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You’re doing what’s best for you and whether they see it or not you see it. Your feelings are valid no matter what and I’m so proud that you were able to identify that you needed help even when others told you the opposite. Remind yourself that your psychiatrist went to school for 8+ years and knows what they’re doing. If they didn’t think you needed meds they wouldn’t have given you meds. There are so many options and meds tend to be a last resort for those who truly need it. Maybe next time ask why and remind yourself that she can’t swag your opinion. If this medication is helping you then nobody should stop you from taking it.
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Why is she against you taking meds?
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I don’t know.. she works in mental health and she’s even said how sad it is that people can’t afford their meds when they really need it. I guess she feels she sees the effect of the meds at her job idk! It’s like they say they understand ocd and mental illness but they really don’t understand.. if I could change my thoughts or take my fears away I would do that.. I would do anything to b myself again
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Is her permission required for some reason?
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Prozac worked for me for years and I had to switch because it stopped but I'm back on it again. There is such a stigma around medication but if it helps you be your best person I say go for it. Sorry your mom isn't being supportive. It took mine some time to accept it. Hang in there!
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My mother is also against me taking those medication. She feels that these medication might be bad for me if I take them for prolonged period and wanna me use other ways to combat ocd. Sadly i do know i still need the medication now and according to what i read online there's no known long term bad consequences due to taking these meds . She doesn't really understand the situation I am in.. I used to feel awful but I comfort myself by reminding myself that she cares but she's from an older and more conservative generation so she does not understand. I'm still on medication and whenever my mother tries to probe me on my meds I would simply try to change topic. Don't wanna anyone's feelings to get hurt. I think it's good enough that I know I am trying to take care of myself and doing what is best possible.
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- 22w
I just feel like therapy isn’t working… like I get to talk about myself and understand myself… but I’m already incredibly self aware. My therapist thought I was like 5 years older than I am… and she gives me such basic strategies that do absolutely nothing for me. And a psychiatrist prescribed me with Zoloft… but I don’t know if T want to take medication. I’m scared of side effects… and I’m scared of getting better… I’m scared of letting my guard down. I know it will make me less cautious which makes me less likely to push myself to perfection like I currently do, which I can’t have happen. Every time I talk to my mom about it, she’s always like “Let’s talk about this some other time, I’m busy with other things”, and then never remembers. But in the rare moments we do talk about it, she treats it like I’m signing up to be a drug addict. I also feel very guilty for spending so much of my parents’ money- therapy… medication… etc… and also the idea of my being unlovable is so deeply engraved in my brain… I genuinely, truly believe it. No therapy or medication can fix it. I can’t change my mind. My therapist tells me my misophonia is not a “deal-breaker” and that someone would be lucky to have me as a partner… but then why hasn’t anyone ever liked me? My own FAMILY can’t stand me. How do I believe something I know isn’t true? That’s even harder to accept than me being unlovable. I can’t see someone loving me. And it is so incredibly exhausting to seek love,e I know I cannot have. My sister says, “It will get better with age…” It has only ever gotten worse. To the point I don’t want to get better. It has reached the severity where I feel more safe and successful with anxiety. My past 3 birthdays have been me wishing for therapy. And now I have therpay- and medication, the potential key… and I refuse? Am I too deep in? I cant get out, it’s too late. How did absolutely no one notice how much I had and have been hurting? Why did no one listen to my cries or worries? I feel really depressed and hopeless right now. It takes so much effort to get up every day… I’m so tired.
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- 20w
Having ocd is so incredibly exhausting and depressing- my mom and dad argued with me for over an hour talking about how im a pain to be around, go in too many loops, and ruin everything and everyones mood… this conversation started with me saying im stressed out because of school and that i dont want to go because im exhausted- and idk if this is like ocd directly but it takes me like 2 hours to get ready in the morning because i need to look PERFECT and the same everyday literally 😭 and that process feels so exhausting every morning at 6am but i will NOT go to school without going through with it- i will literally be crying and shaking and wanting to go home the minute i get to school if even a single strand of my hair is not perfectly straightened or any blemishes or flaws are showing- and i cant even walk to school or anything bc im scared the humidity will mess with my hair and everything- and it just really affects my life? And yeah its freaking exhausting. And i have two more years of highschool and I dont know if im going to make it 😭i get super stressed over grades too because i need them to be extraordinary otherwise its a fail. Nothing below 95%. And thats also tiring! 😁 and my mom told me today “medication IS NOTTTT AND OPTION!!!” Like oh okay so im just cooked 😭 and therapy isnt really helping me at all- i feel like what im being told is so basic and generic and it doesn’t help me when im in a huge ocd episode- which is often… and what i hate most is like my mom says “don’t come to me with your problems after 6pm…” im sorry i cant schedule my feelings 😭 im so tired
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- 19w
my mom has been on this adhd kick where she thinks everyone has adhd instead of what they actually have because apparently it can present itself as anxiety. well i told her i was taking prozac because that’s something she needs to know since i still live at home. and she’s fine with it because it’s my choice. however, she comes into my room because she sent me a video about adhd. in the video, at the end, it says “girls with adhd may develop perfectionist or obsessive compulsive tendencies.” THEN, she has the audacity to tell me my compulsions didn’t start to show until after high school when that isn’t true at all. i just never talked about it, but of course she doesn’t believe me. i just feel so invalidated because after all of the hell i’ve been through, to be told i don’t have what i most certainly am positive i do have is atrocious. i would lose my mind if i was told i didn’t have ocd because of the intrusive thoughts i get that make me feel like a terrible person. i feel like being told that sets me back so far and makes me want to thought spiral a bit. i’m so upset.
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