Posted by laima on September 16, 2006, at 7:19:25
In reply to my mental situation is weird, need help!, posted by Joey Joe Joe Junior on September 14, 2006, at 18:45:53
>I feel better but apparently I don't look better! What I mean is I must be giving out an external sense of anxiety or something which is not true to how I feel inside. I have noticed that people avoid me in social situations....
This is SPECIFICALLY what botox can "fix"! I tried a very modest amount of it, and have been absolutely FLOORED by what a difference it has made. I mean, night vs day difference. Used modestly for "vertical furrows", it makes it much more challengeing to frown or look worried when you don't wish to, but you can still make any expression that you want or need to- except perhaps a super-exxaggerated theatrical style scowl (which is not really that useful anyway...) My social life has undergone an absolutely radical renaissance, I smile much more as a result...and it's all snowballed in the most wonderful way. People actually actively approach me now rather than ignore me or avoid me, awkwardly-as they did when I was in the depths of despair last winter. Biggest problem now is I am not used to handling so much attention! My social confidence (and confidence in general, stemming from so much positive social reinforecement) has utterly bloomed.
I couldn't possibly gush enough...And oh yea...the "vertical furrow" muscles push down and in, so when they "relax" back up and out, your eyes actually open up just a bit, too!
Sure, it sounds weird...
There was a small pilot study this spring about using botox to treat depression, and there is a description in this Washington Post article:
See:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/20/AR2006052000979.htmlThere is currently an active thread on the topic on the regular babble.
Thread starts here:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20060909/msgs/684854.html
> Through my many many treatments of taking supplements etc I am feeling so much better, and my health is a lot better. I am much more calm, and much less anxiety and depression and specific phobias like social anxiety have faded somewhat, and I can handle them better. My problem now is very apparent to me, and really has been affecting my mental state. I feel better but apparently I don't look better! What I mean is I must be giving out an external sense of anxiety or something which is not true to how I feel inside. I have noticed that people avoid me in social situations, they don't want to look at me, they downgrade me and ignore me, some people have actually commented that I look angry and lots of people suggest that I need to relax all the time but I'm like "i am relaxed".
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> I don't believe this is simply just me being paranoid or that I am still really anxious and its showing on the way i look. Its real! The way I justify this is that throughout the years there's been times when I've been real anxious or depressed or whatever, and people still want to be around me or talk to me, and enthusiastic about me. Must be something to do with my nervious system tensing muscles in my face or something so that I look scared or anxious, something to do with my eyes?
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