Posted by SLS on October 11, 2011, at 22:57:35
In reply to Re: Lyrica - social phobia » SLS, posted by Solstice on October 10, 2011, at 2:13:15
Hi Solstice.
I apologize for not replying to your post sooner.
> > For me, the social phobia was at its worst between the ages of 17-20 while I was in high school and college. It got appreciably better through psychotherapy. However, only the addition of medication made it disappear entirely.
> Scott - what medication was it that was so effective in addressing your social phobia?Hmm. That is an interesting question. For the most part, I found that my social anxiety remitted as my depression remitted, regardless of the drugs used. The combination of Parnate and desipramine allowed me to live without social anxiety, so long as I continued to attend to the residual psychological issues that contributed to it. I found Nardil to not only be "anti-social-anxiety", but also "pro-social". I think it made me hypersocial. If one is not careful, one can conclude that it is this hypersocial state that is what they should be searching for as a cure to their anxiety disorder.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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