Your story is distressingly familiar. Be happy that you figured it out. Now that you understand what these bloody drugs do…you can avoid them all. You have found out about sedatives and sleeping tablets….cool…..but the same is true for almost all OTC and RX drugs. For example….anti-histamine drugs…you know what they do? They suppress the symptoms….they do absolutely nothing for the cause of the allergy you take them for. They actually mask the symptoms so you don’t know something is wrong with you. So whatever the problem, it continues inside you…just the symptoms are held in check….but the problem remains untouched doing damage. Symptoms are there to tell you something is wrong, taking drugs to stop the symptoms is pointless in the long run.

IMHO regular doctors should be avoided too. There knowledge is so biased towards a drug solution…whatever they say is likely to put you off the real reason for a problem. You then get sidetracked into thinking taking drug X will solve you problem when you could be learning and educating yourself and finding a real drug free solution.

Congratulations on what you have learned and I hope you recover quickly.