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Re: What does taking a benzo actually feel like? » bassman

Posted by laima on August 25, 2006, at 16:10:17

In reply to Re: What does taking a benzo actually feel like?, posted by bassman on August 25, 2006, at 13:45:34


I'd like to agree, but add, alas, they are technically generally "addictive", and many people find they need to take higher and higher dose to keep up the effect. So long term use can have a dark side- for many- not for all- but for many. And that's when you start to hear about the "withdrawal stories"...

I thought my doctor had good advice: "use benzos as more of a tool than as a final and sole solution for your anxiety, if at all possible."


> That's pretty much my expereince of what a benzo "feels like", too. It is more the absence of anxiety/depression than, say drinking, in which you know something is going on. Benzos just sort of remove anxiety without doing much else-if you didn't know you had taken one, you'd say you just "calmed down". Of course, different people have different reactions to benzos. I think sometimes people feel the benzo has stopped working because they no longer get sleepy-so they take more. That can cause problems...the only really difficult dependence problem is when a person takes more and more of a benzo until they are taking so much they show side effects-but they are at such a high dose, tapering is difficult AND they have to put up with side effects from the high dose.


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