I recently started taking Klonopin for anxiety, 1-2 mg per day, presumably for the long-term as a maintenance medication to curb the "edge" off of my thought processes which, in the past, have led to periodic brief psychotic episodes. It seems to work fine for this - the quality of my thoughts themselves isn't changed much, but their intensity and my resulting anxiety from them is definitely diminished. I've been trying to keep my dose at 1mg, but later in the day if I feel especially manicky or start to freak out about something, I'll take the other 1mg pill. So far the only noticable side-effect is a sort of sleepy, slightly hung-over feeling in the mornings, which usually goes away soon.

My question is, is there anything I need to be concerned with in taking it long-term? I know for a fact that I need a long-term maintenance med, but nothing nearly as harsh as an antipsychotic or anything. Does anyone know of any other meds that work well for curbing manicky/delusional thought processes without a lot of undesirable negative side-effects and without completely stifling creativity? So far I really like Klonopin, but was wondering if there was anything I needed to know about it being used long-term...