Demonized I realized that life was enjoyable fo the first time when I started taking 5mg diazepam for anxiety at 24. Ever since then I used it more or less everyday and got habituated to use it. Six years ago I stopped taking it because it was a "bad drug". I lived for 2 years without taking it in constant tension until I broke down and looked for help. I was put on whatever was announced to be good against anxiety (expensive stuff) with no help. Finally I ended up taking another benzodiazepine. Psycotherapy might have helped if I had any but who has the time and the money to undergo a really effective therapy? When are the policy makers going to get real? Why do so many people have to suffer under these uneffective new drugs if there are proven effective ones?