Posted by Jimmyboy on March 3, 2006, at 18:03:17
In reply to Re: Oxytocin for social anxiety-Now your talking!, posted by nolvas on March 3, 2006, at 17:46:28
I read somewhere ( can't remember ) . that oxytocin has a hard time crossing the blood brain barrier and that the injectable stuff they give animals would only get to your brain if you injected it into the brain ( yeouch!) .. again this was just from a website and we all know how trustworthy those can be sometimes..
The other stuff I read .. said that indeed the reason it may work for social anxiety is b/c it makes you more trusting of the people around you which calms you down , etc.. but the potential drawback is that you may become guillible and trust people who you would normally not trust.
If what Tom Twilight said about MDMA releasing oxytocin, that makes a lot of sense. I know friends who have really bonded/trusted gotten chummy with some pretty unsavory people they normally would not hang out with if they were not rolling on Ecstacy.. so I guess you would need to be aware of that..
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