Thanks moogs, purple_fins, and LadyShadow,

Well onto day 8 and physically I'm finally feeling normal, but my brain still feels funny, I think it'll probably be at least a month before it feels normal again.

Purple_fins, so sorry things aren't safe for you at home. I hope you find someplace safe to stay and that you look after yourself.

The assessment for CAITS (name of program) was fine, although the person talking to me, didn't know anything about whether I'd be allowed to stay on the clonazepam or not, she had to refer it to the medical team who would get in touch with my psychiatrist. As for an intake date, I don't have that yet, but it will be mid July or August, which was a little later than I was hoping for. And then I got the bad news, they're changing the program from 21 days down to 2 weeks. That's crazy. For someone just out of detox it take a couple of weeks for the fog just to lift.

The medical team contacted my psychiatrist when I was in the office with him, and he said pretty categorically that I need to stay on my clonazepam, so I'm hoping that will settle the issue and they'll waive the no-benzo policy for me. I'm really glad that my psychiatrist was willing to support me, and not force me into a too rapid taper just to make CAITS happy.

in the meantime, I'm going to keep going to my group at Branson twice a week.