Dear Samantha:

Klonipin was indeed the hardest drug to stop taking for me. Yes, most addictive.

Your neurological symptoms are “hand tremors and random jerks throughout (your) body…  (and) night sweats”-

I wrote to you earlier that an anxious person is a person who is often running in place. Those hand tremors, the random jerks, in my understanding, are the body running-in-place, a thwarted flight reaction to fear. Often a child  is stuck in a hostile home, moved to run away,  but having nowhere to run, her muscles twitch, moving but the child stays put.

You wrote that you are “a highly sensitive introvert”- do you believe that you were born more sensitive than others, born to be an introvert or do you believe you were injured emotionally, as a child and as a result became sensitive, that is, fearful of more suffering yet to come your way?

anita