A 28-year-old female asked:
what are the potential short term and long term side effects of taking a low dose atypical antipsychotic with an ssri for anxiety?
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Dr. Hamsa Jayaraj answered
54 years experience Internal Medicine
Talk to psychiatrist: Read Kelly Brogan's book- Mind of your own
She advocates minimal use of medications working on the brain.
She wants change in diet & environment, meditation etc
She is a board certified psychiatrist who stopped writing psych. medications. She has a huge following all over the world. I do not know if you are doing well on these medications, what to say!
Answered on Jun 26, 2018
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Dr. Ed Friedlander commented
44 years experience Pathology
No reasonable person questions the value of medications in major mental illness. I join many of my colleagues in believing that they are overprescribed, but this may be the result of fear of liability. Dr. Jayaraj is of course correct in saying this question cannot be answered. For ordinary anxiety and depression, keys are managing situations, learning new skills, managing thinking, taking actions
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