Hear me out... Benzos are the worst drug created. One of the highest harm rates if you just ignore overdoses. That's why this new dope with fentanyl is so bad, because they mix in research chem benzos into it, so the user is in a permanent black out from the benzos when they're just trying to get their opiate fix.
Anytime you see a news story of someone doing some braindead nonsense, its because of a benzo. Sure booze might be in the mix, but its the benzo, its not opiate, its not meth, its from having the blackout equivalent of half a bottle of liquor in a quick and easy tablet form, the worst part is you are so blacked out, but don't know you are blacked out, you have 0 anxiety to even begin to worry about it. Hell, you even decide a beer or two wouldnt hurt, since youre feeling so good, and the effect on GABA is similar to alcohol, so your body thinks its drinking anyway.
How this class of drugs work, is not by magically targeting some anxiety chemical, its by basically deadening all neurological activity in the brain.
I took a prescription for Xanax for 2 months, I was in my garage looking at my motorcycle I hadn't rode in a while, I tried to imagine riding it, and i realized I couldn't even remember how to ride it, i couldn't remember the steps of clutching and shifting in my head. There are stories of guys taking a little prescribed Xanax per day from a doc and take it when they come home from work to chill out, then one day the pharmacy is out of stock and they go a day without it, get withdrawals and realize they cant remember anything from the past 6 months, that they've been like on some sort of auto pilot.
not counting rebound anxiety from this drug, but the things you may do on it may cause repercussions that will ACTUALLY cause anxiety and stress.
I'm a clean record straight laced dude, In one month I managed to have 3 interactions with law enforcement, spent my savings on planet ticket and airbnb to see my ex across the country. I don't even remember it. this is the tamest thing I did that month....How the hell was I at the airport? You lose all sense of self preservation... This is all not counting the terrible withdrawl that can be deadly and is said to be worse than from opiates. There are girls in college getting prescribed footballs of xanax to deal with "anxiety", binge drinking every night and taking the xanax cause the doctor says to take them. You get foggier and foggier and this leads to more anxiety, then the forgetfullness and fogginess leads to apathy and performing poorly in life, this creates more anxiety.
Don't even try to imagine how many people off'd themselves or off'd their family while blacked out from benzos without even knowing it.
The whole reason this flys under the radar is because it doesn't make you high like other drugs, it just makes you dumb and numb, its very easy to hide, even from your spouse, its prescription, you dont need to take a lot, and everyone has anxiety now.
On a positive note, that may be helpful to you and others with anxiety,
By chance I was prescribed Metropolol by an ER doc during a hospital stay for an unrelated condition. He noticed my heart rate was high and I was on edge, I said its been like that for years,
he simply prescribed 25mg Metoprolol it like it was no big deal an said this will fix it
it chilled me out, not like a drug drug, but way more relaxed. I'm guessing I had some sort of permanent cortisol/stress response and the metropolol fixed it. I wasn't rushing around being paranoid thinking something awful is about to happen any moment anymore. It put me in a more sympathetic (or parasympathetic?) state. I wish I was prescribed it earlier.
I took it for 3 years, and I stopped taking it about 8 months ago, and my heart rate didn't go back up to where it was before, neither did my BP actually.
possible without a benzo as that just makes you “not care”. Truly being calm is entirely different and takes the weight off you.
