Originally Posted by yellowbastard
Medication may be my only help.
See the problem with that line of thinking is the only way to establish what kind of medication would be right for you is to spend a bunch of time talking with a shrink. It's going to take more than you showing up and saying you've diagnosed yourself with a particular disorder. There's lots of variations of the problem and lots of possible chemical things that could be going on up in your head. So far you've said you have social anxiety disorder; well, there's four classes of drugs used to treat it and several different drugs within each of those classes. The way to figure out which one will work is to go to a shrink. Oh and btw, both psychologists and psychiatrists can conduct therapy sessions (i.e. talk with you), but only a psychiatrist has a medical degree and can prescribe medicines. Usually people that go to a psychologist have that person make a recommendation on what a good treatment might be, and consult with a psychiatrist as far as the actual drug to go with. Sometimes it's actually better to go this route, because if you go straight to a psychiatrist they'll be more likely to just give you some pills whereas a psychologist will do more in the line of helping you to understand your behavior and what to do about it before referring you to a psychiatrist.