Patient: Description of the condition (onset time, main symptoms, hospital visited, etc.): Senior girl, excellent grades, from the end of August to the beginning of October 2011, it was difficult to sleep at night, during which there were two nights of insomnia throughout the night, and cried to her father over a small matter, which drew her father’s attention, thinking that the child might have psychological problems, so she sought a psychiatrist, and was initially judged to be obsessive-compulsive disorder, or early depression On the one hand, he was given psychological guidance, and on the other hand, he took 5-hydroxytryptophan capsules, and now the symptoms seem to have disappeared. After taking a bottle of 120 capsules of 100mg of 5-hydroxytryptophan, the symptoms disappeared The psychiatrist said that I can continue to take 5-hydroxytryptophan capsules until the end of the college entrance examination. Chen Zhenhua, Mental Health Center, Hubei Provincial People’s Hospital: Any drug has positive effects, i.e., efficacy and side effects, i.e., side effects; why should doctors use drugs or what drugs should be used? It depends on the benefit and risk ratio of the drug to the patient, just like a cold, a light cold without fever can be cured by self-exercise and increase immunity, if the cold has a fever, bronchitis or both pneumonia should be anti-infective, must be cured by anti-infective disease, compulsive or depressive light self-adjustment, heavy use of drugs + psychological adjustment, while the development of modern drug therapy has In addition, when using medication, pay attention to the dynamic monitoring of side effects such as checking blood, liver and kidney function, ECG, etc. can be prevented before it happens. Patient: Thank you!