Posted by garnet71 on May 28, 2009, at 21:13:01
In reply to long term benefit from single benzo, posted by linkadge on May 28, 2009, at 20:51:06
I, too, have thought about why this happens in the past. Just intutively, for me anyway, I think when your body starts to feel anxiety, when it starts physically and not mentally, the benzo somehow prevents the overactiveness in your mind that will escalate the physical part of it--like when you get mental anxiety from physical anxiety. When you get anxiety from having the anxiety itself, this works. When my anxiety is more mental rather than physical, this might not work as well, when the mental part already started. But for long time periods, my anxiety always seemed to start physically; like I'd be feeling fine, then that nervous feeling would emerge from my the center of my upper chest. Benzos seemed to prevent anxiety for days in such cases, now that I think about it.
I'm really not making sense, am I? I'm tired.
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