Temporary implies immediately reversible and mild.
People who are on benzos often have emotional regulation issues, serious withdrawal symptoms (sometimes after very short courses potentially even a single dose), and cognitive issues that do not resolve quickly.
In an academic sense, this idea is ‘fine’, but in a very personal way, if someone asked me ‘should I take a member of this class of drug for any reason other than a serious issue that is severely affecting my quality of life?‘, I would answer ‘absolutely not, and if you have a severe issue that they might help with, try absolutely everything else first, because once you’re on these, you’re probably not coming off’.
yeah, agreed—benzos are on my list of drugs to never take if I can possibly avoid it, along with opiates. By temporary, I just mean “recoverably”. many drugs society considers sus or terrible I consider mostly fine if risks are managed, but that generally involves how to avoid addiction, and means using things at non-recreational-does levels. Benzos are hard to do that with because, to my cached understanding, the margin between therapeutic and addictive doses is very small.
Temporary implies immediately reversible and mild.
People who are on benzos often have emotional regulation issues, serious withdrawal symptoms (sometimes after very short courses potentially even a single dose), and cognitive issues that do not resolve quickly.
In an academic sense, this idea is ‘fine’, but in a very personal way, if someone asked me ‘should I take a member of this class of drug for any reason other than a serious issue that is severely affecting my quality of life?‘, I would answer ‘absolutely not, and if you have a severe issue that they might help with, try absolutely everything else first, because once you’re on these, you’re probably not coming off’.
yeah, agreed—benzos are on my list of drugs to never take if I can possibly avoid it, along with opiates. By temporary, I just mean “recoverably”. many drugs society considers sus or terrible I consider mostly fine if risks are managed, but that generally involves how to avoid addiction, and means using things at non-recreational-does levels. Benzos are hard to do that with because, to my cached understanding, the margin between therapeutic and addictive doses is very small.