social anxiety

All forms of anxiety are treatable not with meds. Meds help begin the treatment so that learning can take place. The best way to overcome anxiety is to see a psychologist and a physician or psychiatrist that will work together. I have never heard any DR. say that meds will cure these disorders. The first thing to remember is that there is something bothering you or something that happened to make you change your behavior. You have to start and the beginning and have someone to support you and be with you as you confront what is causing the anxiety so that healing can take place. It is cure able and you can live a very normal life.

 

Meds never had any positive effect on me. Quite the opposite in fact, I over dosed on them. The worst part was waking up and being confronted by different people for differing reasons..There was my parents telling me how selfish i was and there were others telling me i should have done it properly if i really wanted to do it..There are those that don't deserve to die in such a way but i aint one of them.

 

What meds where you one? Thr Dr.'s and therapists I know pay close attention to the reaction of patients. There are many types of meds to make sure that this doesn't happen. I am really sorry that you had such a bad experience.

 

Fluoxetine,Paroxetine and Amitriptyline, which was the one i was longest on for....This was going back over 10 yrs now so i had to google to remember the names and spelling....The last i was prescribed was Risperidone, an anti-psychotic but i didn't use it hardly at all because it made me sweat and feel very ill. They only gave me a small amount at a time of the others after ODing on the Amitriptyline, which was the first i was ever prescribed.

Note: I was given the Risperidone because i pretended i had those symptoms anyway..I just wanted something strong to cause an effect but it backfired.

Thanks anyway,

Simon

 

Simon

Did you see a therapist while you where taking the meds or just a physician?

 

I quit caffiene recently and there's a small improvement, not nearly as much as I thought there would be. I have been sleeping so much that makes me pretty amped.
I do have a lot of anger for people who can function, it makes me really pissed off but I find that staying alone negates a lot of the crazy. Bored=sanity unfortunately.