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What do Benzos do for you?

Relieve anxiety, mostly. Although I think their effectiveness is starting to diminish. My anxiety is starting to get worse; I drink a fucking lot of alcohol so my GABA receptors are on the verge of being completely fried it seems. I don't know what to do. Maybe I should start weaning off clonazepam and see if my quality of life improves, but it's hard to say what is causing what.
 
Relieve anxiety, mostly. Although I think their effectiveness is starting to diminish. My anxiety is starting to get worse; I drink a fucking lot of alcohol so my GABA receptors are on the verge of being completely fried it seems. I don't know what to do. Maybe I should start weaning off clonazepam and see if my quality of life improves, but it's hard to say what is causing what.

Hey man, I see a little bit of a parallel between my situation earlier this year and yours that you describe. I was a long term user of banjos and often drank too. I did my best to keep heavy alcohol use away from banjo use. I decided to quit banjos this past June. My mistake was in taking up the slack with more alcohol, and knowingly becoming dependent on it. I wouldn't recommend that at all. What I would advise is to wean off the alcohol before touching your banjo doses. It's a lot better to be a functional banjo addict than a functional alcohol addict. Healthier AND cheaper. Once you've got the drinking down to a manageable level (say only on weekends, or only 4 days a night maximum, you make the rules), then start figuring the banjo problem. When I tried to solve this riddle backwards it just fucked me right up. Minimize alcohol, then minimize banjos (or cut 'em out). Working this shit out takes time and it is normal for anxiety to go up during such a transition, so having time off of work helps, as does patience. It took me like four months to get off of alcohol dependence after I quit the banjo. Any familiar activities that are anxiolytic for you such as video games, drinking tea, doing yardwork, whateverthefuck, that will help too. Best of luck to ya.
 
Hey man, I see a little bit of a parallel between my situation earlier this year and yours that you describe. I was a long term user of banjos and often drank too. I did my best to keep heavy alcohol use away from banjo use. I decided to quit banjos this past June. My mistake was in taking up the slack with more alcohol, and knowingly becoming dependent on it. I wouldn't recommend that at all. What I would advise is to wean off the alcohol before touching your banjo doses. It's a lot better to be a functional banjo addict than a functional alcohol addict. Healthier AND cheaper. Once you've got the drinking down to a manageable level (say only on weekends, or only 4 days a night maximum, you make the rules), then start figuring the banjo problem. When I tried to solve this riddle backwards it just fucked me right up. Minimize alcohol, then minimize banjos (or cut 'em out). Working this shit out takes time and it is normal for anxiety to go up during such a transition, so having time off of work helps, as does patience. It took me like four months to get off of alcohol dependence after I quit the banjo. Any familiar activities that are anxiolytic for you such as video games, drinking tea, doing yardwork, whateverthefuck, that will help too. Best of luck to ya.
Thanks man I appreciate it. I could use some new hobbies. That's part of the problem; i get so goddamn bored and end up drinking and smoking weed (although not the worst way to alleviate boredome.) Cutting back on alcohol would be nice. I'm tired of going to work hungover plus it affects my job performance...which is a terrrible thing at my workplace honestly. I'm always at work and it seems like I'm forced to confront my problems first-hand. Fucking banjos man, I can't live life without them seemingly. I'd like to cut back on alcohol but working night shift makes it very hard to do. I'm fucking sick of it, I want to be like a normal human being or fucks sake. Only time willl tell, but I do want to cut back on my bad habits.
 
Send me floating...make me sleep (eventually) though I can work through the fatigue. Instant lull into la-la land.narnia if I lay down though-- For me, a short little shit, and thin--I would say a good 2mg of Klonopin and maybe 1 or two foot balls of xanax will put me there..Otherwise, if you use them sparingly, they can keep you relatively chill and take the edge off, with a tinge of drowsiness until you are used to it.
 
You know it really depends on who you ask. Some people find no recreational use for benzodiazapines. But for me it has great medicinal AND recrestional value. Benzos are my second DOC after opiates. I have bad insomnia so a Xanax bar or two (they are counterfeit but still contain 2mg of alpralozam.) Is great for putting me to sleep and feeling very chilled out and yes euphoric in its own way. It's nothing like taking some good strong clean opiates like hydromorphone and oxymorphone, but than again nothing is like that ;)
 
Amaraline-

Your doctor switched you from 4mg of Klonopin a day to 15mg of Valium a day? wtf? lol.

that doesn't make any sense. 0.5mg Klonopin is equiv. to 10mg of Valium.

So that's basically switching you from 4mg of Klonopin a day to 0.75mg of Klonopin a day.

Of course that wont work for you.

You need at least 60-80mg of Valium a day to feel as good of a good relief you had while on 4mg of Klonopin a day.


Anyway, I don't really like Benzos on their own.
They're only useful for sleep IMO.

I only like benzos cuz they make my opiates stronger.
 
Benzos I took only because my know-nothing Big Pharma-ass-lickin' doc would easily give me a script for them stinkin shit whenever I asked for it - the xanax blues where my favorite... fuck did I adore those lil blue devils! I absentmindedly swallowed that spirit-killing garbage for, like, 3 n' a half years, lost two beautiful high-paying jobs, almost killed myself at the very least 5 times and it's an absolute miracle I didn't kill folks... but then, I just can't be absolutely 100% positive the recurring hard-core darker-than-the-darkest-moonless-night dark nightmares I experienced weren't in the objective world... But no, I don't think so... I do know that the coke-n'-alcohol-n'-benzo fueled beast that I may have been in my confused memories ain't the real low-key, understanding & trustworthy me that won't ever be so confused and fucked up like that no more. I don't believe in God, but Satan will readily show himself to me if I binge on booze n' benzos. 'Zepams are the absolute most scary drugs for me.
 
ease comedowns
kill bad trips
ease over-stimulation
take me through travelling
make me eat a lot

Ah, I definitely agree. It reallly helps with spur-of-the-moment anxiety and to mitigate over-stimulation on stimulants. Also a great sleep aid, but this varies with each benzo; some are designed specifically for insomnia, whereas others just have sleep-inducing properties as side-effects.
 
opiates are just as addictive, so be careful on both sides. you have 8k posts, so I am sure you know but just putting it out there, lol.

benzos very scary, too.

try Phenibut; its a GABA and works better than Gabapentin and you can order right online since its legal; great drug and always kill my urge to "use" any other things.

What do you mean by they are as just addictive? yes by physically they are very addicitve, but mentally not so much. Alohocol is much more addicting in mental site, and as addicitive in pcyshical site. I never had any craving for benzos, Ive using benzos for over 10 years, never over 2 weeks every day, usually few times a month with big doses. Opioids in the other hand are very addictive in mental side and also physically. But I would never even in wildest dream would say benzos are mentally as addicitive like opioids, they are like on totally different planets. Alochol is much much more adddicitive mentally. Its really hard to think that anyone could get any craving for benzos, only if they ahave strong anxiety or panic attack, but then its need to feel relieved, not craving really any benzos. Benzos can easily used every now and then. YOu know even that opioiuds tend to give craving every now and then but nicotine and porn cravings are much stronger, they are crazy.
 
Benzos make me feel less scared and makes me feel more relaxing (including my muscles). Not using this too often though.
 
I have a very high benzo tolerance. Been on and off for five years. They make me not have to feel, if that makes sense. I feel normal. Never feel as fucked up as I actually am, though.
 
They help me from being a total nervous wreck because of my anxiety...thankfully I hide it well most of the time. Also if I actually went to get prescribed them (and I could easily get prescribed them due to how severe my anxiety can get)... then calling off work wouldn't be so scary. I even went to work very sick that I even cried from the pain because I couldn't handle picking up the phone to tell my job, lol wtf. That's probably the reason I never call off work and just go. Also I wouldn't care about answering my door. However, I don't want a prescription for benzos because that wouldn't be good. So I just deal with it


Also benzos and heroin was the best thing ever, but obviously dangerous. I don't do those things anymore. Good times though. Well mostly >.> I used to just pop xanax and kpins...then do heroin. I really didn't care a few years ago.
 
Anxiolysis, lowered inhibitions at recreational doses, hypnotics like temazepam induce rushing onset of euphoria then a cozy sleep, muscle relaxation (i.e. diazepam, clonazepam, diclazepam), antidepressant properties achieved through the TCA-like structure of TBZD's alprazolam (also increases dopamine) and etizolam, potentiation of opioids, dissociatives and GABAergic sedatives, ease stimulant-induced anxiety and tension, comedown and withdrawal aid.
 
Coming off 12mg of Xanax a day (legitimately prescribed) after nearly ten years on Xanax was the worst! My psych decided I still needed Diazepam for my GAD, so I take 2x5mg twice daily which allow me to function normally. They just take the edge off my day. Atm I am taking just 2.5mg of nitrazepam which just helps me to sleep. They have absolutely no recreational value to me anymore. Unless you really need them, avoid, particularly Xanax IME
 
I'm off pills now for a year smoking legal bud ... Never been happier peace

still off the pills - still doing well - having lots of sex - who knows maybe thats my new addiction . dont smoke very much either anymore .... and i dont miss it . any of it . peace
 
I cannot describe how much benzo's helped me as a person with GAD and panic attacks they changed my life and allowed me to function, its as if they end the vicious cycle of thoughts which cause my anxiety and stabilise me.
 
I cannot describe how much benzo's helped me as a person with GAD and panic attacks they changed my life and allowed me to function, its as if they end the vicious cycle of thoughts which cause my anxiety and stabilise me.

^^^^ This. Benzo's changed my life as well. They broke the vicious cycle of Physical pain from crohn's disease and fibromyalgia. And the resulting GAD and panic disorder brought on by living in constant pain.

I was a shell of a man. I wasn't living. I was existing. In constant pain and fear. They took me out of that along with venlafaxine and allowed me to function again. To think about others and not just myself anymore. To reconnect with my family and friends. To take better care of myself. To want to do things to help others.
 
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