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Suggest treatment for OCD and anxiety
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hi my 17 year old daughter has ocd and anixity.  she says that she cannot leave our living room to go anywhere else in the house but she can go anywhere outside of the house.  should i allow this in the house and should i allow her to be disrepectful because of this?
gpt
Hello,First and foremost is that she must be put on drugs for this. Without proper medication, what ever you might do will not take care of the illness efectively and increase it gradually- making it very difficult to manage at a late stage.Apart from drugs, there are proper therapy sessions taken which also teach parents how to manage situations/ patients temper tamtrums and illogical demands of obsessiveness.This illness , espically the obession part is not simple enough to guide anyone by one question, still I want to tell that giving in to her demands will make the illness worse. So, try to make a visit to nearest psychiatrist, start medicine and do not comply to her demands even at home.Dr. Manisha GopalMD Psychiatry