Parenting While Going Through Benzo Withdrawal/Damage

My name is leighann..thank you for doing this video for me ...this is such an important topic..great job.

I know the feeling man. I was going through hell during quarantine and my poor son was doing school from home and really struggling. I remember him not understanding what I was trying to show him and me being the biggest asshole about it and making him cry. Then come to find out he has a learning disorder and had to deal with me being a dick on top of it. If I could take back one thing it would be that.

Welcome Home, Dan! 💖 Our prayers and best wishes for a healthy and prosperous new year filled with many meaningful moments and all-around awesomeness ( stole that word from Bob😆). Thank you. Love, strength, patience and peace making its way to NC right now. 💖

Sooooo nice to have you back, Dan! Holy cow…what we become dependant on during this…really missed your content. Happy New Year, Dan. 💓

Or maybe I’m just extra sensitive to everything lol. Man you are saying everything that i am experiencing now. I am so angry, then I cry because I feel so guilty for being so angry over small shit

Just beginning my taper. I really appreciate what you’re doing. Thanks!

My girls are grown adults now, so I cannot relate to caring for children moving through this. However, I can relate to what Dan mentioned about being a caregiver. I am a caregiver to my elderly mother…and, I experience guilt often for not being able to carry things out as I did. I have had to make changes to how I do things in order to make it much easier for myself. Food preparation is a big one…when we are nauseous or in pain…and, cognitively things just don’t click in terms of food preparation, it makes this very challenging. I feel equally responsible for providing care as I did when my girls were young. I want to do better…I have high expectations for myself as a caregiver, and my falling short creates so many emotions and frustrations. But, we do need to be easy on ourselves and know we are doing the best we can. Easier said than done…but, isn’t everything easier said than done? Borrowing that from another post I had listened to. We do our best, and that is what counts. It may not be exactly what we want, but it’s the best we can do. Guilt will not serve us…and, it makes things worse. I struggle with this daily. It can even exacerbate our symptoms. And, I know my mother understands…and, children…as long as they have love and their parent present, the most important ingredients are there. I have heard some parents say that when they were highly symptomatic, it was cereal for dinner. These things happen…especially for single parents without support. I believe all has a way of working itself out. We really have to accept that this is how things are for now…not forever, but for now. That’s what my therapist says! No comparisons, no ‘shoulding’ ourselves. Lots and lots of therapy! Much Love.

I have a 6 year old son and I am so heavily damaged can't walk sit or work. After cold turkey my back is damaged 2 bulging discs on my back making me disabled and cannot find a solution am stuck. My son went through trauma seeing my pyscosis and cries everyday and says he is scared of me. I was the bread winner for my family. Seeing all this and also suffering I feel my suicide will atleast give my family a lot of mental peace atleast. Neighbors also want me to be thrown out. I cannot raise my son. I ve lost it

I can only imagine how difficult that must be having children going thru this. Heck I was struggling to just take care of my dogs and myself. I honestly feel like I am reparenting myself in a way thru this process. My psychosis was actually my rebirth as a child (it really was). I believe this is why I am healing because I had to go back there and let go. Sorry to hear about your job loss Dan. I am sure something even better is coming down the pipeline. I am looking for a job again and also possibly starting up my business again part time. I understand the emotional trauma you are speaking of and is so awesome that you are breaking that generational curse. I never got a chance to have kids because I was struggling off/on so much that I just couldn't imagine having a kid if they felt what I felt inside but who knows what the future holds. You are giving your children a huge gift Dan after going thru everything you went thru. Like you said you are being present, patient and the list goes on. ... Bring on 2023!!!! Bob Bobarino

From someone who got addicted to benzos at 15 and was addicted to Xanax for 16 years solid with 3 DUI’s shoplifting, violation of probation and all the jobs I lost, homes friends if your deep in the benzo trap I can testify THE only thing that can break it is the power of Jesus Christ and Holy Spirit revealing him to you. He truly broke the chains off no rehab or no meeting or nothing was needed. Just a surrendered heart. That’s all

I found your channel today and it has been super helpful to sit and watch your content on benzos. I'm currently going through a Clonazepam taper, and only have 17% left to go. Your videos give me hope for what is to come!! Please keep them coming!

❤ your content and thank you

I am 8 months removed from being CT’ed of clonazepam.5-1mg prescribed for 15 years. I’m really struggling. Agitation, anxiety depression inability to exercise, loss of self, wrecked inner ear balance etc etc… I have a 4 year old son and wife and I’m ruining everything. I can’t get out of panic and insomnia. Thank you for the video. I’m not sure where to go from here or how else to help myself. Matt

Thank you for you’re video’s. I am going through antidepressant withdrawal. Now 30 month off. It is much the same as the protracted benzo withdrawal. Did you reed Baylissa’s book ( Recovery and Renewal) about Benzo withdrawal? Very good and helpful. You are a hero! One day it will be over. I admire that you did this Witdrawal beast with small kids😪😪. Take care! Greetings from Europe!❤

Benzo comunity can be a meditation course tomorrow and how we heal with this

Thanks for making another great vid. The music takes away the seriousness of what your saying, for me.

Hey bud just tone down the volume on the music just a bit. I enjoy it just making it hard to hear you. Loving the content btw! It’s great for people like me currently going through hell. And I’m working during it😫

Dan, have you watched medicating normal. With Angie Peacock.