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Suggest Treatment For Avoidant Personality Disorder

Hi, my name is Ansar, I am from Pakistan, I have avoidant personality disorder, I am taking, Revalp, Depin, nimopro, notens and redeem medicine for almost 8 months, I am feeling better and my confidence level is also better, I would like to know that how long it will take time to become a normal happy and full confident person, I am professional photographer and wants to be normal in people crowd. I get nervous and feel eyes on me in crowd.
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Hi Ansar,
I suppose the diagnosis of avoidant personality has been made by a psychiatrist. Your symptoms have been improving for last 8 months. I will recommend you to take them until you feel the improvement line is on the raise. Once you feel there is no further improvement or feeling completely OK, maintain it at the same dose for 4-6 more months. Then start gradually decreasing the does by 5mg every fortnightly. If you doesn't feel that you are again getting the symptoms back then you can safely stop the medicines.

I would recommend you to go for cognitive behaviour therapy sessions, it will help you to learn skills so that the improvement persists even after you stop taking medicines
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Suggest Treatment For Avoidant Personality Disorder

Hi Ansar, I suppose the diagnosis of avoidant personality has been made by a psychiatrist. Your symptoms have been improving for last 8 months. I will recommend you to take them until you feel the improvement line is on the raise. Once you feel there is no further improvement or feeling completely OK, maintain it at the same dose for 4-6 more months. Then start gradually decreasing the does by 5mg every fortnightly. If you doesn t feel that you are again getting the symptoms back then you can safely stop the medicines. I would recommend you to go for cognitive behaviour therapy sessions, it will help you to learn skills so that the improvement persists even after you stop taking medicines