Irrational thinking

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Anyone have issues with irrational thinking???  These irrational thoughts get into my head and I cannot make them stop...for example, I think that someone hates me and my mind spins it around and doesn't let it go for hours and I end up so angry and frustrated; or I think that if I leave the house, I'm going to break a leg and I end up so afraid...stupid, irrational stuff like that.  Does this get better? It's like my mind is missing a filter

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Yes, the irrational fears fade over time.  I still have them, but NOTHING like they were in the beginning.  The irrational fears I had in the beginning were so outlandish and horrifying, that it rendered me completely nonfunctional.  I would lay in the fetal position on the floor, to afraid to shut my eyes, or keep them open..  I cannot believe what this stuff can do. 

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I would imagine it does get better since it seems to clearly be a w/d symptom and althought I don't know the "when" I do fundimentally believe things continue to get better the further we are away from the drug.  I'm still tapering so I'm basing that on what others experience.

 

As far as irrational thinking that would be a big 10-4.  I have obsessive, irrational, repetitive, intrusive and/or catestrophic thinking.  I have times where I think everyone hates me, where I hate everyone, where I have severe self loathing, where I'm afraid of everything and everyone.  Sometimes I'm bombarded with remorse for EVERY deed (bad or otherwise) I ever did...the list is endless. 

 

I notice the more stress I'm under, the more that occurs as well as always when I first wake up.  I have noticed that over time the mornings have changed.  They are miserable but not as traumatic as when I first started this journey, so things do change.

 

I'm sorry you are experiencing this but my guess is that as distressing as it is, it's fairly common, just different shades of the same thing, for different people.

 

Only thing I've found to help is to either distract or try not to think because inevitably if I continue to think, it never goes a good way. 

 

WWWI

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I still have this. It is tiring. I hope it lifts very soon for you.

 

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Hi WTBNA! It's not just fears, it's irrational thoughts in general   It had faded away, but it seems back with a vengeance

 

Thanks WWWI! I hear you when you say that you think everybody hates you, hate everybody, etc.  It is worse when I first wake up, but compared to 3-4 months ago it is not as bad as it was.

 

Ugghhhh, RFB!  It is VERY tiring!  No matter how I try to distract myself it's still there in the background

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As far as irrational thinking that would be a big 10-4.  I have obsessive, irrational, repetitive, intrusive and/or catestrophic thinking.  I have times where I think everyone hates me, where I hate everyone, where I have severe self loathing, where I'm afraid of everything and everyone.  Sometimes I'm bombarded with remorse for EVERY deed (bad or otherwise) I ever did...the list is endless. 

 

WWWI

 

When i hit a wall, i had all the above, i can so relate to this, i was paranoid, thought i was a failure, that bad stuff was going to happen, intrusive thoughts, anger and then love, self loathing, i really get the afraid of everything and everyone part from above... it´s all complete BULL SH*T, it is the DRUG and nothing more but it can be really disturbing... oh and the remorse was unreal... i felt sorry for every tiny bad thing i had ever done... all of this was in a bad wave, the catastrophic thinking was really intense at one point, i thought i had ruined my life, that i was never going to get off this drug... it was terrible but it was just the drug, it passed in minutes but in that time i was utterly consumed by these ridiculous mood swings and thoughts... i literally thought i was losing my mind at one point... i wasn´t losing it at all, it was just the withdrawal...

 

Oscar

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I remember thinking my soul was going to be launched into a close orbit around the sun, and I would remain there until the sun died, and then be passed to a different star.. rinse and repeat.  Now there is some IRRATIONAL and CATASTROPHIC thinking -- true story. lol

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I remember thinking my soul was going to be launched into a close orbit around the sun, and I would remain there until the sun died, and then be passed to a different star.. rinse and repeat.  Now there is some IRRATIONAL and CATASTROPHIC thinking -- true story. lol

 

I went from wanting to detox to reinstating to wanting to die rather than feel how i felt, in a matter of a minute... i had ruined my life afterall... and going mad in the process... yep, the catastrophic thinking can be really intense... but WTBNA, that was intense... it´s scary stuff, i am glad that i will hold my dose in future if things start to slide... 7.5 months of no holding caught up with me and yep, it was pretty awful but in a day or two i was far better, six days later i was feeling relief to the point of crying... i wasn´t going insane but at the time for a short while i feared doing so... i remember thinking i couldn´t take much more mental torture... i´ll never forget that and is the reason why i am going so much slower now... screw the suffering, if it can be avoided, if that never happens again i´ll be one very happy guy... at least now i know it passed... all this crap passes...

 

Oscar

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It had gotten better for me, but it came back about a week ago Uggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!