While PAWS is pretty decently documented, you go to google and ask it any questions about wtf is going on with your body after getting clean and it is like "lol here is a bunch of results on acute withdrawal". I'm not curious about the mind fuck known as PAWS what I want to know is why the heck it feels like I'm going through puberty again. Eating ridiculous amounts, voice cracking (not joking), fat melting off and shifting around (not joking large masses are moving), why my leg's feel like two dead weights (paws?) but I'm still overblown with energy (okay the latter is because I triggered a manic event by quitting the drugs), this/that/here/there. I mean I get that things react weirdly for me in every way and were all unique flowers or what not, but you know a general reading material, the "congratulations on 2 months clean here is what to expect when expecting" kinda deal. Not just the negatives but the positives.
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We live in a world that tends to focus on the negative rather than the positive. Shit, first thing they tell you when you go into rehab is "you can't do this on your own, you don't have control". Well, reality is (from what I read and heard from friends), most people DO quit on their own as they traverse various stages of their lives.
Congrats on quitting. I am currently trying to come off tramadol. I am so sick of it. I'm not rock bottom; I have money, decent job, I'm a funny guy I just have my demons relating to coming up in a religious family and mental and physical abuse growing up. So, we all have our issues...the only congratulations is really going to come from someone else who has done it and/or, most importantly, YOURSELF.
Think of it this way...your soul has been re-born. Like you said, we're all different and we react differently.
You've been taking your DOC for so long that the way your brain operates has changed. Right now, your brain is like "shit, ummm...ok...we need to re-regulate our system here". It's very complex and probably, alot of the explanations would be very time-consuming to study (ie, not really worth it).
But there are some fairly universal solutions to PAWS such as:
*intense exercise (ie circuit training, lots of good programs out there)
*brain supplements (do a ton of research, lots of good stuff out there)
*creative outlets (get yourself addicted to what you love to do, I know it sounds crazy, but I think it's true...it has profound effects on your brain)
*cut people out of your life that you don't need anymore (again, harsh, I cut my best friend of 20 years off in a really harsh manner, he was a using buddy but I also didn't like his selfish attitude (always wanting to argue, childish when you tell him he is wrong about something, just needed him to go. In fact, we had a mutual friend between us who I cut out also, I didn't even go to his mothers funeral, and they treated me like a son. Why? Because this is MY life, no one else's, and sometimes we need to be an asshole for the better).
Again, I think it comes down, there is this underlying idea that asking someone to aggressively take control of their own life is "wrong" or "outdated", but it's not. Refusal to do so is how alot of us get hooked to whatever our drug of choice is.
So, I am here to congratulate you. I am sure others are too. If there is ANYWHERE you're gonna find people to boost you, it will be this forum.
Much love.
Congrats on quitting. I am currently trying to come off tramadol. I am so sick of it. I'm not rock bottom; I have money, decent job, I'm a funny guy I just have my demons relating to coming up in a religious family and mental and physical abuse growing up. So, we all have our issues...the only congratulations is really going to come from someone else who has done it and/or, most importantly, YOURSELF.
Think of it this way...your soul has been re-born. Like you said, we're all different and we react differently.
You've been taking your DOC for so long that the way your brain operates has changed. Right now, your brain is like "shit, ummm...ok...we need to re-regulate our system here". It's very complex and probably, alot of the explanations would be very time-consuming to study (ie, not really worth it).
But there are some fairly universal solutions to PAWS such as:
*intense exercise (ie circuit training, lots of good programs out there)
*brain supplements (do a ton of research, lots of good stuff out there)
*creative outlets (get yourself addicted to what you love to do, I know it sounds crazy, but I think it's true...it has profound effects on your brain)
*cut people out of your life that you don't need anymore (again, harsh, I cut my best friend of 20 years off in a really harsh manner, he was a using buddy but I also didn't like his selfish attitude (always wanting to argue, childish when you tell him he is wrong about something, just needed him to go. In fact, we had a mutual friend between us who I cut out also, I didn't even go to his mothers funeral, and they treated me like a son. Why? Because this is MY life, no one else's, and sometimes we need to be an asshole for the better).
Again, I think it comes down, there is this underlying idea that asking someone to aggressively take control of their own life is "wrong" or "outdated", but it's not. Refusal to do so is how alot of us get hooked to whatever our drug of choice is.
So, I am here to congratulate you. I am sure others are too. If there is ANYWHERE you're gonna find people to boost you, it will be this forum.
Much love.
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Here is some good information on PAWS if you have not looked at it yet. PAWS is a deregulation of the brain and neurotransmitters. Most of its symptoms are directly from the hypothalamus and the pituitary which is controlled by the hypothalamus. PAWS is a pan hypothalamic dysregulation whose symptoms manifest individually and broadly over many possible ones.
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Most people pass out of PAWS in under eight months, but it in rare cases it can take up to two years. We can do many things to treat symptoms and promote quicker healing. Aerobic exercise is probably number one on that list.
Congratulations on getting clean!!!! Keep pushing forward, it gets better I promise
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let me know if you only visit with a phone and I will un nsfw that information.
Most people pass out of PAWS in under eight months, but it in rare cases it can take up to two years. We can do many things to treat symptoms and promote quicker healing. Aerobic exercise is probably number one on that list.
Congratulations on getting clean!!!! Keep pushing forward, it gets better I promise