Re: Try this

Friday, Mar 18, 2005

Re: Try this
Posted by Brigid McKenna on 03/31/04 at 09:40 AM

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That’s exactly what I’m doing, too. I have severe withdrawal from Effexor. Have tried EVERYTHING to reduce w/d effects. Pot is the only thing I’ve found that helps.Figures. Not “man-made””. Since I tried the pot I can cope with the sick feelings and I can direct the way I feel about the whole w/d process. Pot taught me to go with, stop resisting the bad feelings. I know how loopy this is going to sound but the pot puts me in a mind frame where I can actually embrace and almost enjoy the w/d effects. If I don’t take pot and I’m feeling the w/ds my body goes into defense posture, I sigh, struggle, feel angry,resentful at my EX psychiatrist (no therapy, just drugs kinda guy), I feel defeated and powerless. When I take the pot and I feel the w/ds, I chuckle at them to myself, I can remove myself somewhat from the experience and see it more objectively. The pot taught me to use this as an opportunity to learn how to just let go, let what happens happen, not to worry about it, but to laugh at how back assward western med is and how naive I was to give away control over MY OWN wellbeing to a “”Dr”” whose primary interest was not my health. Since the very day I was born I have been harmed in one way or another by western doctors. I DON’T TRUST YOU ANYMORE! Do you hear that, all you pill pushers and pharma junkie creators out there? I will stick with what God (or whoever) provided in the first place.