Thought Withdrawal Puns

I think this is the same concept as tapering your nicotine MG while vaping to mitigate withdrawal severity. Before when I tried to stop smoking, when I was smoking 2 ~2 gram blunts a day, I woke up literally 8+ times a night sweating/insomnia, having to sleep on top of multiple towels and still having to dry myself off with a towel and change clothes. Im on day 3 of not vaping and I haven't woken up ONCE during the night, compared to last time I tried to stop, I woke up drenched in sweat 8+ times a night. Im so thankful dynavap exists and how it helped me taper my tolerance and mitigate the withdrawal symptoms that made me get basically 0 quality sleep and hence made me give up trying to take a break. I know this may be unpopular but I wanted to share my experience, I know there's people out there like me that might benefit from this info.

On ~1mg of klonopin for 7 years. It was "as needed" but I needed it as much as allowed for a good chunk of that time. Why I didn't consider benzo withdrawal, I guess I thought if just switch meds and it'd take care of my anxiety because I wasn't warned of the withdrawal symptoms.

To be completely honest, this is terrible, I wouldn't wish it upon anybody. I'm not craving the pill mentally but my body has been freaking out. Dizzy, hot flashes, chills, double vision, bloody nose, major body ache, forgetting things, angry, irritated... and I had 0 clue. What a dummy I am for not thinking of it lol.

Very proud of anyone else getting off of it. You got this. Stay strong. ❤

Ah jeez - I had some suspicions that I was starting to have a bit of a drinking problem. Of course I rationalized it as “well I don’t drink during work, and I’m quite decent at my job”.

Saturday night I got pretty trashed. Decided not to drink Sunday- which was the first day I can remember which I didn’t drink. Monday I woke up felt super groggy and joined my morning meeting. Went through the day feeling almost like I had a flu, logged off early as I could not handle listening to anyone. Crazy headache, no motivation at all, I felt like death. Laid down for a bit, thought to myself shit a drink sounds good. Then it all came crashing down - I haven’t had a drink in ~48 hours. The longest I’ve been without a drink.

Today’s Tuesday - same deal. Woke up, felt like death, called out of work. Laid in bed with a headache all day and here I am writing this out. 10 minutes ago I went to grab a sparkling water and a beer was right there. I have never felt more compelled to grab a drink. Since 4 pm I’ve been thinking “eh a single pour of bourbon won’t kill me”.

I didn’t think I’d get to the point where I’m dependent at 23 years old. I figure it’s good to tackle this now.

Sorry this was a bit of a vent session.

Yay or nay?

I’m considering copping a gram or two of herb to help me get thru this (day 4 CT) but I def don’t want to make the problem worse…

WTF. This feels worse than when I quit smoking cold turkey. It has been like 2 days, WTF is wrong with me? Does it get easier over time?

I fortunately only have one credit card left that still has a balance on it. Unfortunately it has almost 6k on it. It has a 19.99% interest rate. I've been able to make a little over minimum payments on it ($100+ over), but it's only making a small dent.

I currently have between 40k - 50k in a 401k. I was thinking about pulling money from the plan to pay off the card. I know if I pull money early from it I will have an extra penalty on top of the normal tax rate, but I feel like that would be much less then the interest I would end up accruing over the year trying to pay off the card.

I just wanted to get some other opinions on this or other ideas on trying to pay off the card faster.

Edit: I haven't responded to individuals, but I have been reading everything. Thank you for your comments. The 401k is not the solution. A comment had mentioned some 401ks offer borrowing against the investment. I don't know if mine offers that, but I do have a life insurance policy that does. I believe I will look into that option now.

I'm curious if people are adjusting their strategies based on the link below. Main assumptions are that the 4% rule is outdated for people who may be having a 50 year retirement window and some deep dives into asset allocations both around equity and international exposure.

https://investornews.vanguard/fueling-the-fire-movement-updating-the-4-rule-for-early-retirees/

I’m mainly thinking about the UTI episode and how it just conveniently tied up a loose end that felt like was building up to a major plot point but now feels like just a footnote.

Also disappointed we didn’t see Stewie in the finale and that Marcia’s been reduced to such a minor character this season.

As fantastic and cathartic the finale was, the season as a whole felt very wanting.

This is also me not knowing what to do with myself with no more succession so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

When I stopped I had the body aches, brain fog, irritability, fatigue, headaches, etc. But it stopped after a couple of weeks, but the last few days I've had the same fatigue, body ache. Today I had a headache. I'm very confused. I thought I was done with that.

Axios

As someone who has actually paid attention to the war prior to the withdrawal, I am starting to think the amount we are able to evacuate without a single dead American thus far is one of the most competent parts of all of American military involvement in Afghanistan.

Edit:

Responsible Statecraft quantified media coverage of Afghanistan by the major tv news networks.

Last year was only 5 minutes.

Can someone explain? Does the brain fog stay with you indefinitely, if you keep on relapsing?

Instead of touching the area that was causing me withdrawal I flick it with my internal action capacity instead and it works far better at instantly removing the issue with the meth withdrawal seemingly compared to what was already working before but wasn't anywhere near as good as now because their was still a portion of the symptom remaining after I had used and gotten used to using the touch fix effect, but the flick fix made it pretty much go away completely when I automated it so that it just does it on its own, although it makes a clicking noise every time it fixes it. I think its cause the substance that is after the meth decays in your body gets stuck in your brain and causes discomfort until its removed slowly over time, but because I flick its imidiately displaced gets stuck elsewhere and then gets flicked again so it just keeps being filtered out of the body.

Its cause the flickfix has the property of fixing it in its flick action so its always directed to flick at the exact point of fix no matter where it ends up.

There's at least one alter in our system who takes my (host) thoughts and emotions when I'm trying to consider something hard or emotionally challenging.

I'm married and often serious things come up that really require an adult to deal with and think about and plan. But one of the alters is a teenager that just seems to be erasing my thoughts as I'm having them. He told me today that I'm not safe or stable enough to think about these things. But, adulting is requiring that I DO, for the sake of survival in the grown up world and preservation of my marriage.

How do you stop thought and emotional withdrawal so that you can be the one to process something without interference?

Hopefully that made sense.

I mean I still don't particularly enjoy the blasting heat ha, but I can bare it now without thinking that my insides are melting.

Aka passive influence of other parts/alters (we’re feeling very blurry atm so we’re using “we” by default, will try to be consistent but might sometimes default to “I” despite being blurry because every different host over our 38 years of the body’s existence thought they were just like “I (body’s legal name, NOT the name abbreviated in our current username, gonna have to change that soon though) is just being moody and mentally unstable again and going through very long and very extreme phases” and functioned as a single very unstable personality of almost our entire life. (Btw we prefer to be called parts because we feel pathologized by the term “alters” but if y’all like it, we aren’t going to be offended. But I digress.

Since I’ve given it more thought, I’m guessing me and others inside actually saying things I/they don’t intend to say is not DID-related but rather just our ADHD but anyway onto the real question.

Those of you who deal with actual DID-related (aka non-psychotic/non-OCD) “thought/speech withdrawal” like other parts taking your thoughts (really—it feels like they’ve been “removed from my/whoever’s part of our mind entirely….leaving nothing. Blank emptiness and dissociative amnesia for wth we were talking/thinking about) can’t really explain it very well but it isn’t the same as “getting distracted and therefore losing your train of thought”, ADHD-style. We definitely experience that and in the ADHD case, there is always an internal or external stimulus (thought, sound, something moving in our peripheral vision, something that sounds like my name, which happens to sound identical to a combination of two tiny words commonly used together….ADHD + extreme hypervigilance + an unhealthy dose of CPTSD paranoia about people shaming or talking trash about us….there you have that scenario accounted for…) we get very easily distracted by that type of stuff and then are focusing on that other thing instead. What I’m talking about is this post feels systematic like if one of us starts to say or think something “forbidden” by another unknown part that may hold actual memories….or tries to say something possibly validating of trauma or especially the DID dx and a “denier” or “naysayer” or “toxic-acting introject” or other persecuting part “hears” the thoughts/words…… …they just “steal” the words AND the thoughts. Leaving blank nothingness in the part. And also a complete dissociative microamnesia for the past 2-15 seconds of the convers

Hey y’all I’m a former user (7-9ish months clean, haven’t really been counting) and I’m making this post for two primary reasons,

1. I don’t think cocaine withdrawal is treated nearly as seriously as it should be. Anytime I make a post or have in the past on other accounts in other forums people just blow it off due to the lack of physical dependence even though the psychological battle (as we all probably know) is the hardest part of the addiction. So feel free to comment y’all’s experiences/opinions on this.

2. I’m a former cocaine abuser (1-1.5 grams a day, for about 11-12 months) and I’m still struggling to stay off of it (having dreams about it etc). My doctor has placed me on dextroamphetamine sulfate 10-15mg a day as needed as a form of agonist replacement therapy & the script was long standing due to ADHD diagnosis a while back. And while the therapy works well I’m still having dreams about cocaine etc so how long does this thought pattern last? Is it a form of PAWS?

Now I should note that while the stim script may seem counter intuitive, cocaine and weed are really the only two drugs I have had issues controlling myself with. Have tried every other traditional class of drug (short of halogenated research chems ) and don’t seemingly have an issue.

• Aurora can damage through winter truncheon active
• Lesley ult should one BEEG bullet
• Akai's jump should stun no matter what
• Hanzo's eating skill should be removed in place of another skill which improves either his damage or survivability
• Kadita should have more crowd control seeing how her power is the ocean
• Cecillion should turn into a bat that can fly over walls during his ult
• Faramis' ghost form should be like diggie's anti dash skill whenever he comes in contact with heroes

Hero Concepts I dont have time for:

• A support who can resurrect heroes a few seconds after death
• A hero who can repair turrets at the cost of a unit's hp
• A support who can summons areas of buffs globabally
• A two-in-one hero in which the player can only play one of them and will only change after death
• A squishy, lifesteal based hero with an aoe execute ult
• a melee hero with multiple weapons
• An android support who can sacrifice itself to shield its whole team (or some other buff)
• A vampire assassin whose skills are mainly aoe or procs around himself/herself
• A hero whose main feature is bands like Aizawa
• A child hero who has an obsession with lylia, and uses similar magic
• A tank who can summon a fighter her which is controlled by the player, and giving up control over the tank, which would remain stagnant and untargettable
• mobile assassin with a charm
• battlemage of madness who uses disabling aoe skills
• Mage who can split himself to summon unit which mirror himself
• Hidden traitor of the SoF

Hi everyone, first post and not a very experienced redittor but I needed to ask this somewhere.

I started smoking at I think 19 or 20. I'm 35 now. Several times I've tried to quit. I think the longest I ever went was a few month in my 20s and once for about 4 months five years ago. I've tried cold turkey methods with guidance, I've also tried patches or vaping instead of smoking. Vaping of course works, its just expensive and a lot of the motivation is the cost. Patches are much cheaper in my country. Though its still hard to just use the patch and nothing else. Anyway what really forces me back into it more than anything else is anger.

I know irritability is a common side effect of withdrawal. The thing is even as a smoker I can be an irritable person. I have actually talked to a therapist about it but I can't afford to see one right now. Little stuff does frustrate me and while I have been verbally temperamental at times I have never in my life been violent. I just get worked up about little stuff and can give you a nice long rant.

But when I don't have nicotine in my system, frankly, I frighten myself. My thoughts are not just "irritability", they are violent thoughts. Something in politics or entertainment will annoy me and I start having violent fantasies about the person in question. I'll start to fantasize about scenarios that haven't even happened and get images in my mind that are really disturbing and violent. I feel not just irritable but frankly consumed by a homicidal rage. And I know the only thing that will make them go away is nicotine. This can't be normal. I've tried so many times to quit and always I go right back to it because even though I hate myself as a smoker I hate myself when I'm not smoking so much more. I want everyone to know I can say with 100% certainty that I am not violent in actions and never would be. I've never hurt anyone, I'm not a dangerous psychotic, I promise you so please I'm being very vulnerable by admitting that this goes on inside me. I don't like that I think these things and what I'm trying to figure out is if anyone elses thoughts are so extreme when they are in withdrawl and if they ever stopped if so. When "irritability" is listed as a symptom, that doesn't feel like it describes the intensity of these feelings of raw hatred. I'm scared to be around people. I know I wouldn't hurt anyone but I might express the feeling and scare them away. So I smoke. And I hate it. And yet I feel like I pretty much

Like most of you, I'm a conservative and a Trump supporter. But my conservative friends and I are in some disagreement about the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the admittedly humiliating speed at which the Taliban reclaimed power.

I think Biden is a noxious little cockroach, but I totally agree with the withdrawal. Afghanistan is incapable of self-government and democracy, and the order and calm of a Taliban regime is better than the chaos of American occupation.

So I tapered off of a benzo, coming off of it 6 weeks ago after 4 years of use. Current symptoms are: increased anxiety, burning skin, flu symptoms, nerve tingling, electiricity under the skin, nerves raw, headache, some nausea, head pressure. I was told that withdrawal will be about 1 month for every year you used the benzo, so I might be looking at 4 months. Any thoughts? Did others who come off benzos notice gradual improvement, or suddenly get relief after a period of time? I try to exercise, take a natural supplement for sleep, and am taking magnesium.

I wonder if other nofappers struggle with intrusive thoughts.

I've been reducing an anti depressant I've been on for some months, with supervision, now experiencing some low mood and early warning signs for psychosis, should I ride it out in hope I stabilise and this is in due part to withdrawal or should I give in and increase dose, don't want to relapse, but neither do I want to be on meds for the rest of my life I take seven other tablets besides the one I'm tapering, and constantly worry about the physical damage they may be doing