The mental sxs ... The Worst!

[[Mb...]]

OMG!!?

I Am two months out and the depression and intrusive thoughts are the absolute worst! Do any of you out there have any suggestions? I thought the physical was bad, and it is. But, this seems much worse..

2 days now and I am unable to snap out of this. Calling on the pros!

[Guest [ba...]]

For me, it was 3 months of physical then around 3 months of mental.

 

Intrusive thoughts...  I had all sorts of bizarre thoughts.  Some people find that having those thoughts are really disturbing.  How could these awful thoughts come from a good person?!?  My advice is to let the thoughts go as easily as they came.  Don't get upset about them.  Don't try and figure them out.  Don't judge yourself because of them.  Don't ruminate on them.  Just let them go. 

 

When I'd have a really bizarre/disturbing thought, I'd deliberately look at something like a cloud or a flying bird or an ant hill or cracks on the sidewalk, and I'd really concentrate on that for a moment.  These thoughts will go away eventually.  The less heed you pay to them, the better.

 

Depression is a tougher beast (at least it was for me).  Humor/laughter is the best medicine to help me out of depression, but it has to be a genuine laugh.  Other things that help me are...  1) staying busy - don't give your mind much time to ponder the negative; 2) exercise to the point of exhaustion - it'll leave your depression with much less energy with which to operate.

 

Be patient.  As much as we humans like instantaneous gratification, this withdrawal doesn't work that way. 

[[Mb...]]

Thank you so much for that bdscrf. Best advise I've heard in a while. 😃 I tapered from opioid pain medication last year. You I went through hell for 6 months (3 month taper, 3 months off) then it was over. Mostly all physical. But this is an entirely different BEAST!😠

[[Be...]]

That is some awesome advice bascoref !

I feel your pain mbusybee, i have been having some bad mental issues from this. Very scary stuff i avoid heights right now because every time i stand next to a high window or a ledge i start picturing myself jumping off over and over in my head. I know i wont but what the fudge is up with our brains lol

I just ignore it like badscoraf says and i find changing the scenery always helps or if im constantly doing something all day it makes it so much easier to ignore.

 

Feel better!

 

this link helped me a lot to, READ IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

http://recovery-road.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Unwanted-Thoughts.pdf

[[Be...]]

Go on a bike ride 

[[Mb...]]

Yep! I'm going outside to trim some bushes right now exclamation point! Maybe I can out run it...

[[Be...]]

Yeah i have been doing a lot of yard work, it is the best distraction. Work that garden, wooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!! 

[[Ma...]]

For me, it was 3 months of physical then around 3 months of mental.

 

Intrusive thoughts...  I had all sorts of bizarre thoughts.  Some people find that having those thoughts are really disturbing.  How could these awful thoughts come from a good person?!?  My advice is to let the thoughts go as easily as they came.  Don't get upset about them.  Don't try and figure them out.  Don't judge yourself because of them.  Don't ruminate on them.  Just let them go. 

 

When I'd have a really bizarre/disturbing thought, I'd deliberately look at something like a cloud or a flying bird or an ant hill or cracks on the sidewalk, and I'd really concentrate on that for a moment.  These thoughts will go away eventually.  The less heed you pay to them, the better.

 

Depression is a tougher beast (at least it was for me).  Humor/laughter is the best medicine to help me out of depression, but it has to be a genuine laugh.  Other things that help me are...  1) staying busy - don't give your mind much time to ponder the negative; 2) exercise to the point of exhaustion - it'll leave your depression with much less energy with which to operate.

 

Be patient.  As much as we humans like instantaneous gratification, this withdrawal doesn't work that way.

 

 

These could be my own words! in the 2sd month after having reached the zero, I had suicide plan thought every second. My depression was so deeply that it felt as if that would come from the deepest point in my soul.

I tried to accept theses thoughts and focus on other stuff, but acceptation was the helping strategy. I thought it might never be different. I don't remember when exactly that did change but it did from one day to the other without reason.. and then I got 3 weeks that were quite okey... Depression is one of the most common sxs but I really think it will get better..

 

Don't lose faith. As you can read in many many posts here on bb, depression has come to everybody in withdrawal and it changes .. and often lefts the person again..

 

After 2 months out you are in acute withdrawal - to think that the situation will last is not realistic. Give yourself time and have trust that, even when you have depressed thoughts, you are able to change the situation and your body will help you with that..

 

hugs,

marigold

 

 

 

[[Da...]]

Hi Mbusybee, I can totally relate to this. I have suicidal thoughts everyday I think about how I would do it. I look at objects trying to figure out how to use it. The thing about it is I would never go through with it. I would never put my family through that kind of pain. We lost my 19y/o nephew to it in April 2015 and it broke all of our hearts. We have been through so much pain I could never inflict that on my family. Knowing all that I still cannot get it off my mind and I don't want to even tell anyone about it. I told my psychiatrist (addiction specialist) and he told me it was normal. As long as I don't make a serious plan to carry it out, which I never would.

 

So all the BS about it, and how our minds are trying to trick us, is crazy. All we can do is wait it out and pray it goes away one day. Make sure we never act on it no matter how bad things get for us.