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As a fellow ocd suffer , If it’s cool to ask , why does it bother you for him to be with another ? Just as he moved on so will you and I’m sure you’ll find a great person again to :) I do feel the medicine switch may be a factor as well but not sure Either way I wish u well
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I also take prozac for my ocd and I feel like it makes me more anxious. Medications make a huge difference, but remember that there are other things you can do to calm yourself down. I’m not going to tell you that those thoughts will go away, because i know ocd isn’t something you can just ignore.
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That’s a great idea! I’ll do that now! So far I’ve just been living on Xanax and Ativan to keep my mind from racing. Thank you!
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Thank you so much. I just obsess over anything and it makes me sick to my stomach with worry. It could be a random pain in my chest or something with my dog... it’s aggravating and I wouldn’t wish this on anyone. I hate being trapped in my own head and the worst part is no one undestands in my life and I I never have anyone telling me everything will be ok.
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Thank you! I actually spoke with my doctor and we decreased my Prozac to ween me off. I’m going back to my original medication lexapro. I thought switching would have been a better idea but I’m just gonna stick with what I know works for me. I hate how my brain just doesn’t shut down. Then when I’m at work I feel trapped and can’t leave which is agonizing and I end up calling in. Mental health is horrible!
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Seriously!
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Have you don’t any script writing around these obsessions? I know one exercise that helped me in a breakup was to write a fake letter to them telling them everything I wished I could say and that I was worrying about and feeling. Every time I started to obsess, I’d read the letter and then afterwords I’d realize I have nothing else I need to think about because I’d just read it all. After a few weeks, I stopped thinking about it anymore.
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I am having a really hard time with ocd and anxious thoughts and feeling extremely uneasy. I'm home alone today so it's really easy for me to get stuck in my thoughts. I'm on day 4 of prozac. I felt like yesterday I had a period of time of about 30 minutes where I felt really focused and like the anxiety lifted completely. But then an obsession started and it brought me right back down. Hopefully I feel relief again today. I'm going to go get some house work done to take my mind off of things. Does anyone have any first hand experiences with prozac? How long until you felt any relief? Any really bad side effects? Any unforseen pluses? Much appreciated.
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- 17w
For the past three years I've smoked marijuana nearly everyday. It helped with my anxiety and quieting my brain and helped me sleep. Recently, it began to make me feel more anxious, i would wake up nauseous and even threw up a couple of times which really triggered some health anxiety. I decided to quit because of this and i'm almost 2 weeks out from the last time I smoked. My body is slowly recovering but my brain just doesn't seem to quit it. I went to my GP a couple of weeks ago for a routine checkup and everything came back normal in my blood work and exam, yet that hasn't stopped me from completely obsessing over my health and feeling like (in my mind, not my body) i'm seriously ill- which is giving me extreme anxiety. Because of my reoccurring stomach issues my GP referred me to a GI who I had an appointment with yesterday. He was very unimpressed by everything I said and seemed like everything is pointing to IBS-which is not serious and something my mother also deals with. He ordered some extra tests to make sure I wasn't dealing with inflammation and he said he was very confident that my internal vital organs were a completely fine. I'm still waiting on those test results and his confidence should I have made me feel better but i'm still freaking out. Everybody in my life is tired of hearing about it and I just don't know what to do anymore. I feel like i'm pushing people away. I feel good and like myself when I'm distracted and doing something fun, but mornings and nights and when i'm doing something mundane it's the worst. I feel like I can feel all of these pains and sensations but I have no idea if it's real. I've even started asking Chatgpt for constant reassurance and constantly googling my symptoms. I'm in a horrible loop. I should mention that on top of quitting weed, I also just graduated college, moved back home and my boyfriend and I started the longest period of long distance we've ever had to do so i'm just not feeling like myself at all. My psychiatrist just put me on Zoloft (my vomiting and intense anxiety coincided with when i began taking Prozac again so she wanted me to try something else) I'm only on day 3 of the meds but nausea and insomnia are the two side effects im dealing with right now which is just making my anxiety so much worse before the meds have even kicked in. Does anyone have advice on how to break this cycle of constant checking-i feel like taking a deep breath has even turned into a compulsion.
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I’ve decided to start taking my prozac. I’ve had a fear of taking medication for so long and tried all the natural methods but nothing is helping. I’m having panic attacks everyday and living in constant anxiety/fear that I’m ruining my life, losing my dreams, and ruining my relationship. I think it’s time to try.
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