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Asked for Male, 37 years old from Ahmedabad
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Psychologist•Palakkad
Panic attack comes mainly due to underlying anxiety disorder. You should understand your anxiety and it becomes easy for you to manage anxiety and panic attacks. Along with medicines, you need psychotherapy, meditation and breathing. Take care.
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Homeopath•Patna
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Hello, Lybrate user, * go for meditation to nourish your brain with oxygenated blood to calm your nerve to restart your study being a strong and confident person inculcating an innovators from within to conquer your goal.
* Tk, 5/6 glass of water to hydrate your body and to regulate metabolism ,absorbing nutrients to nourish your entire body & brain to achieve success in life.
* your diet be easily digestible, simple on time to avoid gastric disorder to discard negative feelings.        ...more
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Dear Doctor, Psychiatrist I am having problem with occasional anxiety and fear of going far away from home (also fear of going in bus, train, plane) and get anxious in traffic, traffic signal and standing in line for shopping or waiting for purchasing ticket in line) having fear of getting panic/anxiety attack. Earlier, I had 9 month course of pristiq 50 mg ER (which helped), then psychiatrist replaced pristiq with (1 mg clonazepam, 0.5 mg alprazolam in the morning and 10 mg nitrazepam and 1 mg clonazepam in the night) I slowly tapered off from the 4th month itself from half of it to and came out of it in 10 month (very very low dose 0.25 mg clonazepam and 2.5 mg nitrazepam), (I had similar effect both from starting dose to ending dose) when I stopped, again I felt anxious, and different psychiatrist put me on 20 mg paxil (helped with anxiety but problem was always feeling drowsy) came out of it in 9 months. Then started taking some natural supplements and vitamins, since 8 months, now in 8 months I had anxious feeling 3 or 4 times only when I didn't get proper sleep or caught in traffic delay). Now my main problem is going far away from home (also fear of going in bus, train, plane) and get anxious in traffic, traffic signal and standing in line for shopping or waiting for purchasing ticket in line) having fear of getting panic/anxiety attack. My question is, 1) should I continue with natural routine to help completely coming out of agoraphobia? Is it a possibility? 2) should a course of SSRI/SNRI, (say for 9 months and assume) which will make me normal again and free of agoraphobia, and then discontinue the SSRI/SNRI. Is it possible that, I can be free of anxiety and agoraphobia without SSRI/SNRI after stopping SSRI/SNRI? (please note that, earlier SSRI/SNRI had side effect of sleeplessness and low sex drive, so I was not interested in it, but if it helps in long run say after 9 months or 1 year, I can be completely free of anxiety and agoraphobia, the I can go through the side effect? 3) If I do a say, 3 or 6 or 9 month course of alprazolam and clonazepam, and assume, which will make me normal again and free of agoraphobia, and then discontinue the alprazolam and clonazepam. Is it possible that, I can be free of anxiety and agoraphobia without alprazolam and clonazepam after stopping alprazolam and clonazepam? Please note that my anxiety/panic feeling is not very severe, but thinking of discomfort (in last 4 years, I had total of 4 or 5 panic/anxiety attack, lasted in less than 10 minutes, mostly shortness of breath and sometime heart palpitation or chest tightness) when going far away from my home makes me avoid the situation. I really appreciate your detailed guidance for my above query. Thank you very much for your help.

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General Physician•Mumbai
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Apart from taking symptomatic treatment I will suggest you to take injection vitcofol 2 cc intramuscularly every alternate days for five pricks over the buttocks through a health professional and then we can think of tapering the dosage through your psychiatrist.
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Masters in Psychotherapy and Counselling...read more

Psychologist•Pune
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Hi.
Thank you for posting your query here.
We need to find the root cause of your problem and accordingly decide on an appropriate treatment. In life it happens that all of a sudden problems come up but understand there is always a reason behind these problems, once they get identified we can work toward a solution. Please do not self diagnose as there are lot of parameters to be considered before we conclude on diagnoses. For further queries you can text or call me on Lybrate. All the b...more
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MBBS, MRCPsych (UK), CCST (General Adult...read more

Psychiatrist•Visakhapatnam
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Medications such as prozac and paxil which are classed as SSRIs are commonly used medications to treat anxiety disorders, ocd and depression. It is good to note that your condition improved with higher dose of prozac. However, the anxiety symptoms are still not satisfactorily resolved. For further improvement it would be a good idea to combine psychological therapy along with medications. Through this you will be able to learn how to manage your anxiety in the long run.
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I am 20 years old. Sir, I had psychiachiatric problem. So I went to the psychiatrist. He diagnosed my problem as 1) depending personality disorder 2) depressive personality disorder 3) anxious personality disorder After came out of the problem I came to an idea and I started studying the people. I started being happy once unexpectedly misunderstanding happened between me and somebody, at that time I was asking apologise suddenly my father came and he said that my son (me) become mad that's y he misunderstood don't mine him. I was shock from that day onwards I lost interest on life, I decided that I will never enjoy in life. Is solution is there in for my problem or not. Even I unable to go out of the room I am a good student. Even sir I am not able to go for bath. I am expecting that I may have PTSD or panic disorder. If it is panic disorder (agoraphobia) which medicine is suitable for that. No doctor understanding me clearly please suggest me?

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Masters in Clinical Psychology

Psychologist•Lucknow
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Hi,
you did not expect tour father to label you like that which led to your withdrawn behavior, lack of motivation and feeling stigmatised. See, you have a long life to go a long journey to complete. After birth we are on our own. You have to do yourself good by managing your illness. I'm sure a nice doctor will understand you. Stick to one doctor. Take proper medication. Full course and you will be able to overcome. Also its necessary to take psychotherapy/ counseling for which you can cons...more
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