It is the true teacher who leaves the class knowing they have learned the most.

Tucson, AZ
Joined September 2006
2 years I don't remember almost anything except screaming and yelling as I was bleeding and injecting myself and going through chemo and finally the adult protection services intervenes and eventually got her out. I had two years of bliss when my deer Ray from my twenties came
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Hey Rob things happened between 2013 and my heart completely stopped in 2014 in the week after my brother got married and I was fortunately resuscitated without paddles just CPR.. I was sent home with a woman I thought was my friend for many years gave her two weeks. Turned into
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They weren't sure I should fly but it was only an hour and 20 minutes or less so after transfusions and the night of rest they let me finish the journey and I went directly from there to home to hospital. I began immunotherapies and blood and I really don't remember anything much
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Got onto the plane in San Jose made it to LAX was waking up being transfused my body was skin on my body all black and blue our beloved Joseph O'Connor #11y was holding my hand. I didn't know where I was who called him does anybody remember? Thank you so much he stayed with me.
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My bone marrow failed 2013 LAX coming home from the free and popular open web Camp I started with David story later John folio cuz he was at Stanford and we got to do it at Stanford and others that was the fifth year. I woke up with a small bruise and it didn't look right at all
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It got really bad and I was starting to feel really bad physical pain. 5 years and I started to slow down get into a moderation Management program tried AA I couldn't handle it they confess their whatever's and then go to a restaurant or a bar and Get Drunk Together
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I got out I continued working I traveled the world I'll never forget going to Oslo I was hemorrhaging so badly as I was walking up a hill of pure white snow bleeding through a tampon and three pads drops of blood in Oslo
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I was continuing to drink now alcohol Prozac lorazepam and sometimes marijuana which didn't make it worse but it didn't make it better. Around this time I began to have extremely heavy Menchie's I had that I'd had a lot of bleeding problems before but it had turn off and on
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At that point after finding out I had been betrayed and lied to and so had my mother which pissed me off more than my broken heart my drinking got worse. I had another major depressive episode doctor kept me hospital for 3 days reduced the benzo to 7 or so but kept the Prozac
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They kept me on 10 mg of Lorazepam which is a very high dose they don't even give inside of psychiatric wards unless you have such an incredibly high tolerance or very physically big at the time I was not at all that I was 15 lb overweight not that much.
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Benzos did calm me and I felt physically some relief from the pain I was in and I used cannabis though that it wasn't medical yet and told my doctor who said moderation.
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They don't address this but benzos are especially in long-term and high dosage considered the most dangerous withdrawal without a taper process. By the time for years had passed I was on a different one called Lorazepam 10 mg insane amount. Didn't phase me didn't help me sleep.
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I was not borderline but I did and still do have occasionally severe panic disorder and occasional acute anxiety the idea that women could have PTSD at that time was unheard of. Much less complex trauma. I was placed on diazepam AKA valium a benzo Mother's Little Helper?
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Before all of this when I was about 22 and had been sick for a little while and isolated I didn't feel right so I self-reported to the Southern Arizona Mental Health and went through intake. Diagnosis panic disorder severe acute anxiety they kept me to review me for borderline
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It even told my mother and that step ass of mine when in La once they took us to a beautiful Steakhouse for my birthday Mom said what is your intention he said I'm going to marry her. He was already married he had lied lied lied I didn't still know and I stayed until I broke.
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The psychiatrist you put me on Prozac new this and said it would help with my drinking it did not I got involved with someone I liked who claimed he was separated on his way to divorce he played me he lived in another country I didn't even see what was true thought I was in love
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I was drinking for the five years I had binge alcohol problems and I could drink anyone under the table very high tolerance to depressants. some say green eyes with auburn hair are hard to knock out, I had one blackout in 5 years of heavy drinking but as a Binger not everyday.
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I was talked into Prozac many years before 20 mg to start which is normal I felt weird right away and they say it takes 4 to 6 weeks to work encourage me to stay on it I got worse and worse began to really ideate suicide. I had never cut myself or self harmed.
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For schizophrenia and bipolar 1 and 2 they start at 300 mg up to much higher my former Psych started me at only 50. It didn't help but as I was withdrawing only after a week or two I went into the most horrible panic attacks I ever have had mood swings no sleep dehydration.
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A few comments and then some personal. First day cover side effects and long-term damage. So the antipsychotic Seroquel they're talking about people sleeping 13 or more hours. They gave it to me I couldn't sleep the psych kept saying just try and so I did this was recently
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