Posted by gilbert on June 27, 2001, at 10:27:00
In reply to Re: benzos » gilbert, posted by paulk on June 26, 2001, at 21:08:06
I would agree people that have a diagnosis of depression would not probably do well on benzo monotherapy....however for all of us panic and anxiety patients and for me personally I feel my depression is a direct result of the inability to do things because of fear...I >E > agoraphobia. In this case if I am able to function on xanax my depressive episodes lift because I can now be functional. I aslo think that benzos are not without some drawbacks as are all drugs. I would rather over sleep a little or be midly depressed once in a while than have no sex life or be unable to sleep at all. Like I said in my last post I have felt my mood was more altered by antidepressants than xanax. I felt completey stoned on luvox. I was quick to temper and detached on the other ssris's. I did have sexual dysfunction on all of them including effexor which took my blood pressure up. So I feel I am using the least of all evils so to speak. I am sorry I am so defensive but it just always seems that the benzos get no credit and it get kicked around a little more than other drug classes. I have to defend what has given me my life back.
P >S > benzo suicides are almost always in combination with other drugs be it alcohol or whatever. I have a feeling that if those same people had a bottle of inderol they would have swallowed it down with some vodka. Also being alcoholic myself I know very rarely do people kill themselves without a chemical primer. The prevalence of benzo scripts versus beta blockers or some other downer would indicate it was simply the tool available to end their life not necessarily the tool that caused them to end their lives.
Gil
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