gotmeonmyknees
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Hello everybody.
First post here, so just wanted to say hello and wish you all success in life! Now I would love your opinions (preferably facts) about using medication for social anxiety.
It's a fact that the brain is neuroplastic and can be rewired right? Now, would medication/drugs in conjunction with exposure therapy create new pathways within the brain, and if so would that amount to long term change?
I ask this because the way I see it, if the medication will help me to behave with greater openness and confidence, and those behaviors became habitual (whilst on the drugs of course) then surely that would create new neural pathways within the brain, which would amount to long term change?
What's putting me off from starting any medication is the addiction potential so I really don't want to start them and then end up in the position where all I have done is associate these confident behaviors with the drugs and then as soon as I'm sober, it's back to square one.
Thanks for reading
First post here, so just wanted to say hello and wish you all success in life! Now I would love your opinions (preferably facts) about using medication for social anxiety.
It's a fact that the brain is neuroplastic and can be rewired right? Now, would medication/drugs in conjunction with exposure therapy create new pathways within the brain, and if so would that amount to long term change?
I ask this because the way I see it, if the medication will help me to behave with greater openness and confidence, and those behaviors became habitual (whilst on the drugs of course) then surely that would create new neural pathways within the brain, which would amount to long term change?
What's putting me off from starting any medication is the addiction potential so I really don't want to start them and then end up in the position where all I have done is associate these confident behaviors with the drugs and then as soon as I'm sober, it's back to square one.
Thanks for reading