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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 498195" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Welcome to the board. And yes, that is social anxiety. </p><p></p><p>I also recommend therapy to help you learn to cope and keep it at bay. I took medications for it for a while, but the purpose was to help the therapy, not to just sort of cover it up. Once I made significant progress with therapy, medications for anxiety were weaned away. medications aren't a cure all for it by any means.</p><p></p><p>I still have anxiety, social and otherwise. No medications. I use the skills the psychiatrist taught me to cope and I function pretty well. The more you place yourself into positions that trigger the anxiety and successfully deal with them, it lessens the anxiety in that area, sometimes can get rid of it completely. If you'd had had skills to handle the "everyone has stopped talking and now staring at me" moment......you'd have mentally talked yourself through it and would have been able to continue. It's hard work, but it can be done. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Hugs</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 498195, member: 84"] Welcome to the board. And yes, that is social anxiety. I also recommend therapy to help you learn to cope and keep it at bay. I took medications for it for a while, but the purpose was to help the therapy, not to just sort of cover it up. Once I made significant progress with therapy, medications for anxiety were weaned away. medications aren't a cure all for it by any means. I still have anxiety, social and otherwise. No medications. I use the skills the psychiatrist taught me to cope and I function pretty well. The more you place yourself into positions that trigger the anxiety and successfully deal with them, it lessens the anxiety in that area, sometimes can get rid of it completely. If you'd had had skills to handle the "everyone has stopped talking and now staring at me" moment......you'd have mentally talked yourself through it and would have been able to continue. It's hard work, but it can be done. :) Hugs [/QUOTE]
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