Author: tinydancer
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 2:59 pm
| MovieMaker1 wrote: |
| If you tell someone they dont qualify for suboxone or their wd is fake or that they just take it to get high….you can’t know this……but this implies that she knows best. |
I don’t think MB meant to imply that OP’s wds are fake. But the truth of the matter, is when you are tapering and until you actually jump off, the biggest hurdles are mental. I wasn’t really sick until I stopped taking suboxone. It was my mind -and mostly fear- playing tricks on me up until that point. It doesn’t make it any less real but I think it’s helpful to point it out because I didn’t know at the time that what I was experiencing was mostly (not all) in my head. The anxiety of tapering brings what feels like physical wds.. Once you can understand that and recognize it, I believe it is a little easier to taper. I realized this towards the end of my taper when I would ride out the anxiety and my symptoms would lessen.
No one is telling anyone to get off suboxone but when someone expresses the desire to quit and learn how to live a life free from maintenance, we try to offer helpful advice and encouragement because everyone deserves that no matter where they are in their journey/ recovery.