Benzodiazepines for specific social situations?

I have social phobia and I have found benzodiazepines to be helpful in specific challenging social situations. Like a family meeting, a promising date, presenting a workshop (the hardest of all) etc.

Alprazolam (Xanax) and Lorazepam (Ativan) are the most effective for me. I have, sometimes, used much larger doses than prescribed and it resulted in embarassing situations due to excessive dishinibition, but I don't do it anymore. I'm very careful with the doses now.

What about you? Any experiences with benzos?

Ativan shoves a stake through my memory, and it doesn't help that I developed a strong tolerance for it very quickly. It helped with my anxiety because I wasn't really conscious for the anxiety. I tend to stay away from them. That's just my experience.

I used to take Klonopin a lot. I was prescribed 2.5 mg in the AM/ and PM. I would pretty much take it on an 'as-needed' basis. This helped a lot while I as bartending. Sometimes I would get really anxious and take too much bc it wasn't working fast enough for me. I also developed a tolerance. Xanax makes me stupid, but Klonopin chilled me out.