Posted by tabitha on July 23, 2002, at 4:40:30
In reply to Tabithaaaa if I was rich I would still be broke, posted by Gabbi on July 23, 2002, at 2:26:03
Hi, here I am checking in again.
I understand benzo withdrawal can be really awful. No wonder the abracadabra stuff sounds appealing. Sometimes I just try things, knowing there's not much scientific basis, hoping for placebo effect, or that maybe it really does work. Did you get any help from the doctors about tapering off instead of going cold turkey?
Are you getting any follow-up counseling since the hospital? I went to the hospital once for aspirin overdose, and the experience there was traumatic itself. Stomach pump, shirt and bra taken off in the ER in front of people, about a gallon of charcoal stuff forced through a gagging nose tube which I puked everywhere, and the nurses and doctors were not particularly nice to me at all. One nurse took down my story and I didn't get any counseling or med evaluation. The doctor just threatened to put me in the locked ward unless I let them call my parents (I was 21 at the time), so the humiliation of my parents knowing added on top of it. I just felt ashamed for months afterward.
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