Misleading or what? (81)

I know exactly what you mean here, i used to treat this condition and it is a condition with alcohol, not a good idea. I bet you work well with certain types of people who are more 'out going' but don't invade your space either, people with a bit of cop on and understanding. A doctor would call this General Anxiety Disoder or Social Anxiety Disorder and probaly put you on valuim or something to calm you down or refer you to head doctor.

I have it mildly, so I take nothing, kinda force myself into uncomfortable senarios its meant to help. check out CBT on google, its mean't to be very good if you get a good skrink or practioner.

the whole thing is based on the fight or flight response in humans, a response we don't need today to that extent. We become protective and our bodies start getting defensive. like small trembles, dry mouth,stutter, shaky voice, sweating more, our nervous system becomes hyper sensitive as a protective mechinism for our survival. it over reacts to the situation.

In CBT, your taught to recognise and to 'rehearse' certain common life situations, your shown a sequence of techniques you use to counter act the bodies responses, over time these become very natural and you automatically deal with the situations easier, that the theory anyways, have a good google. Watch the Kings Speech, a true story of the present queens father and how he suffered and dealt with it.

on the other side, you have a medicine solution. Drugs like lexepro and lyrica and cymbalta are drugs used to treat anxiety of various origin. They are not addictive but some of them have a discontinuation senario to them, you just can't stop taking instantly when you want you have to reduce the dose over time. I have two friends who are on them and they report a massive improvemnet to their lifestyle, I can't say for sure.

But one thing i can say is this condition is dibilating, isolating, and causes severe stress, nobody needs to live like this, and I feel today you don't have to cos help is there, probably start with you doctor and see from there. there is no harm in trying anything, if it doesn't work or is not for you, you can always go back to they way you are now.

Nothing in this post is intended as medical advice or to replace medical advice, you doctor should be consulted in the first instance, everything above is my own opinion and may not be right for you.

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