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Which antidepressant is effective for OCD

The traditional tricyclic antidepressants with clomipramine is the most effective and most commonly used. Newer drugs in the SSRIs class of fluvoxamine, sertraline, paroxetine, fluoxetine, etc. are also commonly used in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder, the effect and tricyclic show, but with fewer side effects, for those accompanied by severe anxiety can be combined with benzodiazepines, such as clonazepam; for refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder, can be combined with a mood stabilizer, such as carbamazepine or valproate, and may be able to achieve some effect --From the textbook Psychiatry. Clinically the most classic is still clomipramine, and others are also used