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Anxiety can be managed with Holistic treatment. One must not go immediately for antipsychotic medication.

Dear Aryan,
Just for 10 days use of Lonazep, you may not get withdrawal symptoms. But it is better to wait for 10 more days so that flunil takes action. Then you can take whenever necessary - not daily.

Dear lybrate-user,
all these are medicines given for bipolar depression. They are good keeping your daughter in good mood. But all drugs have side effects also. If you consult your psychiatrist periodically, she/he will be able to adjust the dose of licarb, depending on the serum lithium level. Flunil and petril may be stopped after improvement of depression.

Its really wonderful that your wife is doing well on paliris and flunil. So ask her to follow her hobbies, mefitation and yoga which maintain balance of chemicals and keeping her busy in a good way is also essential. But do not stop her medicines abruptly without doctor's suggestion!
take care!

Hello Lybrate user
you can start with cognitive behaviour therapy to manage your anxiety along with medicines initially. Once you are better gradually your medicines can be tapper off under supervision of psychiatrist.

1.Use Deep Breathing

Deep breathing is another effective way to relieve stress and anxiety. It helps you with physical symptoms such as shallow breathing and rapid heart rate, and it also helps with controlling your thoughts. When you practice deep breathing, you're forced to take your thoughts off of whatever is causing you anxiety and to focus on the breathing technique that you are using.

2.Keep A Journal

Journaling can be an effective way to deal with your anxiety ...more

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) is a common mental health problem. Symptoms typically include recurring thoughts and repetitive actions in response to the recurring thoughts. A common example is recurring thoughts about germs and dirt, with a need to wash your hands repeatedly to "clean off the germs" however, there are many other examples like sexual thoughts, counting, checking, orderliness, etc. The usual treatments are cognitive behavioural therapy (cbt), a selective serotonin reuptake i...more

Hello Friend, Good that you are seeking a help here. Yes you are right. Medicine are just one part of any psychic treatments and they help only in suppressing the emotions and not managing it. Sometimes it may cause side effects due to various reasons Including body condition.
So alternate is to adopt few non medicine treatment plan in parallel. Ex. Few lifestyle changes, special yoga ashana, excersise, self therapies, dietary changes etc alone with counseling support can help you overcome a...more

Dear Sujoy,
If you are a male (husband), there will be no problem to baby. Please go ahead and have a child.

Flunil 10 mg Capsule is probably unsafe to use during lactation
No information is available on the use of Saint 200 mg Tablet during lactation
No information is available on the use of Etilaam 0.25 mg Tablet during lactation
So ask your prescribing doctor as anyone prescribing compares advantages v/s disadvantages keeping your full medical picture in mind.