I've got an idea, how about in the future if you don't have a disorder or a health issue or done medical research on said health issues , then when someone is asking about a topic relating to the health issue you not post your opinion. This thread is all over the place. mslix is the only person in this thread that has the closest post to the correct manner to answer the topic.. Sure the thread asks what drug is good for social anxiety, well that's a simple answer...anti-anxiety meds or Benzodiazapines. How many posters thought before given their opinion as to what the OP should take, that the question is a loaded one with a very hard to answer because everyone's chemical balances and genetics are different? So instead of giving my opinion to OP I'll just tell you my story. I am an introvert. I have Generalized and Social Anxiety disorders, I have Panic disorder. I have mild depression and a slight OCD. I had Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for over 4 years. Out of all those medical conditions only one I've been able to overcome...PTSD. All my other disorders are genetic, my mother has GAD and I was born with 4x the anxiety defects in my DNA than my mother. Since I have it genetically I will ALWAYS have to take medications for them. I lived the first 22 years of my life undiagnosed with these disorders and because of that I set my life on a path i neither knew why or where I was to go because of my choices. My disorders made me an introvert and because of that I began my path to drugs. I first dealt with my panic attacks and anxiety as everyone with these disorders does. A biological mechanism know as the "fight or flight" response to situations on a daily basis was my first attempt to deal with the madness in my mind and how I interacted with other people. I always choose flight as it removed me from the situation or premeditated thought process to prevent the situation before it happened. Well that will only do for so long, then I turned to alcohol and drugs at 15 to cope with society and to appear to fit in with others. So by 16 I was the guy that could get alcohol,weed,LSD,pills for all the other kids my age, essentially a drug dealer...I stayed that til I was 24 years old. Sometime around my 21st birthday I got really into tranquilizers, hmmm I wonder why, lol. Well I decided that tranquilizers gave me social lubricant and also held all my disorders at bay. So I did the #1 biggest life changer of my life...I researched the symptoms for why tranquilizers were prescribed. What I found was a toll road to my disorders in the form of benzos, specifically xanax, Sadly this is just the beginning of how drugs changed my life forever with a double edged solution.....Part 2 will be posted on Monday. X) nomad