Mental Illness

1. Psychotherapy
(a) Psychoanalytic Therapy
(b) Supportive psychotherapy

2. Behavior Therapy
(a) Thought Stopping
(b) Response Prevention
(c) Systematic Desensitization
(d) Modeling


3. Drugs – Benzodiazepines, Anti depressants like Clomipramine,
Antipsychotic like haloperidol

4. ECT – In the presence of severe depression with OCD.

1. Antidepressants are the treatment of choice. The usual antidepressants are imipramine, newer antidepressants like tetracyclics (mianserin), trazodone, fluoxetine, amineptin and amoxapine and Tricyclic like imipramine, amitriptyline etc.

2. Psychological Treatment
I. Cognitive Therapy – Its aims at correcting the depressive negative cognitions (ideations) like hopelessness, worthlessness, helplessness and pessimistic ideas.
II. Psychoanalytic ...