In my personal experience, I never felt good off anything that is primarily a gabergic. Not Phenibut, not clonezpam, definitely not Valium, not kava, not Ativan, and maybe once or twice on Xanax but was hard to find that effect again. And please note I always had a very low tolerance to these drugs. This was over a 20 year period just dabbling when they are around.
I will say that they are very useful for what they are meant for if prescribed for short term, well maybe clonezpam outweighs the risks in epileptics that can’t tolerate or get benefit from other drugs. They were useful for alcohol withdrawl and when I went to the ER for stimulant overdose, but that’s really all I like them for. I just don’t enjoy the high.
Seems like gaba drugs make me feel depressed when I’m high on them (not in therapeutic doses). Even real high quality kava sent me strait into a depression day 1.