My Guide to Overcome Social Phobia

Klaus

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Guide to Overcome Social Phobia

First of all, you need to scape from everybody who makes you anxious or put pressure on you.
If you live alone and don't need to beg for money, it's far better.
If you don't need to do a job that you hate and feel nervous just for thinking about, it's better too.

You just need to have self-discipline for conquering Social Phobia.

0-Wear clothes that you feel fine in it, it doesn't need to be the lastest fashion, you just need to feel fine wearing them.
1- Wake up early every day.
(It's good for your self esteem to feel like you are awaking at the time that everybody wakes up.)
2- Eat well and healthy!
3- Shave your beard if you are men.
4- Listen to self confidence audios every day.
5- Pray if you belive.
6- Be clean.
7- Try to meditate for 10 minutes every day. If you can't focus on your breathing, just try to stand-still.
You will eventually improve afters few days doing that.
8- Running. (When you start to run, you will sleep better, feel hungry in a more normal way and feel naturally more relaxed.)
9- Physical exercises. (When you get a beautiful body, your self esteem will definitely improve)
10- When you feel depressed or anxious, express yourself with music, writing or painting. You will feel more relaxed after doing that.
11- Improve your talking skills, just pick up any text that you would normally read and try to read in a loud tone and slowly. That will make you feel more secure about talking with people.

11- Write in a paper where you want to go and when you want to do it. And take your time.

I insist, if there are people putting pressure on you to become “normal” and not “shy”, to work and etc, you will not overcome social phobia! That's the main reason that you are shy! Because you don't want to let people down.
Only if you take drugs you can overcome with people yelling at you.
But that's another different approach.

And one last very important thing:
Do not talk about social phobia with your friends!
Normal people don't understand it even if they want to understand, and you'll get hurt sooner or later!

PS: If you have any addiction like staying online the whole day, if you have a robot as girlfriend, if you use cocaine or heroin, if you spend the whole day searching for porn, you will definetely not overcome social phobia. You need to feel the desire to interact with human beings.

The main reason that young people get out at night is to find sexual partners. You need to let this desire grow. Do not make sex with your computer!
 

Klaus

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Forget about it

None of this will work if you have social anxiety since childhood.
Nobody is that strong to endure suffering. Nobody is that strong to overcome severe SA by CBT alone.
I went to a shrink today.
I will start efexor tomorrow.
 
Re: Forget about it

Klaus said:
None of this will work if you have social anxiety since childhood.
Nobody is that strong to endure suffering. Nobody is that strong to overcome severe SA by CBT alone.
I went to a shrink today.
I will start efexor tomorrow.

I concur
 

Remus

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Re: Forget about it

Klaus said:
None of this will work if you have social anxiety since childhood.
Nobody is that strong to endure suffering. Nobody is that strong to overcome severe SA by CBT alone.
.

I have had it since childhood

CBT worked for me

drugs did not
 
What we do know is CBT and the anti-dep work on two different mechanisms. Brain scanning showed CBT effect predominately the frontal cortex, whereas anti-dep effect predominately in the Amygdala.
 
Remus said:

There is no debate whether they are efficacious for anxiety/depression. What is debated is the mechanism for their effectiveness (do they work by alterations in a circuit that deals with the anxiety, gene expression, nerve regeneration, hippocampus volume, effect of SA to cause downstream changes. Those are all possible theories for this class of meds. What we do know in depression and somewhat in anxiety, is in order for these meds to show efficacy you need SA present in the synapse. In other words you need to have the SA there to hold them in the normal position.

The second link you posted had Proff David Nutt, in it he states:

David Nutt, a psychopharmacologist at Bristol University, UK, points out that if SSRIs provided some sort of placebo benefit, this should not be discounted. He notes that "the true drug effect is that of the drug added to that of placebo which is not the same as no treatment".
 

Remus

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tinstafl2003 said:
David Nutt, a psychopharmacologist at Bristol University, UK, points out that if SSRIs provided some sort of placebo benefit, this should not be discounted. He notes that "the true drug effect is that of the drug added to that of placebo which is not the same as no treatment".

I'll have to try those placebos then, hope they are cheap

:lol:
 

Remus

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Staff member
tinstafl2003 said:
So again there is an increasing body of evidence which has now indicated that pharmacological treatment is effective.

From Pharmaceutical companies by any chance?
 

creep_x

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Re: Forget about it

Klaus said:
None of this will work if you have social anxiety since childhood.
Nobody is that strong to endure suffering. Nobody is that strong to overcome severe SA by CBT alone.
I went to a shrink today.
I will start efexor tomorrow.

Every one is different. What may not work on someone may work on someone else & vice versa/
 
That is true, but generally SSRI's will work in patients if they stay the course. Studies have shown possible mechanisms of individuals who have resistant depression/anxiety and possible augmenting agents which could be useful.
 

FlirtyandDirty

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Remus said:
interesting:

http://www.socialphobia.org/fact.html

In particular, antidepressant treatment using SSRIs has been shown to be useless.


I can of course only speak for myself, but I took Citalopram for two years, and as someone, who you yourself know was extremely reluctant to take meds, it was the best decision I made. My psychiatrist and OP both wanted me to take them years prior to me finally going to the doctors and saying I would like to try them. I was doing my own CBT and taking the meds, and they were definitely not useless. I do not believe that either one could have worked without the other to give the results that I achieved.



 
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