How long have you been getting treatment?

[alltoomuch]

I've been getting treatment for SA for four years now, I'm 29. I was on Paroxetine for about 3 years and am now on Venlafaxine and Mirtazapine. I am slowly getting better (I think), but at this rate by the time I am 100 I may be cured.

 

[sabbath92001]

I've been doing Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) by myself since April of 2005. I still have Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD), depression, etc. but I'm dealing with it a lot better now.

 

[kyle]

I was diagnosed in September 1992. October 7, 1992 was when I was put on Nardil. So 15 years to be exact.

 

[miguy]

isn't there real treatment....?

hey,

i have avpd myself, just found out but had serious problems all mylife...but is there congitive-behavioral therapy, of course "talk" therapy, that can correct and reverse all the problems like social skills and learning development problems, including all the bad parenting and lack of role model stuff...? just curious....i haven't had therapy yet, maybe in few weeks i have to go back for 1st session...any advice anyone? thx

 

[SilentStranger]

I have been on and off meds for about 10 years. Lately I have not been taking meds (Moclobemide) with any sort of regularity. Not because I am cured of SP, sure I have gotton a bit better. Its because I don't see a huge improvements to my condition when I take the meds anyway and it does make me a bit lethargic and tired.

I haven't been visiting a pdoc that much either. Partly because I haven't found a doc that I am comfortable with since I moved. So I still see the old one only when I go back home (1-2 times a year).

-SS

 

[IceLad]

I am slowly getting better (I think), but at this rate by the time I am 100 I may be cured.

Same here.

I been trying to actively treat SP for a good 6 years now. Somehow, it feels much longer.......

 

[whitmo2]

I just started getting treatment last month. I stopped going because the therapist I had did not get me at all and kept asking me questions that I could not answer. The whole point was to go to the doctor to ask him what the hell I could do to get better. He kept asking me and I dont know. So I dropped him. Plus he wanted to medicate me and I dont want that.

 

[Noca]

3 years

 

[AdamAllAlone]

I just had my first therapy session yesterday

 

[millymoocow]

I just had my first therapy session yesterday

how did it go?