Almost at day 9

Context: went CT off ~100 mg/day year long habit (see my acct for my daily journal lol). Almost at day 9! Yesterday I went and saw my therapist finally and came clean about everything, and I’m so glad I did. They knew immediately what I was talking about and helped me begin to start to game plan what my next moves should be now that I’m over a week off 7. They suggested I should see my doctor to talk about better managing my anxiety and get my sleep back on a more regular schedule, so that’s what I did today! My doctor suggested slightly increasing the dosage of my normal anxiety medication, trying buspirone as needed if the anxiety gets really bad, and suggested melatonin for sleep. I’m very hopeful that these small tweaks to my normal routine will help bring me more so back to baseline, as the anxiety and sleep irregularity (not full insomnia, luckily) are really the only lingering symptoms I’m still feeling. I’ll also be going to therapy more often than before to continue to manage my healing long term.

I hope all is well for you all as well. We got this! <3