I have been using fluoxetine 60 mg and fluvoxamine for 4 months for anxiety and ocd. Ocd symptoms are left 5 percent from last two months and from few days I am feeling that fluoxetine is no more working for anxiety. What should I do?
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Dear Lybrate user, with regard to medication, you can consult your psychiatrist about this. But with medication, i'll also ask you to go for psychological counselling/therapy. A combination of medication and counselling will help best. Counselling will help you manage your anxiety and ocd, with certain strategies and techniques. Especially cognitive behaviour therapy is proven and widely used for treating anxiety and ocd disorders. Once, you've learnt to manage, you can also reduce your dependence on medications. Counselling will help you in the long term. There is help available, nothing to worry. If you need help, you can contact me as well, on Lybrate. All the best! regards, aaradhana reddy counselling psychologist.
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Hi, first of all I would suggest you that for medication part you should talk to your treating doctor so that he can make changes in doses or medicines. Secondly I would highly suggest you to go for cbt and erp therapies with a good psychotherapist. Cognitive behaviour therapy works wonders in case of anxiety and exposure response prevention therapy works very effectively in ocd. For further help you may contact me here on Lybrate.
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