i have a brother who was diagnosed with OCD.?

Question

At first he was asked by the psychiatrist to take one tablet of prozac once in a day. but he did not takes it. he is being really paranoid, tension, taking shower for more than one hour, washing his foot very often, always changing his course in the university and starts shaking his head (looks like it was unconscious) after he checked something and mumbling to himself. so i went and see the psychiatrist for him that day and he was asked to increase the pill to 3 tablets a day. does Prozac really works on him? what can i do to help him better?

Answer 1

gProzac is for people with depression..
He needs medication for Obsessive compulsive disorder...and there is medications that will help him out...go to another doctor...I just cannot believe they would give him just Prozac for OCD...he really needs something in addition to that...do they know how bad he is...you need to tell the DR. this...

Answer 2

Here is some info about OCV, and medications to treat it:

There are 6 drugs that have been proven to be helpful with O.C.D; these drugs shown to be effective in double-blind studies include: fluvoxamine (Luvox), fluoxetine (Prozac), sertraline (Zoloft), paroxetine (Paxil), citalopram (Celexa), and clomipramine (Anafranil). Anafranil has been around the longest and is the best studied throughout the world.

There is growing evidence that the other drugs are as effective. In addition to these carefully studied drugs, there are hundreds of case reports of other drugs being helpful.

It remains unclear as to why these particular drugs help OCD while similar drugs do not. Each has potent effects on a particular neurotransmitter, or chemical messenger, in the brain called serotonin. It appears that potent effects on brain serotonin are necessary (but not sufficient) to produce improvement in OCD. Serotonin is one of several neurotransmitter chemicals that nerve cells in the brain use to communicate with one another. Unlike some other neurotransmitters, its receptors are not localized in a few specific areas of the brain. Its uptake and release affects much of our mental life, including OCD and depression.

Neurotransmitters such as serotonin are active when they are present in the "gap" (referring to the synaptic cleft) between nerve cells. Transmission is ended by a process where the chemicals are taken back up into the transmitting cell. The anti-obsessional drugs are called "serotonin reuptake inhibitors" or SRIs. They work by slowing the reuptake of serotonin, making it more available to the receiving cell and prolonging its effect in the synapse. We believe that the increased serotonin produces changes, over a period of a few weeks, in receptors (areas where serotonin attaches) in some of the membranes of the nerves.

We also believe that these receptors may be abnormal in patients with OCD. That the changes that occur in them due to these medications at least partly reverse the OCD symptoms. This is only part of how drugs work. It is very likely that other brain chemicals in addition to serotonin are involved. When activity in the brain's serotonergic system is altered, this changes the activity of other brain systems.

Experiments have been done with drugs that directly stimulate components of the serotonin system in the brain. It was found that so-called serotonergic agonists actually make OCD symptoms worse. After patients are successfully treated for OCD, these agonists do not worsen OCD symptoms. This suggests that there may be some changes in the brain's serotonergic system with effective drug treatment that somehow results in improvement in symptoms.

Don't worry if this does not make sense to you. Researchers do not know how the drugs work and that is why this is all so confusing. The good news is that after decades of research, we know how to treat patients, even though we do not know exactly why our treatments work.

Answer 3

IF HE IS NOT TAKING HIS MEDICINE NOTHING IS GOING TO HELP HIM,DIFFERENT MEDICINE WORKS ON DIFFERENT SYSTEMS AND HE WILL NOT KNOW IF THIS WILL WORK FOR HIM UNLESS HE TAKES HIS MEDICINE.GIVE HIM ALL THE SUPPORT YOU CAN ,BUT HE HAS TO WANT TO GET BETTER TO,GOOD LUCK TO YOU.