My depression is causing my OCD problems

I talked to me therapist today and we talked about how my depression is causing my ocd self harm thoughts . I am able to quickly finish my exposure but can not shake off the fear I secretly what to die. I am devastated as I made progress with my ocd in the past but have ever really made progress with my depression. I have had depression since high school and I am in my mid twenties. I will continue to work on my depression but I am worried I will not be able to get relief form my ocd if it is caused by depression. I have tried a lot of meds and therapy’s for depression in the past. If anyone with ocd and depression has good experiences or recommendations. Please let me know.

amc1234

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 1y

Going through the depression part myself .. it’s not easy. I think having ocd just makes me focus on the depression more than I normally would which just exaggerates and feeds it.

Brooke cookie

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 1y

@amc1234 Yeah, from my understanding all the mental health issues play in to each other and make them worse unfortunately so if you have one makes all the other ones appear. I hope your depression gets better soon.

Orchtoberfest

Date posted: 1y

I don't have any suggestions right now but I did want to tell you that you're not alone and I'm going through the same thing.

Brooke cookie

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 1y

@Orchtoberfest Thanks for the support anyway. If I find something out something,I will have to share on here. Having all those obsessive thoughts about my depression is driving me nuts. I hope your depression gets better

Orchtoberfest

Date posted: 1y

@Brooke cookie Thanks, you too. It sucks that we have to deal with both!

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Date posted: 1y

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Brooke cookie

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 1y

@kitkatalikat I used to have that with my Pure ocd. I used to have a fear that I would hurt my family why they were sleeping as a young girl and it caused me a lot of guilt and shame .I had to kind of learn that it is just a fear disorder and having thoughts doesn’t actually mean you did anything so you need to just kind of let go of the guilt Because you didn’t actually do anything thinking about doing something or doing something are completely different ,after I stopped feeling guilt about my bad thoughts I felt a lot better.

lemon tears

Date posted: 25w

Looking for insight on OCD/depression medications

(25f) Before I was diagnosed with OCD I tried Lexapro (wasn’t bad but wasn’t great) and Citalopram (partially think it was a part of what caused me to develop severe anxiety that ignited my once not so active OCD.) After diagnosis tried Effexor and didn’t see an improvement. Was on Adderall for a good amount of my life and mentally did good on it, stopped about 2 years ago because the physical side effects started to become more noticeable. Maybe I go back on Adderall? Maybe SSRI’s and I aren’t a great fit? Anyone taking other medications that helped?

Lean_into_th...

Date posted: 23w

OCD/Trauma/Depression

Hi everyone. I haven't posted on here in quite in some time. I'm hesitant to post but I'm battling some things that are compounding onto each other. I've had ocd since 15 I'm 30 now..I feel it's still there but much better than years ago. Currently though I'm really struggling with depression and trauma too. Atleast I believe it's trauma and my psychiatrist saw some indicators. Long story short I was in a relationship with a narcissist and I'm still recovering. I feel my nervous system is still kinda on fight or flight. I've learned that our bodies very much stores trauma. Alongside this I'm pretty critical of my appearance and my self esteem is not so great. I've been putting myself out there more and socializing but I can't shake this feeling of being stuck in an endless loop. It's hard to tell what to tackle. It's difficult for me..I don't know if ocd treatment is for me or more so trauma based therapy. I think there is some overlap..any advice or feedback would be appreciated. A side note I've done ERP in the past and I've been to treatment centers such as mclean. I feel like I need a community because I feel pretty alone but I'm having trouble putting one foot in front of the other.

Adi7

Date posted: 17w

Advice please ❤️

Hi ❤️ I’m really struggling right now I’m in my sophomore year of Highschool and I’ve finally started planning or thinking abt my future (for context I was extremely depressed and suicidal from 6-9th grade) After conquering my depression this is a huge leap for me and I’m proud of myself ❤️ But there’s something still holding me down :( and I’m not sure what to do anymore that thing is OCD. Since 6th grade I have had strong and invasive intrusive thoughts all the time they scare me so bad and make me feel as though I’m not even real anymore :( I’m sick of taking the time to do ridiculous compulsions to rid or ease these thoughts it’s a waste of time and energy and it hurts me so bad I feel like I will never get to just live my life without this :( How can I plan my future when I can’t even find myself in this mess of anxiety 💔 I’m so tired of fighting my mental health it’s been years from anxiety attacks to sh to survived suicide attempts (I got help dw❤️‍🩹) and recovery there. Just to be thrown into a storm of awful scary sickening thoughts day and night-when can I just be a normal teenager and possibly a happy adult? How do I conquer this so I can love myself to the fullest and live my life free and happy? :( ❤️❤️‍🩹 I’m so scared to talk to my parents about it I’m ashamed of my thoughts and every time I bring it up they just say I shouldn’t be diagnosing myself or it’s just ADHD. It really really hurts me they have no idea how awful this feels and it makes me feel so alone sometimes 💔

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