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Severe anxiety, medication not working anymore, and losing ability to cope. cannot handle children, work, and the like. what to do?
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Anxiety: Best option is to partner with your psychiatrist closely to develop a medication regimen and behavioral therapy to combat your anxiety. There are many combination therapies (eg, Pristiq (desvenlafaxine) or other SNRI + Lyrica or other GABA agonist) that can be employed to help your symptomatically. Hope that helps!
Answered 9/28/2017
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A/W recommendation: to insure that your psychiatric medications are optomized. Use your support system. If you aren't working with a good therapist - strongly encourage that. You may need respite from childcare at times. Also, insure that insomnia is addressed - lack of sleep will only worsen your exhaustion. Take care.
Answered 11/28/2017
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