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Question: Who out there suffers from "neurotic excoriations" a form of Obsessive Compulsive Order? where the person fixates on any lesion/scab on their body and will constantly pick at it creating scars, etc.
Answer: i do. i have psoriasis and i pick at my flare ups and they wont heal and now i have scars all over. it's so awful.
Question: Does anyone suffer from "neurotic excoriations"? A form of obsessive compulsive disorder where you are constantly stratching and picking at yourself. Like, if you get a mosquito bite, and you scratch it, and it scabs, you will continually pick off the scab for months and months until it leaves a life long scar. Then you will go on to the next.
Answer: i don't but those are the same symptoms of a tweaker sketching, haha..
Question: What is a good medication for OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder)? I suffer from "neurotic excoriations" and want to stop.
Answer: Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are the medications that are most commonly used to treat OCD. These medications increase the amount of the neurochemical serotonin in the brain. (Remember that brain serotonin levels are thought to be low in OCD.) As their name implies, the SSRIs work by selectively inhibiting (blocking) serotonin reuptake in the brain. This block occurs at the synapse, the place where brain cells (neurons) are connected to each other. Serotonin is one of the chemicals in the brain that carries messages across these connections (synapses) from one neuron to another.
The SSRIs work by keeping serotonin present in high concentrations in the synapses. These drugs do this by preventing the reuptake of serotonin back into the nerve cell that is transmitting an impulse. The reuptake of serotonin is responsible for turning off the production of new serotonin. Therefore, the serotonin message keeps on coming through. It is thought that this, in turn, helps arouse (activate) cells that have been deactivated by OCD, thereby relieving the symptoms of the condition.
SSRIs have fewer side effects than clomipramine, an older medication that is actually thought to be somewhat more effective in treating OCD. SSRIs do not cause orthostatic hypotension (a sudden drop in blood pressure when sitting up or standing) and heart-rhythm disturbances, like clomipramine can. Therefore, SSRIs are often the first-line treatment for this illness. Examples of SSRIs include fluoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil), sertraline (Zoloft), citalopram (Celexa), fluvoxamine (Luvox), and escitalopram (Lexapro).
