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Re: Alcohol and Social Anxiety

Posted by JahL on August 8, 2001, at 14:59:39

In reply to Alcohol and Social Anxiety, posted by SalArmy4me on August 8, 2001, at 10:34:26

> The American Journal of Psychiatry
> Volume 156(8) August 1999 pp 1237-1243
> Effect of Alcohol on Social Phobic Anxiety
>
> "...The hypothesis that the subjects who received alcohol would experience a greater improvement in anxiety from speech one to speech two was not confirmed. Subjective anxiety ratings, mean heart rates, and positive and negative cognitions did not significantly differ between the alcohol and placebo groups. In addition, subjects' drinking history and intoxication level did not significantly influence the effect of alcohol on subjective anxiety rating or heart rate. The failure of alcohol to reduce social anxiety is consistent with the results of Naftolowitz's study of individuals with social phobia [18] and other experimental studies of nonclinical subjects exposed to social stressors [33,35-37].."

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I used to drink a lot. Whilst it didn't do much for the core symptoms of social phobia, it *definitely* made me significantly more sociable. So in that regard it helped greatly with my s. phobia. Not the way fwd tho'...

J.


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