Plans for the Future? (Day 155)
Sunday, January 21st, 2001 (82nd day off Paxil). Email to a friend:
I’m beginning to think of my future now. I still have a hypersensitivity to light and sound — the slightest unanticipated sound, like the house creaking or even the sound of someone clipping their nails, makes me jump about 20 feet in the air — and in the run of my day, this is what takes up most of my energy. But I’m not waiting around for it to get better. Whatever kind of work I eventually find will have to be tolerable to these remaining withdrawal symptoms. I get bad headaches and my bones ache when I walk around too much, but I’m basically at the point now where I’m ready to move on. I am far from 100%, but as long as I take it slow and carefully, I think have a chance of eventually making a full recovery.