I'm a 50 year old mom going thru acute withdrawal symptoms and menopause. I'm 10 months off a 12 year Ativan prescription and 5 months off Valium.
I guess I should be proud of myself for not being on them anymore. But I kind of relate to Mrs. Dubose the old lady from the book "To Kill a Mockingbird". She was prescribed morphine by her doctor and became dependent, but decided to kick her addiction before she passed...

..."I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew." -Atticus Finch

Be brave ok? I will try to be too...