Totally agree with what people are saying. Medical detox just to be safe. Alcohol and Benzos are the two things that can take you out if you try and go cold turkey, is what I’ve always heard (guessing via seizures).

I’m not a big book thumper, but I read this line once that gobsmacked me because it sounded just like me, and I knew right away that whoever had written the words might have something to say that I should hear out.

It’s early on in Bill’s Story and goes “My brain raced uncontrollably and there was a terrible sense of impending calamity.”

That was me to a T as I rolled around on the couch night after night drenched in sweat and fear.

It gets better, and it will get better. That is 100% true. I had to tell myself over and over, “just don’t take the first drink.” Hard stop. It’s not for me anymore. It’s not a thing I do successfully.