Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. I have read your query and understand your concern. Alprazolam belongs to the benzodiazepine group of drugs that are used for sleep problems, and to control anxiety. It is indicated for short-term use only, that is until other medications start working because it has a propensity for dependency. It should not be given for more than 4 weeks and if prescribed for a longer duration, it needs to be done under the advice of a specialist after being assessed for anxiety and depression.
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. You are preparing for a competitive exam for which you have stress and anxiety symptoms. If I ask, can you guarantee the results of the exams for which you are preparing? Definitely no. But you can predict the good results, but it is not guaranteed because we expect a lot. Not only you, but people around us expect a lot, but this is also the thing that hurts us a lot and puts us in a competition that triggers over expectations, uncertainty, apprehension, and leads to a variety of psychiatric symptoms and behavioral issues.
Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. Your history is clear that you have relapse depressive symptoms along with anxiety symptoms. You have obvious reasons for your symptoms like you live away from your home, poverty, basic needs of life like home and your sensitive personality like you are most of the time uncertain that worse could happen. I would suggest you should start antidepressants as soon as possible..
Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. Yes, you have an obsessive thought, especially obsessional phobias. You are relating these thoughts to something worse which might happen, during this period tray to say stop to these thoughts every time they come into your mind and ask yourself that is there anything which happened in a way the way your mind thinks or for which you are feared of. It means you are so stuck to your thoughts and developed a fear that worse might happen so better to say stop these thoughts and get yourself busy in daily activities and go for walk daily at least for 30 to 45 minutes in a day, see the response in next week. If you cannot control, then medication can be started.
Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. See smoking comes under the addiction to nicotine. Addiction has multifactorial etiology, for example, peer pressure, family history, personality factor, maladaptive way to deal with stressors, underlying anxiety, and depression. As far as treatment is concerned which is dependent on patients motivation, motivation should be strong enough to quit because treatment would only facilitate you for this action. You strongly require medication and counseling for motivation and to understand your psychological condition.
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. Rape is a serious issue worldwide, and you have to be vigilant, not hypervigilant because if you take care of yourself, you can best protect yourself like do not go alone in late hours, unfamiliar places and with unfamiliar people and you should have a good relationship and support with your family members. Uncertainty and apprehension causes anxiety, stress, and unnecessary fear, overprotectiveness causes the avoidance in behavior and takes you away from your freedom and happy life, be confident in your discuss your concern with your family, have immediate contacts with you during these situations, and if symptoms are affecting your life you should take some counseling sessions. .
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. Yes, you are right in this regard but clinically it is proven to give if patient's symptoms are resistant on medication but there are few options to try before prescribing this, and for sleep to prescribe Noncrystalline is not suitable decision, rather you can have Mirtazepine low dose which is suitable combination with any SSRI and has no drug interaction which you can search even, and you may need counseling to help to deal with your problems..
Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. Marijuana contains cannabis, cannabis cause psychosis three times more than the general population where schizophrenia is 1 % common in the general population. It seems he has developed schizophrenia, I would suggest to take him to the psychiatrist to give him antipsychotics which is very necessary for him, because psychotropic medications are controlled drugs you would not get with this way rather you need a proper prescription..
Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. Taking Dopamine agonist to restore dopamine level in the brain after giving antipsychotics for schizophrenia is not a suitable choice because of relapse of psychotic symptoms or exacerbation of symptoms not only psychotic symptoms but mood symptoms, these side effects are called extrapyramidal symptoms which can be managed to give anticholinergic medications along with antipsychotics, better to visit your treating doctor to have healthy discussion on this..
Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. I think there is a definite factor for your stress and that stress is due to the conflict with your father. They are not letting you complete your studies or they want you to join their business, these are different things. You have to clear in your mind about your current academic status and future career related to your studies and compare this thing with the business, and have a healthy discussion with your father or have conflict resolution counseling where you and your father would attend the session to have fruitful results..
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