erinm0496
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- 6y
dmfpdmfp
- Date posted
- 6y
Feel like this has been my life 100 percent for the last year with lexapro.. I always had health obsessions.. once I started lexapro it all got worse and my ocd came out full force to harm and relationship thoughts.. I have been weaning off the lexapro for the past couple months and have been fully off for three days l.. feel like the Lower and Lower I went the better I felt. I’m not saying medicine is bad but lexapro sure did not work for me.. I take buspar to help take the edge off the anxiety and I will stick with that and see how it goes
Shiriiiii6Shiriiiii6
- Date posted
- 6y
The medication makes it worse at first, u have to stick w it tho and it will eventually help u. It's like when u get a facial, ur acne gets worse before it gets better ...u will be tempted to stop going to the facials but u have to keep going because eventually ur skin will clear completely
luciuslucius
- Date posted
- 6y
Erinm0496: I weanrd of Zoloft and fely best as I reduced it. I only took Lexapro for a couple of weeks because it gave me horrible headaches.
FrancisFrancis
- Date posted
- 6y
When I finally saw a psychiatrist one year ago for my constant anxiety; he diagnosed me with generalized anxiety disorder and prescribed me Zoloft. Like the second day I was on it intrusive harm thoughts started streaming in. I stopped taking it right away but 7 months later the ocd is here to stay :( my therapist says that he has seen SSRIS bring out underlying ocd in many of his patients. Not trying to scare anyone here, it just seems like SSRIs either work like a charm or make things worse, and for me it was definitely the latter.
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