
Suggest Treatment For Depression With Socio Phobia While On Adderall And Xanax

it is depression with social phobia and it can be treated
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Hello,
Thanks for writing to us. I can understand your concern.
You have narrated your symptoms very well. It seems that you are having depression with social phobia (social anxiety). It can be treated. Lack of concentration can be part of depression likely. Some possibility of attention deficit disorder (ADD) is there and evaluation of that needed by psychiatrist. Sometime ADD co-exists with depression.
Treatment of your problem includes both medicines and psychotherapy.
In psychotherapy I prefer cognitive behavior therapy (CBT).In mild cases only CBT is sufficient. In moderate to severe cases initially medicines and then CBT is added. And later on medicines stopped gradually.
In medicines SSRI group of drugs (fluoxetine, paroxetine, sertraline, escitalopram) are main stay of the treatment. There are other group of drugs as well with different mechanisms and excellent results.
Benzodiazepines group of drugs (clonazeapm, lorazepam or etizolam) are used initially for short duration for fast symptomatic relief.
You have already tried prozac but not helpful. I recommend paroxetine or mirtazapine in your case with psychotherapy. In benzodiazepine instead of xanax I prefer clonazepam for anxiety. It has low dependence potential and more sustainable improvement due to its long half life than xanax. You can ask your doctor about these options.
If diagnosis of ADD is established, adderall can be added otherwise treatment of depression and anxiety will solve your problem of lack of concentration.
Hope I have answered your query, I will be happy to help further.
Regards,
Dr.Chintan Solanki.


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