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Context: 17M, Diagnosed with OCD and ADHD. Also some weird stuttering issues.

Since class 5th, i've had speech blocks that come and go. Speech blocks is a type of stuttering, but it's very weird for me because i do not normally stutter. Infact, i used to be the anchor of my school, and used to deliver speeches aswell, in which i never stuttered or had any speech block even once.

Occasionally, i get in like a phase of having speech blocks where i'm just having major speech blocks till a week but then it starts soothing down and gets back to being less frequent.

I was also diagnosed with OCD, and later on ADHD about an year ago.

I tried Lexapro, didn't work that well. Tried fluvoxamine, not any noticable difference, but then i started taking Ritalin/Methylphenidate for my ADHD and that decreased my ocd but almost 60-70% and the frequency of speech blocks got lower.

The ocd is still there, and it is annoying enough to distract me sometimes from my studying. I am preparing for physics and maths olympiad so it's really frustating when you keep getting distracted by Outlandish irrational thoughts.

I don't have a good pyschiatrist, but he's the only one that i can get because he is free of cost by the government's healthcare system, and i also have to get in a 7 hour line just to see him for 10 minutes or so.

What would you guys do in my case? Should i take clonidine? Clonidine is risky tho so idk.

I do exercise and do deep breathing every now and then.

I want to give speeches, i want to study without being bombaraded by thoughts, i want to be able to work towards a good life. I am still considered a gifted student by my teachers but since the past year it has become hard to study and they're mad at me for wasting my potential, not that i care of, but i do want to fulfill it aswell.

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