Posted by zeugma on May 14, 2004, at 16:58:10
In reply to Re: Klonopin - Makes you talk more or less ?? » zuzu80, posted by finelinebob on May 14, 2004, at 16:24:25
<I think that if klonopin reduces your anxiety and inhibitions in a social setting, then it can enable you to talk more freely. That does not mean that you will. Being someone who is "painfully shy", I know there are a lot of social skills I never learned -- no medication is going to give them to me.>
I think this is true, but there is more to it than that. I mean that if someone is not merely "painfully shy," but suffers from true social phobia/avoidant personality disorder, it is not a lack of social skills that causes the inhibition. it is a disproportionate, uncontrollable reaction to social stimuli, and things like CBT become a farce compared to the way Klonopin can treat this disorder.
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