Although medication can bring relief to many with OCD symptoms, roughly one-third of individuals are not able to benefit from standard treatments. A recent study in the Journal of Psychopharmacology sought to investigate whether adding the drug lamotrigine to standard treatment with serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs) would improve OCD symptoms. Using a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled design the study authors found that adding lamotrigine to standard treatment with SRIs significantly improved OCD symptoms compared to treatment with an SRI and placebo. Although they used a small sample size, these results suggest that lamotragine may help treatment-resistant OCD.
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I’m not familiar with this study, but would like to stress that OCD, no matter how severe, is treatable. With the right therapist and therapy, sufferers benefit greatly from Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) Therapy. In my son’s case,, medication only made things worse and slowed down his recovery.
Hi janet,
can you pls share with me how ur son getting the ERP therapy? Where do you get those? Appreciate your respond. thanks.
I have been suffering the severe OCD associated with religious images.
Worst have been constant stay of these images along with associated bizarre thoughts..I did not try medicines much except xnax which helped me sleep well… Thanks to my hobby of reading the books and magazines on psychology and inspirational self -help. Consistently, I realized that I have been suffering from false and fake illusive assumption.
Patiently I keep on reading and writing on this sickness and subsequently feel healed steadily. I derived that under OCD, the brain remain stunned with the trauma from the situation blended with the childhood memory of cultural tradition. In fact nothing trigger you, you feel triggered as brain become unable to forget to what happened and shift to an uncomfort zone by itself.. But take time with reading and writing therapy, Brain return on normal comfort zone… Regds. Chaknop Khullar,Bangkok.
I take fluvox and lamotrigine which is called also lamactil and I have been using it for 2 yrs and it worked for a while and then it stopped.