Medication

@AnomyousOctopus I’m taking Zoloft and at first the side effects bothered me but I feel like it is really adjusting to me! I just don’t want to know that I need to take it forever.

@Bmw6993 Question the first pill you took did it make you feel weird or worse like more anxiety??

@XXleshay I definitely felt more anxiety. I think alot of it was just starting medicine again and knowing I’m not in control 100%. I can’t tell if it’s my symptoms that are the problem or the medicine. The 4th day I had a really good day, and then the rest seemed like a lot of suicidal thoughts. Not sure if it’s me or the medicine. I stopped it, and my mind feels more clear but def still struggling with ocd thoughts

@XXleshay Are you taking it?

@Bmw6993 I took one and I didn’t like the way it made me feel. I told my doc and she said it’s not supposed make feel that way first time you take it. But I know sometimes they it’s takes time too kick in but I don’t know 🤦🏽‍♀️ I haven’t took it after that

@XXleshay I know! It’s so hard because you notice differences but then again, they say you get worse before better, if it does. Ugh. It’s so difficult.

@Bmw6993 Also what mg? My doctor suggested reducing my dosage I used to take it before at 50mg and was fine! But then tried 25mg. I might still go back on it. I have something stressful coming up next week and I rather have the placebo effects than nothing and struggle. But I’m waiting until I absolutely feel like I need to.

@Bmw6993 Exactly it really sucks fr 😭

@Bmw6993 @XXleshay

@XXleshay @Bmw6993 Also what mg? My doctor suggested reducing my dosage I used to take it before at 50mg and was fine! But then tried 25mg. I might still go back on it. I have something stressful coming up next week and I rather have the placebo effects than nothing and struggle. But I’m waiting until I absolutely feel like I need to.

@Bmw6993 She gave me 25mg

@XXleshay Oh wow! Yeah that’s what I started on too. And that’s a really low dose. Did you have insomnia at all?

@Bmw6993 Um I think so. Best way I can describe it was really bad anxiety fear and kinda like a high feeling

@XXleshay Hmm, okay. What’s your plan now?

@Bmw6993 I heard the pills can make you think that way. I been on other pills and they made me think certain way that was uncomfortable but like you said you wouldn’t really know. But you do know your body so if it’s too uncomfortable get off it

@Bmw6993 I honestly I don’t know I’m tryna figure it out it’s hard I have ocd ptsd and anxiety plus depression so I just don’t know where to start and taking pills is just really hard but I hate feel like this everyday it’s like a never ending loop

@XXleshay Yes I agree. I just hate that it a mind game. I spent days just going over the intrusive thoughts literally the entire day, while going about my day, then on the like 4th day, I felt so much like myself, I couldn’t even think about the thought, but the. Next day, I felt anxiety come back and fell right back in. It’s so weird.

@XXleshay Do you have kids too? It’s much harder because the intrusive thoughts move to the child. It’s so scary. There’s like no specific harm towards them but it’s the like “what if” it makes it really hard to be a parent.

@Bmw6993 @Bmw6993 Yesss mines the same way I hate it so much 😫

@XXleshay 😔

@Bmw6993 Omg I’m pregnant now and I have what If instusive thoughts or guilt I went to the hospital the other day cause I had a panic attacks

@XXleshay It’s so scary. Mine is 2 now. The thing is I’ve experienced this before, and was able to overcome it with my son that is now 13- But I took Zoloft, and also hospitalized because I tried to take pills from the thoughts I was having (suicide). Zoloft actually saved me at first back in 2017. I returned to normal and then out of no where I’m feeling the same way.

@Bmw6993 So what are you doing now to manage everything?

@XXleshay Ignoring it pretty much

@Bmw6993 Same here 😏 I hope you figure out something and just pray for the best

@XXleshay Thank you 💕

@Nica Yes I’m having the same issue I just want it to go away does therapy really help cuz I’m abt to start soon and I’m scared of it not being able to work out but idk

@maddieh08 I have a handful of mental illnesses, so it was a log of work. It wasn’t just OCD.

@Nica Oh ok