Posted by Paul Smith on April 26, 2005, at 0:02:32
In reply to Re: to play the devil`s advocate » Paul Smith, posted by Phillipa on April 25, 2005, at 22:57:11
My motto is even the pdoc who manages to get you off meds is determined to keep you seeing a pdoc even if you don't need one. There! Fondly, Phillipa
That is all good, and I would love to be med free again. Got people I love that count on me, but I cannot be all there for them. And would do just that if the withdrawals would end in a few weeks like my doc says, "rest is in your head." He is dead wrong for many of us. In your head alright, altered brain chemistry that for many of us is very slow to heal. Have met too many people that were absurdly hyperexcitable and dealing with sesnsory and motor disturbances for many months, often even years, after coming off certain meds. Well, not all of us have a loved one to hold us up for such waits. So we are stuck. A 30 day treatment center? Well for many of us that would be just a start, around all the alkies who had been playing basketball and laughing for 3 weeks. Plus most of us are not drug abusers, in spite of the deflective label. Theraputic stable use is not abuse.
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