Paxil

So my Mom thinks I should start taking Paxil. I found this out because she told someone who then told me. This someone of course was Corinna.

I have been pretty stressed out(lol stressboy) lately because of shit like money and my car needing a new engine and stuff like that. Naturally, now that I live closer to my mother, she knows all about it and I have had a few conversations with her lately. I suppose I could come off as having a lot of anxiety right now, which unfortunately is normal for me.

So she told Corinna that she never knew me to be like this when I was growing up. Well, I never really shared much with her or anyone else back then. If I was pissed off or worried about something, I never told anyone about it. Hell I still don't, and shit like this is why.

So, I decided to go to Paxil's website and read up on the stuff. I have no intention of taking it, or talking to a doctor about anything like this, but here is what it treats:

Depression
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Social Anxiety Disorder
Panic Disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Posttraumatic Stress Syndrome

Wow, this is some heavy stuff. It sounds like one of those drugs that people take just to be able to tell people that they are on it.

Like any responsible pharmaceutical company, they put a self-diagnosis test on their site.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder - inconclusive
Social Anxiety Disorder - Experiencing symptoms of this.
Panic Disorder - Possible, however, some of those questions were extremely vague. I would say no.
Posttraumatic Stress Syndrome - symptoms of a mild disorder.

I wonder how many people take these tests and go running to the doctor. The only two I would even consider to be somewhat valid are the first two.

I will leave this stuff to the soccer moms who have nothing better to do than abuse prescription drugs.

My own self-diagnosis? I am fine. I have always been very shy, have always stressed out easily over stupid things, and there is nothing I can or will do about it. I have more important things to talk to a doctor about, like my headaches.