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Medication and OCD
How does medication help in treating OCD( mainly mental ruminations)? It's mainly mental compulsion.
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Taking medication depends upon intensity and severity of the condition of OCD, if it start impairing and affecting your daily life and happiness, changes in moods, feelings, emotions and temperament then connect with Psychiatrist for further investigation and treatment.
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Try to identify the kind of OCD you have and its intensity/severity and effects on your physical and mental well-being.
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Connect with Psychiatrist for medication and investigation and with therapist for better outcome.
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Thought rumination leads to obsession and compulsions which leads to anxiety, panic attacks, fear and aloofness. Take psychiatrist help it normalize chemical imbalance.
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socialization
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Try to change regular routine.
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OCD can be well treated with counseling sessions and homeopathic medicine effectively and without any side effects.
You need a long treatment to see an appreciable change.
You need an expert psychologist who is a good homeopathic physician.
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I have been working as a Homeopathic Psychiatrist for the last 17 years. you can contact me through online appointment for further assistance
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OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is treated by increasing serotonin in the brain. This medication starts showing improvement in the patient's brain and the way it deals with obsessions. Usually the medicine takes about 4 months to start showing improvement. Many people tend to give up medications earlier than that.
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Basically OCD is a kind of anxiety disorder which occurs due to chemical imbalance in the brain. In the case of OCD there is dip in the level of serotonin with other chemical imbalances. Medications provide those chemicals to the body which are deficient and hence brings the brain to back to normal functioning.
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Consult a psychologist
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Try to relax yourself and take deep breaths when you feel extreme anxiety or have obsessive thoughts and avoid repeating actions.
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Hi,OCD is mainly due to anxiety.There are assessment scales for finding out the severity.People with severe anxiety should be treated by both medications and counseling.Medications can make a person's mind ready for counseling sessions because those are antianxiety drugs
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