Posted by ed_uk2010 on May 26, 2013, at 15:07:35
In reply to My head shakes when I'm nervous, posted by Leroy Brown on May 23, 2013, at 7:34:25
Leroy,
May I ask how much social contact you have at the moment? I imagine that you've spent relatively little time in social situations over the years due to your severe phobia-like obsessional anxiety.
I was wondering whether it might be possible to treat your anxiety by greatly increasing your social contact under the supervision of a psychologist. The idea being that your anxiety would be extinguished once it became clear that people were not reacting to your tremor.
There is some evidence that the antibiotic cycloserine can be an effective aid to exposure therapy/fear extinction performed by a psychologist.
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