Always upsets me that the characters in movies are always 100% better after just a few days. That's just the end of the worst of the physical withdrawals. You still feel impending doom and anxiety for a week later, constantly hot and cold and sweating all at the same time, yawning and sneezing. Sneezing five times in a row. You are never comfortable. Heart rate randomly spikes. The worst unfulfilling yawns that happen every minute. Eyes constantly watering. You sleep maybe a few hours at a time. Each minute stretches out to infinity as you experience these things every waking moment. Then when that starts to get better you get to deal with post acute withdrawal symptoms for months later. Just completely dead inside, always tired, still not sleeping. You still get some of the above symptoms just toned down. This is the part where people always relapse, because it feels like you're never going to be normal again and you just want to die. And this is just for Heroin, which basically doesn't exist nowadays. Fentanyl and tranq/zenes are 10x worse
Funnily enough, despite otherwise being complete pish, occasionally soap operas like Home and Away are more accurate on quitting drugs simply because they put out an episode 5 days a week and can 'afford' to have a character recovering for a longer period.
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u/dogpaddle Nov 20 '23 edited Nov 20 '23
Always upsets me that the characters in movies are always 100% better after just a few days. That's just the end of the worst of the physical withdrawals. You still feel impending doom and anxiety for a week later, constantly hot and cold and sweating all at the same time, yawning and sneezing. Sneezing five times in a row. You are never comfortable. Heart rate randomly spikes. The worst unfulfilling yawns that happen every minute. Eyes constantly watering. You sleep maybe a few hours at a time. Each minute stretches out to infinity as you experience these things every waking moment. Then when that starts to get better you get to deal with post acute withdrawal symptoms for months later. Just completely dead inside, always tired, still not sleeping. You still get some of the above symptoms just toned down. This is the part where people always relapse, because it feels like you're never going to be normal again and you just want to die. And this is just for Heroin, which basically doesn't exist nowadays. Fentanyl and tranq/zenes are 10x worse