It's not that difficult to discontinuate benzos. You just need to taper off slowly. You'll just be left at the same place you were before. Many doctors treatin

It's not that difficult to discontinuate benzos. You just need to taper off slowly. You'll just be left at the same place you were before. Many doctors treating depression will actually use benzos in addition to SSRIs as a standard first-attempt protocol. Antidepressants are inespecific for social anxiety, and can actually aggravate general anxiety (hence the SSRI-suicide problem). Sure, if social anxiety derives from low self-esteem or something... but you can work that out in psychotherapy. While on benzos. Or you can work it out by yourself, by interacting with people. I was actually being provocative about all the pop psychology crap being thrown around. If your head is a mess, then the pop psychology is useless. When unscrambled, you can attempt the pop psychology methods or join buddhism or something.