I got a few stories myself. There is more than one way to go through withdrawal.

When I was a kid I had a good friend who was totally fine until he got to be a teenager, then he got real schizophrenic. They put him in the psyche ward and got him all drugged up on AP's. He didn't want to take them but in there they made sure he swallowed them. We used to sneak pot in to him. When he got out they set him up with a little apartment and food stamps and on meds he would do pretty good. Off meds major psychosis. He didn't want to take them but he was. Then me and my friends would come over to his apartment and tell him....there is nothing wrong with you, you don't need those meds, screw those doctors. All you really need is us. We are your friends. And here have a toke of this joint, and have a pull off this whiskey bottle.

He kept getting worse and worse over the years but when he was in an AIS home he did pretty good on meds. I left town but last I heard he was walking the streets homeless and talking to trees. I know he wasn't on meds because he hated taking them. Knowing him he probably busted out of the home. I was one of his best friends and using buddies but I didn't know how to help him. And he kept freaking me out with his psychosis and the government and CIA had cameras all over watching him. Actually some of the drugs we did helped him. Pot did help him and so did codeine. I haven't thought about him in a long time.