re: Which is worse? Smoking and drinking, or depression meds?

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Surely you mean 2.5 mg

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No, They started me at 5mg as needed. i "needed" 25mg after a couple of months. Built a comical tolerance to it. Not my finest hour.

What’s wrong with smoked meats?

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Pot is actually horrendous for you if you do have mental health issues and yet i think flying away to never never land is an ok escape every now and then. Just not all the time.

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This is the truth. People that have mental issues think this shite helps, it doesn't. In a lot of cases, it magnifies the problem leading to anxiety and stress and overthinking things that sober wouldn't enter your mind in the first place.

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Schedule 35 is your friend

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yes.

I take the 500mg capsules recreationally (tons of fun) and the 250mg capsules about twice a week. There are no side effects and my clarity, empathy and decision making is much much improved

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Smoking and drinking, or depression meds?

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Depends on amount. I think drinking and smoking in moderation - especially if among friends - is much healthier than SSRIs.

A starter dose of clonazepam Aka as Klonopin is about 0.5mg to 1mg a day. The largest dose it is available in is 1mg. Were you taking 25 pills a day? If no, then you are mistaken on your dose or which medication you were actually taking.

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Alcohol is a fricking depressant

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Not for me. It's a stimulant. Its awesome

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Ok just looked it up. The max dose for Clonazepam aka Klonopin is 20mg a day. That is fricking insane. I don’t know how anyone could function. I was an oncology RN 29 years and I have seen massive amounts of opioids and benzodiazepines prescribed. I have never seen close to that amount prescribed.

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It wasn’t. 5mg was the dose per day. But those were given to me 30 days a month. At first, one was enough. And it was really an every other day thing. First time I tried two it felt the same as one. Just slept a little longer. Then I “needed “ three. I only ever took them at night to wind down. Only vacillated between one and three based on how much I drank. First time I took three I passed out on a hammock outside at 1am. Forgot my dog was with me. Woke up and he was asleep under my hammock.

I was like ok well that worked out. The clonapin killed my hangovers too. Made me drink more. Which made me need to take more to kill the hangover. You know, so I could work remotely the next day. I was also squeezing in 30 mile bike rides every other day. The bike rides were the only thing that killed how much I drank that night. Then the weather turned and I couldn’t ride as much.


First time I did five felt the same as doing one. How I went from one to five took six months maybe? So you can imagine the surplus I built up script wise. Because every month I refilled it rain or shine. After month three I Told my doc I was taking two every night. He didn’t bat an eye and adjusted accordingly. At three he told m me to keep an eye on that.

I never went past five. Found a bit of a homeostasis there. Until I asked for more at that point to support the volume. That’s when I started getting phone calls. Needless to say, the people in my life had to step in. Was never allowed to see that Dr again.

Never had trouble kicking that either. Was really weird. But I kept drinking the same and just upped the pot consumption to make up for the clonapin deficit until I forgot I needed it. No withdrawals. No begging the hot moms in the neighborhood for their stashes.

Like I said, not my finest hour.