Antidepressants, Social Anxiety

I have never heard of antidepressants helping anyone with social anxiety. He may prescribe an anxiolytic though.

 

I took several different antidepressants when I was a teenager over the course of probably almost two years. They did nothing for me except make me gain weight, I took Prozac and it really gave me delayed ejaculation. Other than that I got nothing out of them. Now I do realize they might help some people, but they didn’t for me personally.

I don’t know if i got some depression from PMO, or I was masking it with PMO. But right now I’m struggling with anxiety and depression hard. I’ve never really experienced anxiety untill starting nofap. To be honest the depression has gotten better but I have had some depressed days still. But the anxiety and social anxiety is rough!! I’m trying to clean up my diet and take some good vitamin and herbs and hope that nofap continues to help me. I also want to meditate daily and practice deep breathing exercises.

So to sum up, medication didn’t really help me, but I do know some people it has, and hasn’t helped. Some so laughter and vitamin d, exercise, and healthy diets are best ways to reduce depression.

 

For me it was about hanging out with my friends and family a little bit more to get me to be more out going. I have notices that when I relapse, for the next few days I am super jittery, low self-esteem, poor concentration, self-loathing and social anxiety. Then it goes away after a little bit. It's wild dude.

 

i have the same problem man! i think what we have to dois just DO IT and start talking to people but it's must harder to do

 

There is no better anti-depressant than working out and eating a clean diet.

Also, I recommend a good DHA Omega 3 supplement for all my clients. Look into it, DHA is critical for brain health.

 

Who are you man i.e. what do you do, apart from being a model.

 

Your doctor is very sensible. Unless depression is very serious (possibly life-threatening) the things you are doing will help enormously. As I said earlier, if your problem is anxiety rather than depression antidepressants would not be indicated.

 

I'm a personal trainer and expert in nutrition, fitness and Endocrinology.

 

Nice bro!

 

Your story sound very similar to mine. My father was of the absent kind during my childhood and adolescent years (although he was physically present) and due to his many mental problems/conditions he never really dealt with in the first place (his pornography viewing might have contributed to this), he was rarely able to compliment, motivate or give me any good life advices.
He was often mentally numb, indifferent and didn't seem to care too much about my wellbeing. Instead, he pushed me down, mostly on a subconscious level, partially by throwing nasty sarcasms that I didn't grasp as a teenager. Also, by maintaining his total indifference to change/improve himself over the years, I got the feeling/conviction that personal development (for my own part) was almost impossible.

Hence, I suffered from great social anxiety (partially due to bullying) during my child and adolescent years and although I have developed good social skills today, it is something that takes lot of practice (over a decade), mental visioning and the right kind of mindset. You will quickly gain a lot of these through abstaining from PMO which will make reboot your brain-connections and thus act with more confidence and positive-attitude than before.
I would strongly suggest to stay away from antidepressants as those will only accumulate your mental and physical health further ahead. Remember that they have plenty of side-effects so when you start take a few, you will soon need a few more to just handle the former.