Posted by utopizen on May 14, 2004, at 16:21:15
In reply to Klonopin+Adderall, posted by btnd on May 11, 2004, at 19:48:18
> Amisulpride worked fantastically for my social anxiety, but in the end stopped working.
>Okay,
first off, my social anxiety was terrible as a little kid. My psychologists relates my obsessional thoughts and social anxiety to a possibly benign case of Asperger's (a trendy dx I initially dismissed, until I read the DSM-IV criteria of it like someone had diagnosed my childhood).
Makes sense, sense humans are adapative, and now that I'm 20, I have been able to realize what people's facial expressions mean. I guess, early as a little kid, I didn't, possibly, and this left me anxious due to the confusion. (That, plus a speech impediment that went away later in life). Anyhow, point is anyone suffering from social anxiety will assume they have it worse than anyone else, but once I got to college I slowly realized after a long while others around me had it so bad my friends would come up to me and point examples of someone acting akward out to me to joke about it with me. And that was before I went onto Klonopin, after failing the antidepressants and such.
Klonopin's not bad, Adderall has no point and I really hated it because it made me anxious-- more so than Desoxyn, which I take now for ADD. The idea that because you have social anxiety, you need to take a med that will make you more talkative, is really misguided.
Klonopin helps you realize you don't need to talk as much as your perfectly imagined self expects you to do-- and that simply being calm, appearing calm, and listening to others without feeling the urge to speak as if speaking anxiously would hide the fact that your anxious-- is all you really need.
But I would just go on an antidepressant along with Klonopin, because generally you probably are a "unique" person and the social anxiety could be a symptom/diagnosis indicating something needs some modulating in the long-term.
Abilify, an antidepressant, and Klonopin, possibly Straterra along or instead of an antidepressant, should do wonders-- I regret thinking Klonopin+Desoxyn alone for my anxiety+ADD would do the trick, because I did lapse into depression.
And hello? If you have social anxiety, chances are your 'support group' is rather limited, as much as you want to deny thinking about counting how many friends you have. If it wasn't for college and being forced to have roommates and then my likability leading me to be friends with them down the road and them introducing to their friends (apparently this is how social networks work, go figure, simpler than they make it out to be!) I'd have no friends at all.
Mainly, I have roommate friends, kids I either continue to room with or roomed with before, and they are slowly becoming comfortable enough with me to introduce them around their friends as I get better at controlling my social anxiety through CBT+meds.
Oh, it's brand name, but I suggest getting Klonopin wafers for at least a month if you get on Klonopin. You can always save some leftovers for emergency cases in your jacket pocket, then go back to TEVA generic (the only decent generic Klonopin).
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