Posted by myco on March 6, 2009, at 11:13:28
In reply to Re: Treat Social Anxiety w/ Muscle Relaxers instead?, posted by becksFLA on March 6, 2009, at 10:28:43
I think I had something similar to what you describe here about the face...how does this compare:
in public situations I would always be insecure about smiling and showing much facial emotion that the muscles in my face would "fix" themselves to the point of almost twitching or looking odd to people. Some good natured people I know would try to make me smile by playing on this...thinking i'm holding back but it's really an insecurity or adaptation I had to reduce the anxiety of this insecurity of smiling in public. This was more pronounced around those I didnt know during times when my brain and body would feel heightened anxiety. You can deal with some of this through behaviour therapy because alot of it is a learned pattern but there is a biological aspect to it that links back to anxiety...when your body is tensing up so much to cause you pain and distress, like mine was, behaviour changes can only help so far...klon was good for this but the maoi gives a nice sustained calm of this tension that really makes adaptation to public surroundings much more easy. Norflex did this for me aswell but different...the relief of the physical pain it provided felt like a load of my shoulders, so to speak, producing more of a wellness feeling to it that allowed me to relax a bit better but was in no way a long term solution. A great addon though for other treatment options for sure but alone?...youre mileage will vary.myco
> I've just never wanted to go as "far" as an MAOI, I've heard so many stories about those drugs...I'd like to consider this first. And AD's do nothing, I've been on every single one of those also.....
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