Just increased my Zoloft and I don’t know if it’s a placebo…..but I’m doing great! It was easier to identify my thoughts as intrusive today and move on from them. I didn’t give into a compulsion like yesterday, yay! Hope everyone has a chance to experience a good day like mine :)
That is amazing! Glad you were able to resist giving into a compulsion :)
That’s awesome! Make sure to stay on track with your meds schedule and keep making progress by ignoring the thoughts. You got this! 💪🏼
Great news !
That's awesome that you are doing well! Remember that there can be good days/bad days but always remember the good ones and remember that there is hope. This disorder can be very manageable.
They can give you placebos?!?
@lemon.peach no they can’t but she means the placebo effect
Hey friends, I hope you all are well. I just wanted to check in and ask people's experiences about being on medication. I have had OCD pretty much my whole life, just got recently diagnosed 4 months ago and my therapist recommended that I get on meds for it so I have a psychiatrist appointment set up. I'm a little apprehensive about getting on them, but I've realized that I do have some sort of chemical imbalance in my brain that plays a part in my OCD and anxiety. I would love to hear anyones experiences or words of encouragement. Thank you, I hope you all are well.
Sometimes I notice my intrusive thoughts cause me to spiral and sometimes not. I've been practicing ERP for quite a while so it's a bit easier for me to not spiral. But I wonder why that happens. Does anyone else have it? Also I'm on medication idk if that plays a role.
This is kind of a weird question, but I recently increased my SSRI dosage and have experienced tremendous relief. It has quieted my intrusive thoughts so much and my compulsions are no longer as all-consuming. However, I don’t want to be on this high of a dosage forever and know that medication alone shouldn’t be my only fix. I’m seeing a new psychiatrist on Wednesday and am wondering if the recent decrease in frequency of my symptoms will be a bar to my getting ocd treatment? In other words, if in this present moment I’m doing better, but up until a few days ago my compulsions were taking up pretty much every moment of my waking day, will I still be classified as having ocd? I start getting worried when I feel better that I don’t actually have ocd and just use it as a defense mechanism to avoid consequences of my actions/I’m secretly a terrible person
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