I am 25 year old male. Suffering from OCD.In medicine I have to take 80 mg fluoxetine, 1 mg Risperidone, 100 mg Sertraline. I feel normal but feeling a lot drowsy in day .i have to take 250 mg armodafinil and then I can do my daily work easily. My Psychiatrist say you have addiction of armodafinil. Such high doses not required for removing fatigue. If medicine remains same, I want to know my dependence on armodafinil increases, decreases or remains same. I am not abusing the drug only using it for removing drowsiness in day time.

Dr. Saranya DevanathanPsychiatrist46yrs exp

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Dear Ritesh, You have improved with OCD. Then why don't you reduce and stop Risperidone? With only 80 mg fluoxetine and sertraline, you may be still okey. Both of them are not sedative. Both can be taken in the morning itself, if you feel like. Armodafinil is not routinely prescribed for OCD. So you need not take it. You are using it for removing drowsiness.Why don't you try some non pharmacological method to remove drowsiness? If you still crave for armodafinil and increase the dose(already on 250 mg), probably you need to think about it seriously. 

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