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Benzo Warrior Community Hosts D. Foster, Founder of the site, Uneven.life.
Are you a fan of the Benzo Free podcast? Have you read the research on BIND? On Nov. 12, 5:30-7:30pm EST, Benzo Warrior Community was excited to welcome D E Foster to our Zoom roundtable speaker series.
For the past 12 years, D E Foster has experienced an array of health issues including chronic pain, severe anxiety, and the lingering complications of anxiety medication (benzos/BIND). His struggles led him to write a book (Benzo Free), launch the support sites Easing Anxiety and Uneven.life, host two podcasts (Benzo Free & Uneven), and co-found a variety of support organizations and programs. D has also co-authored several research papers on benzodiazepines including the study which introduced benzodiazepine-induced neurological dysfunction (BIND).
We hope you learn from, and enjoy, this video.
To reach D. Foster, please join: Uneven.life
To reach Barbara Connolly for coaching only: barbara.connolly.31@gmail.com
For future events
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For the past 12 years, D E Foster has experienced an array of health issues including chronic pain, severe anxiety, and the lingering complications of anxiety medication (benzos/BIND). His struggles led him to write a book (Benzo Free), launch the support sites Easing Anxiety and Uneven.life, host two podcasts (Benzo Free & Uneven), and co-found a variety of support organizations and programs. D has also co-authored several research papers on benzodiazepines including the study which introduced benzodiazepine-induced neurological dysfunction (BIND).
We hope you learn from, and enjoy, this video.
To reach D. Foster, please join: Uneven.life
To reach Barbara Connolly for coaching only: barbara.connolly.31@gmail.com
For future events
Join Benzo Warrior Community here:
www.benzowarrior.com/
Benzo Warrior Community UA-cam channel is here:
ua-cam.com/channels/3xdLrxubxjcAtB5eVyHCzw.html
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Benzo Warrior Community Hosts Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring
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Benzo Warrior Community Hosts Valsa Madhava, MD, MPH, IFMCP
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Benzo Warrior Community Hosts Lieutenant Commander Mark Keller
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On Sunday, Oct. 29 from 1:00-3:00 p.m. Eastern, BWC was thrilled to welcome Mark "Slider" Keller to our Zoom roundtable series. LCDR Mark Keller, U.S. Navy (Ret) is an engineer, entrepreneur, former F-14 Tomcat Radar Intercept Officer (RIO), F/A-18 Weapons Systems Officer (WSO), father of two sons and a seasoned combat veteran who retired from the United States Navy suffering from PTSD and depr...
Benzo Warrior Community Hosts Dan Landauer, CPPS, of Philosophical Fishing
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Benzo Warrior Community Hosts Angie Peacock, MSW
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On August 15, 2023 Benzo Warrior Community was pleased to welcome Angela Peacock, MSW to our Zoom Roundtable series. Angie has more experience than most in the prescribed harm community and is an inspiration to all of us in how she has rebuilt her own life. You may know her from her role in the documentary Medicating Normal, or from the many interviews she has done on all aspects of recovering ...
Benzo Warrior Community Hosts Dr. Mark Leeds
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On Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, Benzo Warrior Community welcomed Dr. Mark Leeds to speak to our Zoom roundtable. Dr. Leeds presented for an hour and then entertained our questions afterwards. Dr. Mark Leeds is an osteopathic physician with a focus on medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction and alcoholism. In addition to practicing medicine, he is the host of The Benzodiazepine Podcast on A...
Benzo Warrior Community Welcomes Nicole Lamberson, PA
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"Mistakes Made in Withdrawal, Including Protracted" On Sunday, May 21 at 1:00-3:00 p.m. EDT, Benzo Warrior Community welcomed Nicole Lamberson to speak with our BWC Zoom roundtable. She talked to us about mistakes that people commonly make during their benzo withdrawal, including the mistakes that often happen once people are protracted, in hopes that we can avoid those common pitfalls. Nicole ...
Benzo Warrior Community Hosts Jennifer Swantkowski, Ph.D., LCSW
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"Down the Rabbit Hole: A Conversation with Jennifer Swantkowski, PhD" On Tuesday, April 4th, Benzo Warrior Community welcomed Jennifer Swantkowski, Ph.D., LCSW as a guest speaker to our Zoom Round Table. She discussed the narratives we form about our withdrawal experiences and how they matter in terms of our recovery. Jennifer has her Master’s in Social Work, post-graduate Fellowship in End of ...
Benzo Warrior Community Hosts Dr. Mark Horowitz, MBBS, PhD
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"What We Know About Safely Stopping Benzodiazepines from Research" On Sunday, March 12 at 1:00-3:00pm EST Dr. Mark Horowitz MBBS PhD spoke at the BWC Roundtable Zoom meeting. Dr. Mark Horowitz MD PhD is a Clinical Research Fellow in Psychiatry in the National Health Service (NHS) in England and a trainee psychiatrist. He co-authored the Royal College of Psychiatry guidance on “Stopping Antidepr...
Benzo Warrior Community Hosts Baylissa Frederick, Psychotherapist/Founder-Mindful Compassionate Care
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On Sunday Feb. 26 at 1:00-3:00pm EST Baylissa Frederick spoke with Benzo Warrior Community at our Roundtable Zoom meeting. Baylissa Frederick is the founder of Mindful Compassionate Care at mccare.org. She is a psychotherapist who, for the past 17 years, has supported thousands of people as they heal from antidepressant and benzodiazepine induced neurological dysfunction. She has delivered pres...
Benzo Warrior Community Hosts Coach David Powers of Powers Benzo Coaching, Author and Filmmaker
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Benzo Warrior Community Hosts Bob Whitaker, Founder of Mad in America.com, Author, Journalist
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Benzo Warrior Community Hosts Chris Paige, LCSW, Trauma Informed Therapist & Coach, October 11, 2022
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Benzo Warrior Community Hosts Justin Hazouri, Administrator of Goals Over Benzos!
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Benzo Warrior Community Hosts Dr. Christy Huff Presentation 9 20 2022
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So well put together and presented. Thank you for all you do. I am 40 months off Ativan after taking it for 30 years. Prescribed in 1991 for a cancer diagnosis. I can say BIND has been absolute hell for me. It’s inhumane and has to stop. Thank you again for trying to make a difference. 🙏
As a retired therapist who worked extensively within the medical model, I agree BIND is a nightmare for some who have taken prescript benzos. However, I've also known others who did not experience problems. For some it's a curse and for others it's a Blessing, and prescribers often are doing harm but don't even know it. IMHO they should be schedule II, and I would not wanna take them nor would I encourage anyone else to. But I do have to acknowledge they help some people, but should NEVER be prescribed long term, i.e. years or even decades. Thanks for all you are doing here.
So interesting, thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
Excellent truth. Your testimony blesses many with hope. Thank you for sharing hope and your truth.
Omg i was polyprescribed too! Xanax, klonopin, AND valium, ambien, soma, gabapentin, topamax, three antidepressants, a mood blocker, a beta blocker. When it got into the double digits the pharmacists blacklisted my dr. Which lead me to not be able to fill my meds and i almost died. He too had me on 90mg of Adderall a day! I JUST switched to long acting xanax .... Cold turkied EVERYTHING else. BUUUUUT i was getting interdose BAAAAD. But if i didnt take a full two mg id start convulsing. So i couldnt space it out to get out of interdose. So i JUST switched to extended release xanax to start tapering soon. I feel ALOT better but i still feel the withdrawal at times ESPECIALLY in the morning. Im noticing that ppl who go to detox? Have a HORRIBLE experience but arent getting protracted longer than 2 years (just basing all my information together) and then theyve "mostly healed". While others who taper klonopin seem to get into protracted no matter what they do. I THINK its cuz one passes the brain blood barrier and one doesnt. Not sure. Im SCARED especially with the elections etc .... Its sad i got SOOOOZ SUICIDAL EVERY SINGLE MORNING until i got on extended release.
My body on Fire. This is abstinencia 😢😢😢😢. I am peruvian. I have miedo 😖😖😖. Help, i need help in Perú
I need ypur link from comunity real, i am speak emglish but i want help 😢😢😢😢. Iam peruvian. Iam only
I don't know anyone who has gone through this. There's an organization that has peer support and they don't even know what I'm talking about! I don't want to.
I'm 61. Is it really worth it to wait and hope that I'll be better? The FDA black box label is a joke! Patients don't know this because there's no legal requirement to provide informed consent! No legal requirement to warn Patients and provide medication education. I have been so traumatized by the psychiatric community and the health care system as a whole! So dehumanizing and humiliating. We are human lab animals. Once you have a mental illness you are a label and no longer a person with a soul and a life. I have no family or friends. Clonazepam was forcibly stopped 4 and 1/2 months ago and can't function. Agoraphobia and severe neuropathic pain,insomnia. I'm 61. I don't want to die like this. I don't understand how this could happen to me. How can doctors prescribe this poison and sleep. They wouldn't do this to themselves.
Se necesita en Perú mayor visibilidad a este tema. Yo soy una víctima de estos medicamentos que siendo una joven de 23 años fui inducida a su uso y llevo 38 años y recien 1 mes de dejarla despues de 1 año y 8 meses de sufrimiento. Por favor hable sobre esto
Buenos días, soy de Perú y créanme que en mi País no se habla de nada de estos temas y la mayoría de los psiquiatras están convirtiendo a los jóvenes en dependientes físicos de estos medicamentos sin saber
Benzodiazepines are very impotant meds, they are one of the most effective durg classes we have until today. *They are not meant for abuse, to make you personally feel better, or to shield you from ongoing problems that you have !*
Love Jenn… but one of the interesting things is for me it wasn’t even a “high powered” vitamin. It was vitamins from Costco. Did me in and I’m still recovering 2 years later. I only took magnesium and b6 twice.
Absolutely brilliant
How is ur low energy symptoms
I went at it like a bulldog, 20years on4mg lorazepam and adderal. Cried every morning, broke my heart open to meditate deeply,worked my way up to 40 minutes deeply in heart mind silence. Then in flow state until late night, then insomnia. Wash rinse repeat. Been off adderal over a year. Can't open my heart now, devastating, heavy depression. Before his i knucked down, did wim hoff breathing, lots of walking, so much i just couldn't do it any more. Decided to white knuckle it. Got down to 1.5 back up to 2 now. I'm 79 years old, my world has gotten smaller and smaller. Where shall i draw motivation from? My dream come, for the doc to answer this post.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Brilliant 👏
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Jackson Matthew Moore Shirley Thomas Gary
You alright dude?
Thanks for your help
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LEGEND! Thank you so much for this from NZ 🇳🇿where I’m yet to find anyone ‘professionally’ help, all with such limited knowledge, so I commend you HIGHLY of think of us who are tapering👏🏼🙏
Thanks Slider.
Thanks Jake. Whew, what a road for people dealing with this. "Celebrate taking out the trash." How true is that?
Thanks Nichole. No words really. Glad you are better.
Thank you.
I’m going to trust you Baylissa even though my taste buds are gone and smell off sleep off I’m going to trust that we all heal I don’t have no money too book a session because I have lost everything that materialistic even my job I’m staying with my aunt
What is the cut off point? Please someone answer. Been 19 months CT , multiple drugs, anaesthesia, surgery. Am I damaged for life? Can’t sleep still…….
He doesnt look great in this interview. Still glad you did the interview, well done woman who asked the questions.
I appreciate the feedback from our community, including those who have had difficulties reaching us or felt our services weren't accessible. Your experiences are valid, and I sincerely apologize for any frustration or disappointment. As a small practice dedicated to helping people affected by benzodiazepines and other psychiatric medications, we face challenges in meeting the high demand for our services. We're committed to providing personalized care to our established patients, which sometimes limits our capacity to respond to all inquiries as promptly as we'd like. It's important to note that events like this talk, along with our podcasts and articles, are part of our broader mission to support the community. We dedicate significant time to these efforts to share information that may help those who can't access our direct services. We acknowledge that our concierge model isn't suitable for everyone, and we're actively exploring ways to improve our communication and accessibility. There's no one-size-fits-all approach in this field, as each individual's needs are unique. To those struggling, please know that there are resources available beyond our practice. We encourage you to seek support from patient advocacy groups and explore other healthcare providers who may be able to assist you. We remain committed to serving our community and continually improving our practice. Thank you for your understanding as we work to balance providing specialized care with broader outreach and education.
My doctor CT me in March of this year 2024
did anyone ask him if demylinating antigens are due to long term benzo use?
WOW. You are so sweet and so real and down to earth, so likeable. Thank you for your story. I, like you, exercise daily to get through this. I do daily yoga, and mountain biking or the gym dependenton weather. And, i am in the thick of it. I am so glad to find another person who turned to exercise to deal with being so sick. Relate to everything your saying.
Please add Arizona. So many here need your help desperately.
Thank you Dr Christy for your story & bravery. Here in Australia it’s gone nutz . While a growing awareness of the overprescribing is good - real time monitoring has been abused & patients are being cancelled with no tapering options. I have asked several pharmacists if they’re ever assisted in a taper . No . These stories have to be told & the bravery here is inspiring.
Whats the cut off point?
See IF YOU CAN FINE TUNE AUDIO IS BAD on all your videos
The audio is fine.
Angie you speak for me!!!! THANK YOU
I wish I’d have seen this before I’d talked to my dr about coming off.
Asking for a friend she took D) all of the above, basically a long list of stuff you listed and then some. But the one that did her in to a hyper agitated state was the Valium. if she was to get back on any of them is that the one you'd recommend, the one that she took last and withdraw from?
Stop talking Lisa. Let the man talk. What a bird brain. Cow.
LOL>..Babs sounds like a gerbil.
Oh. barf- just what the harm community needs is another coach - that has no buisness even coaching cos they are not ok in the head.
Dr. Christy we all had the symptoms you did.All of them, and many, many more. I am so sorry.. .
Aweful thoughts i cannot trust my thoughtd
I appreciate this gentlemen’s optimism. I will, however, say that counseling and therapy is often useless for those of us either in acute or heavily symptomatic. In some cases, it can even be harmful in that we may experience the secondary trauma of being further gaslit. Med-informed therapists are hard to come by thus the demand for withdrawal coaches. I wasted quite a bit of money in therapy in the early months and wish I had just spent that money on sessions with Baylissa or another withdrawal coach.
I’m said gentleman. I don’t recommend all therapies, as not all are appropriate during the recovery process. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, however, is incredibly beneficial during recovery, as it’s a mindfulness-based therapy that can help to process the struggle with symptoms.
We love you Christy Huff Rest In Peace
@@incognito595 she died suddenly last Tuesday.
@@katrinamenzies9398OMG Where did you learn this?
@@incognito595 on benzodiazepines information coalition site
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Apparently it was due to the benzo damage. How sad.
Another scam artist. Be careful with this one. He’s taken thousands of dollars from clients for them only to end up on more meds. Two of my last clients were quoted $45k and $60k to help with their withdrawal. You’be been warned!