What Everyone Ought To Know About Anxiety Medications

Alcohol withdrawal, panic attacks, insomnia, anxiety disorders, or simply wanting to calm down from too much stress. What do these classes of drugs known as benzodiazepines do and what do they feel like?

If you are having a panic attack, and you’re having difficulty breathing, and you think you might be having a heart attack because your left arm is numb, then chances are, you’re going to want to take a chill pill.

There are medications that you can take that have an “almost” immediate effect, such as Xanax.

However, what is more likely is that your mind will automatically start to calm itself down just simply knowing that you took the medication.

Xanax, or known also as Alprazolam is readily absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract. The peak plasma concentration is achieved in 1-2 hours. So, there is really no “immediate” effect, other than your mind simply telling itself to calm down.

The symptoms of the attack will go away almost instantaneous. Basically, because of too much adrenaline in your system, your breathing pattern has been disrupted…

Well-known benzodiazepines include Xanax (Alprazolam), Valium (Diazepam), Ativan (Lorazepam), Klonopin (Clonazepam), Restoril (Temazepam), and Mogadom (Nitrazepam).

All benzodiazepines have an addictive potential. So use of benzodiazepines should only commence after medical consultation and prescribed the smallest dosage possible to provide an acceptable level of symptom relief.

Anxiety sufferers (or people having an extremely stressful period in life), if you take anti-anxiety medications, this is what they do (in a nutshell), these medications act more of less like a tranquilizer. Of course, depending on the dosage, any of these medications will relax you, and basically make you drowsy and sleepy. In smaller doses, it simply takes the edge off of a panic attack. You feel more relaxed, and it almost seems that what was on your mind that was bothering you, no longer bothers you at all. (That’s about as scientific as I want to get, here, without boring you death with brain functions and chemistry class.)

However, again, all of these medications are habit forming and or addictive. So do consult a medical professional before taking these medications.

They absolutely do work in the regard of calming one’s mind, similar to the effect of alcohol. And they are easily abused in the respect that if you take a large enough dose, you simply numb yourself to anything and everything around you. Normally, you black out, and don’t even remember being awake for several hours, and wake up in a fog.

So, in conclusion, if you do take these medications, or are simply curious as to what they do… they do have side effects, they act like a tranquilizer, and they can be dangerously habit forming.

Mike Morgan.

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