Does anxiety mask your social faux pas/bluntness?

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I have found since taking anti-anxiety meds that my tendency to be blunt, make social faux pas and go too far with teasing is resurfacing. I had thought I'd learned over the years to hold a lot of it in, but now I wonder whether it was the untreated anxiety covering it over and making me too anxious to express my natural self (possibly through the reactions of people when I didn't).

Has anyone else had this?

Yes, this is very similar to what I've experienced on Zoloft, and it has been confirmed by others who knew me before and after I started taking them. I have become more blunt and seem more prone to making mistakes because there's no anxiety filter.

To be honest

you lost me at meds.

Would you like me to explain it in more easy language answeraspergers?

Aha, this is the same medication I'm taking I believe, Sertraline.

Its not a language issue and it does not need explaining no.

Iets be polite and call it difference of belief.

I looked at this quite deeply though.

2 questions for answeraspergers:

1. Do you feel the same way about medicine for physical ailments?

2. You do realise that the brain is an organ, right?

1.) No - with due process performed where possible and an emergency exception

2.) Yes

So if medicine for physical ailments is ok and the brain is just another physical organ, then why are you so against medicine for the brain?
I understand that in many cases it may be too hastily used and that talk therapy or lifestyle changes may help better, but I don't think it's completely bad or useless.

Your question seems simple enough but its actually huge.

As an extreme example - Neuroleptics are possibly the most insane drugs on the planet used on people as if they are guinea pig by psychiatrists prescribing cocktails of drugs to see what sticks

to the OP - I dont want to derail your thread and I will respectfully quit here

However i have tested the product myself

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Yes, so don't take social anxiety meds. Here are just a few of the ways they can f**k up your life: They make Aspergers symptoms like flat affect and weird behavior worse. I also gained 40 pounds and started having violent thoughts, so I threw my meds off a bridge and vowed to never go near a psycho therapist again.

FYI, the Connecticut shooter was on SSRI's (a name for typical meds used for both anxiety and depression). I might have been him if I hadn't thrown my meds into the river.

Yes, absolutely! It's almost like anxiety has forced me to be super conformist and extremely passive about everything, even things I'm passionate about. I noticed, when I was on an anxiolytic back in 2009 for a few months, some of my friendships I'd maintained for years, nearly went down the tubes. I felt better but I also felt far less inhibition against my impulse to brutal honesty (I remember telling my long time friend that he was an awful guitarist and even if I quit that very day, he would never approach my technical proficiency in his life time...it wasn't an expression of over-confidence, I just genuinely believed this based on the rate he'd progressed). I would say, my respect for social expectations plummeted during this period and though I was very happy being myself, I don't think I was much fun to be around. Once I got off the medication, everything returned to 'normal' and I haven't said anything even remotely as blunt to any friend since. I guess anxiety scares me into re-thinking everything I'm about to say, ha!

Damn! I started beta blockers for anxiety a couple of days ago and have been amazed by How well it's been working with apparently no side-effects ...sounds like this could be a big side effect I had not even considered. I have found I am feeling more comfortable interacting so I will watch myself just in case.

Yes, so blunt it is a detriment. I will not take them ever again, dealing with anxiety is far better than having none and the harm that comes from none. Those pills ruined my life while I felt the most comfortable and happy, things I should not have felt comfortable during I did which is dangerous and being unihibited/uncensored will open you up to being assaulted by others with no means of defense.

I'm blunt enough without an aid!

Nope, because I'm not naturally anxious and I'm also naturally outgoing.

So I walk around everyday like...Peter Griffin from Family Guy or something. Sad life.

Beta blockers are different. I think those can actually be very helpful, even if doctors claim they won't work. It's the SSRI's like Zoloft you want to avoid.