How long do I have to take medication if I have BDD?

How long do I have to take medication if I have BDD?

Well that's a good question, how long should somebody take medication if they have BDD? We don't really know the answer to that and somebody is actually studying that question as we speak, but what is probably a good rule of thumb is to think about being on the medication for, the very least for a year or two, and that's a year or two of feeling better because you really need to kind of get your life back together and you need to start functioning again, you need to kind of get in the swing of things with work, relationships, and whether it be these symptoms come back after you go off medication, you know, we don't know, we're trying to figure that out, but for a lot of people those symptoms do come back after they go off the medications. It may be less likely to happen if you have therapy with it. There's some people that they keep having the symptoms come back every time they go off the medication, and in those people it is probably better for them to stay on the medication to prevent these relapses, and there may be some other people that can come off medication successfully.