OCD Questions

You need psychological counseling and psychological autosuggestion therapy through the online process for three weeks without any medication for the removal of your psychological problems of ocd. You should know that medication has many side effects. You can contact me for this on Lybrate website or direct contact me for this on mobile. Thank you.

Dear Sadique,
Practice sleep hygiene techniques. You can take cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for quality sleep.

First of all your history has no points to suggest that you are having ocd. You seems to suffer from anxiety depression with alcohol abuse. Drug combination which you are having are probably not working for you. You can benefit by starting treatment after proper diagnosis. You may consult me or any psychiatrist for management of your problems. Take care.

Antidepressants though reduce seizure threshold are given in people with seizure disorder having anxiety, depression and ocd. If there is a recent seizure in the past 2 years, they are given under the cover of an anti epileptic, else not. Else it is a safe medicine and you can follow your psychiatrist advise. It will take approx 4 weeks to see the effects though, so be patient. Good luck.

The most effective solution for dealing with anxiety for me personally was waking up early. I am not a morning person but once I tried this, I was surprised how good this made me feel. It helped me find peace and calm myself down. Having so much time in my hand I could do small things that made me happy and I felt a sense of accomplishment just by waking up early. I feel the most anxious during the night- so sleeping early really helped me tackle it to a great extent.
Meditation was another ...more

Dear Hardik,
No medicine is safe. Every medicine has both wanted and unwanted actions. Your doctor must have weighed the benefits vs side effects before prescribing. OCD needs a long term treatment. Your doctor knows and will look for its long term side effects.

Your problem is, you think and worry so much ,keep yourself busy in constructive work, make exercise part of your daily life, try breathing exercise and go for cbt it will help you.

Do not worry no problem it is safe relax
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Dear lybrate-user, disclaimer: I can advice only about allopathy.
Ocd needs long term treatment. Sacrilege ocd needs immediate treatment.
You have found improvement with fluoxamine and clomipramine. Please maintain them for at least 2 years. Dose will be altered with doctor's periodic consultations. Along with it, you can take cbt (cognitive behaviour therapy) and erp (exposure and response prevention). This therapy may take 18-20 sessions. It also needs to be maintained with booster ses...more

Dear lybrate-user,
both fluoxetine and risperidone will not show up in drug screening. Drug screening is done for other addicting drugs. These 2 are not addicting drugs. They are essential drugs. All the best for upsc selection. Continue preparing.