Posted by finelinebob on August 25, 2006, at 20:38:20
In reply to Re: What does taking a benzo actually feel like?, posted by bassman on August 25, 2006, at 19:58:16
First of all, I must disagree with the "a benzo is a benzo" comment. If that were true, there would only be one. They may have similar pharmacodynamics (yep, had to look that one up!) but that hardly means they are the same. Anyway...
Have you ever been in a room with a lot of fluorescent lights? Like a classroom or something. Everyone leaves but you, and it gets very quiet, and then you can hear it -- the hum of the transformers for all the lights. It gets lost in the background noise unless there isn't any noise to cover it.
That's what clonazepam did for me -- it flipped the switch to "off". It wasn't that I was feeling something new or different, it's that something HUGE but subtle was all of a sudden gone. It's as if all my life, my entire nervous system had been vibrating and humming, producing this low-level of ever-present anxiety. And clonazepam turned it off.
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