Benzo Tapering and Withdrawals 10
Yesterday was a pretty good day, today… not so much. Today definitely hasn’t been as bad as some other bad days I’ve had during tapering and withdrawals, but it’s been rough. About an hour after I woke up this morning, my jaw started hurting on the left side. My...
Benzo Tapering and Withdrawals 3
Continuing from the last post, I want to write about what I am experiencing day to day. I already listed some of the symptoms, but now I’m going day to day. Some days I feel a lot of hope. I even start to feel human again, or at least...
Benzo Tapering and Withdrawal Part 2
As I mentioned in my first post about tapering off benzodiazepines, I was prescribed them for the intense anxiety stemming from PTSD. I wasn’t warned about their addictive properties. I wasn’t warned about the danger of coming off them. I wasn’t informed about their effects on memory. In short,...
Rage, Part 2
As I left off in part one, I hated cops, judges, P.O.s, and anyone associated with the justice system. Even with all the chaos in my life up to that point I wasn’t prepared for what I saw and experienced getting mixed up with the justice system. I saw,...
Rage
Trauma can make you an extremely angry and dangerously mean person. Mean enough to get you incarcerated. That’s what happened to me. Incidences (you can guess) involving a male family member when I was very young changed me forever. When something like that happens to one so young it...
“What Happened To You?”
It took over a decade to learn what was “wrong” with me. Each shrink I went to had their own pet diagnoses that they dished out, OCD, Bipolar disorder 2, depression with psychotic features, generalized anxiety disorder. It was actually a dentist who put me on the path to...