Posted by yxibow on October 13, 2009, at 11:10:07
In reply to cosmetic psychopharm?, posted by CareBear04 on October 12, 2009, at 23:45:58
What did he mean by that? Was he responding to my concern about my personality change or suggesting that shyness is problematic and that it can be fixed with pills? How much of the prescribing these days is "cosmetic" in the sense that we're taking all the diversity out of people and flattening everyone into some idealized model of perfection?
Nobody is perfect, that's for sure, you're right. And some things can be solved by therapy rather than another medication for something. It is partially about simplifying your medication(s).
While blunting and the haze that medications can put on someone, I don't think it changes their core personality. Powerful and dangerous street drugs... well, not sure. But then that can be associated with a personality set of its own.Why don't you ask him if he's proposing a "quick fix". I think shyness or being reserved not a DSM-IV-TR diagnosis... its just part of someone's personality.
But, social phobias that create shyness that don't allow the reserved nature of people to open up when they get to the stage where someone usually opens up to someone (a friend, a dating partner, etc), can be stifling.
Still... its not something I would drop a pill on -- instead, I think psychotherapy of some kind is better in that case.
-- tidings
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