Posted by bluedog on November 28, 2002, at 3:34:56
In reply to Re: Stress does what? » bluedog, posted by Larry Hoover on November 27, 2002, at 22:51:51
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> I'm applying something I was just looking into, in another context, but it seems to make sense to me to apply it to social anxiety, too. What do you think?
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> LarWhat you say seems to make sense Larry. However I will get back to you with a more detailed response in due course. I am trying to process this information and come to some sort of conclusions of my own.
The thing is I happen to be a hell of a lot more knowledgeable about my depression and chronic fatigue than I am about my social anxiety. The reason for this is that I need to get my depression and chronic fatigue under control before I can start looking at the social anxiety side of things.
There is also a further problem as it seems to me that there is a lot more research available and more is known about the causes of and the neurological processes in depression than in social anxiety.
I think the "Pavlov's Dogs" theory has some merit to it but my gut feeling is that a nutrition and supplement approach will be less effective in social anxiety than in depression or chronic fatigue. In other words depression is more likely to be caused by chronic stress and chronic nutritional deficiencies that lead to an imbalance that can be corrected by a nutrition and supplement approach whereas under the Pavlov's Dogs model that you propose, the problem is much more one of hardwiring of the neural pathways in the brain.
These are my initial views, though I saw my psychiatrist today and he believes that social anxiety sufferers have certain "imbalances" and deficiencies in the brain, particularly in the GABA processes that supplementation may help to balance to some degree.
If your at all interested the following link to a forum on social anxiety published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry to me really demonstrates how little is known about social anxiety even by the experts.
see http://www.psychiatrist.com/supplenet/59s17/59s17toc.htm
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