Posted by King Vultan on September 5, 2004, at 21:59:47
In reply to Re: ? for those with SP--------King Vultan, posted by TheOutsider on September 5, 2004, at 12:56:59
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> I have to say that my Social anxiety/phobia was not proceeded by panic disorder, or general anxiety.
> Nor did it develop at age ten or anywere around that time, it really started when I was seventeen.
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> I'm really interested in Todds assertion that desipramine and nortryptaline can be effective for social anxiety. I always thought that they were quite ineffective.
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> My social anxiety doesn't seem to benefit from serotonin drugs, I've triad clomipramine, celexa and prozac without having good results, they just seem to make me tired.
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> Curiesly I got some relief from Adrafinal which effects noradrenaline.
> Also from dexedrine.
> I also possibly have ADHD, maybe I have a noradrenaline/dopamine disfunction rather than serotonin.
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> Feel a bit hopless about it at the moment because doctors here (UK) are so bad! Also desipramine is not available.....:(
Some people's SP does show remarkable improvement on SSRIs, as Donia's did, while for others such as me, they seem to be much more marginal. My estimation is that SSRIs and Effexor only reduced my social phobia about 50%, and it wasn't until I got to the tricyclics that I realized that the serotonergic drugs had just been treating the symptoms (and not very well), while nortriptyline and desipramine seemed to actually go right to the problem at its source and nuke the heck out it.However, my particular problem may have more similarity to panic attacks than does most people's SP, as one of the manifestations of mine is progressively increasing sweating that I seem largely powerless to control. It happens in certain situations where I feel trapped, such as standing in lines, eating in a restaurant with someone, or in other social situations where I feel that I'm under scrutiny. I actually don't have a great fear of people and feel that my social skills are relatively good overall; it's this blasted stupid phobia that is my problem.
Todd
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