What medication is good for OCPD?
Question:
DR said there is no perticular pills to treat OCPD. but effexor might reduce some symptoms. also, is there anyone who use aanafranil? If so, I like to know how it is.Thank you.
Answers:
Your doc is right: there are no particular medicines to treat OCPD. Actually, there are no particular medicines to treat *any* personality disorder. Effexor is an effective antidepressant, and I suppose it could help some OCPD symptoms. By the same token, any of the SSRI antidepressants -- Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa, Lexapro, or Paxil --could help some symptoms too.
Personally, I wouldn't prescribe anything for OCPD, but other docs could reasonably disagree on this. The only definitive treatment for a personality disorder is psychotherapy... or learning to live with it.
Anafranil (generic name: clomipramine) is an older antidepressant that also treats OCD (not OCPD). For most people, it has more side-effects than newer meds like Effexor, so it isn't used as much nowadays. OCD can be hard to treat, and some people have found it's the only thing that works for them.
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