Social Anxiety Disorder and CBD - Dr. Jim Collins

Social anxiety disorder or SAD affects approximately 7% of the United States population annually. It is twice as common among females and the average age of onset is 13 years. Although a number of psychological and pharmacological treatments are available, only 30% of individuals experience symptoms of remission within one year. This creates a need for a more effective form of treatment and that’s why a good deal of research is examining the potential benefits of CBD for social anxiety disorder.

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Dr. Jim Collins is a Gerontologist and nationally-recognized expert in wellness and health care for seniors and older Americans. Over his 30 year career Dr. Collins has always had a strong focus on education – both as a prolific author of published articles and as the founder of Collins Learning, a highly regarded education service providing training to senior care health professionals around the country.

[TimmyJUnderground]

This stuff has been incredibly helpful to me. I take about 75mg twice a day. I dont want to say it masks the underlying issue, but it allows me to stay out of my head and conversations become less about where to put my arms, how to stand, how long to hold eye contact, and more organic so I can actually focus on what the other person is saying. The cbd plus the exposure at work in meetings and stuff has allowed me to improve day by day. Thank you for your attention to this.

[ranc]

You forgot to mention this very important part of DSM5:
"H. The fear, anxiety, or avoidance is not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse, a medication) or another medical condition."

You simply explain social anxiety disorder as someone hallucinating the fear without triggers or explanation why these specific fears occur.

However in real life - social anxiety issues stem from exposure to abuse: ACoA and ACE in childhood, and narcissistic abuse in adulthood.
Your explanation is causing incredible psychological damage to anyone who was abused and then suffers from social anxiety trauma - because you explain their experiences as imagination and something that can be removed by logic and power of thinking. Which we all know will not work with trauma at all - and in fact it will cause more damage - because the traumatized person will now develop deep toxic shame and stigma around their relentless fears.

Socially anxious due to exposure to abuse by omission in childhood lack validation and acceptance - and your approach is invalidation and rejection - which makes social anxiety trauma worse, not better. You make socially anxious believe that their abuse experiences is a list of black and white symptoms - and that abusers should not be held accountable for their crimes and that we should never talk about abuse -but only to suppress our emotions and pretend that we are happy all the time.

[goxyeagle]

Yes it works great for my social anxiety
Unfortunately it doesn't work if it's taken all the time. I use it for special situations, now trying to find what else has similar effect on my brain