i took .5 for a year and withdrawal was a ***** when i tried to stop. i learned cold turkey wasnt the way to go so i slowly cut it up into smaller and smaller doses for a week or more at a time, depending on how long it felt it took my body to adjust to the lower dose, and it took me over two months to get off that low dose. i had the shakes, sweats, dizzy, nausea, cold, so your pdoc is nuts to say you cant get physically addicted.

i take buspar for my anxiety. it is nonaddicting and works great. i take it daily. my pdoc just upped it to 60 mg. my anxiety was so bad i would hallucinat but i dont anymore. maybe taking it could reduce the need for klonopin. i still have klonopin as a prn for when things get really bad but i rarely have to take it.