Posted by rjlockhart37 on February 22, 2019, at 15:13:36
In reply to social phobia is hell and doctors don't get it, posted by radish on February 20, 2019, at 17:33:51
i know somewhat of that feeling, when i was in high school i could barely....i smiled, and maybe knew a few people that liked me, but when i got into later classes, i would get confused or have no energy to have a stable conversation. People....there was a person in my english class that i was trying to explain something to his question about homework or some project, i dead ended on sentence and could not answer properly, he asked me whats your grade in here, in sarcastic tone.
i think you learn to stimulate yourself into talking, or getting a motivation or euphoria about talking bout something with people. I was in a haze-glooom aroun people at work, my mood was not good, nothing...a flat mood with only taking instructions. I think you have to look forward to talking. The thought process, let me tell you i still have trouble with thought process and memory loss, i would be talking with someone and completely forget or couldn't recall an event i was gonna talk about. You have to get yourself stimulated and motivated to talk, or converse with people. Think of something in the mind that makes you enthusiastic, anything a memory, or an interest. Depression makes things lose intrest in everything, nothing feels happy, your not happy even to talk to people, and that's why it impairs social ability, that and also anxiety your describing
write an letter to your doctor before you session, fax it in, and write exactly what's going on, that you have thought impairment, and depression that makes you not interested or in a bad mood, to make socializing miserable, that or the social anxiety. Therapists have told me what to do, then when i did their exercises i couldn't hold enough energy or structure to do them. I don't go to therapists anymore, i've had alot of trauma happen, i don't tell my doctor anything much more and i do my own thing. Prep yourself like an event your gonna go too, get prepped as getting ready race at a track meet, that adrenaline before a sports event could help you
It could be a neurotransmitter depletion and would need a medicine to increase serotonin, or dopamine, or norepinephrine to help you motivate to talk. Write you doctor a letter, and write wrote like in this post.
"There comes a time in your life where you have to choose to turn the page, write another book, or simply close it"
-Shannon L Alder
poster:rjlockhart37
thread:1103314
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20190206/msgs/1103339.html