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Re: BENZODIAZEPINES are brilliant...and underrated

Posted by tedar on January 26, 2004, at 23:18:20

In reply to Re: BENZODIAZEPINES are brilliant...and underrated, posted by ace on January 26, 2004, at 18:53:57

> They are brilliant and when used sensibly have little dependence problem....I think they are much safer than Paxil or something like that...never heard so many horror w/drawals as Paxil....Benzos can be taken life long without problem...
>I don't know that I would say that the Benzos are safer, but the withdrawal phenomenon of Paxil and Effexor, as well as Lexapro/Celexa is certainly very nasty. Benzos have allowed many people to carry on with their lives in a much more fulfilling manner for many years. I also don't feel that a person suffering from really severe anxious depression could ever be managed by an SSRI alone. A Benzo almost has to be onboard. Why not start with the Benzo. See if once the anxiety is controlled, whether the depression will lift, and not vice versa. I think a lot of physicians are missing the boat when they put a vry anxious depressed patient on an SSRI before they try a Benzo, regardless of the dependency issues. Because dependency refers to any drug that a patient counts on to maintain his quality of life.
Benzodiazepine development should have continued with great endeavor, but there was a large non empathetic part of the Medical profession that wanted a strong prison sentence for the benzos because of their own erratic prescribing, and patients are still paying the price for this.

Take for instance Bipolar 2, where the mania can exhibit itself as anxiety/agitation. Klonopin. lorazepam, and even Xanax would be better choices than depakote, topomax, and trileptal etc.


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