No worries about the typing, totally understandable.
Hope you manage the necessary "landing" you are needing.
Seems like aripiprazole wouldn't be on my "go to" list for what you were using it for in the above case, but antipsychotics and dissociative types of meds, in my personal experience and opinion, are my least favorite pharmaceuticals for any purpose. But that is besides the point and totally subjective.
This is an easy one to answer.
The "genuinely enjoy barbs" is 100% true only because of the Euphoria and Recreational experiences I had with them which ended at least 10 years ago, when they just didn't exist anymore ( expired stock included....the main source of all the samples I managed to get my hands on back in those days).
For the purpose of medicinal value at this stage of my life and with the new medications on the market, I wouldn't be touching barbituates at all, even though they were in a class of their own, especially with regards to stimulant come down assistance.
Never had any pharmaceuticals since those times given me the same Euphoric, Clean and immensly pleasurable feeling I got from those big 3 mentioned in previous post. And being lucky enough to experience them back then and still be alive to tell the story is the reason I mention them on BL when it seems appropriate.
So purely for "abusive" purposes the Barbs were fantastic.
Hope this is what you were asking.
Case in point, if you had Vesparax, Secobarbital, Tuinal or even Rohypnol on hand to help with the "abortion" of your "trip", I would be recommending any of the first three mentioned as the best and most effective "come down" tool - with the Rohypnol coming in as the best in today's times as it is still available (I do know that Secobarbital is also still available, but getting Flunitrazepam would be easier than Secobarbital I would think).
And there would never be a "come down", as the "come down" when medicated with the above became a very pleasurable part of the whole trip, in fact it was the part of the trip I was always looking forward to, but only if I had any of the above meds on hand for when I wanted the trip to end.
Oh and almost forgot to mention that I agree with your take on "benzos/carisoprodol/gabapentin" being the better option ( hence the whole Stilpane/Meprobomate "thesis" I posted earlier to another BL member). - carisoprodol and meprobamate are basically "twins" of a sort (like Lisdex and Dex).
But the Barbs were "S Tier" for me.
The only problem is they worked so well that less than an hour after everything was smoothed out ( come down over, anxiety over etc, ) the very next step I would always do was just to do it a again ( take another trip or stim and "buy the ticket and take the ride' again and again ).