Hi @Catina !! Thanks so much for the welcome. My signature is right in that I do have Ativan, but I haven’t taken it for several weeks now because I am trying to learn how to do this without meds. Though during acute withdrawal ~4weeks after cold stopping Pristiq I took it almost every day. I carry it with me everywhere just in case though along with my Zofran. Makes me feel a little more secure.
I am right now mostly mostly functional. As in, most of the time I can function mostly normally. I am able to go to work though some days it’s very hard. I cry a lot every day and most days I still wake up with sharp anxiety. I am in specialized therapy for coping with big emotions; I have never had to before because I have been on meds that numbed me emotionally for so long. I have thought extensively about trying a small dose and then redoing the taper, but since I feel I have made it through the worst of it, I don’t feel comfortable doing that. My goal is to stay strong and keep working on my health through supplement support, my support systems, and my therapist. One day at a time, as we say in recovery.
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