Positively W-BAD

The inaugural W-BAD, the world’s first ever united global benzodiazepine awareness raising campaign, produced some positive responses from everybody involved. Below are some of the messages and comments.

Shared Messages

  • Thanks for giving us the opportunity to speak out, the energy to fight back, and the support to transcend our fear and the shame that has been cast upon us!
  • Thank YOU! I felt more excited to be a part of this event than I did on the night of the 4th of July!
  • Fantastic!
  • Thank you all so very much. The isolation is such a horrific layer to the suffering – feeling unified and validated is truly healing.
  • I find that being part of such a rich and diverse movement as W-BAD is an amazing form of compensation in and of itself – this is just great.
  • This gives meaning to the torture we’ve been (needlessly) subjected to.
  • None of this would be possible without W-BAD.
  • I was proud to stand united with my fellow warriors from around the world in getting the news out about “World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day.”
  • I’ve met so many people through this and they’ve inspired me to raise my voice and educate others to the dangers of BZs.
  • Awesome! Well done… so excited for the changes this can make!
  • This has given me a deep feeling of communion with all my fellow BZ sufferers and I’m benefiting a lot – I can feel it deep down.
  • The process you’re encouraging is a very healing one; not only does it promote awareness, but it also allows us to ‘come out of the dark,’ to unite, and show strength…
  • Many have been blamed extensively by the medical profession, which has added guilt and shame to our terrible suffering. W-BAD can help to wash all that away…
  • Just please keep going – this support is the only positive thing in this constant, destructive & dreadful 35-year battle that I have left. Thank you.
  • Very grateful to all of you who made this possible.
  • To everyone fighting the good fight, you inspire me to keep informing people and sharing my own story. Thanks.
  • THANK YOU. WE FEEL MORE LEGIT
  • Congratulations on the success of your campaign to create BZ awareness.
  • Now the task is to create a campaign where we teach Skills, not Pills, one of the intentions of the International. Benzodiazepine Symposium in Oregon (Sep 2017).
  • Today was an amazing display of courage, fortitude and honesty. No one receives a salary. No one expects an award. It was a true labour of love from some of the finest people I’ve ever known.
  • I am thankful beyond words, that I survived 19 years of medical insanity.
  • I am also thankful to see so many of you, doing so much, with the common goal of unity and change.
  • YOU GUYS ROCK!
  • All I can say at the moment is: WOW, WOW, WOW! What a day it was!

“Hey Wayne, congratulations, again, on the amazing work… You say you have Nothing but the book to show for yourself: not true, you have W-BAD 2016 and all the W-BADs to come. Right now, you cannot see just how AMAZING this grassroots movement that YOU created will deploy. The fight is huge, and the resistance is IMMENSE, but you’ve made an IMMENSE DENT in it all.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING A DIFFERENCE. Keep having great faith in everything you’ve done for us all, so tirelessly. Sometimes it takes ‘taking a break’ to see things unravel and move by themselves. ‘Don’t judge each day by the harvest that you reap, but by the seed that you plant’. RL Stevenson. Take excellent care of yourself, Wayne.”

The Buzz Around US State Resolutions

Below are some examples, based on applications for US State resolutions, showing how excitement breeds excitement, action breeds action and momentum breeds momentum – this is what ‘the real’ W-BAD is all about.

  • “I am going to look into it for NY.”
  • “Will send this to mine in NC asap as well!”
  • “I’m in NJ, who do I send it to?”
  • “Can you email me what I need to give to my state representative?”
  • “Will get to this asap in Alabama” 🙂
  • “I am going to send one.”
  • “I’m just excited to find someone who is in the same city!”
  • “I have submitted the information to my local state rep .”
  • “I just wrote in using template #2.”
  • “I’m doing it for Long Island, NY.”
  • “I am going to do this for Illinois.”
  • “Working on North Carolina.”
  • “I’m going to do this for Texas.”
  • “I’m working on Montana.”
  • “I sent a letter here in Arizona.”
  • “I’m going to do this for Georgia!”
  • “The more we can get, the better!”
  • “I am CRYING, completely exciting and feel accomplished”.
  • “Way to go Jennifer! Super proud of you!”

Honour

When welcoming new people aboard, by far the most common word is that it would be an ‘HONOUR’. Below are a few examples.

  • I am honored that you would ask me to help organize the next event.
  • It has been an honour to work and participate with so many good, decent and genuine people.
  • I’m honored to work on the website.
  • To answer your question…I am honored….
  • It’s an honour to contribute to such a worthy cause.
  • Thank you for considering me Wayne, it is a huge honor.
  • It is my honour to say that I will go to the Eiffel Tower this year on July 11
  • Thank you very much for your lovely email and the honour of being asked to be UK representative for W-BAD.
  • Yes, absolutely, Wayne, with great pleasure and honor.
  • I’m honored. Let me know what you think of the video…
  • Has been an honor to be a part of the WBAD team and do what I can.
  • I will do Wayne and I am honoured to be asked.
  • I’m honored you guys thought of me!
  • This invitation comes as quite a surprise and even brought me to tears. I am more than honored to become part of the team and accept your invitation.