I have made many mistakes when it comes to Benzos. Possibly one of the worst ones was buying a huge tray of Etilaam branded Etizolam blister packs, due to the cheaper rate on offer for a large bulk purchases. The largest amount it was possible to purchase. I cant remember the amount that was in the tray but I think it might well have been 1,000 x 1mg tablets. Yeah I think that was it, 100 bundles of 10x1mg blister packs. I had totally given in to my Etiz dependancy at that point, and had not the slightest intention of quitting any time soon so I just thought why the hell not.
I thought that I had been so shrewd in grabbing myself all those Etilaam Etizolams at such a cheap wholesale prices for the price of each individual pill wokred out very cheap..
I should have seen the inevitable consequences of having so may benzos to hand. I think people here warned me but I chose not to listen. My naive / delusional plan had been to carry on with my usual dosing and to simply stockpile the surplus, as the use by date was plenty long enough. They were legal then too so no legal worries about being busted with such a large amount in my possession.
Inevitably my usage rapidly sky rocketed and I began boshing them like smarties, boshing a whole strip of 10 at a time, sometimes boshing 4 whole strips at a time just for good measure. It was absolute madness. I would never repeat that mistake again. Hopefully. During this period I got fired from 2 jobs. I have never been fired before or since. It was just impossible for me to get out of bed some mornings or even to be able to hear the multiple alarms go off such was the crazyness of my benzo usage. Also not surprsingly my standard of work when I actually made it in was not up to par.
As Oscar Wilde said "I can resist everything except temptation" and I know exactly what he means, especially when it comes to having ridiculously huge stockpiles of drugs. This is not something that could ever work for me.
Another very bad benzo mistake I made was to make a 3:1 strength Phenazepam to PG mix solution. And then I just sipped on the solution throughout the days as if it were some kind of cocktail. I had seen a post from Mugz shortly before saying that he had done the same thing, in making a Phenazepam PG solution and had taken to sipping on it throughout the day as and when desired. Everyone else was telling him what a terrible reckless idea that was, but such was the state of my lack of judgement at that time, that I thought it was a great idea. It's no surprise that Phenazepam has such a reputation as the train wreck of all benzos. The disinhibition and loss of judgement is like nothing else, and whatever judgement or common sense one may normally possess can go clean out the window. Never before or since have I got myself into so many arguments and come so close to getting myself in danger of being beaten up so many times such was the level of fucked up-ness and Phenazepam fuelled aggression. Once again it was a miracle that I wasn't arrested during that period, although I did have visit from 3 of the boys in blue who had a word with me due to a complaint about my behaviour from some of my neighbours. I just got a warning to stay out of their way basically, and luckily that was it! That whole Phenazepam period was pretty much a fugue state for me, for several months I didn't have many clear recollections. I did enjoy Phenazepam and it made me feel good but becoming "irresposnsible" doesn't come close to describing the negative effects it had on my behaviour. I was constantyly getting into rows with people on EADD during that period too, fortunately that's not something that's happened to me at anything like that extent before or after. It was defintely the caining of far too much Phenazepam that was the root cause of that and many other self created problems.
Another aspect of my phenazepam PG solution that was a big mistake was the ratio of powder to liquid that I chose to use. Any Benzo to PG mixture that isn't a 1:1 ratio is a mistake I would say. PG is not expensive at all, it is cheap as chips in fact even at lab grade, and it doesnt taste bad either so there is absoultely no need to try to dissolve as much Bz powder into each ml as possible. All it does is make working out the dosing confusing and complicated, especially if you are already fucked up on something like Phenazepam. Always keep the ratio at 1mg to 1 ml that way it is as fool proof as possible, at least in terms of working out the dosages.
I probably have many many more benzo mistakes, but the ones that I have recalled in this post are pretty much top of my list I would have to say.
Of course none of this is intended as "dicksizing", it is just some of the mistakes I have made with regard to benzos. I am obviously not proud of some of the things I have done and the stupidity of some of my behaviour. But what's done is done, and if nothing else at least I have learned from my mistakes. I am also thankful for having found a positive and constructive way to view mistakes in order too keep ones mood, positvity, and self respect in tact, rather than in tattered ruins. To learn from a mistake and to think through what I could do differently if the same situations ever arise again, is the only way I know of which allows moving on from bad situations in a healthy way, otherwise one can end up trapped in endless ruminations, guilt, shame, and self loathing that one just cant escape from or move on from.