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- 22w
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- Date posted
- 22w
It sounds incredibly distressing to be dealing with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, and derealization, especially alongside worries about medication changes and OCD symptoms returning. Navigating these experiences can be really tough, and your concerns are valid. If you’d like additional support, feel free to book a free call with our NOCD team. We’d be happy to share more information and explore ways to help. No one has to live in fear of their own thoughts. Also here are some helpful resources: https://www.treatmyocd.com/blog/before-and-after-how-ocd-treatment-changed-peoples-lives/
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- Therapist
- Date posted
- 22w
I always recommend talking to your medication prescriber and being totally honest about medication use. Remember that OCD lies - it is known as the doubting disorder - also know that you are not alone in this and no one should have to feel that they are alone. Please do reach out for support. Our intake team is amazing and is there for you when you are ready.
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- 22w
I can't provide as good of answers as the others here, but I am so proud of you for reaching out. You are so incredibly strong for coming here and sharing. I get what it's like to come off of ADHD (your med may have been a stimulant but please correct me if I'm wrong) meds and it was similar to this, and I can tell you that it's going to pass even though your brain is trying to make you feel all these sorts of ways. It's very scary for you and you are not alone in this battle. I am here for you. Your feelings are important to me. I'll be here for you if you need it <3 You got this my friend
- Date posted
- 22w
@Emoni - it will! i pinky promise it is totally normal to feel this after coming off of stimulants because of what they are! im pretty sure they are illegal to have without prescriptions in america so you might have different symptoms since coming off of something in the family of a common street d**g (if it's the kind of med people perscribe for ADHD too). the symptoms are also different just because antipsychotics, SSRIs, stimulants, etc all do different things so withdrawing from them/stopping abruptly is going to be different for each type and person taking it. but it really just comes down to the chemical changes from what i was able to observe from my experience and what i think could cause intense symptoms like that. you dont have a key chemical that your brain used to function normally with so it could be like a shock to your brain to go without it after relying on it consistently for weeks. basically what im trying to say is that once your brain adjusts to not having that chemical daily, your symptoms should clear up and hopefully go away fully but it depeneds on the person, med, and dosage. if they continue as severe as they are now and you aren't able to meet with your psychiatrist/med manager you should see if you could use your free 15-minute call with someone certified on here if you don't have anybody else you could reach out to. i see it as our brains adjusted to the adding of the substance after a while so i would think it works the same way just backwards (correct me if im wrong about something. this is just how i was able to envision it for me so i can do further research if you want me to in case you're busy or aren't able to). this is my take on it and based on my experience coming off of a stimulant and the knowledge i have about the one i was on and its family so it might not play out exactly like this, but I hope i was able to clear up a little bit of the anxiety around the symptoms and why they might be different than other meds youve had in the past if you've stopped those. again i want to make sure you know this is based on my knowledge of the family of my personal stimulant is in and my experience coming off of mine. you might be on the same thing or just plain @dd3r@I or something i don't know of (concerta is the common name of mine if you know yours and feel comfortable telling me i can look into if you want) i hope i was able to explain this to you so you are able to kind of understand what i was saying. if you need me to re explain it because i made no sense and was all over the place i will gladly rewrite this (my writing makes sense to me because this is how i am used to reading things i write since i wrote it) i know im confusing sometimes dont worry youre not alon i confuse myself sometime too. but if you take anything away from this let it be that i am here for you and i will do what i can to help you through this!!! sorry how long my messages are i ramble too much and i cant fix it
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