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Worried about addiction. -
April 30th 2010, 02:52 AM
Hellooo, I'm new here.. as some of you may know. So aside from the intro post, this is my first.
I have bad anxiety problems, so awhile back my mom started sharing her .5mg xanax (she rarely takes them), that way I wouldn't be so panicky all the time. At the time, I only took them when I absolutely needed them. But around three or four months ago I started taking them every single day and all I needed was that .5mg to really make me calm. Then it increased to me needing 1mg a day and just kept going up.
Now I'm up to taking 2mg around three times a day. Whenever I ask my mom for a xanax she's completely trusting enough to let me get it myself, and I end up taking around six sometimes seven at a time so I don't have to ask her anymore that day and she won't get suspicious.
I ran out of them last night though, and my mom's running really low on them so I'm trying to cut back before she notices. So now I'm really shaky, I have a terrible headache and I'm snapping at anyone who even says hi to me. I've thrown up a few times too. I'm pretty sure these are withdrawals, but I keep shoving it off as I just caught a bug cause that's what I want to believe.
I don't want to think I'm addicted, but I'm pretty sure I am. To me it's the best feeling in the world and there's nothing that could compare to how it is.
Anyways.. sorry for the kinda long post, I just wanted to give a full description of what's going on with me so it would be easier to help me figure out what I really need to do. Cause at the moment.. I'm totally at ends.
"If it leaves a bad taste,
you need to wash it down."
Re: Worried about addiction. -
April 30th 2010, 01:44 PM
I think you should talk to her and explain what's been going on so you can go to the doctor and get your own perscription...
“I can only hope that they’ll turn that anger and frustration and madness into something positive, so that two, three, four, five hundred will step forward, so the gay doctors will come out, the gay lawyers, the gay judges, gay bankers, gay architects … I hope that every professional gay will say ‘enough’, come forward and tell everybody, wear a sign, let the world know. Maybe that will help.” Harvey Milk, 1978