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sneedman he/him Off my meds  2mo ago (text post) 380 thread views #261580
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I think :marseyoscargamble: I'm addicted :marseyjunkie2: to benzos

What is addiction supposed to feel like? I can't sleep :marseyhatman: without taking like 5 or 6 of them. I feel light-headed and like I'm going :marseysal2: to puke when I'm not on them. Is this addiction? I'm not particularly compelled to take some, but I know they will cure the symptoms.

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tell your psychiatrist so she can make a plan to taper you down from them. your body had developed a tolerance for the drugs so high that you cannot function normally without them.

The increased GABA inhibition on the neural systems caused by benzodiazepines is counteracted by the body's development of tolerance to the drug's effects; the development of tolerance occurs as a result of neuroadaptations, which result in decreased GABA activity and increased excitability of the glutamate system; these adaptations occur as a result of the body trying to overcome the central nervous system depressant effects of the drug to restore homeostasis. When benzodiazepines are stopped, these neuroadaptations are "unmasked" leading to hyper-excitability of the nervous system and the appearance of withdrawal symptoms.

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