Brief Answer:
Sleep hygiene tips.

Detailed Answer:
Hello
Welcome to HCM.
I can understand your concerns for your father.

Disturbed sleep due to worries and depression can treated without medicines by practicing sleep hygiene:
1. Avoid daytime naps.
2. Avoid tea, coffee, alcohol after evening.
3. Practicing relaxation exercises like deep breathing and meditation.
4. Ensuring adequate day light exposure.
5. Taking a glass of warm milk and warm water bath before bed.
6. Listening to soft music at bedtime.
7. Keeping the clock out of sight while sleeping.
8. If unable to sleep within 15-20 mins of lying onto bed, he should take a walk around in balcony.
9. Not lying on the bed all the time.

If these tips do not help, then medication would be needed.

Hope this helps.
Feel free to ask further.
Take care.

Regards.

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Brief Answer:
Risks vs Benefits.

Detailed Answer:
If the problem is severe, then drug treatment is necessary.

But if the problem is mild, then these tips will help him.

Sleeping pills like clonazepam or alprazolam etc carry the risk of causing dependence.

Antidepressant drugs also have side effects like gastric upset, cardiac side effects, weight gain etc.

While prescribing a drug, risks are weighed against benefits. If benefits are more, than the drug treatment should be taken.

Hope this answers your satisfactorily.
Kindly close the discussion if you have no more queries and give your valuable feedback.

Regards.

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Brief Answer:
Antianxiety, antidepressant drugs.

Detailed Answer:
Serlift is antidepressant drug.
Rivotril is antianxiety and sleep inducing drug.
Olzic (olanzapine) is an antipsychotic drug which has antianxiety effects also.

I think only serlift is OK for him, but only if those tips are not helpful.

First he should try those tips.

Take care of him.
Regards.

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