What Anti-depressant is everyone on for their Social Phobia

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eascusa

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Hi everyone, I was wondering what everyone is using for an anti-depressant if they are one? I have been on so many different ones and it seems like nothing helps me. I just got off Zoloft which I was on the highest does for a few years but I still had bad depression and ssocial problems and all around anxiety and even obsessive thinking. So I decided to go to a Psychiatrist because I am in the middle of a court case where i have to get up on the stand and just walking i nto the court room alone freaks me out and my heart which I already take beta blockers for to calm down ust goes crazy. I feel like i am going to have a heart attack and I am suppose to get on the stand and answer questions and then put up with my husbands Attorney? I know I have to do this because my husband who they live with at the moment is completley neglecting them esoecially my yougest who is o nly 6 and has Autism but he refuses to get him diagnosed or ant therapy. He can barely even talk and he is 6! So, I have to do this for him but I ask myself, "How the hell am I going to do this?" Anyway, my Dr. put me on Norpramin which I have been on now for almost 2 months and gave me more energy at first and I was hopeful but then it started going down hill with a bunch of bad side effects. I have all over severe swelling, I am even more agitated and upset than before, I feel like I'm going to freak out or something, I can't sleep at all until 4:00 in the morning even though I am on a sleep med and anxiety pill and some other things. My court date is the 20th of this month and I don't see my dr.untill after the court date although I called him and he said that what he put me on wouldn't cause those symptoms. Bull ****! I have been down this road for too long, too many times. So just now I decided for now I am going to stop the med he put me on and go back to the zoloft for now since I still have a lot of it left and see if my swelling goes down any of the other symptoms get better. I am so sick of this! My whole life has been about my Social Phobia. No decision I have ever made was what I actually wanted to do from my heart instead it was always about wether or not I could do it because of my Social Phobia and then of course I had to make a different decision than I would normally make for myself if I was normal. This has screwed up my whole life. So, I was curious what others are on? Maybe there is something I don't know about that might help me. Thanks for listening. Oh, I guess I should tell you I already tried Paxil and Effexor XR. I can't remember the others at the moment but those two didn't work for me. I think it was because of the side effects from them that I quit. At least I know it with the Paxil one.
 
dannyboy65

dannyboy65

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About your son having autism I know how tough it is to grow up for that and I hope him the best I was diagnosed autistic 2 years ago. I take sertraline for my depression and anxiety I take 1 at night, I also take repiridone for schizophrenia and anxiety I take one in the morning and 3 at night, then I take quetiapine at night for insomnia. I hope the court goes well for you, and your boy deserves help I'm 17 and still don't know how to talk to people to well so I wish you the best of luck
 
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