Social anxiety disorder with horror night mares. Taken treatment for 6 months, treatment is over. Medicine prescribed by Dr. - stalopam, prazopress,prazocin, etilaam,etc Still I've headache, porn addiction, masturbating since 2010. Please help.

Dr. Saul PereiraPsychologist47yrs exp

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You need to combine medication with therapy. You can learn a lot of things regarding adjustment, addictions, becoming balanced temperamentally, learning coping skills and techniques to handle emotions etc. About the issue itself: Do you know if this is a family trait, or is the family by anyways less to socialize, or have you had any problem with fear because of some family or childhood experience? Have you ever been embarrassed in public by someone that it has left an indelible mark in your personality? You can take the answers to these questions to a counselor and resolve the same. Anyway, you must deal with your fear of people and it will be the best solution to your problem. In the meantime do some confidence building exercises by attending a personality development course, public speaking skills course (I suggest you join the Toastmasters Club), work out at a gym to build good self-image, and join social events to practice your skills. Surprisingly many people are often in the same boat as you, and so you are not alone. The very people you are intimidated by may be afraid of you too! There are three important developments to have to make an autonomous personality: Awareness, intimacy, and spontaneity. If you are super aware or too conscious of yourself, it will affect the intimacy and spontaneity. Although your problem is now directly to do with intimacy, you can see that they are all connected. Go and work on these matters with a counselor for this level of social anxiety to disappear from your life for good.  

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