Dear Nichole:

Do what I did that night I told you about, in October 2013, when I suffered intense anxiety coming off Klonipin, feeling that I was unable to make it without that tranquilizer. I closed my eyes and scanned my brain for a place of calm, a place where I can be calm and make it through that night.

When you are as anxious as you are, not all areas in your brain are anxious. There is a place there that is calm, find it and reside there. Whenever you feel anxious, go to that calm place.

The calm place that you need, you don’t have it outside your brain, this is why you are not there, in your brother’s/father’s apartment, your aunt’s house, your older brother’s home in another state, any of your grandparents’ homes, cousins’ homes, or your ex boyfriend’s place in Florida.

If I am wrong and you think that any of these places are safe and calm for you, go there. If I am correct, then your only option is to do what I suggested.

anita