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Social anxiety i dont really treat as a real doctor of medicine psychiatrist, i am not even sure its a real mental disorder. doesnt everyone have some of this– it does not qualify as a serious mental illness. I review what psych meds not to take! I recommend therapy or virtual desensitization for rather than dangerous psychopharmacology- as there is no magic pill for social anxiety–psychosocial development helps it a lot

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  1. #1 by twistedmr on May 23rd, 2009

    your a full blown fruitcake..love it..keep up the good work!

  2. #2 by PinkNoodel on May 24th, 2009

    Man! You are very interesting and intelligent. I wish I knew you enough to shadow you. Great vid btw! Oh, and my brother has social anxiety along with his schizophrenia. I guess that is common right?

  3. #3 by timtheli0n on May 31st, 2009

    Now I understand that it’s popular for people to blame their social anxiety on mental illness, or seek drugs for what can be treated through therapy. However, your aptitude(my psychiatrist has the same attitude towards my social anxiety) towards social anxiety is, in my opinion, incorrect. Because while I do have social anxiety, this anxiety builds and turns into full out paranoia and psychotic meltdown. So it CAN be a serious mental illness.

  4. #4 by Thefatalflaw on June 29th, 2009

    Bupropion (Wellbutrin) actually helped my social anxiety quite a bit. I’ve seen it reported as causing anxiety but I have found it only to be calming. I also take selegiline in combination with this, despite the contraindication, and I’ve had even better results with that.

  5. #5 by ultravirgin on June 30th, 2009

    you may not have a lot of social anxiety patients because maybe they’re too embarrassed to get help or stay inside a lot

  6. #6 by kateastropheboom on July 18th, 2009

    Problem with thinking it’s not real is do you think people with bad social anxiety have agoraphobia? That’s what everybody thought I had in college – I was afraid to leave my room – you know there were people out there and everything :P This was before Paxil, right? So even my shrink thought it couldn’t just be SHYNESS. Well it was depression and shyness. And drugs. But the shyness was the worst. And was mainly why I used drugs.

  7. #7 by DOCTOROFMINDMD on July 18th, 2009

    good point

  8. #8 by DOCTOROFMINDMD on July 18th, 2009

    its not good for GAD just PTSD acute withing 9 hours of the trauma or something like that to dampen acute terror and fear

  9. #9 by DOCTOROFMINDMD on July 18th, 2009

    well described the coocurring disorders can be well treated

  10. #10 by DOCTOROFMINDMD on July 18th, 2009

    good point thanks

  11. #11 by DOCTOROFMINDMD on July 18th, 2009

    i agree

  12. #12 by DOCTOROFMINDMD on July 18th, 2009

    yes they can cooccur.. thanks for your comments

  13. #13 by DOCTOROFMINDMD on July 18th, 2009

    you may be correct thanks

  14. #14 by DOCTOROFMINDMD on July 18th, 2009

    there must have been some depression with the anxiety, well the atypical depressive features with the cooccuring anxiety relieved by that mixture is aggressive, and luckily safe wow

  15. #15 by DOCTOROFMINDMD on July 18th, 2009

    i agree

  16. #16 by DOCTOROFMINDMD on July 18th, 2009

    wow very nicely put

  17. #17 by twistedmr on July 19th, 2009

    yes its hard but we must feel the depression and let our bodies find the way around it. and it doesnt make our drug companies rich either.the body will find a new route to stabilise…hopefully..but then the argument..is life to short?

  18. #18 by saintlysimon on July 24th, 2009

    Good vid doc. Good advice. What about increasing personal fitness as well as therapy? CBT?

  19. #19 by Nanumir on August 4th, 2009

    thanks doc, I was wondering about that for a long time

  20. #20 by rhyannjoedan on August 22nd, 2009

    ide reccomend exercise and just generally keeping your muscles streched and yoga to, when you body feel flexible and comfterble, i find ur mind just goes with it, and u can tackle nearly any social confrence

  21. #21 by EKsponge on October 5th, 2009

    doc, your videos are the best !

  22. #22 by ukandoittowithkandoo on October 30th, 2009

    one seems to follow the other in most cases depression – anxiety. There’s a technique that you can perform it works in the way you tap pressure points on the face no to sure of the name maybe the doc will tell you.

  23. #23 by idonotneedanidforyou on November 1st, 2009

    You make Pharma fun to learn. Crazy but fun! Thanks

  24. #24 by jordanelunico on December 15th, 2009

    Actually Xanax and Wellbutrin help me very well for my Anxiety (Include social). So doctor, don’t talk crap.

  25. #25 by ZaloBanda on January 9th, 2010

    I heard about stimulants and benzos helped very well to some people with social dysfunction (include social anxiety, autism, personality disorder or simply drepressive shyness) but the major problem is the adicction.
    People can beat their own fears and limits without the help of drugs, is posible and yes, social anxiety is not a mental illness

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