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klonopin

Posted by med_empowered on April 5, 2006, at 1:18:20

In reply to drugs for epilepsy » blueberry, posted by Squiggles on April 4, 2006, at 19:55:24

klonopin is a weird drug. I mean, I found it helpful for anxiety/agitation, but only to a point; then it helped, but also made me stupid. Its so high-potency that I think its easy to forget that 2mgs/Klonopin (standard dose for a lot of things) is = to about 40mgs/valium, which was the standard dose back in the "Mother's Little Helpers" era (turns out not much changes in psychiatry, after all). I don't get using it for unipolar depression. I read that in Japan they make heavy use of the benzos for all kinds of stuff, with pretty good results but here the emphasis seems to have been on anti depressants and antipsychotics for...well, everything.

One of the cool things about Klonopin is that it seems to help with bipolar disorders and schizoaffective disorders, even where other stuff hasn't helped. On the downside...to me, it seems to have more "issues" than other benzos...personally, I think if they could just make an XR Ativan (ativan doesn't seem to affect mood or cognition), that'd be ideal..a clean, long-lasting drug with more or less neutral effects on everything but the anxiety. Oh well.


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