Accepting withdrawal symptoms as part of getting well could shorten your recovery time. Try to see a new symptom as a positive step nearer to a drug-free life.
You are working towards a state of physical and mental well-being that you may not have experienced for years. You may have been emotionally dead for so long, unable to respond normally to pleasure or pain. So even if you are uncomfortable in withdrawal, you will be coming alive again and will have glimpses, even in the early days, of a world you thought you had forgotten.
Most of the withdrawal symptoms are due to manifestations of anxiety. This does not mean simply worrying about the weather or which dress to wear for a party, but disabling physical and emotional symptoms which prevent the sufferer from leading a normal life. Clinical tests have proved that anxiety levels after the drugs have been discontinued can be six times greater than pre-withdrawal levels. This is called rebound anxiety.
Tranquillizers appear to stop that part of the brain that deals with anxiety from working—but this is not really so. It carries on working overtime under the ‘lid’ of the drugs, and consequently when the ‘lid’ is removed, it erupts like a volcano. This is temporary, and will return to normal.
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