Posted by jerimycoplo on April 28, 2004, at 1:34:28
I have been prescribed 1 mg of klonopin by my pdoc per day recently. It has completely chnaged my life. Apparently my anxiety was the biggest issues I had and not my OCD. I used to feel like others were talking about me, looking down on me, felt constanly super vigilant and anxious to the point that life was absolutely no fun. After starting to take the 1 mg klonopin per day my life has COMPLETELY CHANGED. I am making tons of freinds, i feel like my true personality is shining true, i speak my mind and strangely enough people like it and they like me. I also am more productive with my work and school since I don't spend all my time worrying about how things could go wrong. For the first time in my life , I can say I am truly happy. I am dating good looking girls and have many friends.
This is compared to before the Klonopin when I felt horrible just being around people because of anxiety.
Now about the addiction part. If I stop taking the klonopin, I will*of course* be pissed, disappointed, unless i find another med that can make my anxiety go away: because who would want to live a life of anxiety like the one I had
to live without it? Does that mean I am addicted to it? I think not. It seems kinda oxymoronical to think that. When I missed my daily dose or not ran out, I get somewhat irritable- but there is a reason behind it: I have seen how life *SHOULD* be (warm friendships, dates, no excessive anxiety) and when I don't take it all that horrible NIGHTMARE of anxiety comes back and I find myself (although temporarily) in the same boat I was for most of my life when I had not being treated for GAD, Social phobia, etc...(anxiety) and I realize how faulty and abnormal my perceptions of reality are when I am unmedicated...
So is that the definition of addiction, because it seems rather illogical when looked at it this way...your opinion?
jc
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