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Opening up to Emma and hearing that she had experienced many of the same sensations and challenges I’m going through made such a difference. For the first time, I felt truly understood, and it helped me realise that I’m not losing myself — I’m going through a process that takes time.
Emma helped me see that the slower I go, the easier it can be to continue living my life while the taper happens in the background. Each reduction, no matter how small, is still a step closer to zero. That perspective has given me a sense of calm and hope that I really needed.
I’m still incredibly angry with the medical profession for putting people on medications that they often don’t know how to help them come off, but speaking with Emma reminded me that I can take back some control of my journey. Living my life is the most important thing while the taper takes place in the background.
I’m so grateful to Emma for listening, understanding and, most importantly, making me feel less alone.
HW
After a month on the medication, I didn’t feel right and I felt numb. I let my doctor know I wanted to come off the medication and then she said I had to taper. I didn’t even know what tapering was. She took me off of it too quickly and it threw me into withdrawals and then I went into protracted withdrawals for two years.
When I met Emma, I had been in severe protracted withdrawals with severe akathisia, and all the other symptoms that come with benzodiazepine brain injury. I had gone to many many doctors and psychiatrists, and they all kept telling me it was me and I was crazy and wouldn’t believe that it was benzo withdrawal. I was poly drugged on approximately 30 different meds which were kindling the brain injury. I didn’t know the meds were causing further injury because I didn’t know what was wrong with me. So the doctors just kept giving me different meds and then told me I was noncompliant because I would tell them they made me feel worse. I also was in a psych ward because the psychiatrists didn’t know what else to do with me. That was a horrible experience as well.
One day a friend of mine saw me in severe distress and akathisia, she started researching and found Emma online. It’s really a travesty that there’s no help other than finding people online to guide you through this process. I live in the United States so I also found a tapering coach and a provider here as well as Emma in the UK.
When I first met Emma, I was barely stabilized because I had to reinstate, she knew everything I was going through because she experienced it herself. If it wasn’t for Emma, I don’t think I would be alive today. She has helped me and guided me through this process. She lets me talk about everything that I’m going through and answers my questions about my experience and what she went through and validated what I’m experiencing.
I’m at the beginning of my tapering journey and it’s been rough. It’s not an easy thing to go through, but the slow tapering is the only way to get through the process of getting off the psychiatric meds safely and heal your brain.
I’m deeply indebted to Emma and will forever be grateful and thankful that she came into my life. She’s caring , knowledgeable, very witty and provides support for the difficult process of helping others safely get off of these medications. I know she will walk with me through this process and help me get to the other side.
Thank you, Emma.
Linda G
I contacted Emma in need of support as I was going through a very, very rough time after being cold turkey‘d off of Klonopin.
A series of mistakes were made in some bad advice, prolonged my suffering, and my intensity of suffering.
I found Emma’s support to be incredibly well rooted in understanding… (Which of course she got from her own personal history), she’s a fantastic listener. She’s honestly really a breath of fresh air… & provides really, really solid advice, but really tends to not be a “pressuring” or “lecturing” sort of person at all, which I found very refreshing. I know that she comes from a place of love…
She also has a fantastic sense of humor, and there are times even in the worst of times, in the greatest moments of suffering, where a sense of humor and having someone to talk to who talks to you, like an equal rather than a ‘patient’ can be the most helpful form of therapeutic care.
I am grateful for Emma, and I will contact her again on occasion when I need that kind of lift that only she can provide.
