These are descriptions of how individuals experienced various symptoms during withdrawal. While everyone's withdrawal is unique and symptoms will be different for everyone, it may be useful to know what others went through. All withdrawal symptoms can be caused by things in addition to withdrawal. If a symptom is persistent or you are worried by it, it is always a good idea to get it checked out by your doctor to ensure nothing else is going on. ______________________________________________________________________ Definition: Perception of auditory experiences without an external stimulus and with a compelling sense of their reality. ______________________________________________________________________ What I've Felt: "You feel, at certain times of the day and especially when left alone in the quiet of your home, that you are hearing voices or music. No one sound ever resolves itself enough to be distinct, and the music seems slightly distant no matter where you go. It's as if the sound is being created one room over, perhaps emerging from a floor grate or a light socket " "When I was around other people, I barely noticed this symptom at all. During my first cold turkey, an absolute stoppage of valium (40 to 90mg a day for seven months), I'd hear my name called out in different voices, from different places -- most of them indefinite points in the ether -- and spent at least a week whipping my head around, trying in vain to pinpoint my tormentors." "I would hear music. It was always distant, always tinny." - Matt ______________________________________________________________________ What I've Felt: “On a few occasions I heard my children calling to me when they were not at home. I also experience a few Hypnagogic hallucinations on going to sleep that involved a very loud explosion like a gunshot going off next to my ear.” - Anthea ______________________________________________________________________ My Coping Strategies
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