Posted by morgan miller on January 25, 2011, at 14:01:38
In reply to Re: Now about Xanax and ? about Klonopin » morgan miller, posted by BetweenDreams81 on January 25, 2011, at 0:38:40
>Especially not a great combo when another person in your life is mad manic and toxically critical/irritable at the same time.
Are you speaking of your mother? This is likely one of the two main reasons why you developed any mental health issues that have interfered with your ability to live a full productive life. Our environment plays just as big a role if not bigger for most of us as our genetics in what we struggle with mentally in adulthood. Which is why I put so much emphasis on therapy.
I do think klonopin is the best option for benzos in most cases. It should at least be the first one that doctors try on their patients. I don't think klonopin was any more flattening than Xanax, at least not for me. Klonopin has an 8 to 12 hour half life and is much smoother in it's effects IMO. I would try a very low dose of klonopin, just enough to make your anxiety manageable, not enough to wipe it out. Wiping out anxiety should not really be the goal with most medications anyway. It's making things very manageable so that we function well and do all the other good things in life that make us feel good and relieve our anxieties. I think if a medication wipes out all anxiety, we are too medicated at that point, in a way that we lose the "good" anxiety that gives us a sense of urgency to do the things we need to do to both survive and thrive.
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