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Medication question I have social anxiety and depression (self diagnosed) I am 19, male, managed to get a full time job in a field of work I actually enjoy but only got this because my father works at the company and got me in for work experience and they offered me a job afterwards. Anyway, the daily struggle is just becoming too much for me to carry on with now. I'm disappointed when I wake up in the morning knowing it's going to be another day fretting about every social interaction. I also have a stutter, had it since childhood and although its genetic, being bullied from the age of 5 til 11 definitely made the problem worse and caused the social anxiety. My stutter is made much worse by the anxiety and I am convinced it would improve if I could improve on my anxiety. I have tried speech therapy twice with no success. I have tried psychotherapy for my stutter which also gave no success but made me understand the power of the subconscious mind and allowed me to open up about my childhood. The thing is, through out the speech therapy and the psychotherapy I did not stutter once. At all. I put this down to me not being anxious about stuttering and embarrassing myself in front of the person because they already knew about it prior to me meeting them. I apologise for rambling on, I'm just looking for advice from people who have been to their doctor about anxiety and depression. What questions did they ask you and did medication help you? I know I really should go and get help but I get so anxious just thinking about saying my name at the reception and stuttering in front of the other patients and making a fool of myself. Let alone trying to be honest with the doctor without stumbling over every word. Edit: This came across as me trying to cure my stutter. In reality, I'm trying to cure my anxiety.