Can anti-anxiety medications be combined with antidepressants to treat BDD?
Yes. Anti-anxiety medications can sometimes be combined with antidepressants, especially if somebody has very, very severe anxiety and they really need some quicker symptom relief. And because the serotonin reuptake inhibitors usually take several weeks to start working, in the beginning somebody might benefit from maybe a couple of week treatment with anti-anxiety medications to help get them through to when the other medication starts kicking in.
