george01
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There’s something called wrap around care, and that means all your providers (psychiatrist, therapist, etc) are in communication with each other about your diagnosis and treatment. Some psychiatrists have more or less experience with OCD. For example, my psychiatrist knew I had OCD based on my symptoms, but when it started getting worse, he thought it was psychosis. Turned out, it wasn’t at all. A different psychiatrist was able to see it was all intrusive thoughts, not psychosis or schizophrenia, and he helped get me on the right path. Once I started therapy with an OCD specialist, who is trained in ERP, and EMDR with a trauma therapist, it was clear that my diagnosis was OCD. So both of my therapists communicated with each other, and my trauma therapist communicated with my psychiatrist. And now everyone knows how to treat my symptoms. Sorry this is long story, I just want to give you an example of something that might help you get the care you need.
george01george01
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Thank you for sharing your story with me. I decided to call my psychiatrist and to ask her for other medication stress relief drugs and not antidepressants. I think I just miscommunicate with her... She ll call me in a while to figure out what we will do..
Maybe,MaybeNotMaybe,MaybeNot
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@george01 Antidepressants are extremely helpful for OCD. They are what is typically prescribed, and sometimes and antipsychotic on top of it. Just because they are called antidepressants doesn’t mean they only treat depression. I highly recommend Prozac.
NicaNica
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You need to ask your therapist and psychiatrist, not people on an app. It’s a serious matter.
george01george01
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Yes, you're right. I just hoped that someone might knew about it, or tell me that it's not for psychosis only but for stress or depression and that it has not to be related to schizophrenia.
Maybe,MaybeNotMaybe,MaybeNot
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Any drug can cause side effects. You kind of just need to test it out and see what happens. If you get side effects you can always talk to your doctor and come off the med. And no, being prescribed and antipsychotic does not mean you have psychosis or schizophrenia. Antipsychotics are often prescribed for OCD- they aren’t only used for psychosis. Psychiatrists use different drugs all the time to treat different illnesses even if is isn’t typically thought of as treating a certain illness.
george01george01
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Thank you very much. I just have in my mind the fear of having schizophrenia all this time with OCD, and today the doctor told me "if you have OCD" and I was a bit like "ok... should I get stressed now?" Of course it was the first time that I met with the psychiatrist, and i didn't have enough time to talk to her. My therapist from the other hand told me many times that I have OCD and stress nothing else. I guess it is what you said. She uses other drugs to treat my OCD
Maybe,MaybeNotMaybe,MaybeNot
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@george01 You clearly have OCD. People with schizophrenia don’t typically worry about maybe I have schizophrenia. Everyone with OCD for the most parts doubts whether or not they have OCD. Clinicians who are experienced with OCD can diagnose it right away a lot of the times- but many psychiatrists are not fully informed on what OCD is. They are just as ignorant as therapists without ERP training about what OCD is. I literally went to this one psychiatrist who tried to give me these herbal supplements 😵💫
bocdbocd
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- 3y
@Maybe,MaybeNot Love this - that’s for sharing. I have had a similar experience
Maybe,MaybeNotMaybe,MaybeNot
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- 3y
Read this article. There is a chart about antidepressants and discusses antipsychotics as well closer to the bottom of it. https://www.treatmyocd.com/blog/a-quick-guide-to-potential-ocd-medications
Maybe,MaybeNotMaybe,MaybeNot
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The list of drugs in the chart are all SSRIs which is another word for antidepressants
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