Posted by zeugma on November 22, 2003, at 15:48:10
In reply to Re: social anxiety suffering... looking for some help!, posted by tony_sa on November 22, 2003, at 3:39:59
the tradeoff is going to different for every person. Labels like 'nootropic' and dumb drug', thrown around so much by sites like http://biopsychiatry.com, are highly misleading if not virtually useless IMO. Alcohol is certainly a 'dumb drug,' in fact far dumber than any commonly prescribed psychotropic, and yet I was able to write graduate-school papers on copious amounts of it and get A's... because my constant anxiety was quelled long enough to string thoughts together coherently (even though there was a relatively brief 'window of opportunity' before the motor activity of writing became impossible... alcohol is a drug with a truly frightening adverse-effect profile, and that makes it impractical as a treatment for long-term anxiety).
If you try Klonopin, just be alert for any effects both good and bad. That goes for any drug.
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