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agorophobia,anxiety,ssi,depression and looneyness?

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  1. Graciemay
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    Ha, I know exactly how you feel about going blank, I've been right there.

    Let's see, first of all, Celexa should actually be helping with more than your depression. I took the generic version Citalopram for Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Social Anxiety disorder and it helped a lot. SSRIs are often prescribed for anxious disorders. If you feel like it is really having no effect and you've been on it a while, I'd ask for a switch, yes.

    Sorry to tell you, but the thing about your sort of anxiety is its gonna take a while-- both agoraphobia and social anxiety are conditioned, meaning that its not just an imbalance of chemicals keeping the fear there, its that those chemicals spent a very long time building up associations between being outside with people and your very strong fear.

    I'm kind of not liking the sound of the help you're getting-- they're prescribing you brand names which I always find shady (remember, doctors are required by law to prescribe the generic version if you ask for it), and it doesn't sound like you are getting any therapy to go along with it? The most statistically effective treatment for anxiety is both medication and therapy at once. In fact they make each other much more effective. For anxiety, I like Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or any sort of Behavior Therapy. Try to avoid therapists who just want you to talk about "whatever comes to mind". Though you obviously have a pretty tragic history, I wouldn't suggest focusing on that in therapy-- it really isn't the most useful thing. You just ruminate and possibly make yourself more anxious, and in the meantime waste a lot of money. Behavior therapy should be short term, one session a week for six sessions was what I got, and that should really be all you need to give you the tools to do behavior therapy on yourself. Think of it more as a short course on how anxiety works in your brain, and how you can manipulate it effectively.

    Oh that's a good one-- Xbox live is a great way to practice being social-- maybe you can take it in steps, socializing on the internet is easiest, you have time to prepare your statements and think about your answers, and then you can step up to maybe text chatting, and then to voice chatting-- just remember you'll never see that person again, they don't even know who you are, it doesn't matter. Remember not to take negative reactions in socializing too badly-- those are good things, they are teaching you the things you have forgotten or missed about being social. If you don't get negative reactions and people are just too nice and not honest, it's hard to get a feel for socializing again. Something to remember.

    Posted 1 year ago #
  2. Miguel
    Member

    i know is long but pleasee please read!

    What exactly is happening to me? ok i know im a mess right now, no future, no life whatsoever.
    I want to know exactly what do i have? ok doctors say is agoraphobia anxiety, social anxiety, depression. I only take celexa only helps with my depression. I been inside this house for almost two years. I havent gone completly crazy sinse i do have my own hobbies at home that keep me occupied. BUT, Im tired of it, ok i get ssi and i know im about to loose it sinse i cant even go out for appointments. Today i went outside with my sister and her kid, i was trying to see what would happen, well my sister was not helping, i was acting goofy kinda retarded just being stupid, singing oompa loompa song and stuff like that sinse her kid was on the stroller, but really i was feeling all this anxiety i couldnt think right, i couldnt be me, i would just shut down whenever some neighbor or something would talk to us, like my mind would go blank, and i would feel this awfull sensation of weird and like i dont belong, and then my sister was acting like she didnt want me to walk with her, so that made me feel worse, but yeah we walked only around the block. and i come home on my little world and i then start being myself again, and confidence, is all weird, why is this happening to me, i cant even go buy anything unless is thru amazon.com and waiting for it to be delivered. I been seeing movies like copy cat and nims island with agorophobic characters in the movie and that kinda makes me feel more confident but still i know maybe i need stronger med like xanax or something like that for anxiety. and then even on the damn xbox live i tried to use it like for therapy i play call of duty mw2 and i kick ass but when it comes to talk on the lobby i just shut down like if theres a knot on my throat, like if i get in a state of shocked that i cant react and be myself and just start talking and thinking straight i jut once again go blank. Then with my family which they dont understand either they are cruel and just make me feel shitty i still talk about anything with confidence and when that happens all my bottle feelings go away and i feel no anxiety no pain no depression even if is just me explaining a movie or just talking about a news paper article or something i learned i feel intelligent but like this i just feel stupid and worthless sinse i cant do more to prove more about me i just go blank *poof*

    I started feeling like this after my sister's dad got murder he was my step dad, but he raised me sinse i was a baby so it was like my dad. He got murder on 1998 i was 12 im 24 now but i been feeling fear of going places sinse june 2008 but i still went some places but i always had an embarrasment or make a fool of myself sinse this weird feelings started. When my stepdad got murder that happend 1998 two days after Xmas and before those two days we spend the whole day of xmas at the old house we used to live my mom and sister, he was divorced to my mom and his life was not so pleaseant after that he wanted to go back with my mom and he told me and stuff and that day we were building this wood solar lighthouse and then my mom told him kinda rude to leave sinse it was late and he kinda didnt leave that day like i wanted but yeah then i was putting the lighthouse next toi this lamp and i accidentally put it to close to it and it melted and i thought it was funny to tell him but i said ohh ill see him on saturday sinse i was going to call him but i didnt so i hang up, but saturday came and in the morning the phone rings just to be bad news. So my mom was the first to get the news and she was crying then she told me not tell my sister and then she told me they killed him, i didnt have no reaction at the moment, i was getting clothes sinse we had to go fast to my aunts house and when i picked up the close i just started crying and to make story short after days i would go number 2 on my self um and then cry it was nervous problems and i never got help i didnt eat for days even if my mom would serve me food, and that feeling i had i still have it is like this pain im battleling with. I got this tattoo in my arm with his name and my nick name and in between praying hands, and now sometimes THIS IS WEIRD sometimes i just talk to my mom about something like the other day i was telling her some stuff in a way that sounded exactly how it happend the next day not that i knew or i knew this people cause i didnt but the dj in that club that she knows the guy got killed that same night and my mom came home and she told us and she looked at me like not trying to believe it but dindt say anything sinse i like predicted what was going to happend even with other stuff not murders or anything but even simple stuff i predicted and days after they happen but thats not important sorry im typing too much but yeah sometimes i look back at everything and this could be a movie but this is happening to me

    Posted 1 year ago #

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