Today's Discontinuation Symptoms | -Brain Shivers -Dizziness -Hot flash (constant perspiration throughout the day) -Stabbing pain in left temple -Headache that comes and goes (the elephant headache) -Aches in my bones (mainly my hands, wrists, and legs.) -Eyes keep shuttering horizontally. Almost like a quick pulsating/vibrating feeling) -Foggy brained -Brain zaps |
We take for granted the basic social skills & cognitive processes that we depend on daily. It sounds so small, so easily attainable the listening, speaking, back and forth banter... but it isn't. Not for someone suffering from withdrawal symptoms. Everything hurt, my brain was shock waving and with each smile that I forced myself through I worried that you could see the gloss of struggle in my eyes. In conversation my uncle offered up his support, and expressed how he wish he had known what I was going through. I left thinking about that statement and the reasons I had for not letting everyone in my family know exactly what was going on and it came down to one thing.
I may not believe you to be the judgemental type, I may even think of you as someone who would indeed be supportive and stand by my side on hard days, but I was just not willing to find out the hard way that I was wrong.