Roger Gould, M.D.  
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Specialties: Mental Health, Wellness

The connections with people using drugs and alcohol for escape from childhood physical abuse and neglect?
Nov 18, 2008 02:10PM in the Mental Health Expert Forum
I think you will want to find a good book to answer all your questions, but in short, people use alchohol and drugs to shut off their mind to avoid dealing with what they are thinking and feeling. It often starts with memories and the feelings a ttached to them, but the longer they use this mechanism, the more adult problems pile up, and then they use alcohol...
soma withdrawal
Nov 18, 2008 02:07PM in the Mental Health Expert Forum
It is normal to have insomnia again if the soma w as your way of treating the insomnia. The shakes are a little different, and probably not from withdrawal, but from some underlying anxiety, probably the same anxiety that keeps you f rom sleeping soundly.
The Ativan dilema
Nov 18, 2008 02:05PM in the Mental Health Expert Forum
You are lucky to be off the xanax...going back would be a mistake. Yes you can ask for more, but it sounds to me like that is a habitual response rather than a true need. You should try to develop some mental muscle...some mental ways of soothing yourself, talking to yourself about your fea rs, ge tting a perspective, etc....you should use this opportuntiy to...
I hear music
Nov 18, 2008 02:02PM in the Mental Health Expert Forum
This is a very baffling and unusual symptom. There is no particular ex planation unless it is an odd drug effect. I would review your medications and the correlation with the sounds existing, getting better or getting worse. You and your doctor might experiment with various medications to see if some form of antidepressant medication can rid you of this sym...
self mutilation
Nov 18, 2008 01:58PM in the Mental Health Expert Forum
The best way to help yourself is to tell your therapist everything..everything you have just told me, and ask your therapist to consider meeting with you and your parents to work out this cycle of arguing, cutting, and keeping se cre t.
I need to be told I am going to be back to normal....
Nov 18, 2008 01:54PM in the Mental Health Expert Forum
yes, you will definetly be okay once you are completely over the withdrawals..you might contact your doctor about continuing with the ser ax to make it easier on you...xanax is a tough drug to get off of but it sounds like you did the right thing in the detox hospital..but also, consider some outpatient counseling or help.