Most of us love (and many of us need) success stories.

I have the practice that when I find something encouraging I send it to somebody who is presently in a bad state to give them support and maybe new hope. I thought it might be a good idea if we start a collection of encouraging success stories that we find outside the forum (and outside SA, because they have their own forum for their member’s stories, it’s easy to find.)

 

I will begin with a little list of my latest favorites:

https://youtu.be/lDvyrIinjts?is=fnGtY8_iTrxyNILB

this is an akathisia recovery story.

Shelly shares progress healing from antidepressant withdrawal, benzodiazepine injury, medication-induced akathisia, and severe medical trauma

 

https://benzobuddies.org/topic/289488-things-are-looking-up/#comment-3657172

„Just wanted to share a little hope for anyone in the thick of it right now. Hang tight and don’t give up! I am 20 months last dose, and I can finally say that life feels more normal again.“

 

 

https://youtu.be/GvSJ6lTUnO0?is=HfHVU9goHzycZ_SA

Two and a half years off meds, and two years after a reinstatement injury, I’m sharing what happened, what symptoms hit, and what helped me hold on until healing took root. This is my personal story

 

https://benzobuddies.org/topic/289000-things-are-better-there-is-hope-an-update-from-my-wife/
quote from the post:

I believe and know that you will survive, just as my wife did. It took a very long time—over two and a half years—before she felt even the slightest improvement. Then, she began to improve rapidly day by day. Now she's getting better. In fact, within three months, she became calm, functional, and normal, just like she used to be. She can talk, laugh, think normally, her memory has returned, and she says she finally feels like herself. She still has some symptoms, but they're reduced enough that she can live with them. We spent the first normal Christmas in three years, where my wife could sit peacefully at the table with her family, eat everything she wanted, including Christmas cake. She felt so happy that she could participate in normal life, the holidays, shopping, holiday preparations, and even cook a few meals.

I know you're terrified, just like my wife. She felt it all: the feeling of dying every day, the inability to escape, the feeling of being trapped with no way out, the lack of hope. It's all over. It will be the same for you, too. 
 

 ( @Chippy, maybe you want to position this thread to a different location, I don’t know if this is the right place, I think he only members can read it and it’s a bit hidden)

 

Everyone: please feel free to share your own favorite encouraging stories in this thread!
 

Hey @Nemina

 

Great idea!

 

I’m happy for it be in here for the minute. We may move it let’s see how it goes. 
 

Chippy

I'm not sure what will happen with SA page in the future but it would be great to preserve the stories somehow.

 

I also have a link to PaxilProgress success stories: https://web.archive.org/web/20140807093729/http://www.paxilprogress.org/forums/showthread.php?t=52449

 

 

This is from the Cymbalta Hurts Worse Group on FB that is currently suspended by FB.  These are post from that group of over 45,000 members over the last 13 years.
 

https://healthwithoutantidepressants.com/from-chw-successes/

 

Note that online calculators are available on the site, as well as Gradual Taper (hyperbolic) protocols and tutorials.

Today I read this encouraging survivor story:

https://beyondmeds.com/2010/06/07/withdrawal-from-antidepressant-leads-to-spiral/

 

A blessed Easter Sunday to everyone!

Great story healing from terrible Anhedonia

https://benzobuddies.org/topic/266718-anhedonia-for-two-years-healed/

https://benzobuddies.org/topic/291631-recovered-from-2-years-protracted-klonopin-withdrawal-and-chronic-insomnia/

Klonopin, sleep problems