What should I do if I suffer from psychological disorders such as anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression at the same time?

Suffering from anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and depression at the same time sounds a bit serious, but in fact, because these three groups of disorders are inextricably linked to each other, there are still many patients with similar problems in their daily work.

First of all, in the international diagnostic standards that we are currently implementing, OCD itself also belongs to the anxiety spectrum, and the two themselves have a very broad overlap. Of course, as medicine continues to advance, it has been found that OCD has distinctive features that differentiate it from anxiety disorders, so the ICD11 diagnostic criteria, which will be published next year, will include a separate section on obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders.

Depression can also be secondary to anxiety or OCD, whether it is OCD or anxiety disorder under the torment of prolonged tension will inevitably produce persistent depression.

These three diseases can also be treated simultaneously, for example, some SSRI drugs are effective for these three diseases, I prefer sertraline and fluvoxamine, the effect of anti-obsessive-compulsive is more obvious. Of course, at the same time you can carry out complementary psychotherapy, I believe the effect will also be good.

If the patient is a young person, it is also important to check whether there are any manic or hypomanic episodes in the past that meet the diagnostic criteria. If this is the case, the diagnosis may be changed to bipolar affective disorder, which should change the treatment plan considerably.

I hope you and your family are in good health, and if you need to contact me, I will reply.

It is possible for a person to suffer from all three mental illnesses at the same time, and there is a greater or lesser degree of co-occurrence of all three. Insiders often say, anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive are three brothers, see the relationship between them is "how good", always inseparable. However, among these three mental illnesses, there is always one that is the beginning, the main and dominant. For example, if the origin is an anxiety disorder with symptoms such as tightness in the chest, shortness of breath, excessive sweating, dizziness, fatigue, and panic attacks, but because of the lack of timely treatment, or because the psychosocial factors that trigger anxiety disorders continue unabated, the person with the anxiety disorder will realize that his or her problem is very serious and has a great impact, and is unable to deal with it for a long period of time and will develop symptoms of depression such as low mood, slow thinking, and inhibited behavior, and may also repeatedly wash his or her hands, Repeatedly checking the door locks, repeated thinking and other compulsive behaviors, thinking in an attempt to ease, avoid anxiety, but in fact will be because of their own behavior and thinking want to control but can not control to produce more anxiety. This creates a situation where anxiety is the beginning, the main and dominant, and depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are present at the same time.

Similarly, people with depression may also suffer from anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder, and people with obsessive-compulsive disorder may also suffer from anxiety and depression at the same time. The reason for the co-existence of three disorders in one individual may be that the beginning of the disease is more serious or lasts for a long time without getting better. Therefore, if you suffer from anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder or any of them, you need to contact a professional counseling agency to solve the problem. Anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder are mental illnesses, heart disease need heart doctor, professional psychological counselor will accompany and guide the patient to explore the root cause of their own mental illnesses, to find and deal with, the symptoms naturally disappeared.

I'm a psychologist, and I'm here to answer your questions.

I'm a psychologist and mental health educator, and I work in a university doing mental health education and counseling for students.

First, your question, "What should I do if I suffer from anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), depression and other mental illnesses? The question, indeed, makes you feel very confused, and I also have empathy for the experience.

But the first thing I want to ask is, are you suffering from these three mental illnesses diagnosed in a specialized psychiatric hospital? If so, what advice did the psychiatrist give you after the diagnosis? You can just follow the psychiatrist's advice (medical prescription).

Secondly, no matter whether you suffer from a mental illness or multiple mental illnesses, as long as the diagnosis is confirmed, you should receive treatment; especially depression, this mental illness is best to follow the principle of treatment of mental illnesses, i.e., to receive standardized medication, which is not only conducive to the alleviation of symptoms of depression, but also conducive to the improvement of the condition; and at the same time suffer from three kinds of mental illnesses, depending on which kind of mental illnesses you think is more serious, then treat this kind of mental illness first. The first thing you need to do is to treat this kind of mental illness first.

However, it is important to consult with your psychiatrist about how to treat your condition, and it is best to follow your doctor's instructions.

Thank you again for your invitation!

Multiple mental illnesses **** disease phenomenon is not rare, clinically very common, a patient with an anxiety disorder often **** disease depression, obsessive-compulsive, fear and other symptoms of such **** disease symptoms diagnosis is more difficult to treat is also more troublesome, the patient is also more than a single disease sufferers serious degree of pain.

In the *** disease phenomenon diagnosis, through inquiry, observation, and scale test, generally the most serious symptoms as a diagnosis, for example, in several measurement scores, if the compulsion is significantly higher than the other symptom scores, the diagnosis is obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Then the treatment is also based on the heaviest symptoms as the direction of treatment, in the family of neurological disorders, anxiety for *** have core symptoms, then the drug is also based on anti-anxiety, so from heavy to light treatment symptoms.

Generally speaking, depression if *** disease other symptoms, treatment is a little more difficult, but also at any time due to *** disease and aggravate depression, which will also bring some difficulty in treatment.

A person suffering from mental illness is very difficult to cheer up, always feel depressed, and easy to get angry, and the relationship with the surrounding people will be very tense, and in serious cases will also smash the furniture, scolding parents, these cases have. With these symptoms, by taking Western medicine can relieve the symptoms, but it can not cure the disease, it is only symptomatic not to the root cause of the disease, after taking the medicine may not smash furniture, that's all, can not be truly recovered, once the medicine is discontinued, these symptoms may recur. There are also psychological counseling to treat these diseases, but also useless. Because psychology is an American culture and our Chinese genes are very strong, it does not accept western things, and once it is installed in the brain, it will cause its own contradictions and the contradictions around it, so it does not work either. Our Chinese medicine is also not yet very effective in treating mental illnesses, and may be somewhat effective in the early stages. As a matter of fact, mental illnesses should be cured by the Tao, that is to say, we have to study the excellent traditional culture and use the words of the sages to eliminate the harmful memories in our cells, eliminate your bad genes and some unhealthy thoughts and beliefs that you have received in your later education, after these harmful memories have been eliminated, the cellular frequency of our body will rise, physiological stress and psychological stress will fall, and finally immunity will be improved so that you will get well and become happy from now on. up and become happy from then on. Otherwise, it will be very difficult for you to come out of it. This kind of study takes a month, with special courses and specialized training to achieve this kind of healing.

Hi, I'm a five year recovered major depressive, anxiety, OCD, phobia!

In fact, there is no such thing as so many illnesses, it's all about people who don't know what they're talking about and think they know what they're talking about! Any mental illness to a severe degree must not be a single problem! Because mental illness is essentially negative energy!

Negative energy then there may be fear, anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive various forms, then to the Western medical definition then it is a phobia, anxiety disorders ......

In fact, it is not so! Any mental illness is due to the release of negative energy out leading to entanglement back to a large number of negative energy, widowed by negative energy entanglement control on! That's the essence! There's no difference in the nature of any mental illness, like when I was a severe case of everything I looked at, do you think I was desperate? I felt at that time that I could not do anything about the treatment!

It's not that hard to get better! The reason for this is that I have been investing in negative energy and I can't get out of it after it has been reinforced! Then my teacher said to me, you do not think of anything now, just do as I say, according to what I want to think, so I just link with the teacher, the teacher said what I do, to release the positive energy, only and positive energy entanglement, and put into the study for a period of time, a variety of mental illnesses are good!

So any mental illness is a barrier of negative energy, no matter how serious can be good!

That's the right direction!

Anxiety is the basis of all neuroses, and OCD itself develops on top of anxiety. The ritualistic behaviors of OCD, in and of themselves, arise to relieve anxiety. It is just that, with the emergence of anti-compulsive ideation, the inner conflict intensifies and the symptoms of anxiety become more pronounced.

And the ultimate home of anxiety and OCD is the depressive state, but, not depression. The depressive state is a kind of self-protection of the body in the case of a large amount of physical energy consumption. Prevent the body because of overconsumption and organic lesions. However, this does not mean that the symptoms of anxiety and compulsion will disappear completely. At this time, depression, anxiety and compulsion will appear at different times and with different intensities.

Depression itself, of course, can lead to the appearance of symptoms of anxiety and compulsion. This is caused by the fact that depression leads to a decrease in the activity of the higher cortical areas of the brain, which in turn leads to an increase in the instinctive behavioral impulses of the individual.

Therefore, these two conditions need to be identified during treatment. Then, the treatment will be targeted.

Oh! Don't think about your problems all the time, spend your time thinking about your problems in action and reading books and your problems will improve a lot