Posted by yxibow on February 8, 2006, at 1:24:19
In reply to Re: medications for rubbish hoarding, OCD hoarding, posted by krybrahaha78 on February 7, 2006, at 21:53:00
> maybe even luvox or anafranil with a small dose of antipsychotic such as risperdal.
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> > Luvox, anafranil? Fondly, Phillipa
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>Luvox in my experience has been the most effective SSRI I've ever taken for OCD. But for such a disorder, CBT has to be taken into account too. (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy). You can put an SSRI up the wazoo but you'll never learn the tools to deal with a lifelong illness, namely OCD. Rubbish hoarding was a brief part of my reperatoire. One has to have a psychologist with a tough stance, and a plan to deal with a particular type of OCD. Okay, this week, we're going to remove 10% of the rubbish from the room. It will be hard, I will sympathize with you, but its necessary to be done. And so on, and soon one begins to gather the tools they need to deal with an illness that will wax and wane throughout life. I had the worst OCD (washing) at one point that a doctor had ever seen -- 39 on YBOCS (Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale). Eventually 2 and a half months of unfun hospitalization and an outpatient day treatment program with CBT and medication evaporated it. Today, yes, I still think about things related to the bathroom, but they float and exit my mind. I've conquered that type.
An excellent book for those who are suffering or those who have family members suffering is
The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing : The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, by Judith L. Rapoport.
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