So I see a new shrink on a teleconference call about a month ago. I explained that I was tapering off Lorazepam and she said she's also trying to get all her 'older' patients off benzos. I'm 55 yrs old but don't feel old lol. I'm in the best shape ever physically since maybe my teens. She did the usual worried about dementia bullshit. I said OK, whatever. So then I asked hey after the taper, what happens if I have a court appearance or an airplane ride or whatever, where I need to take something to calm down. Ready for her reply? Listen to this. She says "Oh I never said you can't take them again. You are free to take them 2-3 times a week, just not daily." That was a curveball. So I said wait a minute, what about kindling and interdose withdrawals. So here comes the beautiful part. She said "Oh, no problem, we can just switch you to klonopin or valium to take care of any interdose withdrawals." But that means I'm on the drug daily again, dummy. Even if I don't take it daily, the drug will still be in my system the next day if it's a long half-life. If I take that 2-3 times a week, I'll still have my GABA receptors exposed to the drug daily, even if it's less than the minimum recommended dose. Does she understand that concept? Anyway, I feel like it's a win-win. If I get off the drug, I stockpile the extra shit for a rainy day. If I can't, then I switch over to klonopin that's twice as strong as lorazepam and has 2.5 times the half-life. I'll even play it cool and say "Oh, I don't need as much, I'll just take 0.25mg kloponin." Just to butter her up. But that amount is equivalent to 0.5 mg lorazepam for 35 hours. I'm already down to 0.35 mg/day. So I'll be fine, I don't need to really go down more than I already am lol. If I need to keep taking it of course. One last piece of advice: TRY TAURINE. You will shit when you try that amino acid, it's almost identical to a benzo, I kid you not. I'm on 400 mg/day and it's saving me, most of my day is fine, no nervousness. Wish I would have known about it before.