Posted by john locke on December 22, 2015, at 0:15:57
In reply to Re: Nardil washout and then restart » john locke, posted by SLS on December 21, 2015, at 7:21:26
Even if there is no "reason" for your social anxiety, CBT or DBT can be helpful. It is hard to predict how successful such therapies would be, but it wouldn't hurt to try.
--Meh, I don't really believe in cognitive therapy. I think anxiety is an emotion and solely that. This emotion will very well affect your thoughts, but it doesn't work the other way around. I do read about CBT having success with treating social anxiety, though, so I guess i can only know by trying. I recall one study saying there was barely any difference in the results for patients treated with CBT versus those with simply BT.
--What is DBT?
Anxiety and depression can reinforce each other. It is possible that reducing one will improve the other.
--My first ever therapist was of the belief that depression is always a symptom of chronic anxiety. I completely agree with this. She seemed very confident that this is becoming the accepted truth in psychiatry nowadays.
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