Would You Consider This Self Harm?

[Tibe]

Please seek out medical advice.

You're making all sorts of assumptions that are putting your health at risk.

Just because benzodiazepines may cause heart effects doesn't mean that suddenly stopping them won't, and that this is the best option. The effects of going cold turkey off benzodiazepines can last months and months, so you're still at risk of them affecting your heart tests.

Just because you're taking an anti seizure med doesn't mean it's ok to just stop your benzodiazepines.

I know you think you're doing what's best but your reasoning is not accurate or healthy. Please seek out medical help and stop taking your health into your own hands. It could kill you.

 

[Rehatu]

I know that benzos can affect cardiac activity.

No it doesnt, anxiety does; it raises your pulse. Xanax just lowers it back down to normal when its highened by anxiety. You can take it on a lie detector as long as its known and a baseline can be established.

Please seek out medical advice.

You're making all sorts of assumptions that are putting your health at risk.

100% agreed!

 

[Ucaz]

Alcoholics aren't self harming, they just want to feel good.
Anorexics aren't self harming, they just want to be skinny. Ditto for bulimics.
Drug addicts aren't self harming, they just want to feel good.

I can go on and on and on.

Leaders in treating self harm acknowledge the many ways that people self harm (all of the above included + more). I prefer to refer to them in terms of defining self harm versus asking strangers on the Internet who think self harming is narrow in scope and deliberate in intent to harm.

 

[Wupag]

I prefer to refer to them in terms of defining self harm versus asking strangers on the Internet who think self harming is narrow in scope and deliberate in intent to harm.

Actually that was google's definition when you search "define self harm".

 

[Juzeto]

I suppose you could call it self harm, though honestly, I think it's just down to semantics.

and yes I have been trying to prove to myself that I can just suck it up and get through these attacks without meds but maybe I am wrong in the way I am going about it

I think it could be called a few things. If it is being done to be deliberately harmful to yourself either through physical discomfort or mental anguish. You could call it self harm, personally I think sounds more like self sabotage, if a label needs to be applied.

But I am getting the impression that you don't feel challenged enough. Do you feel your therapy is beginning to stall out?

 

[Ohiri]

But I am getting the impression that you don't feel challenged enough. Do you feel your therapy is beginning to stall out?

OP poster here, I think it is not about being stalled out but being angry and frustrated that other situations in my life have been on a roller coaster ride for 18 months so that every time I start dealing with the hard stuff in therapy (and maybe it is a side effect of dealing with the hard stuff in therapy) but something in the real world ramps up to defcon 1 and we end up going back to stabilization work rather than trauma work.