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- 6y
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- 6y
What meds are u taking and what have u taken so far ? Do you drink a lot of alcohol or drink coffee ? Do you exercise ? Is ur therapist certified to treat OCD disorders ? Bc i was on the same boat as you , until I changed my life style, exercise and food wise, and finally found a med and therapist that worked for me
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- 6y
I've tried so man drugs. I'm on trileptal and anafranil. (sp?) No hardly no alcohol, and no coffee. I don't exercise. I'm not sure about her being certified in OCD disorders - how would I find this out? What did you change? What worked the best.
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- 6y
I was in your place as well. OCD is so often swept under the rug. I’ve had many physical disabilities in my life but there’s never been one as hard for me as OCD has. The thing that’s helped me the most has been finding the right therapist. My first therapist was not OCD certified and basically reassured my compulsions which didn’t help at all. I found a therapist who specialized in OCD. Exposure therapy was the hardest thing i ever had to go through but was the main thing that helped me and allowed the OCD to take a back seat instead of controlling me.
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- 6y
Ask her if she knows about ERP (exposure and response prevention therapy) if she has no idea what that is then she prob isn’t certified for OCD. Of course don’t call her out on that there and then lol just look for a new therapist that at least knows about ERP, they will know more about OCD than a therapist that doesn’t
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- 6y
I tried lexapro with no results , then I tried it with abilify and I became manic , then I tried Zoloft by itself and got suicidal, stopped taking meds and found an OCD therapist which really helped the way I battled my thoughts. However my anxiety was stilll high so I tried cymbalta which made me worse. Then finally I tried Prozac and it helped so much. I still have anxiety and depression tho so I went up from 20mg to 30mg. Then i still felt off, so I finally decided to cut out alcohol during the week, I only drink weekends now. And I exercise almost every day. At least 5 days a week. And that really helped a lot omg. I feel amazing now, granted I still deal with OCD, but I manage it better. Instead of feeling like I’m holding a 100 pound weight constantly , now it’s more like a 5 pound weight that only causes me a slight discomfort. Granted it took me more than 2 years of extreme anxiety and depression to fight it , but it’s little victories. Find the right system, brick by brick, and keep fighting. You will get there, I at one point had a lot of suicidal thoughts bc i didn’t know if I could do this, but just take it a day at a time. Figure out the meds for you , the right therapist and establish healthier habits
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- 6y
I just struggled as of today, had a hell week as seen from previous posts. I found a right therapist 6x a charm, been struggling for 9 yrs , been hospitalized 4 times cuz of meds (been on 17 ones) and suicidal thoughts/intrusive thoughts, and this week was bad, almost felt like I could do something.. but today I just started cbd oil. Worth a shot. I just did it today and the anxiety went completely away. I feel like it’s changed my life. I know I’ve been struggling for the past 8 days tremendously ..
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- 23w
Never feels like I can fully put my mind to rest. The problem with OCD for me is once I'm over one worry there's another buried deep into my mind that I'm not fully over. The two events I'm not completely over is when I tried to help a 17 year old with POCD when I was 19 and the topics unfortunately were detailed and even then I explained to them I wasn't comfortable with talking to them. I guess I just had a hard time saying no to someone needing help but it eventually made me so uncomfortable that I stopped talking with them altogether at some point. Then the other thing is being so worried that I committed a crime because my elbow touched someone's behind when I didn't want that to happen at all. I didn't want to listen to my OCD by saying move my arm or something horrible is going to happen so I didn't and then something bad actually did happen. I thought it would just be a light touch while zipping a bag up but then it was worse than I ever wanted it to be and it was so awkward and I hated it. I feel like I just won't be able to get back to the way I was before OCD started all of this. Aside from that I've just had extreme health anxiety but am too afraid to reach out to a PCP even though I need to. Something deep down is telling me I should do this but I'm just so anxious and embarrassed about sharing things to them. I can't even enjoy the things I used to do because this is constantly just messing up my life. I'm hoping I get a start of positivity next time I see my therapist. This just sucks. Feels like others around me are doing so much better than I am and I'm just kind of stuck on these same problems and feeling absolute shame and guilt from the past over and over again. I'm just so sick of dealing with this every single day so I just use escape whenever I can. Even that doesn't really work. I just wish I could go back in time.
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- 19w
I dont know what to do anymore. I think Ive had the 'pure O' version of OCD for more than ten years. I feel like so much of my life has been wasted from this disease. For the longest time I just tried to ignore the intrusive thoughts, and push them off as anxiety, and basically dissociated for years of my life. Feels like Ive just been on autopilot and a shell of myself for nearly 15 years. Its actually hard to even imagine of all the experiences, emotions, connections with others, and personal growth that Ive missed out on- if I do, I think it would be too much to handle. I think Ive even forgot and dont even know at this point what it is to live a normal life and experience positive emotions. Now that I sought treatment for it specifically, it feels like it's gotten worse. Like by acknowledging that part of myself, suddenly added focus just makes it more real and in the forefront now. I wonder if I am actually going insane. Will not go into details for reassurance but the thoughts just rip my soul out. Its so difficult as well because I will get random 'clarity moments' throughout the day where I feel like Ive solved something, then get completely derailed by another OCD thought stream and forget everything. It feels like Im just on a merry-go-round of hell, not going anywhere thinking I am at times.
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- 16w
I’ve recently been struggling a lot with OCD. I have had OCD for a long time I just didn’t realize it until more recently. About seven months ago I developed panic attacks one day randomly at work. I thought I was having a heart attack and went to the hospital where they told me it was just a panic attack and I assumed I would snap out and be better within a few days. However it didn’t. Here’s where it gets scary, I was staying at my then boyfriends house while dealing with blurry vision, anxiety attacks everyday, and more (unsure of what was going on). But at some point I saw my bfs (pew pew 🔫) on his table and it sent me into an anxiety attack after sudden thoughts that I was going to hurt myself with it. I begged him to put it away when I’m not looking so I didn’t know where he put it. He did. These thoughts lasted for about four days but began to go away. (I thought that was it and I would be back to normal). Unfortunately though I ended up moving back in with my family when we couldn’t get my panic attacks under control in time for me to get back to work and pay bills. However, coming home brought up a lot of trauma from when I was kid. My anxiety got worse but I didn’t have those thoughts again. About two and half months ago though, I got sick and went to the hospital where they gave me steroid pills and a steroid shot but sent me into some kind of psychiatric event. Ever since then though, I have been suffering from harm OCD, I have had moments of intense anger that I usually have to completely walk away and go on my own because of how intense they are, and it feels like it’s getting worse. Today I felt fine until about and hour and half ago where I started to dwell on the fact that my suicidal thought was influenced by my OCD and at the moment my OCD is at the worst it’s been. This caused me to get suddenly really depressed and I started crying thinking about how I can’t handle this. I then saw a post talking about how suicide rates are high for people with this form of OCD and it made me question if I am mentally strong enough to pull through this. I fear that at times I’m getting worse. I have good days but I have a lot of bad days. Unfortunately this sent me into such a bad panic attack I went over to my nanas crying about how I can’t deal with this. I took a 0.25 mg Xanax which helped calm down the panic attack portion of it but my brain is still uncomfortably active. I guess I just need hope. I’m so saddened by this. It’s like my life took a total 360 in 10 months and got even worse since the steroid shot. Idk what to do about it. I can’t stop the spiral. I talk to two different therapist weekly and start more next week, making it 5 times a week. I feel no improvements…
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