn't make any sense until now.

The book perfectly explains how these drugs act on you, which symptoms you may suffer, why this happens, and how to get rid of all of it. Unfortunately, it lacks some more precise information on the day by day withdrawal process, and what to do when you are feeling so horrible to avoid falling again.

When I decided to withdraw from lorazapam I didn't understand what was happening to my body. Such symptoms! When I figured it out I couldn't even leave the house to go the doctor. I couldn't express myself anyway. Thank goodness a friend helped me order this book thru Amazon. I got the book the next day and devoured it. Every sysmptom she described I had and now I understood that I wasn't going crazy. The key to managing the withdrawal symptoms is in the poem at the end of the book. "Know Thyself, Know Thy Bookeeper". We pay to be delivered from anxiety thru these benzodiazepines.

Tells it like it is, how bad coming off of benzodiazepines can be. Discusses all symptoms related to use of these drugs, and what to expect during withdrawals. Explained in easy to understand language.

I bought this recently and read it in less than an hour.I was on xanax(alprazolam).I found the description of withdrawal symptoms so beneficial.This book covers most areas of withdrawal.Even if you arent able to read for long the sections are short which is good when you can't concerntrate for long.

I also recommend these books:
1)"Coming off tranquilisers,sleeping pills and anti-depressants:a safe and effective withdrawal plan."Also by Shirley Trickett.
2)"The accidental addict:sleeping pills and tranquilisers that make you sick". by Di Porritt & Di Russell.

If the author is to be believed, a long-time habit of taking as little as 5mg of Valium per day is sufficient to make one addicted, depressed, and highly miserable. Her claim is that growing tolerance to any benzodiazapine places the individual in "withdrawal" even while he or she is taking the drug. Since many of us can relate to the profiles of depression and mysterious illnesses that the author provides, it's not hard to accept her thesis. But is it true? How's one to know without first increasing the use of the drug beyond the "withdrawal" phase? And is this something I really want to do? Apparently the book has been influential enough to inspire support groups. The question remains, how valid is her thesis?

In short, this is a provocative book that should be read by virtually anyone who takes benzodiazapines, regardless of amount or frequency. The reader is likely to experience initial relief and empowerment, and if good health is sustained after termination of medication, fine. If, on the other hand, termination of the medication does not seem to help, the reader will certainly question the author's rather basic and simple cause-effect thesis.

To take another example, it's highly likely that "Chronic Fatigue Sydrome" has produced sufferers in excess of the actual presence of the disease. Whether it's better to regard some forms of fatigue as a disease or as depression is debatable. People can spend as much time and money treating a mysterious virus as depression. Tricket's book provides the same sort of room for controversy. If Valium indeed is your problem, you'll be most grateful to her. If Valium is simply addressing symptoms of anxiety and depression, you could become needlessly alarmed about that 5 mg daily tablet, increasing the amount of anxiety you already are experiencing.