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M south indian.my psychiatrist here told me it doesn't matter how much knowledge i have on ocd minimum 8 month medication is needed to cure it.right?
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No: Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a condition where the patient has obsessions (ruminative thoughts about death or contamination) or compulsions (ordering things, rituals). High dose SSRI medications are the treatment of choice, or the tricyclic drug clomipramine. Time to relief of symptoms is quite variable, there is no minimum. Often the patient will need to be on medication indefinitely.
Answered 2/28/2017
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