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A patient presents to your psychiatry clinic with restlessness, fatigue, muscle tension, and excessive worry about multiple activities and events.
Diagnosis: Short Term Therapy: Long Term Therapy: |
1. Diagnosis is Generalized Anxiety Disorder
2. Short term therapy is a benzodiazepine; don't stop benzo's cold turkey due to potentially lethal alcohol withdrawal like symptoms. 3. Long term therapy includes lifestyle changes, psychotherapy, SSRI's (first line treatment), Venlafaxine, and buspirone. |
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What are common side effects of Benzo's?
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Decreased sleep duration, risk of abuse, tolerance, and dependence;
Disinhibition in young or old patients Confusion |
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What are the classes of medications used to treat anxiety?
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1. SSRI's- fluoxetine, sertraline, paroxetine, citalopram, escitalopram.
2. Buspirone 3. beta-blockers 4. Benzo's 5. Flumazenil- competetive antagonist at GABA receptors. |
