How Benzodiazepines finally kill you... (And you thought popping pills was all fun and games)

Yes, it's fun and games until as soon as you run out, and then you get to experience something you never imagined.

It should be stated before I start this little thread, that a GLP member was complaining about his Psychiatrist treating him like a drug addict over .5 mg of Xanax, and wanting to switch him over to non-controlled anti-psychotic, which is a considerably low dosage in comparison to what I'm going to address.

First of all, I'm going to use some terminology that I've used in my '9/11 was a 100% inside job' threads, like parabolic trajectory. Start getting used to physics nomenclature when I make a thread.

Xanax on a chemical level essentially makes a very quick upward parabolic trajectory with a Y-Max that can't even be considered a plateau, considering how quickly the general effects reach the X axis again, which is the reason people who use it are inclined to take more and more of it to obtain the Y-Max effect. (Chasing the dragon)

However, it's the metabolic and other long term physiological changes that occur which is what will cause you the problems, but they only set in once you're off the drug.

Klonopin on the other hand, graphically speaking does not make this same Parabolic trajectory, it follows the square root function, plateaus, and just keeps going and going.

The General half-life of Xanax is about 11.2 hours, meaning it has a full life of 22.4 hours, which is a joke in comparison to Klonopin.

Klonopin has a Half-life of 40 hours, and a full life of 80 hours before it truly starts to break down, and the life threatening withdrawals start.

Both these drugs kill you in the same way, and the withdrawal symptoms are exactly the same.

1. It starts with Insomia and a lack of appetite

2. Severe aches and pains all over your body

3.Hearing voices and feeling death on the Horizon.

and

4. After about 2 1/2 weeks of not being able to sleep or eat, you end up dying of a grand mal seizure.

This class of drugs is very interesting, because it kills you once you're off them, not when you're on them.

Prescribing this shit is so irresponsible. How long should a proper taper last at the 1 mg dose? A month? 2 months? And why don't psychiatrists tell you about this? It's fucking evil.

Interesting, I was on Xanax 1mg for a couple of years, years ago, when I had free-floating panic attacks. When my treatment was over, there was no taper - they just did not renew my prescription. I did not have any side effects.

Interesting, I was on Xanax 1mg for a couple of years, years ago, when I had free-floating panic attacks. When my treatment was over, there was no taper - they just did not renew my prescription. I did not have any side effects.

Were you taking it everyday? If used only for the occasional panic attack I'm under the impression that it won't cause the body the same kind of dependence. Basically you were taking the drug the correct way is what I'm led to believe.