So anti-vaxxers rightly get a lot of backlash from the mainstream, but I keep thinking about how parents that dont "believe" In either mental illness, or in the many scientifically tested ways of treating mental illness, deprive their children of mental healthcare.... And thats just......... Normal. It's totally different if it's something parents can't afford (which is itself a horror and injustice). I know there are side effects to many psychiatric meds, especially for minors, but there are very safe ways of trying medications, and lots of alternatives, like therapy. Im just talking sorry, this keeps bothering me, especially when people talk about the anti-vaxxers. I wish there was that same energy behind childrens mental health.

leham

Date posted: 6y

Wow I hadn’t even thought about it from this perspective, but you’re so right. Makes me upset too. A lot of things could have been better for me if I had started to get treatment 12 years ago.

stf

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 6y

You are right, it's not the same thing. After posting this, I started to think about how after I was diagnosed, a doctor gave me a prescription for Xanax even though I wasnt getting panic attacks back then. I was 16! Later in life, I was prescribed benzos again, and I was on them for years, which is common in America, but always dangeeous. I had to vo through horrible withdrawal after they stopped working and I keot having to up my dose. There is irresponsible and uneducated drug pushing, and the science in psychiatry is definitely less solid than it is for vaccines. Im sorry you had these experiences. Therapy is really the best treatment for OCD. It's pretty socially acceptable to believe therapy does nothing, and lots of people make fun of therapy and think it's just privileged people whining about their problems. I just think about what my OCD was like before I got treatment, and I feel horrible for people who are denied ANY treatment, because their parents dont believe In it. Treatment isn't a luxury, OCD takes away your life. But in reality, as it always is, it's complicated.

hyzenthlay

Date posted: 6y

I know. My parents are among that crowd and they still try to talk me out of taking medications, they won't listen to me when I tell them that the pills are working.

Squidgery

Date posted: 6y

I hadn't thought of that tbh, it's a really good point. I had therapy as an adult without even telling my dad since I knew he'd be against it. One time I said I'd had a panic attack recently and he said 'How did I raise such weak children?'

Jin

Date posted: 6y

I don‘t think this is the same thing. While vaccinations are really working, psych meds have a high placebo effect, a lot of side effect and there are a lot of non responders. Psychiatrie systematically avoids talking about the physical dependency and the hardships of withdrawl, which exist for certain. I know many people getting worse on psych meds, including me, and only non mainstream scientists who talk about it, while the mainstream psychiatric studies are broadly sponsored by pharmaceutical companies. This is not denying the problems that are labeled „mental illness“ as some parents seem to do. But there are a lot of people out there where psychiatric treatment did harm and I hate this fact is mostly denied. While I agree completely it‘s horrible that some people can‘t afford any treatment at all.

Jin

Date posted: 6y

stf really sorry to hear your med story. I know the prescription of psych drugs is even more in the US (I can speak for Germany), but also here it‘s irresponsible and makes me angry. But I get your point about parents denying the phenomena labeled „mental ilness“, maybe saying things like „get yourself together“, right? That is also not helpful and ignorant, I agree. On the other hand there are parents blaming the problem on the child and too soon and to trusting in „the experts“ give their children to doctors which is also questionable. Yes, no treatment is horrible, and being poor is one of the main predictors and maintaining causes of mental problems. It‘s the world we live in. Good you had treatment that helped you!

avantika 😛

Date posted: 9w

Rant...

I just feel like therapy isn’t working… like I get to talk about myself and understand myself… but I’m already incredibly self aware. My therapist thought I was like 5 years older than I am… and she gives me such basic strategies that do absolutely nothing for me. And a psychiatrist prescribed me with Zoloft… but I don’t know if T want to take medication. I’m scared of side effects… and I’m scared of getting better… I’m scared of letting my guard down. I know it will make me less cautious which makes me less likely to push myself to perfection like I currently do, which I can’t have happen. Every time I talk to my mom about it, she’s always like “Let’s talk about this some other time, I’m busy with other things”, and then never remembers. But in the rare moments we do talk about it, she treats it like I’m signing up to be a drug addict. I also feel very guilty for spending so much of my parents’ money- therapy… medication… etc… and also the idea of my being unlovable is so deeply engraved in my brain… I genuinely, truly believe it. No therapy or medication can fix it. I can’t change my mind. My therapist tells me my misophonia is not a “deal-breaker” and that someone would be lucky to have me as a partner… but then why hasn’t anyone ever liked me? My own FAMILY can’t stand me. How do I believe something I know isn’t true? That’s even harder to accept than me being unlovable. I can’t see someone loving me. And it is so incredibly exhausting to seek love,e I know I cannot have. My sister says, “It will get better with age…” It has only ever gotten worse. To the point I don’t want to get better. It has reached the severity where I feel more safe and successful with anxiety. My past 3 birthdays have been me wishing for therapy. And now I have therpay- and medication, the potential key… and I refuse? Am I too deep in? I cant get out, it’s too late. How did absolutely no one notice how much I had and have been hurting? Why did no one listen to my cries or worries? I feel really depressed and hopeless right now. It takes so much effort to get up every day… I’m so tired.

issphra 🫶🏻

Date posted: 8w

Ranting, what are you doing??

Lately I’ve seen way too many comments under posts about OCD, especially the harm, POCD, and relationship themes that are incredibly misinformed and honestly harmful. People saying things like “these thoughts are unnatural,”or “you need to go get real help” and encouraging confession ***compulsions*** when they clearly have no understanding of how OCD actually works. Let me be clear: OCD involves distressing and unwanted thoughts, images, or urges. That doesn’t make someone dangerous. It makes them someone with a mental illness who is terrified of their own brain. Saying these people are “unnatural” or implying they’re broken only reinforces shame, and shame is the opposite of what helps anyone heal. If you’re commenting under OCD-related posts on an OCD ***app*** without understanding what intrusive thoughts are, or what compulsions can look like, or **how OCD can attach itself to the things we fear most** then please, stop. You are not helping. You’re reinforcing stigma and pushing people further into silence. OCD is already isolating. We don’t need more people moralizing or projecting trauma theory onto something they haven’t experienced or don’t understand. If you really care, go learn. Read about intrusive thoughts. Learn about ERP therapy. Or maybe just listen. Because some of us are barely hanging on, and comments like those don’t just miss the point, they can do real damage. I’m sorry if I come off too angry, it just really upsets me to see people speak on something they clearly don’t understand. End of rant. Thank you for reading 🤍

emma345

Date posted: 8w

Please help! POCD and meds

17f My ocd is hell on earth so I'm thinking about going to a psychiatrist maybe they will prescribe me meds cause my POCD is a torture and other themes are bad also But I'm scared that if I start taking meds I will become less cautions about looking at kids and interacting with kids and will do something fucked up and wrong Cause now I can't even look at kids I feel like it's morally wrong like if there is a chanse I'm a P and I'm scared meds will get rid of me being so so cautious around kids making sure I'm not aroused I'm not looking at them I'm not touching them and I will do something fucked up and then I won't deserve any redemption

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