Hello. It's being a while since my last post. I Need your help. Today I visited a psychiatrist, after I got in contact with my therapist, to get a medication because, even though I was getting much better with my obsessions, something happened to me that I can't cope with. I want your opinion about Minitran The therapist prescribed me the "Minitran" which are somehow antidepressant, because I told her that xanax aren't doing anything to relief me from stress. And I read about them and they are both antidepressant and antipsychotic too, which makes me worry about two things First what side effects will have on me Secondly do I have psychoses or schizophrenia? I feel even worse than before meeting the therapist...

Thank you for sharing your story with me. I decided to call my psychiatrist and to ask her for other medication stress relief drugs and not antidepressants. I think I just miscommunicate with her... She ll call me in a while to figure out what we will do..

@george01 Antidepressants are extremely helpful for OCD. They are what is typically prescribed, and sometimes and antipsychotic on top of it. Just because they are called antidepressants doesn’t mean they only treat depression. I highly recommend Prozac.

Yes, you're right. I just hoped that someone might knew about it, or tell me that it's not for psychosis only but for stress or depression and that it has not to be related to schizophrenia.

Thank you very much. I just have in my mind the fear of having schizophrenia all this time with OCD, and today the doctor told me "if you have OCD" and I was a bit like "ok... should I get stressed now?" Of course it was the first time that I met with the psychiatrist, and i didn't have enough time to talk to her. My therapist from the other hand told me many times that I have OCD and stress nothing else. I guess it is what you said. She uses other drugs to treat my OCD

@george01 You clearly have OCD. People with schizophrenia don’t typically worry about maybe I have schizophrenia. Everyone with OCD for the most parts doubts whether or not they have OCD. Clinicians who are experienced with OCD can diagnose it right away a lot of the times- but many psychiatrists are not fully informed on what OCD is. They are just as ignorant as therapists without ERP training about what OCD is. I literally went to this one psychiatrist who tried to give me these herbal supplements 😵‍💫

@Maybe,MaybeNot Love this - that’s for sharing. I have had a similar experience

The list of drugs in the chart are all SSRIs which is another word for antidepressants