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If you have hallucinations, delusions, social and emotional withdrawal and thought disturbances, you should have schizophrenia. Anxiety and depression are part of schizophrenia. Your psychiatrists' diagnosis is final and let his treat you and please work with your psychiatrist for a cure.
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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.
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.
Asked for male, 60 years old from Chennai
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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
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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Sir, I'll suggest you to pls consult an oral and maxillofacial surgeon with all medical and dental records at earliest.
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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
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
Asked for male, 60 years old from Bangalore
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It's always beneficial to take psychotherapy (clinical hypnotherapy) along with medicine, which will help you to get rid off psychological disorder earliest.
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It is an excellent combination, kindly continue the same and consult your psychiatrist regularly as advised. All the best.
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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
Asked for male, 60 years old from Bangalore
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It is not clear as to what medications you are currently taking. Is it cizorest or trinicalm? In both cases there are no drug interactions and if you have any it would be an isolated or rare event. I however would like for you to consult your psychiatrist regarding any issues that you may have. You are also welcome to consult us online.
Look forward to hearing from you. If you need help with booking an appointment online with me on this website either text, an appointment for a confidential ...more
Look forward to hearing from you. If you need help with booking an appointment online with me on this website either text, an appointment for a confidential ...more
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