Tell Your Benzo Story

Please share your stories with us. You can be anywhere in the withdrawal and recovery process to submit your story.

The questions in the form below are designed to help you, however if your story is already written in a different format you can email it directly to benzo.awareness@gmail.com

The questions are there to guide you only so please feel free to add whatever else you wish to include.

Head to the BLOG tab to read some of the stories we have started gathering from our readers.

Name or Pseudonym

You can use your real name, first name only, or a pseudonym. If you do not want your last name used, please write N/A in that field.

First Name

Last Name

Email

Please tell your story here (400 - 750 words)

These questions are here to guide you: - What was your life like before benzos? - Why you were prescribed benzos, which sort and for how long? - Were you informed about the risks of dependency, tolerance, addiction or withdrawal? - Did you experience withdrawal symptoms while still taking your medication as prescribed and if so what were they? - If you are tapering, please tell us about this experience. What are your symptoms? - If you were CT (cold turkeyed) or cut off abruptly, please tell us about this experience. Why were you cut off and what happened afterwards? What symptoms did you have? - Do you have any underlying conditions that have been affected by this? - If you are free from benzos, how long have you been free and what positive changes have you noticed in your life? - If you are free from benzos and still having symptoms, please tell us about those too. - Would you like to include a quote or some words of encouragement for those still healing? - Is there anything in particular you would like our readers to know about your benzo experience?

Do you have a blog or any social media profiles that document your benzo journey? If so, we can link to them for you if you supply the details below.

By submitting your story, you agree to it being published on this website in full or in part. If at any time you wish to have it removed please email to request this. Once your story has been received, you will be emailed with a copy to review within 10 working days. Thank you so much for sharing your experience with our readers.