At the moment I'm caring for my mum who is 78. For many years she was taking 30mg clomipramine. Over this year she has become more and more anxious, lost a lot of weight and started with panic attacks. GP increased original meds to 50mg which she was on for 4 weeks. During this time she became much worse to the extent that even going upstairs to the bathroom would bring on a panic attack.

Yesterday she saw a different GP who prescribed Citalopram 20mg and today she's taken her first tablet. She is very anxious and slightly confused (not helped by the fact that she has a Urinary Tract Infection and is on antibiotics). Its now 8 hours since she took the tablet and she's convinced she can see a doll in the pattern on her pillowcase and is very weepy.

Any suggestions on how I can help her through this would be very much appreciated.

Liz