Posted by Caedmon on April 13, 2006, at 9:53:46
In reply to Re: Meds for trichotillomania? » Caedmon, posted by Crazy Horse on April 13, 2006, at 5:51:35
Thanks Tyler/Crazy Horse
>I'm hoping and thinking the Parnate may help..seriously.>
Let us hope so. I've tried brief therapy on the issue but never felt like it was going anywhere. I've never had a lot of luck with therapy as a way of actually treating my psych problems, I usually benefit from general reflection/ venting when I'm there. Part of it is that my cognitive skills go down the drain as part of my social phobia, and any time I'm with a ther. and on the spot like I usually am, I'm just pretty much unable to process the information from the session. I've started to jokingly refer to this as "counseling amnesia".
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=11475941&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_docsum
states that:
"There are few studies of the pharmacological treatment of patients with psychogenic excoriation. Case studies, open trials and small double-blind studies have demonstrated the efficacy of selective serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine; 5-HT) reuptake inhibitors in psychogenic excoriation. Other pharmacological treatments that have been successful in case reports include doxepin, clomipramine, naltrexone, pimozide and olanzapine."Naltrexone is the only one w/ a mechanism of action that would be new to me.
- C
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