bitterlyclingin
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- Aug 4, 2011
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The thing is My friend... is that the chemical process of withdrawal is a fine thing to know. I applaud you for your knowledge. You seem to have a very good bead on organic Chemistry and physiology.
But the simple truth is, unless you've been through it, you can't understand the psychological and physical pain one goes through when this is occurring inside of YOUR body. I feel for every addict out there. I don't care if they became medically addicted like myself, or made a few bad decisions in their youth that spiraled out of control. The catalyst for a current state of addiction does not matter. They know the pain of not having their drug and they fear that pain. To put a simple scientific spin on the process in no way eases that pain.
In short, an addict is not going to look at your post, or a drug counselor who explains the process like that and say...."OK, that explains that... Sobriety... here I come!" It goes much deeper than Physiology.
I'm sorry... I don't mean to slam you. It's just seems minimalistic to me.
The withdrawal sufferer might gain strength from knowing the cause of his agony, grief and suffering, draw from the insight derived from the knowledge and be a little better poised to combat the cravings.
When you are struck low by something unknown and unfamiliar, its more frightening than when you have a fairly good idea of whats going wrong and have some idea of how to fix it.
For example the individual having chest pain who goes into the hospital emergency room. After a blood test or two the doctor comes in and informs him of what's going on and slaps some nitropaste onto his chest area. Suddenly the individual's heart rate drops precipitously from 130 down to 20. There's comfort in knowing that the nurse injecting atropine into the shunt on the right arm and the doctor injecting atropine into the shunt on the left arm are taking the appropriate steps. Atropine blocks the action of the vagus nerve, which slows the heart rate down, and until the atropine was injected, was very firmly in charge and determined to shut everything down.