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Hi! I have been dealing with OCD my whole life and I have used both therapy and medications. I also was planning on going into psychiatry for many years, so I have done a ton of research on OCD and medication. Zoloft is actually what I first started on, but in order for me to see any benefit, I needed 100 mg. I noticed that with this dose, it helped my anxiety and ocd, but I still was having many intrusive thoughts. 150 mg is where I noticed a reduction in these thoughts. For OCD (and especially mental based obsessions like the ones that you are experiencing) the optimal dose of Zoloft is 150-200 mg, so if you are already seeing improvement at such a low dose, Zoloft is probably a great medication for you and I would move to 100 mg. I would suggest aiming for the 150 mg dose over the next couple of months. If you need anything else, feel free to reach out to me!
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Matthew what’s the best way to reach out to you with quesrions
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@Anonymous You can email me at blackbeltowl@gmail.com
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I'm on 200 mg past 3 weeks. Too soon to tell.
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*PERSONALLY* i felt better on 50mg zoloft then when my doctor tried to up it. At 50mg in highschool, i felt good. I eventually got off it. But during the pandemic, i needed medicine again and my new doctor was like “people with ocd need it to be at 200mg” and would up it every 3 days and I literally felt insane and now am scared of medicine. Its honestly up to you and take it at a pace that you give it a chance to work. Remember these arent magic pills that take away our ocd, they assist the work we put in so we get there(:
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I’m at 200 mg on Zoloft. I see minor changes in my day to day life, but I definitely still have bad days with ocd and it feels like I’m starting from the beginning again. I think it definitely depends on the person! If you’re having a flare up, I suggest maybe talking to your doctor about also taking buspirone. It helps me calm down if I’m having a flare up. I’m prescribed Zoloft, buspirone and hydroxyzine.
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It worked wonders for me. I got off back in June and I’m having the worst ocd relapse ever. So horrible. I have an appt to get back on Zoloft on the 20th. I wish I would’ve never got off of it 🥺
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It didn’t work for me, but everyone is different.
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Hello last year I had gone thru a very rough time In my life where I needed to be put on Zoloft 50mg around march 2024. I was diagnosed with anxiety, depression and OCD. Ive been suffering from OCD since I was like 11 and depression since I was 19, but I never sought help until last year Im 27 because I knew I needed it to help me get thru life. I was on 3 months on Zoloft and I went to a trip to Miami which honestly helped me so much, I honestly attribute that trip to Miami in healing me more than the Zoloft it self. I met my current girlfriend there. After coming back I felt like a new person. I still kept taking the Zoloft 50mg until late April (2025) this year when I decided to tapper down to 25mg by my self without a doc recommendation, I didn’t feel anything during the month of may this year until like may 30th when I woke up in a panic and I felt like I was back at square 1 before I started Zoloft. Mind you ive been thru some life changes, I recently graduated RN school and my gf moved in with me. Ever since the end of may I’ve been very anxious, my OCD is on high gear and my depression too. I went back up to 50mg I’m seeing a new doc, my questions is has anyone gone thru a similar situation? If so what helped you and how long did it take you to stabilize ?
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Hi all. Unfortunately I have relapsed with what I believe is POCD/ REOCD again. Im 33 going on 34 (m) and from the ages of around 23 to 26/27 had terrible OCD / shame and guilt from a mistake made in early teenage years ( Im going to say 11/12 ). It was truly the greatest struggle to make it through those years. From ages 27/28 to ~ 6 weeks ago my OCD was I would say 99% under control with the help of 150mg sertraline which was fantastic and allowed me to live as normally as I could have hoped for. A real event from almost 10 years ago randomly popped up in my mind , and the past 6 weeks have been truly awful with very little headspace for rational thought and certainly no good mood. A few panic attacks thrown in and an inability to hold my job down makes this seem like an impossible challenge to overcome. My mind is telling me its only a matter of time before police show to my door and Ill be socially berated. Ive become a bit paranoid and really do not feel worthy/ able for living a happy life going forward. Previously, on the earlier theme I had confessed to a parent not knowing it would be damaging in the long run and to be honest I dont know what helped to recover. Maybe I could have recovered sooner had I known it was definently OCD I was dealing with and effective treatment options. In the end I think I adopted a " so what" and "it is what it is" attitude after so much internal anguish which helped. With this theme, once again my mind tells me its not OCD and I am just feeling huge amounts of guilt for past actions which may never leave me. I do feel Im looking at this event in a very black and white manner however my mind wont allow anything else. Ive had days where I could function while being able to tell myself " if the worst case scenario happens, it happens " but Ive also had days where my mind tells me I wont survive another week of this guilt, let alone deal with the real life cosequences. I have no experience of ERP but I do intend to look into it. What makes me think it may be worthwhile is that last week while at work I came across an event on social media where someone went to jail for something "similar" ( my mind tells me my actions were worse ) and I just sat with the fear and anxiety which was awful in the moment - however I got some moments of positivy and become almost "carefree" that evening as the bad feelings came and went without giving in to compulsions ( main ones are googling and mental review/ re reading texts ) Of course they came back a day later . I guess Im just showing my face here so to speak, and letting you all know that there are others in the same fight, and that youre not alone. I appreciate all input. J Ps if anyone has had previous success on increasing sertraline from 150mg upward please let me know. I do feel I need a higher dose/ something more effective for this episode as I am not getting much relief from my thoughts. I have heard from some sertraline is more useful at higher doses ( 300/400 mg ) for OCD??? Any thoughts? Thank you
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