New And Trying To Learn To Cope

[Guest guest]

While I don't have a traditional pain condition, I am in severe pain - mental

and physical. I was give Xanax years ago and I was allergic to it and it caused

severe damage to my brain and nervous system. It causes dozens of physical and

mental symptoms, such as feeling insane 24/7.

It keeps coming back in episodes. Then in 2007, it came and has stayed. I was

going days with no sleep, so 5 months ago I took two tiny doses of Doxepin and

stopped because it felt terrible. Now I have dozens of new symptoms on top of

everything else.

The following is why I am joined this group: my therapist says I need to learn

how to cope with 24/7 disability. I walk and pace much of the day, can't read,

watch TV, hardly talk to my wife, and spend most of my day in a chair in the

bedroom or walking.

How do you keep going when every days is hell and there is only slight hope of

recovery. How do you carry the disability and keep going.

R.