Bomb319
Bluelighter
It's not so much the physical symptoms or the cravings that get me although both can be very bad of course. What I'm talking about is the psychological component of acute withdrawal. This is how it always goes for me. Once full blown wd has begun, I feel separated from the entire world as if there is a dense fog in my brain. It's like in the morning when you're still in bed, and you're partly still sleeping but aware of what's going in around you. That feeling is constant and very ugly. It just feels like something is wrong inside you, and normal things or people you look upon seem dissociated and I always think along the lines of how can these people be up and alert, with enough energy to be carrying out their day. I feel like I'm slowly waking up from a long sleep and my senses are coping with facing a new overload.
This is accompanied by intense depression of course, but here is one thing I always experience that I've never heard anyone else mention: SMELL. Once I reach the one day mark of last usage, I have a highly apparent and intense increase in my sense of smell. Everything seems almost overpowering. It's hard to describe, but even fresh air, outside smells or cigarette smoke seem magnified a hundred fold, almost to an overwhelming degree, and progress through the wd. It's strange but such a strong change in everyday perception triggers strong psychological reactions and increase in other wd symptoms. Does anyone else have any idea what I mean?
This is accompanied by intense depression of course, but here is one thing I always experience that I've never heard anyone else mention: SMELL. Once I reach the one day mark of last usage, I have a highly apparent and intense increase in my sense of smell. Everything seems almost overpowering. It's hard to describe, but even fresh air, outside smells or cigarette smoke seem magnified a hundred fold, almost to an overwhelming degree, and progress through the wd. It's strange but such a strong change in everyday perception triggers strong psychological reactions and increase in other wd symptoms. Does anyone else have any idea what I mean?