Christoff
12-08-12, 16:22
Firstly, looking at the amount of people posting in this thread every day I'm surprised, amazed, comforted(?) and scared by the amount of people suffering from similar problems I have!
I'm Chris, from NI and i'm 32. I've been going to doctors since I was about 20 trying to get help with anxiety problems and after 10 years fo being messed about by clueless GP's, I was finally diagnosed with social anxiety. As the doctors had done nothing for me for years I learnt all the usual avoidence techniques etc and got to a point were I couldn't do anything socially without alcohol or diaz (legal or illegal).
It came to a head a couple of years ago for me when the company I worked for closed down and I had to start interviewing for jobs again. As you can imagine this went very badly indeed lol; I am still working in a factory through an agency as no interview was necessary. Depression kicked in on top of my SA and my drinking and drug taking got worse as a result. With advice from my brother I started 20mg Citalopram about a year ago but just decided a couple of weeks ago to come off them. Although they were helpful they weren't solving the problem for me.
I was looking for other ways of self help and came across this site and hopefully I can use it to get ideas and help from other sufferers.
Sorry for such a long speel!
I'm Chris, from NI and i'm 32. I've been going to doctors since I was about 20 trying to get help with anxiety problems and after 10 years fo being messed about by clueless GP's, I was finally diagnosed with social anxiety. As the doctors had done nothing for me for years I learnt all the usual avoidence techniques etc and got to a point were I couldn't do anything socially without alcohol or diaz (legal or illegal).
It came to a head a couple of years ago for me when the company I worked for closed down and I had to start interviewing for jobs again. As you can imagine this went very badly indeed lol; I am still working in a factory through an agency as no interview was necessary. Depression kicked in on top of my SA and my drinking and drug taking got worse as a result. With advice from my brother I started 20mg Citalopram about a year ago but just decided a couple of weeks ago to come off them. Although they were helpful they weren't solving the problem for me.
I was looking for other ways of self help and came across this site and hopefully I can use it to get ideas and help from other sufferers.
Sorry for such a long speel!