You may be dependent on benzodiazepines if:

[maruppharm]

You have taken benzodiazepines for four months or longer.
You rely on your pills to cope.
You have ever cut down or stopped taking your pills and have felt ill or anxious or experienced unusual symptoms.
You feel your pills are not having the same effect as when you first started taking them.
You take an extra pill during a stressful time.
You tried cutting down or stopped taking your pills and could not sleep a wink.
You have increased your dose.
You have increased your alcohol intake.
The benzodiazepines are interfering with your life in some way (sick days off work, family or relationship problems, difficulty coping, difficulty remembering things).
You always make sure you never run out of your pills.
You carry your pills with you “just in case.”

[Arif]

 nice post....my suggestion is try to avoid sleep pills.....