Please be careful. This thing is no joke. I came off cold turkey after abusing large amounts for a year and had a very brutal 10 day long benzo like withdrawal that nearly killed me. Skyhigh hypertension and felt constantly on the edge of a seizure or heart attack. Also lost large parts of my memory that eventually came back.
You NEED to either taper or have other downers on hand. Gabapentin, benzo, and also opiates would work. The only thing I had which about halved my symptoms (didn't make me feel okay but less ill) was a combination of magnesium, l-theanine, and hops capsules (which are all sedative).
Anyone new to it reading this please be careful and consider this. It is VERY tempting to abuse and easy to get addicted to. Partly because in moderate doses it doesn't feel like a drug or get you "high" as such. More like a great anti-depressant or mood-lifter, and you're able to function on it. Actually makes you more functional as it's both stimulating and gives you more pleasure from anything you're doing (not stimulating in a way that makes you stressed out like speed, it's more relaxing than stimulating, it has both at the same time).
It's not so much the actual effect on the drug on your life that seems to be destructive but more what it's doing to your body and the danger of getting into acute withdrawal with no relief, which might very well lead to death or you being handicapped for life. And I wouldn't count on most doctors being willing to help you out by putting you on a taper or other downers even though they ABSOLUTELY should. Just many would be ignorant of the danger you're in and have the attitude that it serves you right to suffer through the withdrawal.
And I really hate this attitude as I don't think going through the horrific withdrawal from downers scares most off drugs. On the contrary, I think the great trauma it puts you through makes you more needy for drugs as you come out of it very emotionally scarred and with the learned experience that being without drugs makes you suffer and taking them makes you okay.
So putting someone through CT withdrawal just encourages their drug addiction in a way. The taper should be made as painless as possible with also emphasis on what nutrition, exercise, and different forms of detoxication (like large amounts of vitamin-C powder and other detoxiants, fasting, frequent bathing, etc.).
At least that seems to be more humane and it's a shitty world when there aren't many health professionals around to tell you this.
You NEED to either taper or have other downers on hand. Gabapentin, benzo, and also opiates would work. The only thing I had which about halved my symptoms (didn't make me feel okay but less ill) was a combination of magnesium, l-theanine, and hops capsules (which are all sedative).
Anyone new to it reading this please be careful and consider this. It is VERY tempting to abuse and easy to get addicted to. Partly because in moderate doses it doesn't feel like a drug or get you "high" as such. More like a great anti-depressant or mood-lifter, and you're able to function on it. Actually makes you more functional as it's both stimulating and gives you more pleasure from anything you're doing (not stimulating in a way that makes you stressed out like speed, it's more relaxing than stimulating, it has both at the same time).
It's not so much the actual effect on the drug on your life that seems to be destructive but more what it's doing to your body and the danger of getting into acute withdrawal with no relief, which might very well lead to death or you being handicapped for life. And I wouldn't count on most doctors being willing to help you out by putting you on a taper or other downers even though they ABSOLUTELY should. Just many would be ignorant of the danger you're in and have the attitude that it serves you right to suffer through the withdrawal.
And I really hate this attitude as I don't think going through the horrific withdrawal from downers scares most off drugs. On the contrary, I think the great trauma it puts you through makes you more needy for drugs as you come out of it very emotionally scarred and with the learned experience that being without drugs makes you suffer and taking them makes you okay.
So putting someone through CT withdrawal just encourages their drug addiction in a way. The taper should be made as painless as possible with also emphasis on what nutrition, exercise, and different forms of detoxication (like large amounts of vitamin-C powder and other detoxiants, fasting, frequent bathing, etc.).
At least that seems to be more humane and it's a shitty world when there aren't many health professionals around to tell you this.
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