Malissa Pistillo shares her story of benzodiazepine harm and healing for our #BenzoStories series.
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I love your message because it’s a message of hope. I’m struggling with hope and fear I may never be my old
self again. I do not like what I’ve become. I took myself off of Xanax last November and had been taking Xanax for 10 years. The last 5 my dose was 1mg 3x a day. I stopped cold turkey and was okay after the acute withdrawal phase, for about 2 months. Something changed at the beginning of the year and I suddenly had no energy, didn’t care about anything, have this annoying tinnitus that will not go away and basically I feel pretty hopeless. Please tell me it gets better. Of If it doesn’t get better, I’m not sure I will make it.