Posted by Paul27 on August 8, 2003, at 9:36:48
Hi all.
I reside in the uk and suffer from severe anxiety. I am a male, 27 years old.
Either during or after any social interactions (especially performance related) i suffer from all the classic signs, faint heart, heavy breathing, burning face, heart palpitations and a sort of pit of nerves in the center of my body. Sometimes this lasts for hours after the said event.This is now severely affecting my life especially concerning developing relationships. It's just not possible, when everytime you meet and talk to people, your brain goes into overload and the mental effects of the anxiety then affect your performance not to mention the physical symptoms. Add to all this my feeling of intense dread and fear that i'm going through at the time which makes me drive to avoid or end the situation.
I don't think these issues are generally as well understood here in the uk as they are in the usa. I have desperately tried to explain these feelings to my GP and numerous councillors but they clearly don't understand, and basically say that everyone suffers from this and i'm just being stupid and weak.
I have tried various classes of drugs, ssri's, tricyclics to no avail.
I asked my GP if i could try some of the more potent drugs such as nardil, but he said its a no-no in this country with Maoi's (which seems silly to me because one possible helping factor has had the door shut on it before i even tried it)
Does anybody know any way around this in the uk?As for other avenues, the resources just dont seem to be available here in this country, and it seems that unless you are going around bashing people, the mental health service doesn't want to know.
I now feel i am in serious trouble and am running out of legal methods to sort this problem out.
Please help.paul
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