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Mental Health Do Benzo's make anyone else angry?

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Every time I take any benzo I get super moody and angry. I don't even notice or realize it but I just tend to go off on things, whether it's a person or a random situation where I will just rant and rant over something so stupid. I don't realize till after I'm done and I'm just what was i just doing?! Xanex does it to me the worst, while Klonopin and Valium do it too but not as bad. I don't usually take benzos because of this but sometimes I have to, I'm pretty sure the drug is just making me not care what I'm saying, which could be alright in the right scenario, but still not cool. Anyway anyone else have any "dark" thoughts to report on benzos. The main argument that got my ex wife to be my ex wife happened while I was taking Xanex so I'm sure that was a contributing factor to our divorce I said some real bad things that normal me would never say. I only take my benzos when I run out of pain killers to deal with the w/d but I wish I didn't have to take them at all because how they affect me. Anyway what's everyone else's opinion on how benzos mess with their mind?
 
Hey Jo3 and welcome to Bluelight:)


The combination of withdrawals and benzos may make people angry. I also had a friend who would get pretty mad from just benzo's.

You may want to consider trying gabapentin for the withdraws instead of the bonzo's. it will likely work better and may not cause you to get angry.
 
when i take them, they usually help with my anger. you may be having a paradoxical side effect to them.

what are you prescribed benzos for?



ps i'm moving this to Mental Health since that is more focused on medication :)
 
Benzos can produce paradoxical effects, and are perhaps more prone to creating such than many other classes of drugs. It may mean you have an underlying disorder that's not being taken care of. Does it come concurrently with depression?
 
I already also take gabapentin for sciatica and rls, should of mentioned that before. I have been getting benzos for social anxiety and they work great for that and I feel like I can talk to people again but the side effects just suck. I don't take them when I do have my pain medicine and if I do it is many hours apart so they won't interact. As for the depression part I usually will get that once the benzos wear off or the next day. I can't tell if it is the opaite withdrawl or the benzos doing it though, probably both.
 
I used to hate when my son was on benzos--he was nasty and arrogant. In my mind they have always been associated with this behavior.
 
One time when I was using halcion for sleep, I got very agitated for no good reason. I was told I was breaking things and cursing really loud. I guess it was bad because the neighbors across the hall called the cops on me. I had no memory of this the next day.
 
I stopped the prednisone last week, only took two doses of it before going too crazy to take anymore.
 
I have done a few things that were quite awful on Xanax, particularly, as well. Though I could get just as nasty on other benzos if the dosage is high enough. For me, I find the onset of xanax to be stronger , though more short lived, while the others you've mentioned seem to have a more stable effect on me if that makes sense. Anyway, where I go wrong is I'd start with a low dose, usually for purely altruistic intentions. I then would begin to think, 'if one feels god, 2, 3, 4, etc must feel terrific!' (which is completely incorrect) and then, next thing you know, I'm a raving lunatic, angry as hell because I feel like a bear that's gotten a tranquilizer dart, total anesthesia walking and in my younger years, I've gotten into fist fights, been totally out of control with bad temper, and have set a car on fire on one occasion.

In my defense, I stopped taking these type of things around 2000, after the incident with the car and subsequent arson charges. It sealed the deal for me mentally about my inability to successfully handle benzos.
 
herbavore said:
I used to hate when my son was on benzos--he was nasty and arrogant. In my mind they have always been associated with this behavior.
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Yeah, literally everyone I know who've abused benzos seriously are real assholes when they're "under the influence", especially with the arrogance and narcissism and just general dickheadedness.
 
Xanax made me black out a few times....Did some stupid stuff.....Valium always made me angry at first than it would go away. Never blacked out on it. One time I took a klonopin without a tolerance with a glass of red wine and blacked out for three days......Xanax makes a lot of people moody because they have no tolerance and black out. If you don't black out you'll just notice that little things bother you.
 
I know that this may sound silly in this forum, but going off of caffeine made me angry. I have a really major sensitivity to caffeine. I was off of caffeine for about five days or so the other week and I was a total bitch to these ladies that kind of cut the line at the local ice cream store. Yes, they were bitches, too, and cut the line, but I was like, "Excuse me!!! I was in line, you know!!!" They said that they thought that I was staying in the line that I was in, despite the fact that the place opened a new window. I said, "No...you didn't really even give me a chance to go to the new window, you know!!!" Whew!!! Not like me. I don't like confrontation, but bam! In this situation, I took it to them. Then, a few days later, when I was parking at a local clothing store, a guy in an SUV a ways away from me said that the way that I was parked might cause the SUV to my car's left to hit me - i.e., well, he was saying that I didn't park too well. I looked at him, said nothing, got back in my car and drove across the parking lot and parked somewhere else. Again, not me. Caffeine's a drug, baby. Seriously.
 
benzos do not agitate me in the slightest. far from. i did have a roommate who kinda got that opiate-esque agitation from them. not dark thoughts or anything. being out of it and then getting frustrated with anything that required his attention. like you'd tell him to turn up the tv and he'd starting half mumbling, half yelling about not being able to find the remote (on his lap).

sounds different than what you are describing, J03. your description reminds me more of the "mean drunk." he just got confused and distracted easily on them, which would lead to frustration. like someone shooting out of the nod shouting "what? what are you saying?" when no one said anything. i always knew when he was on xanax because he'd act like an idiot and then get pissed about it. pissed for the 5 seconds he could focus on his inability to focus. while under the influence, they reduced his cognitive ability significantly more than the average user. that was enough for him to decide they were not worth it. after a couple of years.
 
yes. when i was on lorazepam/ambien (ambien isn't a benzo but apparently they do the same things in your brain) i was told by multiple people that i was "a different person"- "going off at the slightest thing," "so angry all the time," "scary," etc. i thought i was being reasonable. i was not. i was projecting all of my insecurities on unrelated statements and requests. my friend didn't ask me to turn the air off because she was cold, it was because she wanted to control me. my brother didn't call not because he was busy, but because he didn't care about me. etc for all of my relationships with other people. it was illogical and paranoid. benzos/Zs can do good for some people but they can definitely create something really nasty in others. i used to take ambien and lorazepam every day, so it just became part of how i thought. now, i take less (tapering because withdrawal from them is terrifying), and i feel like i see things normal again. it wasn't me thinking that way, it was the benzos fogging up my mind, bring out something in me that i don't think was there before.
 
Benzos seem to have a lot in common with alcohol. They both work on GABA and they both induce a drunken state. When I would take xanax it usually made me a loving drunk.

I was always telling people how awesome they were and talking about how we should go on grand adventures, shit like that. It has also made me a depressed drunk. I was never angry on benzos but I could definitely see how someone could get angry when taking them.
 
I've never gotten the whole benzo rage thing which is odd because alcohol can make me quite violent under the right or wrong circumstances. I have seen people completely loose it on benzos though and Xanax seems to be one of the worst offenders for causing this. The worst I've seen was when a old pal of mine took 2mg's of clonazepam. Now he is a pretty violent guy as is (i don't suspect he will be seeing the outside of a prison cell for the next 10 years or so) but on benzos he is completely fucked. I had to take a switchblade away from him at a party as he was dead set on stabbing this other cunt. I then spent the rest of the night keeping him from killing the other guy. To top it all off i never even got laid because i had to fucking play bouncer all night. Real fun night indeed 8)
 
I think after chronic use the resulting depression could definitely lead to anger. I never became angry using it short term.
 
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