Detoxing from alcohol or sedatives like Xanax can be dangerous if those were your DOC. You may want someone with you if possible. I remember detoxing and it was grueling. It’s another reason of several not to go back to using! You are amazing for taking these first steps that are so difficult. It’s awful right now but it will get better. You’re on the road to self-discovery and growth!
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Just remember that if you're thinking of picking up a drink or getting yourself a fix, whatever your addiction is, it's a big fat lie! You have to be willing to play the scene all the way forward. What happens if you start drinking or pick up your next fix? You might feel good for a while but what's going to happen afterward when you wake up? If you wake up at all. Sooner or later you're going to end up right back where you are at right now.
Having withdrawals, depression, loneliness and other symptoms are all completely normal when withdrawing from our addiction. I mentioned this before in a previous comment. One of the great truths in life is that life is tough. Many people go to their graves never truly accepting the fact that life is tough. They have a victim mentality. They believe this stuff only happens to them and they were dealt a bad set of cards.
Normal people make it look so easy. But us alcoholics we run from anyting in life that is not fun. Once we accept the fact that life is tough, the fact that life is tough no longer matters and we learn how to excel in life. You're not always going to have these withdrawal symptoms.
Hang tough and get some support such as going to meetings and making phone calls. That's where people make the biggest mistake. They don't go to meetings and they try to do it by themselves.
This is a battle kid, hang tough!
The payoff is tremendous.
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Im sorry tgat you have to go through that feel good run away addiction, there is no easy way to start the minute at a time, drag my body into a meeting and raise my hand, search out a sponcer to make phone calls to, set up dates to work the steps, No we keep killing our selves, Running ripping living to thy self, Honesty ..the first step 🚶♂️ start and if you fail today start again..I have stacked double digits, I still feel that loneliness and shity evil thinking, its a prossess its the reprogramming in the program.
The drugs and alcohol are but a symptom of what is underneath that needs to be addressed and treated but we have to remove the substances first to make recovery possible. When I read this, I felt like I was seeing my own words a few months ago. I was manic when I was using but in mixed episodes when I was in withdrawal. I realized I was in a very dangerous place that I couldn’t get out of on my own so I called the national NAMI hotline and got assistance with detox facilities and went into detox. This has been no cake walk. I relapsed after 30 days and then brushed myself off and tried harder. Therapy weekly. Psych meds. Yoga. Meditation. Oh and meetings and getting a sponsor most importantly. Do what you can with what you have, where you are- Today. Find a detox center and go from there. One day at a time.