 Anti-anxiety and antidepressant medication is commonly prescribed for treatment of social anxiety disorder.Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) such as sertraline, fluvoxamine and paroxetine are common medications which alleviate social phobia successfully in the short term but it is not certain if they are useful in the long-term.Also the MAOI moclobemide works well on treating social phobia in the short term.