What medication helped your depression or social anxiety?
At the moment, I'm struggling with both and I'm having a very tough time. Emotionally, I'm a wreck.
I just feel hoplessness and I feel worthless. And having social anxiety is making it tough to interact with people.
I started therapy this year for depression and social anxiety, my therapist thinks the social anxiety is affecting me way worse that the depression. I didn't know I had social anxiety until therapy. I've always felt a little weird around people, and now I know why. My therapist is on holiday until October, so until then I'm kind of stuck on my own.
I've tried every technique in the book. I get up and go to bed at a regular hour. I work out 6 times a week. I try to do hobbies. Last week I tried out meditation for the first time. I eat healthy and try to prepare food from scratch and also eat some organic food. I eat 5 times a day to keep my blood sugar stable. I've cut out my daily cup of coffee because I find it increases anxiety. I go outside every day in the sunlight. I keep the drapes open so sun can come in. I'm at the point where I'm considering buying a houseplant because I've heard it helps bring about a positive environment...I've tried every freaking technique for stress reducing and better mood, but it's not made me feel better.
Some days I'm so hit by the social anxiety that it seems scary to say hello to my neighbour.
The thing is that I notice that when I drink, not excessive drinking but just two beers, my social anxiety seem to be so much better. It almost completely disappears. Which lead me to thinking that maybe my depression and social anxiety is chemically based and that I could benefit from treating it with medication? But I was on anti depressant for 2,5 years, cipralex it's called in England, and it didn't have much effect.
Anyone here had depression or social anxiety or maybe both and know of a medication that might help? I've heard effexor might be good for social anxiety?