Posted by bleauberry on November 18, 2008, at 17:10:33
In reply to Antipsychotics for Social Phobia, posted by Michael Bell on November 18, 2008, at 13:25:41
I was on 5mg Zyprexa for 8 years and it was amazing for social phobia. 20mg Prozac by itself got me about halfway where I wanted to be, but the addition of Zyprexa was a total cure.
It not only worked as a maintenance therapy, but at times when I was not on it and needed some quick relief in a crowd but didn't want to go the xanax route, zyprexa had me comfortable and at-ease in that crowd in about 1 to 2 hours after dosing.
Seroquel sort of worked, but not really. I never took more than 50 and only took it a few times as-needed, not continuously, so I can't judge it fairly. The way seroquel worked was by basically making me so drugged I didn't know or care what was going on around me.
More than ten years ago I tried low dose amisulpride for a few weeks. It increased social phobia at first, but in short time it was excellent at ridding social phobia.
So anyway, my experience with antipsychotics on social phobia have been very positive, but I am mostly giving credit to Zyprexa, and secondarily to Amisulpride. I can't speak much of the others.
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