new life experience,

While I was in Mexico I got a bit off schedule and forgot to take a medication I take everyday. The med is one that builds up in your system and you can generally go a few days without it and you won't notice a thing. Well I missed the med for several days and was feeling pretty good so I figured "maybe I don't need this med anymore"

Well whether or not that is true I'll never know because today a little thing called "medication withdrawal" caught up with me and I just about died. I woke up feeling a bit off but it was nothing major, until in the middle of reading a book to a kiddo in session I became deeply nauseated and just sort of froze. The mom in the session asked if I was okay and I just looked at her unable to speak for a moment. I apologized profusely but told her I didn't feel well and asked if we could reschedule for next week.

I then climbed down to my office lair and put my head down for a bit and drank a lot of cold water.

I came home and took half a dose of the medication to calm my body and I've now learned what it feels like to be a junkie. Interestingly I take a very small dosage of my medication, only 10mg and I had a pretty tough reaction. I can't even imagine what it would be like to come off of meth or heroin.

Ironically I have told clients again and again the importance of slowly weaning themselves off of medications that have half-lifes.

Ugh. I won't be making the same mistake twice!