I got an Ativan script to help w anxiety for an upcoming surgery- and I have struggled w anxiety my whole life – I did try ssris and Wellbutrin, neither made me this relaxed this easily.
I know it’s addictive, but damn I wish it could be the OTC anxiety option like Tylenol or Advil
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It’s like using an energy drink to deal with a sleep disturbance issue. Yes it may have a momentary noticeable effect on your feelings of tiredness, and could be used in a pinch to just get through the current moment, but it doesn’t deal with the larger issue and won’t solve or treat things long term. You could then use energy drinks everyday or multiple times a day but not only is it not helping with the sleep disturbance causing the tiredness, it may exacerbate things from continuing to neglect the sleep disturbance or by bringing in other negative side-effects.
If instead you try to tackle the sleep disturbance by say identifying it as sleep apnea, then trying out different techniques that have been beneficial to past patients like tricks to open up the airway to improve your breathing over time and thus sleep quality. You can try those techniques once but that may not have a significant difference. You would need to try it for a couple months and for your body to get used to it to see if it would be effective.
From my understanding (I’m not a doctor) using benzos can be good for acute anxiety like getting through a panic attack or getting through a flight if someone had an extreme fear of flying. But using it daily for generalized anxiety, even though it feels good at first, can often exacerbate the anxiety in the long term.
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