Posted by paxvox on August 7, 2001, at 11:31:08
In reply to Re: social anxiety/Cam or anyone, posted by DN on August 7, 2001, at 10:48:28
> > DN - Even though you are not drunk, you still have alcohol in your system over the next day, just under the level of where you notice it. The alcohol leaves your body slowly, so it could be the residual alcohol, acting as an agonist at the GABA-receptor complex that is giving you this effect.
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> > When you stimulate the GABAergic neurons, you slow impulses in other neurotransmitter systems, and it is the slowing of electrical transmission in the dopamine neurons, more than in your serotonin neurons, that may be alleviating your social anxiety. Increased serotonin neurotransmission seems to help in social anxiety.
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> > So, there are two ways to attack social anxiety. You could take a drug that increases serotonin neurotransmission, like the SSRIs (eg. Paxil and several others) and/or you could take a drug that increases GABA neurotrans mission like BuSpar or the benzodiazepines (eg. Xanax and several others).
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> > The benzodiazepines work at the GABA-receptor complex, but at a different site than alcohol. Combining the two increases the electrical transmission in GABA neurons, and if increased too much, this can lead to death from respiratory depression (stop breathing).
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> > I hope that this is of some help. - Cam
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> Thanks for all the response and yes it was helpful.Having people like Cam W. and SalArmy4me available to not only give out advice, but back it up with scientific refernce, has been of great value to me (and obviously quite a few others). Thanks you'all! I am good at researching things on the net, but they can pop back a response in a nanosecond! I do, however, feel that if enough of us "regular" people share our personal experiences in as close to objective format as possible (considering we ARE talking about our subjective experiences) that this forum can be an excellent, excellent resource. I have only known about this site for a week or so, and I have already been enlightened. I hope that I can offer as much as I have gleaned!
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