I have Social anxiety. My doctor prescribed Zoloft which is a depression medicine. I am just curious, how does the same medicine also treats social anxiety???

They go hand in hand. You get anxious about something and after some time it becomes depressed over that same thing. In both cases, when the nerve ends send messages to the next nerve thru a gap, these messages don’t get there, they sort of bounce back to their origin. This is what’s called a chemical imbalance in the brain. These messages are sent via chemicals ‘jumping’ from one nerve end to the other. If they don’t get ‘absorbed’ by the second nerve, we become depressed and probably more anxious about more things in life.

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4 Responses

1. Joy Says:
   December 19th, 2009 at 1:44 am

   Anxiety and depression usually go hand in hand.
   I am not exactly sure though.
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   Have both

2. Daedal Says:
   December 19th, 2009 at 2:22 am

   They work the same by balancing hormones in the brain. Imbalances cause both anxiety and depression and are very similar conditions that typically happen together
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3. FlowersYes Says:
   December 19th, 2009 at 2:40 am

   They go hand in hand. You get anxious about something and after some time it becomes depressed over that same thing. In both cases, when the nerve ends send messages to the next nerve thru a gap, these messages don’t get there, they sort of bounce back to their origin. This is what’s called a chemical imbalance in the brain. These messages are sent via chemicals ‘jumping’ from one nerve end to the other. If they don’t get ‘absorbed’ by the second nerve, we become depressed and probably more anxious about more things in life.
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4. The Wild Man Says:
   December 19th, 2009 at 2:49 am

   if you are having trouble with stress or anxiety ….check thsi out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjPcb3eMS6s lil Dr Jack can helps
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