ב''ה,
If you want something that 'feels similar,' it's the barbiturates and maybe the weird similar stuff like chloral hydrate although, no experience. The whole innovation of benzos was that going at the BZD receptor was sort of self limiting so they had a pill where gobbling the whole bottle would stop killing the customers.
That said, you'd then figure Phenibut and Picamilon might do something and have worse safety profiles, but just about everyone who has dabbled has lived down the former and the latter is surprisingly placebo for whatever reason, or at least that was a shared opinion when it was a nootropics fad for a while a decade ago.
Don't we all have benzo stories, so.. going to leave the usual note that benzos sure take the edge off but have the same mood effect as getting that much relief from liquor, so you skip the wet brain but if trying to be *less* morose (let's say for the novelty of it, we're all here) benzos aren't the ticket long term and the withdrawal is, at minimum, extra anxiety.
