Such_Saturation
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narouz said:...oh no...I'm verklempt!...talk amongst yourselves....
Have you tried citalopram?
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narouz said:...oh no...I'm verklempt!...talk amongst yourselves....
Such_Saturation said:Have you tried citalopram?
Charlie said:Narouz, start making a new thread(just pretend you are gonna make a thread and go through the motions) and look right above the subject. You should see it.
Yes, the OP picked that topic icon when they made the thread.
You, I hope we didn't scare you off. I for one don't think it's weird that you share your rants on multiple forums.you said:
milk said:I believe my social anxiety stems from narcissism to an extent. Trying to project an identity. Takes a lot of energy. I need to let go of all the retarded neuroses that became stitched onto the identity that I try to project and that just alienate me from the common run of people. Just let go, get into people's wavelenght, look them in the eye, don't be insecure, respect myself and respect others.
Such_Saturation said:https://raypeatforum.com/forums/posts/95271/
Okay, but getting muscles as the basis for everything else, I just can't see that.
Such_Saturation said:
+1 Particularly serotonin. I think of serotonin as the anti-social hormone, estrogen as the anthithesis of physical strength and vitality, and prolactin as nature's numbing agent for male conquest. (You can't be TOO genetically successful after all, where would the diversity be? Atilla the Hun is an exception.)cantstoppeating said:Get bloodwork done to see how your thyroid is functioning. The minimum should be: TSH, Total Cholesterol and Prolactin.
Do whatever you can to lower estrogen and prolactin and serotonin.
For men, the recipe for social freedom is physical strength (i.e. working out with weights) and team sports (i.e. using your strength/abilities, along with other men, for a particular goal).
If you do the above for 90 days you will emerge, quite literally, a different person with all the social freedom you could want.
Integral said:Interesting discussion here! Thought I'd chime in....
Though it's quite perplexing to some, I had, in the past, quite a serious case of social anxiety. It began with depression when I was younger (~17), which morphed into anxiety as the years went on, until I got a full-on case of social anxiety at 22. For some back story, please go on my profile and search for a thread I started entitled 'Peating Success' or something of that nature. It was very bad. Lots of people noticed something was going on with me. I can still recall a very painful moment when, at a nightclub, my friends approached me in the foyer and told me I had to go home and that I was seriously ill with social anxiety. They told me I needed to get help. Unbeknowst to them at the time, I was already seeing a psychiatrist, but it was nonetheless painful and I felt like at that moment I was pretty much on my own at Uni....
Anyway, I'm 24 now and have been free from illness for 2 years and since starting Peating earlier this year, my health has come on leaps and bounds and I am doing fantastic. I am in general a very able, confident, well-ballanced and happy person now, have been for ages too. I have a great, meaningful, fulfilling life and very productive. I enjoy my life a lot, and am very thankful for it. There are now no signs of my ever having been depressed or anxious. I am, in effect, a different human being.
How did I get over my depression & anxiety?
Well in the first instance, given that I was incredibly ill and had to withdraw from University on mental health grounds, I took medication as my Uni's mental health advisor referred me to a psychiatrist. The medications, over time, did make me feel more ballanced and took away the brunt of the debilitating effects of the illness during the 'acute' phase of illness. The medications were an anti-depressant and an anti-psychotic. There were side-effects, side-effects which pretty much remained for the entire course of taking the meds (1.5 years) of insomnia and quite annoying cognitive difficulties (apathy and very strained, static thinking). Notwithstanding, the medications did allow me to get functional again and seemed to open up a space where I could do the more meaningful healing work to take away a lot of the underlying neuroticism and unhelpful beliefs I held which I believe contributed to my former illness alongside my body being in starvation mode at the time.
Eating a Peat-style diet and working with a great local practitioner via Skype since March of this year (2015) further allowed a lot of healing work to take place, which eventually allowed me to gain a true sense of well-being and I feel constituted a real consciousness shift (as cliche as it sounds, I cannot otherwise describe it).
Thus, my healing was a combination of medications, diet, and a lot of spiritual work which challenged my beliefs at the time of life and it's purpose. Yet, I do feel as if each person is incredibly unique and must be treated on that basis. Regarding medications, from the evidence I have seen, I think people can recover without medications. I was recently involved in a discussion with a former-therapist and anti-psychiatry advocate about the efficacy of medications for mental illness, and in light of the research he showed me, I was quite taken aback by the lack of evidence for these medications working. Moreover, I've now seen a number of case studies of people who recovered from mental illness without any drugs whatsoever. One interesting case is the treatment of schizophrenia and psychosis in Northern Finland using Open Dialogue, wherein even seriously insane individuals have been able to overcome their illness and lead productive, meaningful lives.
answersfound said:post 111715Integral said:....Snipped my own post out.
Fix your thyroid. Get your temperature to 98.6+ and your social anxiety will go away. Thyroid is responsible for expression. Social anxiety, in a way, is a protective mechanism, that suggests that your body is just not capable of meeting the demands of socializing. Take thyroid glandular and get your temp up. That's all you need to do.
You "help" some chick in the gym with her squat form. At least it will be fun. Just keep in mind the 80-20 rule. After you look good (not being fat, being big and muscular) you don't need to get 6pack to look good.