How long does xanax high last?

In truth, masking anxiety whenever you want by popping a pill instead of facing your fears and learning to overcome them would be actual ignorance.
And this is coming from someone who had severe anxiety in the past. How about that for facts?

 

Well mabey some people need to start with drugs to get them going, without things like xanax they might never change. That sound like a life changing situation to me.

 

3-7 hours depending on dose and tolerence.

 

i took a 1mg xanax bar today around 11am. i got home around 11:30am and feel asleep till 6:30pm so id say 6 hours is acurate, i still feel a lil groggy but i can tell most of the benzo effects are gone. Boy do i hate benzos, i only ate it because there was one in my car from a buddy that left it in there and hey im not just gunna throw good drugs away so i was driving today with a bad inspections sticker and passed a cop, then he pulls out behind me and im thinkin he gunna pull me over for the sticker, so i quickly swollow the bar. cop doesnt pull me over, i get home, fall asleep, wake up 7 hours later. not a fun drug for me....

 

I just heard today that mixing xanax and methadone gives you the same feeling as taking H. Sounds like sleep walking to me.... no thanks.

 

Very, very, true. I was in a similar spot, and got horribly addicted to benzos..2 years later I find myself having to face those same fears with even greater anxiety from xanax addiction..

Please folks, don;t lie to yourself, if you can use these drugs responsibly,,great.. but when you start abusing these drugs it will really fuck you over..

 

Xanax wasn't fun for me, either. I've done it a LOT (but still few enough times to consider that use recreational), but I can't fucking remember much at all from any of those times and have no idea what I really did and what was a dream. For me, I'd just take a little blue football, sometimes even half, and I'd be fucking screwed to the wall for the whole fucking evening and then the whole next day I always felt like fucking shit. I'm little, though, and I didn't do it often then (don't do it at all now), so I couldn't really tell anyone how long their high would last. I imagine it depends on a lot of stuff, how much you take, body mass, tolerance. But it just isn't worth it to me, not at all.

 

About a year ago I started having anxiety attacks. I did not have any fears or problems in my life. Sometimes they would get so bad I would just curl up into a ball on the floor and lay there. My doctors could not find a reason why this was happening to me. I was put on xanax for a short time. It didn't really help and only masked the problem for the few hours that the xanax lasted for. Then I was sent to a specialist and he told me that xanax was bad shit and was not going to help me. He took me off the xanax and put me on Mirtazapine and the anxiety left and never came back.

Sometimes anxiety just like depression can be caused by physiological problems and not psychological problems so I'm sorry but I cannot agree with your statement. As a matter of fact the first thing the doctor who put me on Mirtazapine told me that anxiety and depression go hand in hand and studies have proven that in MOST cases (not all) chronic depression is caused by physical problems and not psychological problems.


Oh yeah....And Fuck The Police!!!! LOL!!!!

 

To say that a psychological problem is the inevitable result of a physiological problem is skipping a step - the perception and interpretation of the physiological problem.

Something like chronic depression is a psychological problem by definition, that isn't even arguable. What you are saying is that a physical malady can lead to someone developing a psychological pathology, which is only potentially true.
It isn't like there is some 'depression bone' you can break that gives you a psychological condition. The psychological condition arises from psychological factors.

Look at amputees or people who suffer accidents that have left them handicapped. You have tons of people who are unwilling to mentally accept the change in their lives and develop a psychological condition, not directly because of their physical ailments, but because of their mental attitude towards those physical ailments.

When we look at events like the Paralympic Games, it becomes evident that succumbing to depression is not the only option upon some initial crisis; there are many people who healthily adapt, or even embrace the change. This type of adaptability does not have to be extraordinary, we can all do this.

I strongly believe that psychotropic medication should be exclusively reserved for the most extreme cases of helplessness. For most people, this condition does not describe their level of anxiety.
It is widely known that psychotropic medications are abusively and apathetically prescribed in large amounts on a daily basis. If you have an anxiety disorder, the best thing you can do for yourself is to discover what the basis of your fears are, and then to slowly confront those fears over a gradual period of time.
Why take a pill to numb and mask the problem, when you could do the work and have the courage to want to change your life, and be a more holistic and healthy person that isn't dependent upon chemicals to provide them with a particular state of mind?
You are in control of your life, no one else can fix things for you. If you want to be a certain way, then do something about it.

BTW, I don't want anyone to interpret me saying that someone is weak-willed for taking medication. I fully understand from first-hand experience all the hopelessness and desperation of anxiety and depression. I only wish to convey the reality that it's possible for actually healing to occur rather than endlessly using bandaids for a wound until you die.