The effects of benzodiazepines are varied and depend on each person. It’s 10:30 p. m, and I just had 0. 5g of alprazolam. It is not a very high dose, but I am not used to this type of medication and the effect is intense. Alprazolam belongs to the benzodiazepine family and is indicated for the treatment of panic and anxiety disorders.
There is absolutely nothing strange about what I have just eaten, as modern society is overmedicated, but I want to record the immediate mental, emotional and behavioral effects.
- The effects of benzodiazepines reduce abnormal brain arousal.
- So I took advantage of this by taking advantage of the fact that I’m a little restless these days.
- I’ll write down everything I feel when I feel the effect is at its peak.
- I took the drug sublingually.
- That is.
- I stuck it under my tongue and let it go little by little.
- But in the end I had to drink water because it is very bitter.
The effects of benzodiazepines vary by dose, context of consumption and characteristics of each person.
It’s 10 a. m. 50, I’m already starting to notice the effects, I’m a little calmer. A calm that gradually translates into sleep. Now I could lie in my bed and sleep. I could also go out on the street for a walk, but I would certainly lack reflexes and driving would be impossible, I couldn’t go to work either, it would be very strange, I feel like I’m living in a movie. I look at what’s going on around me, but I feel like it’s not much for me.
The noise bothers me. I had to turn off the TV and tell my family to keep it. Overall, I became more sensitive to external stimuli. Despite being more relaxed, am I sensitive to anything that stands out from the environment: loud sounds, bright lights?
My mental processes are slower. I couldn’t get involved in very complex tasks or have conversations that required a high level of attention, but I can act with some normality.
I get up to go to the bathroom and walk slowly, wash my hands slowly. I look closely at every move. I go back to the living room and sit on the couch. My eyes are fixed between the screen and a random point around me. My movements are slow.
I am a little hungry. When they talk to me I have to make an extra effort to be careful, I press the computer keys at normal speed, but I make more mistakes, in general my psychomotor coordination has decreased considerably and I could not perform physical exercises. tasks that involve some kind of physical or mental effort. As I mentioned earlier, I couldn’t drive. I couldn’t study or read anything too complex.
According to research to date, what I feel is a reduction in the transmission of nerve impulses, thus decreasing my overexcited brain, there is a depressive effect on my nervous system, having hypnotic effects, it also sleeps me and will reduce my night awakenings.
According to this research, the benzodiazepine that I just took potentiates the effect of the neurotransmitter GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid), inhibiting the neurons with which it comes into contact to slow down the transmission speed, causing a state of calm.
This time I took it on time, but about how long we need to take this medicine, the professor of pharmacology at the University of Alcalá Cecilio Alamo González says that “they are good medicines. tolerated and safe if taken for short periods of time?two to four weeks if indicated as hypnotic, or two to three months if taken as an anxiolytic. Can it cause problems for long periods of time?
My worries are still there. They have not disappeared, my mental activity has diminished, but the problems are not gone, and when the effects are over I will have to face my demons again, I still think about what worries me, which keeps me awake, with drowsiness, I do not react so intensely emotionally, but conflicts have not calmed down.
Leaving the resolution of internal conflicts in the hands of the drug is a half-resolved solution. The effects of benzodiazepines can initially help us calm our emotion, and also help us have a quieter day or reduce anxiety to their highest peaks, but until we resolve our mental conflicts, we will not achieve peace. interior we want.