Feel like I'm going crazy

[[So...]]

Has anybody else felt like they were losing touch with reality or going crazy at all during your withdrawal? I woke up today feelin like my body wasn't my own, things seemed unreal and I just felt terrified of everything and I truly felt like I had lost my mind, I cut two days ago and today just waking up like that terrified me, please tell me it's just withdrawal

[[Ma...]]

Like i said before , this is called depersonalization and derealization!!! It's completely normal during a taper or Withdrawals in general!!! It'll pass with time !!

[[So...]]

Like i said before , this is called depersonalization and derealization!!! It's completely normal during a taper or Withdrawals in general!!! It'll pass with time !!

 

OMG You jumped today!!!!!!! So excited for you! Thanks so much for your help you are so sweet, it's just a crazy feeling 

[[Ma...]]

Thanks ! And yeah I totally understand ! idk where id be without this website and actually talking to people who have and are going thru this!

[[So...]]

Thanks ! And yeah I totally understand ! idk where id be without this website and actually talking to people who have and are going thru this!

 

Me too, it kills me how uneducated the doctors are who prescribe this stuff and how much my psychiatrist is just not willing to admit that withdrawal causes any issues for people....

[[Ma...]]

Right !? 

[[Te...]]

It's just w/d. When I was withdrawing I was skeptical. I didn't think it was actually real. After being benzo free for 3+ years I can definitely say that it's not in your head. These drugs are fucking terrible lol

[[Tw...]]

I was so relieved when I read that what your experiencing had a name and others were dealing with it too...DP/DR. when it hit the first time I legit thought I had lost my mind. I was watching things happen through a set of eyeballs and couldn't connect myself even with my image in the mirror. Tough but has gotten better the lower I've tapered.

[[lo...]]

Yeah it's DP/DR. I can't believe it lasts so fucking long. I'm tapering at 2% and I also have it really bad 2 days after the cut, and mildly all the time. Does it really take years to heal from this? christ

[[So...]]

I was so relieved when I read that what your experiencing had a name and others were dealing with it too...DP/DR. when it hit the first time I legit thought I had lost my mind. I was watching things happen through a set of eyeballs and couldn't connect myself even with my image in the mirror. Tough but has gotten better the lower I've tapered.

 

I have had it mildly before but today it was insane and still isn't great, I cut two days ago and it is my only symptom next to some lingering fatigue, it feels like symptoms are such a mindf*ck because just when you've kicked one another glorious one pops up?! My anxiety which is what I started on this crap for is gone and now I have all this other stuff to deal with? It's crazy and feeling like you are losing your mind is terrifying, I know one thing for sure is that when I get better, the other meaningless crap that I used to worry about will not matter, I will hug strangers, dance in public and be the happiest person in the whole world, going to the grocery store will be an exciting adventure and everything will be treated like the miracle it is, I never took life for granted before this mess but I will be even more thankful once this nightmare is over

 

Thanks so much for the comments everybody

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Thanks ! And yeah I totally understand ! idk where id be without this website and actually talking to people who have and are going thru this!

 

Me too, it kills me how uneducated the doctors are who prescribe this stuff and how much my psychiatrist is just not willing to admit that withdrawal causes any issues for people....

 

I'd tell your psychiatrist to take clonazepam for a few months any then cold turkey it see if he or she gets any symptoms - they can't talk intelligently about an experience they haven't had.. I have politely told this to doctors as kind of a way of saying go fuck yourself..  the arrogance of these doctors amazes me..