Posted by finelinebob on May 14, 2004, at 20:39:34
In reply to Re: Klonopin - Makes you talk more or less ?? » finelinebob, posted by zeugma on May 14, 2004, at 16:58:10
> I think this is true, but there is more to it than that. I mean that if someone is not merely "painfully shy," but suffers from true social phobia/avoidant personality disorder, it is not a lack of social skills that causes the inhibition. it is a disproportionate, uncontrollable reaction to social stimuli, and things like CBT become a farce compared to the way Klonopin can treat this disorder.
All that is true. I use "painfully shy" here as a euphemism for social anxiety/related disorders. When there is a biological substrate to some behavioral issue, CBT just ain't going to cut it. What I wanted to stress was that klonopin or other such meds can get you to a place where things like CBT can take you the rest of the way -- but they're not going to take you all the way.
Well, unless you're a natural schmoozer, viciously cut-off from your true calling by the despotic rule of a few misguided, aberrant genes.... ;^)
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