About
Hello and thanks for reading. As you probably guessed, I have Social Phobia (also known as social anxiety disorder). It is an apparently common mental disorder but not really known about by most people. It can make life hard in a lot of ways and part of the reason I have decided to collect my thoughts and organise them into this blog is so that I can hopefully see how much I improve as time goes on and maybe encourage others who have the same problem to do something about it.
The first few posts are collected from another site where I originally posted them. I decided to put them all together here and keep a journal of my dealings with SA from now on.
If you want to know a bit about me.. I’m 23 years old as of 2008 and live in the UK. I’ve had SA since I was 12 or 13 but only sought treatment for it in late 2007. I’ve always been extremely shy, there is a difference between shyness and social anxiety.
Since March I’ve been seeing a mental health practitioner for help with my SA and depression and was recently referred to a psychiatrist for a medication review and to see if I would benefit from CBT. I have been taking citalopram for 6 months now.
Hi there,
I just wanted to let you know that I’ve included your blog in a recent article about SAD blogs worth visiting:
http://socialanxietydisorder.about.com/od/websites/tp/6-SAD-Blogs-Worth-Visiting.htm
If you felt it was appropriate I would be delighted to have you add a link to my site in your links area.
http://socialanxietydisorder.about.com/
Best regards,
Arlin Cuncic
Thank you very much for including me
i live in jamaica and got a friend who likes in the UK … not sure where tho
please don’t take this the wrong way, but do you think your current prescription is really working? After reading your second to the most current post, you still sound very depressed and I would think after 6 months – it should be working better, or maybe you need to try a different one?
I’ve been “trying out” meds for over 10 years – you deserve to be happy.
No I don’t think it’s working that well to be honest. I’m having a medication review next month so I’ll see what comes of that.
high five on citalopram, haha!
I’ve been taking it for almost 2 years, it’s hardly done anything for me but my psych won’t take me off it just in case I get worse. weird.
x
Oh that’s annoying :S I was hoping to get something a little better..