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Clonazepam Or Diazepam for Generalized Anxiety And Panic Atacks: Which Is Better?

smoking weed is a terrible idea for anxiety/panic attacks, as weed is a mild psychedelic and can induce or greatly worsen feelings of anxiety, stress, or panic. this is this reason why some people don't like weed, it's psychedelic effects can induce paranoia and/or anxiety/panic attacks in people prone to anxiety.

All i can tell you is that this formula has helped me greatly, personally. I believe i said, and should have empathized, that this "instrospective-weed-smoking" was done after i was medicated, and sedated from an anxiety anyway.....


but i do smoke everyday benzos or not so really i wouldn't have made a difference for me. once again if you smoke weed anyway and find that it never gives you panic attacks or anxiety then this might work for you too. but i do understand where you're coming from.
 
My girlfriend and I used to smoke weed. She would occassinally use it when she was feeling anxious, but she noticed it sometimes made it worse. Weed definitely helped for the most part, but we've both stopped using weed. With no tolerance I find it actually makes me anxious, so I think you need to have a tolerance to weed before it will help someone calm down. And even then it doesn't work for everyone, but it definitely does work for some people.

She recently started trying risperidone and she is having her risperidone dose upped from 0.25 to 0.5 mg so she couldn't add xanax as her doctor only wants her changing one med at a time. She has never used any dopamine-acting anti-psychotics before, but she has tried many things and nothing seems to be working. Her doctor feels her dopamine levels need to be adjusted so he has been slowly working her risperidone dose up. She doesn't experience psychosis, but she does get paranoid due to her anxiety and she is experiencing panic attacks daily so we're gonna see if risperidone helps. She tried Seroquel very briefly but found it made her feel too drugged up.

So for the time being she has changed her 10 mg valium to 1 mg clonazepams. Rather than having a 10 mg valium and a single mg clonazepam she now has 2 mg of clonazepam daily. We also have some etizolam which she uses in worst case scenarios. It is from a trusted online supplier and is fairly hypnotic, so it helps when she is panicking badly at night and can't relax or get any sleep.

Once her other meds are stabilized she will try xanax for panic attacks and continue with clonazepams for the evening to try and prevent panic attacks.
 
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