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Symptoms more mental or physical???


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I can't remember if I already asked this out here, cuz I have shit for brains right now. :brickwall: 

 

Do some people seem to get more mental symptoms than physical ones when tapering? 

 

My head feels worse than my body?? anyone

 

I have dark dark depression, Dp/Dr, vision, feel like I am losing my mind. I would say anxiety is pretty low except in the morning but its not like anything I know it can be, no jolt awakes or waking with my heart pounding, just an uneasy feeling.  I have some diarrhea in the morning,  I have T all day long, some muscle twitches nothing bothersome.  I feel like I am losing my mind right now. :o

 

Is this normal?

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I would say mines a mixture.

 

Lots of mental - depression, crying, anger, suicidal thoughts and my brain feeling out of control.

 

Physical- pins and needles, chest pain, nausea

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Thanks, Dad, yeah I am the same.  I don't really know if its gonna get any better until I am off this crap drug, cuz my mental are about (they're lil worse) the same as when I was on my reg dose before I even started tapering.  The D in the a.m, increased T and less sleep are the only new things really.

 

I know my mental state can get much much worse and it scares me to death.

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Mine are more mental and I get up every day wondering how I'll do anything; it's like having to re-learn how to be a person again for me...how to be normal...it's so scary
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Now that I am off mine are physical....weak, fatigue, no energy, muscle pains, nerve pains, insomnia. The mentals got better once I went through acute. Yep all normal what you are having. It will pass soon!
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Mine are more mental and I get up every day wondering how I'll do anything; it's like having to re-learn how to be a person again for me...how to be normal...it's so scary

 

Yes, I get so overwhelmed at the thought of trying to do anything. Like I am gonna have to relearn how to live FFS. This drug just rapes your brain or something.  I have no idea how people have stayed on it for many many maaaaaaaany years. Maybe it just affected me badly sooner than it did them. Its like I don't know how to function anymore in life. Jesus this drug is evil. OMG all these emoticons remind me of my K pills.  :laugh: Little yellow circles if K was an emoticon it would look like this one I bet. >:D

 

BeatBenzos: Thanks for writing that helps me a lot.  How long did your acute last for?

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I'm still in acute I believe; am at 16 weeks off a cold-turkey....having so many symptoms; especially the brain being mush...and not working properly...It just freaks me out...I feel the depersonalized/derealized state daily and it's terrifying for me..hard to know how to live with this symptom. You're doing good though-keep plugging away at it...soon, you won't have to take anymore.
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Mostly mental.... but lot's of T, bad depression, anxiety, frustration, anger / rage, DP / DR but that's fading a bit I think. 9 months out and still want to lay in bed and not wake up. I'm starting to believe that this is something I'm going to have to really address with medication. Otherwise, I just don't think it's safe anymore to feel like this. I'm so bored every day but I don't ever feel like doing anything outside of getting a job... but then I don't feel well enough to do that. So the depression is super dark.
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I have always felt more physical symptoms than mental, and this is my second rodeo. Don't know, sometimes i do get a bit depressed but it only lasts for a few hours.
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Mine have been both.  In the earlier part of my tapering it seemed to be more physical - flu like symptoms, low immunity, benzo belly, etc.  Now I have less than 2 months to jump and it seems more mental.  I do have some physical symptoms that won't go away like tinnitus (feel like I am deaf at times!) The depression/anxiety is usually brought on by being over stimulated now, especially the anxiety.  You have to be patient and not push yourself past your limits.  Eating or drinking certain things can mess you up too.  I get irritated easily and have intrusive thoughts here and there that I try to ignore.  I guess everyone is different, but the physical things are definitely not as bad as they were in the beginning.  The dep/anx is manageable at times and rest is the best thing you can do-along with patience - at least it works for me for now!

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Both.  At the beginning of my taper they were all physical, but now as I've gotten into the lower doses the mental stuff has gotten pretty bad.  Depression, bad anxiety, insteusive thoughts, obsessing over my taper...when I'm alone it's worse so I try and distract myself but at times the depression is pretty bad and dark!

 

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Both. Nervy, achy, burning neck, shoulders, arms, hands. And anxiety. And they feed off each other. Just lovely. I have had some brief periods of feeling somewhat decent during my taper. I remember one particular time thinking. "Damn, I think I feel normal." It was brief, but wow! I felt like I was bullet proof. I'd give anything for that feeling now. I've been having a hard time lately. I believe I am going to have to try a hold for awhile to see if I can get some semblance of stability before starting again. I think I am ahead of the curve. My brain has not caught up to my taper.
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Physical for me. Now at least.

 

For sure. I had crushing depression when I got around.5 to .25 mg. It has since abated somewhat (a lot, actually!) and now my symptoms are almost all physical which causes me health anxiety. (so I guess that's mental...although even the average person would probably worry if their heart was always pounding & hurting, had breathing difficulties & in terrible pain everywhere almost 24/7...)

 

 

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75% mental; 25% physical. From my personal experience, if I could get rid of only one thing it would be the insomnia and all the rest would be much more bearable.
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Me personally, I get more physical symptoms than anything. Muscle aches and pains. Mental symptoms I never really get, and I just recently cold turkey and haven't really felt much more than some anxiety and everyone's in a while maybe a little bit of a high heart rate Riley's that's what it feels like but I don't check it. I try to avoid doing anything that might enable my anxiety to get worst
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For me it's both.  I woke to screaming tinnitus this am and thought I literally couldn't handle it.  I ate something and now it's better but I look back and go what if I can't handle it next time?  I feel like I need help, like someone needs to take care of me because I may get where I can't.  My husband is supportive but wants me to handle 100% through prayer.  This amounts to pressure for me and I get desperate.

 

Tiny

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