Will antidepressants help my loneliness and improve shyness?

[inspirer]

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[PunkRotten]

Short answer, NO.

 

[sevenroses]

Well I did take paxil years back it doesn't do anything with loneliness but it somewhat works for social anxiety and making you feel more talkative. Basically takes 6 weeks to kick in.

 

[inspirer]

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[PunkRotten]

That's why I was just asking, more of a rhetorical question. I should have added that I feel pressured to go on medication from a counselor and a family member. After so many years of not wanting to, I now feel more helpless and am becoming more desperate for any kind of help.

Give it a try and see how it goes. It may help yu with some depressive thoughts, maybe some anxiety. But it will not help with loneliness.

 

[Ecclesiastes]

To rephrase my question, will medication allow me to not just talk without caring, but have meaningful conversations (even though I don't think I may not know what to talk about) which could lead to creating relationships?

I don't think it will help in those ways that you've mentioned.. I've taken them for a period of time in the past. You have to take them regularly to see a gradual effect, and it only helps to make you feel less depressed. I don't think any pharmaceutical companies have made any discovery of such..

The only way to lead yourself to creating relationships with people is to open up yourself I guess. After all, relationship is something mutual.