Dr. William (Bill) Dodson

Ultimately, you can get close to everybody having some sort of relief from RSD.

The group of medications that really then become a problem is you can't take any of the stimulants with it.

But luckily, one of them, a drug called craniosipramine, is only one atom different from amphetamine.

And it works very well for the treatment of ADHD.

In fact, there's a study way back by Yanni Malins and Metkin, who's a really big name, back when I was in my residency, where he looked at multivine oxidation inhibitors versus amfibramine and found that they worked equally well.

So, but again, you have to find somebody

who's really deep into treating ADHD well.

And I can name those people on the fingers of one hand.

Not so much OCD, but certainly agoraphobia and especially social anxiety disorder.

Social anxiety disorder is an intense anticipatory... So much for turning off my phone.

Social anxiety disorder is an intense anticipatory fear before the event that I'm either going to say or do something that's going to humiliate me in front of other people.

And even if I perform perfectly, everybody's going to be scrutinizing me, just waiting for me to make a mistake, and then they'll jump me.

Now, when they get into the situation where

Most of that anxiety goes away.

It's always before the event.

So you can see how that fear of rejection, fear of humiliation, et cetera, could be mistaken for RSD.

The difference is that RSD is triggered.

So that's the event, and everything comes after.

So they look like the timing is totally different.

And that's a very fine point.