Posted by Optimist on January 27, 2005, at 10:56:38
In reply to Social Anxiety Disorder or Something Else, posted by TommyIsland on January 27, 2005, at 2:22:03
Hi Tommy,
I've found dopaminergic drugs tend to greatly reduce my social anxiety. They seem to subjectively make me feel socially dominant, in an alpha male kind of way I guess you could say. It drastically reduces my internal thoughts of thinking what's the right thing to say, trying to relax etc... I can just be... and focus on the world outside, rather than being constantly preoccupied with how I feel.
I find Wellbutrin didn't help that much in that regard, but Vitex a herbal dopamine agonist was far and clear amazing for social anxiety. Unfortunatley it tends to poop out after a month, and I seem to get sort of a rebound depression afterwards. That's why I'm going to be trying a more stable dopaminergic like Parnate in hopes to gain a longer lasting social anxiety reducing effect.
Brian
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