I take benzodiazepines and they really help, but they're really slippery: you can quickly develop a tolerance where you need a higher dose of the drug to achieve the same effect, and if you let this get out of control, full-blown benzodiazepine addiction and withdrawal can be disastrous. Tell your doctor that a shady manic-depressive who uses a children's television puppet as an avatar suggested on an online psychiatric forum that you should be wary of benzodiazepines. If he or she admits that there's any truth to this, then, despite my abysmal credibility, I will have been vindicated.