BIOMEDICAL THERAPIES (Psychopharmacology)

&Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine

by

Lizbeth Jones

PSYCHOLOGY BASIS

OBSESSIVE- COMPULSIVE DISORDER

Obsessions

Irregular thoughts

“Germs”

Compulsions

RitualActions

“Washing Hands”

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) - Medications

After you are diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), your doctor will likely prescribe

antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), such as fluoxetine (for example,

Prozac). Antidepressants are thought to help balance neurotransmitters (such as serotonin) in your brain.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) - Medications

In some cases it takes time to adjust the dosage or find the right medicine that will work for you. You may start to feel better within 1 to 3 weeks after you start taking an SSRI. But it can take as many as 12 weeks to see more improvement. If you have questions or concerns about your medicines, or if you do not notice any improvement by 3 weeks, talk to your doctor.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) - Medications

Your doctor may increase the dosage of your medicine, change to another SSRI, or use another medicine known as clomipramine if the medicine first prescribed doesn't help. Clomipramine, a tricyclic antidepressant, has been used for years to treat OCD, but it may have more side effects than SSRIs.

Biomedical Therapies

SSRIsSpecific to SerotoninBlocks reuptake

Medication choices

Antidepressants (SSRIs) such as fluoxetine (for example, Prozac), fluvoxamine (Luvox), and sertraline (Zoloft) are commonly prescribed to treat OCD. These medicines are taken as tablets or capsules. The medicine venlafaxine can also help symptoms of OCD. The tricyclic antidepressant clomipramine (Anafranil) is sometimes used as well.

Antidepressants are used to relieve the obsessive thoughts and subsequent compulsive behaviors in those who have OCD. By increasing the level of serotonin in the brain, antidepressants help to regulate the communication between different parts of the brain.

Tricyclics*Block reuptake of- Serotonin- Dopamine- Norepinephrine

MEDIA

Monk, Season 3, Episode 9

An ex-cop suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) , what aid him in solving cases, such as his sharp memory, specific mindset, and attention to detail.

CONECTION

Captain Stottlemeyer is shot in the shoulder by an unknown assailant. a somewhat rattled and very angry Disher is left in charge of the investigation. Although Monk is almost as distressed as Disher, he provides very little help with the investigation, even allowing a suspect to get away because he refused to touch a “dirty” pipe.

Feeling depressed and helpless, Monk decides to try a new medication that controls his OCD and eliminates

his phobias but also makes him insufferably egotistical, unempathetic, and oblivious to the details

that are so vivid to the "normal" Monk.

Meanwhile, the suspect Disher has been pursuing is proven innocent, and the bullet taken from the captain's shoulder is traced

to a gun belonging to a dead woman.

Stottlemeyer impatiently checks himself out of the hospital with his arm in a sling and arranges to interview the new suspect with the help

of Monk, Sharona, and Disher. Monk arrives late, dressed in a loud Hawaiian shirt and talking like a "cool cat" from the 1950s. "The

Monk," as he calls himself, contributes nothing useful to the interview and discovers nothing when he does his Zen routine in the dead

woman's apartment. Undeterred by Sharona's insistence that the medication is making him sicker, he drives off in his new red Mustang.

Only when he's made a fool of by some college kids does he realize that "the Monk" is no more normal--and a lot less competent and

compassionate--than his usual self. Returning to the dead woman's apartment, he figures out what was wrong and how to prove the suspect guilty of more than one crime, and Sharona triumphantly

throws the pills in the dumpster.

CONCLUSION

Monk couldn’t function as a person but was a great detective. He was tired of not being able to act the way normal people did. His psychiatrist told him that maybe it was time to take medication for it.

At the end, the pills did in fact worked. He acted normal even when he was an extreme case of OCD. The pills took away the obsessive thoughts and phobias.

REFRENCE

http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/tc/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd-medications