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Asked for male, 45 years old from Ghaziabad
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Fluphenazine, haloperidol (haldol), risperidone (risperdal) and pimozide (orap) can help control tics.
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Asked for female, 32 years old from Delhi
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Dear user first of all I want to know that why you want to take medicine, as per your statement I think to some extent you are addicted to these medicines. You are too young to take these medicines, uses of these medicines in long term will definitely harmful. With medicines you need proper counseling and then we will taper you medicines accordingly. I donã¢âât know what are the circumstances under which you are taking medicines, I want to know the whole details about your disorder. But due to...more
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Asked for male, 27 years old from Delhi
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Hi, Thanks for writing in, welcome to the forum. Let us look at your scenario systematically. First, what is the likely diagnosis? It is difficult to say with the limited information available, but if one were to conclude with this information, I would agree with the diagnosis that was assigned to you (OCD). Your doctor is not using risperidone as an antipsychotic here, but as an augmenting agent. The dose of risperidone is on the lower side and that further confirms his intentions. The use of r...more
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Dear user when we are aware about our problem we are able to control but we have to control it in a proper way. You are too young and taking these tablets, itâs not good for your physical as well as your mental health. If you donât want to take medication for life time then please wake up yourself, medicines are not a perfect solution for mental health or anger issues. You have to work on your own, your will power, your mind and thoughts. But due to certain reasons if you have anger issues y...more
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Asked for male, 27 years old from Kochi
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Cannabis is fat soluble and its effects last longer ,they are not permanent unless you are chronic cannabis smoker, It is not clear why you are on the medications, you are on an anti depressant and an anti Psychotic, cannabis does produce Psychotic symptoms and they do not last long if you have stopped cannabis, medications are required if you have Depression or Psychosis in addition. There is no Medication that can be given to stop Cannabis use and a high level of Motivation is required for it....more
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Asked for male, 23 years old from Navi Mumbai
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Meditation helps depression only by reducing the time of thinking about your actual troubling problems as you concentrate more on things unrelated to those problems at least for some time. There is no other proven benefits. So if you do meditation in all the time you are awake, then only it really helps you for the whole day. Seriously. Meditation helps a little bit better in anxiety, it helps to monitor and practice and experience slow breathing, and heart rate (due to rest state). And as in fi...more
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Asked for male, 22 years old from Kolkata
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Meditation helps greatly. How meditation affects health? it has been scientifically proved that meditation not only helps the mind but also body because controlled mind and purification of consciousness leads to better lifestyle and improved habits of food, sleep etc which in turn leads to better overall health. Most diseases have their roots in uncontrolled mind and impure consciousness. So do transcendental meditation by finding and reading iskcon books, either from internet and/or from your n...more
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Yes, you should go for cbt in tandem with the medication. You must go for counseling soon. Counseling will help in training you will skills and techniques to cope with the daily challenges in life and will give you a fair chance to manage your life. You must also develop your constitution to make it fit enough to cope with fear, felt many times unnecessarily. You may be taking normal fear and converting it into abnormal fear like anxiety and so on. Take care of the following: mental stability ca...more
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