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02
What’s the best med/treatment for social anxiety?
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For me, a few milligrams of Diazepam twice a day on school days (where my anxiety actually noticeably affects my life) works alright. My prescription is 5mg twice a day, but once I was in a bad mood and took 15mg at once. I had a mood lift about a half an hour later and a confidence I don’t normally experience for about 3 hours after that… then just mild anxiety for the rest of the school day.
I’m going to see a psychologist that will hopefully be able to teach me how to teach myself not to need the medicine anymore. I hope it helps. If therapy doesn’t work, I see myself popping Hydrocodone and Benzodiazepines when I’m older.
Categories : Social Anxiety Treatment
4 Comments
June 3rd, 2010 at 4:21 am
it has been psychologically proven that it is best to desentization therapy is the best for this along with the exposure therapies or virtual exposure therapies where the patient experiences the situation and learns to react accordingly.
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June 3rd, 2010 at 4:50 am
I was just reading that Zoloft is pretty effective, but you need talk therapy as well.
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June 3rd, 2010 at 4:55 am
I hope you find the website helpful. I have found it helpful for my bipolar meds. I think that it is very important for us with the illness to take action on research of all the meds offered for our disorder. This way you know from the start what the drug is that you psych/doctor is putting you on instead of just taking it.
Make sure you check out this section while on the drug you are researching Before taking (the drug name). Then you can also check out how others have felt when taking the meds on their review.
Hope this has helped you out.
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http://www.drugs.com/condition/social-anxiety-disorder.html
June 3rd, 2010 at 5:17 am
For me, a few milligrams of Diazepam twice a day on school days (where my anxiety actually noticeably affects my life) works alright. My prescription is 5mg twice a day, but once I was in a bad mood and took 15mg at once. I had a mood lift about a half an hour later and a confidence I don’t normally experience for about 3 hours after that… then just mild anxiety for the rest of the school day.
I’m going to see a psychologist that will hopefully be able to teach me how to teach myself not to need the medicine anymore. I hope it helps. If therapy doesn’t work, I see myself popping Hydrocodone and Benzodiazepines when I’m older.
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