@Xorkoth plus, I feel there's a pretty big difference between being told by doctors (even though I know it's not common practice) that they are willing to prescribe you benzos daily, even for years, so long as you take them as prescribed and see them monthly VS deciding you are going to just buy Phenibut and take it regularly, even after hearing about all the horror stories on this forum and others, and knowing that Phenibut is not well understood in the western world and that you won't have a clear path out if you end up dependent.
I had doctors who knew the amount of Klonopin I took daily and who I could call if I had issues but Phenibut is just another story. I like it a lot, but I have never heard of stories of hearing voices for days on end and psychotic breaks from benzos like I have from Phenibut, and I'd know where to turn if I had issues with my Klonopin.
I guess I feel like there is a "war on benzos", both on this forum and others, where everyone is told that taking benzos daily is the worse thing that can ever happen to someone, even though I have done it for years and never had WD.
I mean, I'm drunk so I might be a bit feisty, but I have had people tell me that being dependent on 1.5mgs of Klonopin daily (yes, EVEN FOR YEARS) is worse than just buying heroin off the street and taking it on your own just because benzo WD can IN THE WORST CIRCUMSTANCES lead to death, whereas opioid withdrawal doesn't.
Well, the flip side of that is that I bet anything if you did a study on how many people die from over doses of ONLY benzos per year (meaning no alcohol, no opioids, NOTHING but the benzo) vs just heroin per year (though it might have Fentanyl in it) that there will be an overwhelming amount more of overdose deaths per year from heroin.
I really don't feel that low to moderate dose benzo dependence is a horrible thing. I think it has it's dangers but that they are more subtle in nature like grogginess and irritability that builds up slowly over years which yes, I have noticed some of, which are some reasons I want to cut down.
It's to be avoided surely, but there are worse situations to be in, and from what I have read of some of the threads on this forum where people took like 10 grams of Phenibut a day for 6 months the situation was WAY WAY worse than my situation from taking 1.5mgs of Klonopin daily for 15 years.
Some of those people went through prolonged periods of psychosis and insomnia for weeks with hallucinations, whereas I've had none of that from just taking my 1.5mgs of Klonopin daily and forgetting about it.
I've used too much of many substances, but after reading certain posters threads about their nightmare experiences with phenibut it does kind of make me wonder how anyone can allow themselves to get that deep with it....aside from if they are going through really bad times which then, yes, I kind of understand how anyone could go too far in the wrong state of mind.