My doctor would argue with you. I used to take zanax.
I tend to believe him over you. Unless you can show me credentials?
If you are an addict the are addictive. I do not have a drug dependence.
So days I don't take it. So I see where you are coming from but myself and my doctors have worked hard to get my ptsd down.
Pstd is most def a life long battle. Post traumatic meaning after trauma. To say ptsd isn't life long is to say that the traumatic exp would go away. It already happened.
My sister committed suicide a few years back. We were 20 months apart in age. Nothing is going to chang the fact that happened and it will always be a traumatic event in my life.
Are you even familiar with the msd-5?
if your doctor described ptsd to you as a chronic illness, then he is what's wrong with psychiatry today. my doctor would be infuriated with a doctor who makes a patient believe they have a chronic illness when they do not. we can compare our doctor's credentials if you'd like.
no, they are extremely addictive and this is a fact. plenty of people in this world have said the same thing as you, and became severe drug addicts.
if that is what your doctor said to you then you need to get a new doctor as soon as possible. he will never be able to properly treat you. there are different forms of ptsd. not everyone's ptsd is chronic. this is a fact. a good doctor would explain to you the different forms of ptsd and help you understand it IS possible to get through your trauma without being considered a chronically mentally ill person who needs to take benzodiazepines multiple times a day.
i don't want to sound harsh, but it is extremely unlikely that you could develop chronic ptsd from that...isolated events which you did not experience personally almost always can be worked through with time and therapy. traumatic isolated events happen to everyone on this earth. a person being kidnapped and tortured on the other hand is a bit more unusual, stressful, and likely to be a cause for chronic ptsd. but even a person who went through something like that should never be told their ptsd is chronic because you cannot know until you've spent a substantial amount of time working with the patient.
idk what that is. a google search turns up something unrelated.