What medications helped your OCD

I have harm OCD and other forms and have always dealt with it 20 years no meds but something happened where I’ve been stuck in chronic racing thoughts unrelated to OCD plus OVD intrusive thoughts and anxiety depression that’s because so constant and chronic with depersonalization and derealization that it feels like your loosing your mind. So trying to gather information from people‘s experience of what works for them. I know that everybody is different and different things work for different people. I’ve never taken anything before this but I took Zoloft for nine days recently, and I don’t know it made me feel worse. One psychiatrist mentioned, adding lithium as a mood stabilizer. But that’s not my regular psychiatrist. I’m wondering if I should just go over to Lexapro or Prozac and where other types of drugs fit in like mood stabilizers and antipsychotics.

vk0001

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 6d

You have to take these meds for a lot longer than 9 days to know if they’ll help or not. Feeling worse before you get better is a common side effect of all SSRIs.

StayCalm

Date posted: 6d

@vk0001 I know but it felt really bad like it came to a peak and I felt like I needed to go the hospital it felt crazy so in that case idk what your suppose to do bc you can’t push thru that.

vk0001

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 6d

@StayCalm Well, Zoloft was probably not for you then. Move on to the next SSRI like Prozac. Unfortunate reality with OCD meds is it’s kind of like throwing darts at a wall and seeing what sticks. Antipsychotics can help restore insight and have shown to be helpful. From what I’ve seen, most people take Risperidone or Abilify in low doses. Haven’t really heard of mood stabilizers being used for OCD cus it’s not a mood disorder, but I’m not a psychiatrist

StayCalm

Date posted: 6d

@vk0001 Thank you do you take any medication. I tried Zoloft because my daughter takes it and is on a really high dose and had no side effects and genetically that’s usually a good sign but I didn’t do so well and I don’t know if I just got worse personally, or it was because I got more activated by the medication, but I’m already liked so bad where you sometimes feel like you want to go to the hospital in the first place so that could be why I’m so sensitive to the medicine it like pushed me over the edge so I’m scared but I gotta try something. I now have some Ativan so I guess I keep that with me too for the first couple weeks to calm me

vk0001

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 5d

@StayCalm I am on Zoloft 25mg since late Feb, although I’m planning to go up to 50mg soon. The adjustment period sucked for me as well, felt very anxious. Psych prescribed me propanalol to chill me out, which is a beta blocker and not addictive like benzos. I still take it from time to time when my ocd gets nasty. Can’t really say how much the Zoloft is helping me because I’m on such a small dose, OCD usually needs 50 at the very least and probably more in my case due to severity.

Anonymous

Date posted: 6d

Hi! I have been taking a combination of gabapentin, lamictal, and clonidine for a while now, and i would say this has been the best combo i have tried so far. I can’t take SSRIs because of some genetic stuff. I have struggled with derealization in the past, so much so that I have a couple of lapses in my memory from a couple of years ago. I still have some bouts of it but it has mostly gone away. I also recommend going to a psychiatrist that specializes in/is used to treating OCD too. I hope this helps, you got this!! 😚😚

StayCalm

Date posted: 6d

@Anonymous Thank you the de realization is insanity and it’s been going on for like six months. It’s pretty chronic like how are you not supposed to feel crazy it makes you feel like you need to turn yourself in at the hospital and then in combination with the OCD and racing thoughts I’m glad you’re doing better

StayCalm

Date posted: 6d

@Anonymous Oh, I forgot to add it. It’s really hard to find a psychiatrist that specializes in OCD like they all say they do but you know that they don’t really and this website doesn’t take my insurance but like a really good hospital near me actually has an OCD center I’m in New York but they said that it’s the only OCD Focus center and the Metropolitan area so they accepted me into it already but there’s a 5 to 6 month wait which sucks cause I need it now but still 5 to 6 months is gonna pass either way but it’s all OCD therapist psychiatrist and like even groups so I’m happy about that.

Anonymous

Date posted: 4d

I have OCD-type anxiety where I become very aware of automatic body sensations when I talk, like saliva and my tongue. It affects my speech and makes me avoid talking, due to this I have developed depression and I have become an introvert because I don't like talking.

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