> During that month (more if there were problems) the facility was REQUIRED to attempt to wean residents off of chemical restraints and attempt to go without physical restraints. Among these were drugs like ativan, xanax etc. First, I’ve never been beaten so much in my entire life. It was not comfortable for the residents either.

Yeah. When you have been on those kinds of drugs for a while then you suffer through a 'withdrawal syndrome' upon the cessation of the drug. People often describe this as a magnification of their original symptoms (so worse anxiety / agitation / irritability / rage than they have ever experienced before).

One can't assess what it would *typically* be like for a person off a drug when they are going through a withdrawal syndrome. It would be like telling the opiate addict in a 10 day detox that the flu symptoms they are experiencing would be a *normal* state for them in the absence of their opiates. The point is that the withdrawal syndrome passes - but it does take time.