Posted by evenintherain on April 11, 2010, at 13:17:55
In reply to Any med that made you gain interest in people?, posted by Economist on April 10, 2010, at 15:02:48
I have been having this problem too. I used to find meaning in human relationships, but now I just fake it. In fact, I find everyone either extremely boring or highly irritating.
I tried to explain this to my pdoc, but couldn't really get the idea across. I finally settled on saying i'm highly irritable, and this isn't normal for me. I don't know if I'm experiencing social phobia or not...i try to avoid people if possible, and mostly stay in my room (my roommate drives me crazy and I now pretty much hate him) but also try to go out and see people once a week or so, because in the past it helped with depression. But it hasn't helped at all for the past 6 months or so, it just makes me more aware that there is something wrong. I still like my friends and want to show support for them, but I find the time spent with them is very unsatisfying (and sometimes unbearable) and makes me sad. Maybe it is some extreme form of anhedonia and maybe it is actually Causing social phobia?
I am not on any drugs right now, so can't really suggest anything. This feeling seemed to progress after i weened myself off Cymbalta (during withdrawal i was highly irritable, and the intolerance of people seemed to start at the same time). Since then the only drug I have tried is Parnate, which I unfortunately couldn't tolerate (it didn't seem to help anyway).That write up on GHB was definitely interesting (hardly objective, though, i think).
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