Hello people.
I'm new here.
I accidentally found this site while researching how to regrow teeth.
So I've been reading threads for hours here.
I come to this one and I'm surprised.
I too overuse Benadryl.
I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm addicted.
I've been an insomniac since I was in 6th grade and I have real bad allergies which facilitates the use of benadryl.
I've also been abusing pain pills since I got my wisdom teeth pulled.
I'm also a chronic marijuana user since 9th grade.
I'm 32 now.
I just want to say a little about this subject.
As I said, I use several drugs on mostly a daily basis.
Sometimes I'll even snort a little H.
I was a cocaine user for about 5 years back in my early to mid 20's.
People don't want to believe me when I tell them I have never experienced withdrawal.
Physical withdrawal anyway.
I've battled the psychological aspect of withdrawal many times.
But it's never come to the physical part.
I don't know why.
I could even be wrong, and just not know that I've experienced it.
But something tells me I would know it if it happened.
So the only reason I can think of to explain this is that I don't expect withdrawal ,it's not a factor to me.
I go through cycles where I use drugs heavily for a few months/years, then something happens that prevents me from keeping up the use.
Be it lack of sources, money, time.
It just happens, and withdrawal doesn't really enter my mind until someone brings it up, or until I think about it.
It's not that my use of drugs is so minor that I don't reach that point.
With H, the people I know that are into it have always said that if you use it everyday for a week or longer, you get dopesick.
Well, I go months using it everyday, using other opiates too.
But I've never been dopesick.
It's not that I don't have an addictive personality, I have a VERY addictive personality.
My point is that it's possible that the withdrawal most people experience could be exacerbated by your mind.
Because you expect it, it's a factor in your thoughts.
Especially when someone experiences it from substances that aren't physically addictive.
Like Benadryl.
I take ALOT of it, for extended periods of time.
But if for any reason I have to go without it for any length of time, there's no withdrawal symptoms.
I've experienced what they call the "rebound effect", where my allergies and sinuses get terrible when I don't take it.
It only lasts a day or so though.
And bad allergies and sinus infections are just part of my existence, and would happen periodically anyway.
I'm also a firm believer in the law of attraction.
The external world mirrors the internal world that exists in your mind.
We create our own reality.
I'm not saying positive thought is the key.
I hate when people say that.
I'm a negative person for the most part.
But I do believe that we totally create the world we live in.
And when you think that, just as the theory goes, that's what you experience.
I can't sit here and tell you how to do that.
But I can tell you that for every problem you encounter, you also encounter the solution to that problem.
You just have to condition your mind to accept that solution.
Easier said than done, I know.
But it could be the most important thing you ever do.