I've taken Ativan, and loved it at first because it's so fast acting. But I got addicted to it, and wound up abusing it. I'm on clonazapam now and taking it strictly as the dr. ordered it's not as fast acting as the ativan but it last longer in your system. I take 1 mg 3 X per day and 2 mg at night. Actually that's not quite true, that's my prescription, but I sometimes forget to take it during the day so I'm usually only taking 2 mg and sometimes only 1 mg a day, but I always take the 2 at night. I find mindfullness based meditation has really helped with my anxiety - I got CD's by Jon Kabat-Zinn that I listen to, and that's really helped me managed my anxiety better.

--splitimage