Anxiety/Panic Withdrawal Thread

Give it a try. I still can't believe this withdrawal stuff. If you would have told me last year that this could suck this bad, I would have laughed. Try the tea, and deep breathing...

 

Oh. Use honey, NOT refined sugar if you like it sweet like me.

 

No blanky! They had some kind of shipping glitch. Next werk sometime. Haven't had an attack for 2 days now so I'm handling it. I didn't sleep for shit, my 6 year old went running, loudly, down the hallway last night at 4am, so I got 5 hours. I'm also a bit on edge right now because my best friend, retired cop, is finding out if the baseball sized lump in his right lung is cancer or not today. I lost my whole family, mother father sister in the last couple of years, along with 3 friends, sk it's been a stressful bitch of a 3 years.

Sorry you're hating life right now. There HAS to be an end to all this. Stay strong, man.

 

Really sorry you're going through it right now. I did 11 days straight, so these last 2 days with lowered anxiety have been a needed break. I still have really bad insomnia, so I'm waiting for a break, here. Are you having insomnia right now, too?

 

I meant, "insomnia every night right now, too"

 

That blows. I'm in a 2 hours asleep, then awake, 2 hours asleep... all night. I almost always fall right back to sleep but it still wears me down. Did you find a paperback book. Try stopping all electronics an hour before, too. It helps.

 

Either that or we're "freakin out, man!"

 

Only got 5 hours of sleep last night. Going to be a crappy day. I'm still going to fight the good fight. I KNOW this has to end at some point. Just going to take it easy today.

 

Getting ready to make my tea...have a good night

 

I think I got 6.5-7 hours last night. Some chunks were only 45 minutes, but that's the way it goes. Met with my counselor yesterday and she reiterated that this is all in my head. It is, but sometimes it feels like the anxiety is winning. I've been 3 days now with it under control. Little twinges but nothing more. I want to keep this streak going. Hope you're doing better.

Oh, yeah, had my 1st, EVER, weird porn-ish dream last night. WTF was that about! Just kind of weird.

 

Until I started to take medication it was very much the same, I was waking up every 30 minutes or even more frequently. Usually I feel sleepy during the day, fall asleep very quick, but used to wake up very frequently during the night. It was really annoying.

I had frequent sex dreams, even porn nightmares, but they somehow dissappeared the last few weeks. These dreams are part of withdrawals I think.

 

I think so too. Dr gave me sleep meds but I really want to do this clean. It's really hard, though.