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Asked for female, 23 years old from Hyderabad
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Psychologist•Bangalore
Hello friend, good day. I can understand your concern about long term medication and its side effects. Be aware that medicine alone cannot treat such problems. It can help only to address certain symptoms feel better. In parallel, your brother needs a lot of non medical treatment plans including psychotherapy or mindset changes techniques, relaxation techniques, excercise routine, lifestyle changes, dietary changes and regular counseling guidance. In am not sure, how many of these been recommend...more
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Psychologist•Palakkad
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Hello and welcome to Lybrate. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. The best person to advise you in this regard is your psychiatrist because he is the knowledgeable person about your conditionfor complete cure, you will need counseling and psychotherapy along with medicines.
I suggest telephonic counseling and online psychotherapy for you.
You can contact me for further advice and treatment options. Let me know if I can assist you further. Take care.
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Psychiatrist•Bangalore
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Dear Kannan,
Thank you very much for taking interest in knowing what your relative is going through. This is a serious mental illness with frequent relapses. So it needs long term treatment to keep the illness under control. For some persons it is life long.
ECT is a temporary treatment to prevent suicidal thoughts and disturbing hallucinations (not illusions). If it is effective it needs to be adminstered at regular intervals as maintenance ECT. Of usually maintenance is done by Clozapi...more
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Psychiatrist•Bangalore
Dear lybrate-user,
schizophrenia is a chronic lifelong disorder. The drugs need to be given for a long term. Since your brother is young, he needs rehabilitation from now itself along with drugs. Sometimes he is bad means, that family has high expressed emotions. Continuous drugging is important - otherwise relapse will occur. Relapses take longer time to bring him under control. All these can not be done with your visit to bangalore or vellore. There is no one time cure. Your own psychiatri...more
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Psychiatrist•Davanagere
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We understand your situation however is not advisable to take medications on your own by self-medication. We are glad if you are not self-medicating, however would like to let you know that clonotril and serenace are not the same group of medications. To answer your questions a. Yes, clonotril will reduce your anxiety and so will serenace, but clonotril is more effective if anxiety is due to worries or other reasons that do not involve psychosis. And b. Using serenace is not contraindicated alon...more
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