Posted by cybercafe on August 25, 2002, at 1:06:27
In reply to Re: Parnatecybercafe, posted by utopizen on August 25, 2002, at 0:16:28
> I'm curious to know your particuliar change in social anxiety symptoms while on it- I also relate to feeling bored around my friends... a lot. People in general bore me at the moment.
hmm! .... i used to be really really bad...
like i would feel deep inner turmoil if i was being instructed and couldn't follow instructions absolutely perfectly ... ummm... i guess i would be worried that people are looking at me or judging me ... it's hard for me to even imagine wasting my time with such thoughts now...
however when it comes to agoraphobia like sitting in a movie theatre for hours or in a car... or approaching cute women i'd probably go for some gabapentin .. though i'm on the lowest dose and am just starting to see my depression lift ...
though i think inability to sit still might be more agitation than anxiety in my case... like i notice all of my friends can just sit still whereas i am always moving about... i am hoping this will disappear when the depression goes into 100% remission .. and things become more interesting...> But how do you fare on public speaking with the stuff? Do you still need to mix anxiety cocktails, like add klonopin or gabetin?
public speaking? like a speech? ... don't know how i'd do on a speech, but i can speak loudly and unapologetically to groups of people without getting that fear/sadness response if suspect they are displeased...
i mean i am more interested in doing stuff i like then pleasing the people around me now...... i take gabapentin sometimes because i want to be able to sit still -- i don't think this was caused by parnate itself... also if i am going to be talking to cute girls or groups of strangers (i love socializing what can i say??)
> I'm tempting to ask (read: beg, since I sort of asked two months ago) my doctor to get on this, but seriously doubt I could convince him that it could work in 3 months... he's not so patient even with my ssri's.
why beg? .. just print out some studies.... lots of studies... do you live near a university? med school? psychiatric facility with a library? hospital?
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