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Who here has been on moderate doses or high doses of benzos long term (3+ years)?

Can you please tell me if it's still effective for anxiety and sleep after all this time.

Also, can you please tell me which benzo and what dosage?

I am trying to find reassurance and hope that I can be on this medication long term because honestly it's the only thing that has really worked for my anxiety.

I am currently taking 50 mg pristiq, 100 mg zoloft in the morning, and 75 mg seroquel, 150 mg lyrica and 1 mg klonopin at night.

I suffer from severe depression and crippling anxiety. I tried reducing the benzo dose multiple times and each time around day 4 it becomes unbearable: rushes of anxiety, agitation, anger, irritability and insomnia.

A little background: I abused drugs in the past, from 2017 to 2024. I smoked weed daily for 4 years, had a period where I did 80 ecstasy pills in like 5 months, did LSD once a month for 22 consecutive months, then did heroic doses of LSD (1000mcg+), drank alcohol and fked around a little with ketamine, pcp and synthetic cathinones. In short, I fried my brain and ended up in a psych ward for 3 weeks.

I am on this med cocktail mentioned above for a year now and it's been very helpful.

I do have an addictive personality and I think I will always feel the need to ingest psychoactive substances till the day I day. But I prefer them to be pharmaceuticals since they make me stable, content and functional (without the madness of illegal/ hard drugs).

Is it possible to take benzos long term? I feel like the benzos are THE ONES that keep me from doing drugs again. I know about the addiction potential, the horrible withdrawal. But I honestly plan on taking them my entire life.

Any advice is welcomed. Please share your experience. I would appreciate it. Thank you very much

Who here has been on moderate doses or high doses of benzos long term (3+ years)?

Can you please tell me if it's still effective for anxiety and sleep after all this time.

Also, can you please tell me which benzo and what dosage?

I am trying to find reassurance and hope that I can be on this medication long term because honestly it's the only thing that has really worked for my anxiety.

I am currently taking 50 mg pristiq, 100 mg zoloft in the morning, and 75 mg seroquel, 150 mg lyrica and 1 mg klonopin at night.

I suffer from severe depression and crippling anxiety. I tried reducing the benzo dose multiple times and each time around day 4 it becomes unbearable: rushes of anxiety, agitation, anger, irritability and insomnia.

A little background: I abused drugs in the past, from 2017 to 2024. I smoked weed daily for 4 years, had a period where I did 80 ecstasy pills in like 5 months, did LSD once a month for 22 consecutive months, then did heroic doses of LSD (1000mcg+), drank alcohol and fked around a little with ketamine, pcp and synthetic cathinones. In short, I fried my brain and ended up in a psych ward for 3 weeks.

I am on this med cocktail mentioned above for a year now and it's been very helpful.

I do have an addictive personality and I think I will always feel the need to ingest psychoactive substances till the day I day. But I prefer them to be pharmaceuticals since they make me stable, content and functional (without the madness of illegal/ hard drugs).

Is it possible to take benzos long term? I feel like the benzos are THE ONES that keep me from doing drugs again. I know about the addiction potential, the horrible withdrawal. But I honestly plan on taking them my entire life.

Any advice is welcomed. Please share your experience. I would appreciate it. Thank you very much

Who here has been on moderate doses or high doses of benzos long term (3+ years)?

Can you please tell me if it's still effective for anxiety and sleep after all this time.

Also, can you please tell me which benzo and what dosage?

I am trying to find reassurance and hope that I can be on this medication long term because honestly it's the only thing that has really worked for my anxiety.

I am currently taking 50 mg pristiq, 100 mg zoloft in the morning, and 75 mg seroquel, 150 mg lyrica and 1 mg klonopin at night.

I suffer from severe depression and crippling anxiety. I tried reducing the benzo dose multiple times and each time around day 4 it becomes unbearable: rushes of anxiety, agitation, anger, irritability and insomnia.

A little background: I abused drugs in the past, from 2017 to 2024. I smoked weed daily for 4 years, had a period where I did 80 ecstasy pills in like 5 months, did LSD once a month for 22 consecutive months, then did heroic doses of LSD (1000mcg+), drank alcohol and fked around a little with ketamine, pcp and synthetic cathinones. In short, I fried my brain and ended up in a psych ward for 3 weeks.

I am on this med cocktail mentioned above for a year now and it's been very helpful.

I do have an addictive personality and I think I will always feel the need to ingest psychoactive substances till the day I day. But I prefer them to be pharmaceuticals since they make me stable, content and functional (without the madness of illegal/ hard drugs).

Is it possible to take benzos long term? I feel like the benzos are THE ONES that keep me from doing drugs again. I know about the addiction potential, the horrible withdrawal. But I honestly plan on taking them my entire life.

Any advice is welcomed. Please share your experience. I would appreciate it. Thank you very much