insanity: the journey or the destination?

[lumberjim]

what would YOU do if you started out as a shy person, and then half the time you had dinner in public or went to a movie, you broke out in a cold sweat and palpitations and had to leave?

this would be the kind of thing i referred to as treatable chemical imbalance, then? I guess I'd take 15 mg of paxil everyday for 5 years and counting.

have you experimented with foregoing the meds? or does it take time to wear off/take effect again if it doesnt go well?

what was the basis for the anxiety? were you afraid of embarrassing yourself by saying something innapropriate, or was it a more general thing?