I have taken sertraline 100 mg and fluvoxamine for one and half month for anxiety, insomnia and ocd ,but there has been no improvement. Will my medicines be changed by the psychiatrist?
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Right diagnosis right treatment is required you need to be patient and regularly following up with your doctor for right treat. Ocd is improved to a great extent through therapy so take counseling and therapy along with medicine consult with me or any psychologist for therapy and counseling online all the best.
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Dear Lybrate user, one and half month is a short period of time to observe a significant change in ocd symptoms and ideally psychiatrists monitor for at least 3 months before making any major change in medication. At this point of time your psychiatrist can adjust the doses to maximize the potential benefits you can get from these medicines. Also, an add-on anti-anxiety or sedating medication may be temporarily added to aid with your sleep and anxiety. Another good advice would be to start behavioral therapy or cbt to address your ocd which will further improve chances of recovery. I would suggest to continue to follow-up with your psychiatrist and discuss various treatment options and hope for the best.
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Dear user, you are taking medicines but did you go for counseling? If you want to get rid off anxiety, ocd,over thinking and negative thoughts medicines are not enough, counseling is must. My belief is that if you have a good counselor there is no need to medicines or we can reduced them, that depend on the individual’s condition and case history. If you quit medicines with counseling there are bright chances to get rid of medicines permanently. With counseling we would be able to taper your medicines after sometime and learn how to manage or control your thoughts on your own. All I need is a complete case history of yours and want to guide you about your thoughts and worries so that without medicines you can enjoy your life in a better way, but without knowing everything I won’t be able to help you. I need a detail conversation with you so that I am able to help you better, please call and discuss. My cell no is mobile.
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If you have had not improvement with the use of sertraline, fluvoxamine for the last month and a half, it surely would need some changing to help you better. I hope you consult a psychiatrist face to face in person or online here. 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 and private consultation you may do so by contacting the help desk of Lybrate.
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May be. Meet with a counselor first and then if that person recommends a psychiatrist to deal with this issue, do visit one as soon as possible. Please take your parents with you to determine the possible developmental issues that may have contributed to this condition. This is a fear-based condition and for some reason you have not been dealing with this 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 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, then medication has to be introduced, and in combination with counseling much work can be achieved.
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Psychotherapy combined with clinical hypnotherapy will get you the results you want without any dependency on medicines. I have seen many such people who got results in couple of months. You can consult a psychiatrist he will suggest you regarding medicines.
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