Lorazepam is gnarly, they had me on Clonazepam for 20 years and it took me a year to taper off because the risk of seizure and stroke when quitting Benzos.
I recommend to everyone Google the Asheton Method, print it out and bring it to your doctor, the only way I was able to quit and its been 5 years now 
Sorry to hear this and hope this helps.
Yeah, it’s fucking crazy how they just prescribe that shit willy-nilly. I was prescribed that, too, back when I first started having panic attacks (and back when I had health insurance haha). The doctor said,”So take it once in the morning and once at night, daily,” and I looked into it when I got home and was like,”Fuck. That.” Ended up just eating one pill whenever I had a panic attack, which sometimes was every day and sometimes wasn’t for weeks.
They wanna get you strung out on that shit, total racket.
Yea she has dropped off the radar completely. I have no idea how she is doing but I’m betting it’s not good
Sorry to hear that. It happens unfortunately. You try to help no matter the result. Can’t help everyone.
It sucks when you see a creative and empathic friend marry a narcissistic asshole and then try to help…but they won’t listen.
I realize that my input is not helpful in this particular situation but I can tell you that I have been dealing with very intense suicidal thoughts level depression for the last couple of years. I was so far gone I came very close to losing everything. I have got myself back on track by taking mushrooms every chance I get. I am definitely macrodosing instead of microdosing but I am seeing microdosing make a similar difference in the lives of others. I feel very strongly that there is an antidepressant quality to psylocibin that makes an impact on depressed people. I have so much more to learn about what the mushrooms can do for people but they have changed my life and I am dedicating my life to learning how to produce them and make them available to as many people as possible so they can be helped. Humanity is having a mental health crisis and I think the answer for many of us is more available than we realize. I am happy to share m experience with anyone that wants to learn more and I would love to learn about others’ experience in this realm.
True and my friend refused to try mushrooms.
I have no idea why except she was afraid of a bad trip ot something. But she took the big pharmacy crap seriously and took those fukin pills
I tried to talk to her about what she was doing…selling her little house…giving up her chickens…and buying this mansion with her prick narcissist husband
He was isolating her and taking everything she loved so she had only him
I saw it plain as day.
But she knew it in her heart and was afraid the shrooms would.make her see things clearly. That’s what I believe.
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By depressed do you mean that she has the blues over her life being shitty or does she have a major clinical depression?
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Have you suggested microdosing? I have read that it may help with depression and I have personal experience with low dose psilocybin. I found it positive as long as you got the dose right. Start lower than recommended imo.
fear of abandonment, co-dependence, etc cant be solved with a substance imho. i think maybe she needs to see what its like to do something for herself, however small it is. could be as simple as taking a weekend trip by herself, visiting family, etc. for me my dog provides more uplift mentally than bud or any drug did. she wakes me up in the morning smiling and has nothing but honest intentions and good energy. it feels corny to suggest getting a pet but the psychological benefits do speak for themselves.
She was definitely depressed then had major health issue that kept.her from sewing knitting or even writing. Her butHole husband convinced her to sell her little house that was paid for…get rid if her chickens move away from friends…so he could have a “dream home” with huge payment
(They are both in their 70s)
I encouraged her to audio record her poems and at least have some creative outlet.
She refused to even try the microdose which was weird because she was a very liberal and “hippy type” of individual
Sad.
I’m opposed to big fancy houses but maybe that’s what she wanted too. An office for knitting and poetry. Who knows.
I’d kill for a recreational office I could fill with tents.
Well she was convinced but after they sold her house and her chickens and moved away from her friends…her health went to shit
Imagine
Yeah a big change of life is hard.
check out this publication: www. Researchgate.net (psilocybin) great article on “micro-dosing” saying for change (mental/mind) take micro-dose every 1out of 3 days for seven dose’s can change one anxiety, depression, ect ) a good Mush read !!!