Can citalopram be used to treat social anxiety disorder?

Social anxiety: A lot of the antidepressant meds can also help with anxiety. For your social anxiety however, you may want to look at escitalopram as it is actually approved for treating several forms of anxiety disorders. You really need to discuss these issues with your prescribing physician who knows you and can better judge if a change would be indicated.

It often is: Although it's first intended use is for major depression, it (like many or most psychotropic drugs) is used off-label for other conditions. My bias, particularly in this case - social anxiety disorder - is at least to include if not primarily use talk therapy. Learning how to manage the problem provides lifetime benefits w/out side effects. A pill only works when you take it. You're the same.