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Originally Posted by Rohag
Hello & Welcome, ForeverLonelyGirl. Twenty+ years on Klonopin and then a cold-turkey stop in 2013 -- wow.
Looking at your list of symptoms, although you have severe depression you do not mention suicidal thoughts. Is that the reason they took you off the Klonopin? (Feel free to ignore the question...)
Have your doctors considered replacing the antianxiety med with any other forms of therapy? It sounds as if you need help far beyond what you can generate within yourself.
Please make yourself at home.
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Hello, thanks for your response. I think you are right. All these things are too much for me to try to recover from on my own. I would like to see a therapist if I could find one that I could have a rapport with AND afford. I gave up on that last year when I felt completely unsupported in my withdrawal efforts. Md's are no help at all of course.
People going through this also get criticized for "going backwards" it seems with the anxiety and phobias. Plus others get tired of just hearing it all the time. I can totally understand that, it just encompasses your life for a while.
I have felt such total lack of empathy and understanding from my family, one even got angry with me that I was unable to help take my dad to doctor appointments. I just could NO way drive around town then and still struggle now. That was a kick in the gut for sure. A sibling of course, and she has not spoken to me since!
Seems I will have to feel better to get the nerve to go to a therapist and give one a try. What a strange predicament.
I think all this has caused some physical heart damage or problems so I am headed to a cardiologist Monday. Maybe that is why I am so down.