I am 55 yeats old man having anxiety and ocd problem. Taking feliz s plus but problem remain as such. Should I take another tab also to anxiety management.

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Dear lybrate-user, if the anxiety is due to ocd, there is no need of anxiety management tablet. Ocd needs higher dose of feliz s or other ssri group of tablets. Discuss with your psychiatrist about it or add cbt with erp in addition to tablets. A clinical psychologist trained in cbt, will be able to do that. Erp allows anxiety to peak and habituation to develop. If you don't understand these terms, discuss with your psychiatrist or clinical psychologist.

Saranya Devanathan · Accepted Answer

Dear lybrate-user, if the anxiety is due to ocd, there is no need of anxiety management tablet. Ocd needs higher dose of feliz s or other ssri group of tablets. Discuss with your psychiatrist about it or add cbt with erp in addition to tablets. A clinical psychologist trained in cbt, will be able to do that. Erp allows anxiety to peak and habituation to develop. If you don't understand these terms, discuss with your psychiatrist or clinical psychologist.

Saul Pereira · Answer

It is ill-advised to do anything with regulating your medication without the doctor's recommendation. However, I am of the opinion that you seek the help of a counselor and develop some skills and techniques to counter the anxiety and ocd. This is a fear-based condition and for some reason you have not been dealing with a childhood fear which has now developed unto these repetitive adaptations to seem to need it for normal functioning. The behavior will then become based on magical thinking and certain rituals will become necessary to do normal things making you believe that either the frequency or the ritual is important to its success. This of course is a fallacy but there will come a time that even if told the truth, your belief will defy any logic and you will continue behaving like that even if it cripples you in your daily routines. It only appears as though some other force is behind these behaviors and that you are compelled to act in this fashion. That is obviously not true but no one can convince you of anything different. The obsession is a repeating thought pattern with no meaningful outcome; and the compulsiveness is the need to act on those obsessions also in a repeated behavior pattern as though you just cannot help yourself. This and the anxiety is all driven by fear and when you are frustrated with it, you will escalate anger over it. Doubt, insecurity, uncertainty, and lack of firm memory will all plague you and increase stress. There are certain behavioral techniques to be implemented and if they work you may get out of this condition rather easily. If that does not work as desired, and in combination with counseling much work can be achieved.