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Zoloft not working :(
I started Zoloft a little over a month ago but I still have intrusive thoughts and depressive episodes. This makes me believe I’m faking my ocd and using it as an excuse ;(
I started Zoloft a little over a month ago but I still have intrusive thoughts and depressive episodes. This makes me believe I’m faking my ocd and using it as an excuse ;(
Medication isn’t to get rid of your intrusive thoughts, im pretty sure it’s to calm you down and relieve your anxiety so that you can put your skills of dealing with your intrusive thoughts to better practice. Again, don’t think medication will stop your intrusive thoughts. It’s to help you deal with them better.
For me it took about two months until I noticed the depression that I get from my ocd to fade. I still have it ofcourse but it’s tolerable. The idea is not to completely get rid of the ocd but to manage it. Zoloft may not work for you but give it a few more weeks.
@Dj-is-living This. It feels rough getting used to medication because you want it to work immediately. It takes time! You’ll get there :)
@jsph013 THIS!
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Sometimes i feel like im using ocd as an excuse. What if i dont really have it and im just freaking myself out? Does anyone feel this way
I have a question My OCD has felt almost invisible the past few weeks and now that is starting to stress me out a lot. Right now I am at a point in my treatement where I was asked if I would like to take medication. I told my therapist this week that I would like to try the medication based on how miserable I feel in during OCD flare ups. But now my brain always tells me that I only go throught this treatement etc. to seek attention and that I am just dramatic and should be ashamed of myself for wanting to take this medication. So now I am doubting if I should take the medication or not. Any advice?
These past few days I was fine. Minimal intrusive thoughts ,no anxiety etc(to add I'm on medication so maybe it's starting to work although it barely is 2 weeks) and today I got a sudden wave of anxiety and it started latching on some thoughts like" what if I'm in denial and I wanna break up with my bf? And what if erp doesn't work for me because I actually wanna break up with my bf?" But they didn't really stay long usually those thoughts would make me spiral for days or so, now they lasted for some hours. And now I'm trying to trigger myself into being anxious again because if I don't it means I don't have ocd and if I don't have ocd it means I don't love my bf and if I don't love my bf it means I have to break up. Idk if it makes sense but the lack of anxiety makes me wonder if I actually have ocd or not.
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