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Suggest Therapy For Social Anxiety Disorder

I have an apoint on friday with my doc on fri... I can never explain my problem, but done some research and came accross social anxiety disorder, I done some reading and it just discribes my life! The way I walk, I m afraid of conversations even with my family, I m even missin out on my baby sons life because this problem I ve had from as far as I remember is ruining my life! I m 25, what can my doctor do for me? And how do I explain this?? Please help me
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Hello thanks for asking from HCM

I can understand your concern. You have social anxiety disorder and this is causing significant loss of social and family functioning. You are not even taking care of your babies. For this severe social anxiety you should consult a psychiatrist. Treatment of social anxiety is available in form of medicines and behavioural management.
Medicines like SSRIs as Fluoxetine, Paroxetine, Sertraline etc are mainstay of treatment. Along with these medicines propranolol, low dose benzodiazepines are used to relieve anxiety in situations of severe anxiety.
Behavior therapy is also very useful in social anxiety. Patient is taught relaxation methods like Progressive Muscle Relaxation Exercises, Breathing Exercises.

The treatment usually take long time to show full effect but with proper medicines patients show improvement.

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Suggest Therapy For Social Anxiety Disorder

Hello thanks for asking from HCM I can understand your concern. You have social anxiety disorder and this is causing significant loss of social and family functioning. You are not even taking care of your babies. For this severe social anxiety you should consult a psychiatrist. Treatment of social anxiety is available in form of medicines and behavioural management. Medicines like SSRIs as Fluoxetine, Paroxetine, Sertraline etc are mainstay of treatment. Along with these medicines propranolol, low dose benzodiazepines are used to relieve anxiety in situations of severe anxiety. Behavior therapy is also very useful in social anxiety. Patient is taught relaxation methods like Progressive Muscle Relaxation Exercises, Breathing Exercises. The treatment usually take long time to show full effect but with proper medicines patients show improvement. Thanks, hope this helps you.