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Varangian 3 points ago +3 / -0

Latest personal update has him off benzodiazepines, and recovering life. Harrowing multi year ordeal with those drugs. His wife had no hope cancer brain surgery, so he got on benzodiazepines. (She made it, btw.) Side effects were unbearable pain, (Akathisia) but he couldn’t get off them. It’s almost impossible for some. Multiple attempts at therapy were made. Their “cure“ was different benzodiazepines. Didn’t work. Don’t take them for more than a week or risk lifelong dependency is his message. He went to Russia and was put into a medically induced coma to withdraw. He had pneumonia at the same time. Nearly died, etc. Then more therapy/convalescence. Went to Romania? He seemed a little shaky, but lucid and recovering. His daughter and her husband had to deal with him and her mom at the same time. He seems ashamed of losing it when he was needed most. He isn’t perfect after all. Knowing everything was worse than useless. He got that message loud and clear.