Part 5 of my benzo tapering story is out - the story of Peter Smith

In Part 5 of my benzodiazepine withdrawal story, I hire Peter Smith — a self-described "functional doctor" from the UK who isn't actually a doctor — for a personalised supplement protocol to help me come off clonazepam. What I get is a six-hundred-dollar-a-month list from iHerb that includes lithium orotate and a 5-HTP recommendation that should never have been given to anyone on paroxetine; a "personalised" plan that turns out to be nearly identical to the one he wrote for somebody else; and a coach who is almost impossible to reach between appointments. I also message Baylissa Frederick, a well-known voice in benzo recovery, and run into a contradiction at the heart of this community: Peter publicly endorses her book — on her Amazon page, alongside Dr. Ashton of Ashton Manual fame — while Baylissa herself is completely opposed to supplements. Rosalind, who runs Beating Benzos, warns me away from him; given my history with her, that only made me more curious. Part 5 covers the supplement protocol, the coffee-enema coincidence, the contradictions between the loudest names in benzodiazepine withdrawal recovery, what I would and wouldn't later carry into my own work as a tapering coach, and the line I now draw between protecting peers and naming the public figures who shape this field.