Can't always predict, right?
My qualified way of saying that it's less abusable than valium, but seems to pack enough punch to restrain the worst of panic attacks, unlike librium. Valium is kind of weird because active metabolites have very long half-lifes, but it has a duration of action about twice as short as clonazepam. Docs love clonazepam in the states, I'm told.
I tend to think that when people have troublesome anxiety, benzos can liberate them and lead to more energy. My theory anyway. But they are quite crude. Something that directly reduces cortisol and other stressful chemicals is a more advanced way of reducing stress. Benzos are kind of like throwing back in equal force, about as far away from solving the problem as still works to calm people.
I tend to think that therapy while on benzos for more than month or two is less effective than if one were not on meds at all, and possibly close to how therapy can't work if one is addicted.
Really there is a lot out there about how benzos lead to long-term cognitive, neurological, and other health issues overall, really. Even reducing life expectancy, such negatives that it is too close for comfort, for me, like as expected in active addiction again... But hey, they are still being used after a half century of mainstream use, so yeah. Better than barbs for sure, way safer. But still a lot of people with epilepsy are given phenobarbital.
Come to think of it, ativan is probably superior to xanax in some ways. Made me calm, but never really had a body that I would attribute to a buzz or "I'm lifted" sort of feeling.
Weird how herbs of ancient might be superior to modern medicine. I am a big fan of ashwaganda.