I have social anxiety / phobia (symptoms like excessive sweating, ghabrahat,extreme nervousness, fear of judgement, avoiding social gathering, interaction due to symptoms) so my general physician told me to take etilaam upto 1 mg which I take from 1 week but still no improvement seen. So I want to know which antidepressant works best for social anxiety which I take it for long period as benzodiazepines are used for sos basis .i need antidepressant which I take daily for social anxiety. I do not have job ryt now so I can not pay consultation fees .plz help me and suggest me best antidepressant which works great to overcome from this problem. Thanks in advance.

Mr. Saul PereiraPsychologist50yrs exp

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I will not recommend medications but since you are young I recommend that you do the following: 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. I suggest that you also look at your ear of rejection, which may have had origins in childhood too.  

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