Medication for social anxiety and fear of crowds
Modern medicine includes several types of treatment for social anxiety and fear of crowds. It is important to emphasize that all of them treat the symptoms and none of them cures the user of his fear. Today there are many drugs equivalent to paracetamol that will lower the fever and relieve the pain, but there is no drug equivalent to antibiotics that kill the causes of the disease.
In this article we will deal with three groups of drugs for social anxiety - anti-anxiety which is a chronic treatment that provides permanent protection, tranquilizers which are an acute treatment that provides quick and transient sedation, as well as old-fashioned medicines such as chamomile and alcohol.
Anti-anxiety drugs from the SSRI group (Prozac, Cipralax, Serukast, Lustral)
These are pills that need to be taken every day for 2-4 weeks to see their effect. At their best, they prevent anxieties and pressures from appearing and make it possible to perform in front of an audience without suffering.
On the other hand, they may cause obesity, decreased libido and fatigue. Stopping their use also lasts for weeks and involves an increase in anxiety and also...
Sedatives for use in fear of crowds (Valium, Vavan, Lorivan)
These are pills that provide fairly quick sedation, which starts within half an hour of taking a pill and ends about six hours later. At their best, these pills relieve anxiety and give a feeling of calmness and immunity.
On the other hand, they cause fatigue and drowsiness and make it difficult to speak eloquently and convincingly. Also, with regular use, they stop having an effect, require an increase in the dose and create addiction.
Grandmother's remedies and alternative treatments for fear of crowds
There are a number of calming substances in nature and in pharmacies that promise to reduce the fear of speaking in front of an audience. The most prominent among them are chamomile tea, Bach flowers (in the brands Ragion, Rescio and others) and acupuncture.
Their big advantage is that they are cheaper, and no less important - they have no side effects. Hence their big drawback - they don't really reduce public fear beyond the placebo effect.
The group alternative: treat the fear itself and not the symptoms
Drug treatments do not really reduce anxiety, they only weaken symptoms. And that too temporarily.
To overcome the fear completely and forever, you need to understand where it comes from, and solve the reasons. So:
Audience fear is not really fear of the *audience* - it is fear of failure in front of the audience. This fear creates unpleasant physical symptoms that turn failure into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It doesn't have to be this way.
There is a way to prevent failure by acquiring 'fail-safe' techniques for performing under pressure. Through group courses where you learn how to speak under pressure, then practice under pressure that starts low and gradually increases - you can develop the ability to overcome fear and control it.
This experience - of succeeding despite the fear, and the gradual accompaniment creates a feeling of victory, a feeling of ability - some of our graduates (Graduates tell) who passed within 7 weeks from serial abstinence to the attraction of the office - is overcoming the problem itself and not the symptoms.
It's not magic, it's hard work.
But this is a real solution to the problem itself and not the use of psychiatric pills to reduce the symptoms.
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