Thanks so much for responding. I'm sorry to hear your story though. It doesn't feel fair at all. I don't think they are going to take that kind of action. Mainly I have to repeat this year's practicum training next year. But I don't like the idea of people only having one email and without any thing else to go on or talking to strangers about very private matters. I didn't become triggered at the site itself. This was a note to a "friend" at school who happened also to be at the same site. They generalized the situation to make it sound like I do this all the time and might do this to a client so they withdrew me basically without hearing my side of the story. And of course the "friend" didn't include the apology letter with the initial email either.

My shrink is prepared to write a letter that will include his years of clinical experience with people doing uncharacteristic things on Ambien. I have stopped taking it, but the replacement (Dalmane) doesn't work as well so I'm struggling to get used to it so I can sleep better.

I'm really sorry that you had such awful experiences with Ambien. It sounds terrible. I have known people who have done things on that drug, but I hadn't had any problems so I didn't feel worried.