Depression
"I have dealt with depression, anxiety, social phobia or social anxiety which ever label they want to use for it these days. I have dealt with these issues pretty much since kindergarten. Well mainly the extreme social phobia/anxiety at that time which they used to just call &quot;shy&quot;. When I was 18 and was seeing a psychologist he diagnosed me as having agoraphobia, I&#039;m guessing because they really didn&#039;t have the term &quot;social phobia/anxiety&quot; at that time. I finally started taking Paxil and it worked good for 10 yrs then I maxed out on dosage and it stopped working. Tried all the other SSRI&#039;s/SSNRI&#039;s. Effexor XR worked best but didn&#039;t help anxiety/or social phobia issues. Got on Klonopin, then Xanax eventually. Benzodiazepines are life savers for socialphobia."