The majority of the symptoms experienced in withdrawal are physical and they go away with time. Coping techniques will not make the withdrawal symptoms go away but they can make the symptoms easier to tolerate. There is no one-way to cope with drug withdrawal. Each person’s withdrawal is unique and each person is unique in the techniques from which they might benefit. The following are tips and resources that some of the group members have found to be especially helpful for dealing with the problems encountered in withdrawal.
Coping with Derealisation and Depersonalisation
Coping with Anxiety - a set of resources.
Emotional Freedom Technique for Anxiety - a personal recommendation
How to Cope with Anxiety, Remember A-W-A-R-E *Adapted from: Anxiety Disorders and Phobias: A Cognitive Perspective, by Aaron Beck and Gary Emery*
Coping with Derealisation and Depersonalisation
Understanding Derealisation and Depersonalisation - an article that describes the symptoms of derealisation and depersonalisation. Source unknown.
Coping with Derealisation and Depersonalisation - a link to the Depersonalization Community Website. This site has information, a forum and a chat room.
Sleep Resources - a list of CD's and DVD's that others have found useful in dealing with insomnia.
Sleep - Our Number One Project - tips and resources
Sleep Restriction Therapy - from the Medscape Today website.
Stopping
Negative Thoughts - a technique to help with negative thoughts.
Use
Thought Stopping to Reduce Anxiety
Coping in General
Understanding The Flight Fight response and the Relaxation Response - the antidote to the fight or flight response
A letter: Coping with withdrawal - written by one group member to another
My Benzopedia - a set of members coping strategies
Benzodiazepine Recovery Tips - by Janet Currie of the Psychiatric Medication Awareness Group
Crisis Survival Stategies - some tips. Adapted from Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder by Marsha Linehan. 1993 The Guilford Press.
12 Concrete Steps to Health - by Tom Oates Jr. reprinted from The CFIDS Chronicle, Summer 1995
Meditation - meditation is something that helps some people especially as they get out of the acute withdrawal stage. This is a link to the Insight Mediation Center Website. It has free courses in meditation and free downloadable guided meditations that may be useful.
How to Choose a Counselor by John Breeding
The 10 Principals of Psychological Well-Being By Pankaj Sapkal
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. This leaflet is for anyone who wants to know more about Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). It discusses how it works, why it is used, its effects, side-effects, and alternative treatments. If you can't find what you want here, there are sources of further information at the end of this leaflet.
Inspirational Quotes - to read when things are difficult.
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