Can anxiety such as social anxiety be incurable?
I have suffered from social anxiety and depression for 3/4 years and got help about a year ago. I started to write a lot on yahoo a few months ago because the conseller i went to couldn’t help, she was very understanding but the techniques didn’t work. A lot of people have tried to give me advice on yahoo, and although I am very grateful they didn’t work. No medication worked for me, prosac failed to do anything and just made it worse. I do keep up with cognitive behavioral therapy but it still hasn’t worked and i actually feel worse since starting it 6 months ago. All the techqniues i have used either didn’t work or worked for a tiny bit before giving me a huge low the next day, which makes me wish i had never been born, it sounds pathetic as nothing else is going on in my life thats particularly wrong (its just a lot of small things, although a few have affected me worse then others) but i can’t help feeling like that, whenever someone tells me to be happy for what i have and to stop being so selfish, i try but i often feel worse. I know its a selfish thought to go on about how anious and depressed i am but the feeling just won’t go away and i hate living like this, i am anxious literally 24/7 and i forgot what it feels like to be more relaxed and happy, even for a second. I have almost got to feel a second of no anxiety with some technqiues such as CBT but these have been for under a second. I don’t know why it isn’t working but it just doesn’t stick even though i practice CBT every day. Relaxation techiques don’t work and nor does hypnosis because im too anxious when they happen,so i can never be relaxed, im always to anxious to last for more then a second. Hypnosis makes me feel a little better during, even though i am still very anxious, but fails completely afterwards, i feel the same or worse.
So i hope this gives anyone reading this a good picture about my situation so does anyone know if anxiety can be incurable? If it is i will stop trying to reduce the anxiety and try and live with it rather then getting even more anxious about it not going away. Also please no religious comments as I am not religious, i just point this out because every post their is a religious one but these can’t answer my question. No offense to anyone who is religious, its just not for me.
Lastly, i always do try and get involved in social activities its not like i hide away but getting involved in them hasn’t made me feel better i feel worse. Again i don’t know why this happens.
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the only thing i could suggest would be to expose yourself to the very thing you,re afraid of. i was shy. i got involved in theater in high school. cure, public speaking class was a big help. i was afraid of blood tests. i,ve had numerous surgeries, sticks, and attendant blood draws in the last ten years. cure. i didn,t want to be around little kids. i had a kid, and now have grandkids. cure. see where this is going?
Anxiety is part of life for everyone, in moderation. It keeps us in line. I lived with social anxiety for many years until i found the right therapist and the right circle of friends.
It can be cured with continuing on appropriate meds and counselling. THEY DO HELP.
Doesn’t sound like you have persued either very steadfastly… ” drugs couldn’t help. counsellor didn’t help.” quote
Actually this is one disorder that meds and counselling can really change.
You are foolish not to purse the cure properly.
You haven’t mention if you have seen a medical doctor. You do need to have some blood work done to check your thyroid level and make sure your adrenal gland is working properly. Either of these two can mimic your symptoms.
Don’t rule out medication. Your family doctor can give you a referral to a psychiatrist, who can prescribe medication to help calm you down temporarily, while at the same time trying talk therapy.
I have an anxiety disorder and CBT didn’t /doesn’t help me at all. I also could not be hypnotized.
Medication and talk therapy did help a lot. It really helps to be able to see someone and just get all the feelings of frustration and fear out.
You’re young, be good to yourself and find what works for you and stick to it.
Just because what you have tried so far doesn’t mean that there isn’t something that will work.
Try speaking to your guidance councilor about this.
First, you are not pathetic.You are not selfish. You need to see a new psychiatrist,because the Dr you have is not helping you. It seems like you have depression and anxiety and you need the Right medication for both of those symptoms before any therapy is going to work.Your new Dr. might give you a new diagnosis after you tell him what is going on. How can you be expected to apply what you are learning in therapy if you can’t concentrate because you are so nervous? That’s not going to happen, and I can’t believe your therapist didn’t pay attention to your distress. Prozac is an anti depressant that is “activating” so you’ll end up being more nervous after taking it ,which is why you felt worse using that drug.There are good choices of anti depressants and anti-anxiety medication that will help. You can’t just be “happy and fix this. It’s like telling a diabetic person to be happy and then think that their blood sugar problems will disappear. to live like. Start fresh with a new psychiatrist and write down all your symptoms and take the list in to the new Dr.on your first appointment .Speak up and ask questions about each medication and tell him if it doesn’t work. When you begin to feel better,then go and start fresh with a new therapist . Find one that you feel really comfortable with and that you feel confident in their ability to help you. If the therapist isn’t a good fit for you then dump him.It’s your money. Most of the new clients that therapists have only see them once anyway,because people want to find one that they connect with. The key to successful therapy is the trust and alliance you build together. You can find out the original reason that you developed social anxiety etc. and eventually reduce your medication.Just get a good psychiatrist and a good therapist and save your money on all the other things you are doing. I gave you this advice because that is what worked for me. I hope it helps you. Good luck. It does get better.
I can help you without saying one thing about some god or some doctor who will give you a pill. I can help you with pure genetic science. I can help you with years of anxiety controlling my life and the way I found my way out of these very real and Very physical conditions.
The thing you need to know about is called gluten intolerance. It causes a condition known as mal absorption. Mal absorption then releases adrenalin and cortisol into the system to allow the body to function at higher levels of sense and focus when the brain is hungry for the nutrients it needs.
The problem starts from eating an allergen and what happens in the mal absorption process. The natural antidote to the super hormone soup that allows muscles to de contract and allows the mind to rest is simply called serotonin. This is absorbed through the small intestine in the last two feet(Google autopsies small intestine schizophrenics Dr. Alessio Fasano Cambridge U.) What is essentially happening to the mental health of the human pack mammal species is defined through these conditions. Your small intestine, being under an auto immune attack combined with the fact gluten protein by nature is one of the stickiest proteins that blocks absorption from the inside.
What the last paragraph basically show is the process that causes known and uncontrolable physical anxiety is known. This is the same process that starts as simple Attention Deficit Hyperactive disorder and OCD learning issues that in future life, may extend into the same condition, only with longer exposure to the gluten allergens may become more severe forms of the same dysfunctions such as altzheimer’s and schizophrenia.
I was in the first stages of schizophrenia when my struggling mind found the solutions through pure genetic testing that all my doctors to include Yale New Haven said these tests were unreliable. Genetic testing that is known to have 99.9% accuracy in a court of law is unreliable while they “Practice” incorrect trained medicine.
My solution to the problem? I simply removed the allergen from my diet while I have always used the California Remedy to mental health and nasea issue. I also suggest you not go to your doctor who is trained incorrect procedure in identifying gluten intolerance. Simply demand inexpensive genetic testing for the HLA DQ2 and the HLA DQ8 gluten intolerant genes. I was told it was too expensive for the insurance company to cover. The truth is it cost me less than $200 US while they practiced medicine on me at the tune of $100,000 and 100% misdiagnosed me. I am HLA DQ8 positive.
The combination of high stress and gluten is the known cause of mental illness and you and me and all the parents around the world are being told to eat a genetically proved allergen to the human pack mammal species.
I suffered the rarer form of gluten intolerance known as celiac sprue. They had all the indicators and missed them all. Celiac sprue is known to cause level 10 medical pains. I am fortunate to have survived 100s of these attacks that stay nearly 24 hours. celiac sprue is the definitions of what causes the brain to shrink in the schizophrenic process.
I have found the way home and not one person believes the ex schizophrenic but his wife and family! Gluten free saved my marriage and aided my wife’s mental accuitty also.