So, I have a small note that I made of myself, but I noticed that I was on 150mg for a little more than two weeks where I then started to return to my normal routine of daily activities and soon I fell into emotional blunting so I'm worried that by me having returned to my usual routine since I was feeling better and since I was on a high dose, I didn't need it in the first place
Do you feel like your medication helps your OCD, or helped you return to your daily routine? Even if it didn't, OCD isn't a linear experience. You can have a good day, good days, even a good week, and then plummet, you can have bad days, bad months, etc. Just because you had some days where you were able to function better doesn't mean you're suddenly not a sufferer from OCD. Severe OCD requires those higher dosages to help, so if you feel like you're able to function better than before, then it most likely is helping you !! And emotional bunting is a side effect that can present regardless of If the meds are working or not, so don't feel like that's proof of you not needing your meds.
I haven't stopped taking the medication if that's what you're worried about, I simply lowered the dose I take from 150mg to my previous 50mg, however, looking back on my past three months. I realized that the 50mg was probably the perfect dose for me, but I had a sudden backdoor spike of OCD that I thought was unique to me and I rushed the medication process in hopes of it just going away. I've learned from my mistakes and I pray I slowly recover, but I still believe that 150mg was too high of a dosage for me, but now I just fear that the emotional blunting I experienced will stay with me forever or that I'll develop PSSD from my medication as I keep reading articles about it or seeing videos related to it and it makes me panic so much!
And I believe it helped in both my OCD and Depression
@Anonymous Oh I see what youre saying !! I totally get the fear, ive been there. I guess there's no way to really know until you lower your dose again and go back to 50mg. Try not to compulsively research PSSD or anything surrounding that, feel free to discuss it with your psychiatrist/doctor but don't let that become a compulsion either. Just focus on getting your medication adjusted and go from there. I've seen emotional blunting pretty commonly and I've never heard of it being permanent so my guess is it's uncommon for that to happen? I don't know. But if you have concerns your doctor can always help you with that.
@Northern_Downpour I'll try my hardest not to research about it, but I'm so scared that the damage is already done, and although my zoloft has helped me in the past. I'm afraid that I'll be numb forever or feeling numb ever again, I should've never have upped my dose, I feel so scared that I might've ruined my life
@Anonymous There is a lot worse you can do than take medicine prescribed to you. I freaked out over one dose of an antibiotic recently - I can relate. You will get passed this. Most of what we worry about never actually happens.
@AfraidOfFood But what if this is PSSD? What if I just ruined my life with this small mistake? The numbness is still here, I'm so scared
@Anonymous The chance of getting it is .000043%. I felt the same when I took the antibiotic (that after one dose) could permanent neurological damage. I thought for sure I caused permanent damage because I had no feeling in my feet after the dose. It was just OCD and anxiety causing the same symptoms. I’m sorry you are going through this.
I don’t really know personally but I think I remember someone saying that like when people feel / get better on medication they feel better and therefore go hey I don’t need it and then they might hop off the medicine and then you’d might find it hard with activities I’m sorry I don’t really know any other answers but I’ve heard of that one before
I hope everyone is doing well! It's been a week or so since I came on the app. I wasn't doing so well, but I promised myself I'd stay off until after my next psychiatrist appointment (two days ago). The appointment didn't last long. I regret not going into more detail with her, but I shared the basics of what I had been dealing with. We're raising my dose (Sertraline) to 100mg. Hopefully, that will do something...? The intrusive thoughts haven't been too bad, but I just feel... blank. There's not a lot going on in my personal life right now, so that might be the main reason. I'm doing okay, though. I've read three books in the past week. I'm about to start my fourth tonight. I don't know if keeping busy in this case is a form of avoidance or not. But I feel depressed if I'm not doing anything, so... here we are! 🥲
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
I’ve been on Zoloft for 3 years almost for somatic ocd/anxiety/panic attacks and I slowly tapered myself off the correct way because I’ve been good for awhile and I felt like I was gaining weight from it. It’s been almost 2 months off the meds and NOW the last few days my anxiety has been so bad I’ve had no appetite and diarrhea and waves of panic is this me relapsing or a delayed reaction? Am I gonna have to be on meds my whole life because I really hope not :/ idk what to do I don’t wanna go back on my meds tho
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