Benzo addiction is the last thing you ever want to be addicted to.
Do not **** with your central nervous system at all. Learned that the hard way, the very hard way.
My troubles lasted about 2 years total.
I have a friend who has been addicted to Xanax taking multiple doses of Xanbar, which is a large dose, every single day for almost twelve years now.
He cannot quit, he is a slave to a chemical until he dies. He has no legal perscription, thus his addiction forces him to committ a serious felony often in order to possess what he must have or he will likely die from withdrawl.
His addiction is so fierce that he suffers withdrawl even while he is on large doses of the chemical.
Do NOT ever take any benzos on a regular daily basis. It only takes about a few weeks of doing so to sufficiently suppress the CNS in such a way that quitting causes CNS rebound effect, which is the worst damn thing ever.
I’ve taken Valium on and off for 35 years due to GAD and *never* had a bit of trouble stopping them when I no longer needed them and obviously, I never ‘died from withdrawal’ or had any “rebound affect”.
When properly titered, you don’t even notice anything.
Unless you’re *abusing* them by exceeding the prescribed dosage, I can’t see a problem.
I never did so maybe that’s why *I* had no problems.
“The worst damn thing ever” is getting yourself free of the neurotoxic antidepressants because some prescription kickback quack tells you that Benzos are “too scary” to use.