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- 5y ago
I know that people have recovered without medication and can probably get off medication and stay recovered. Make sure you have these discussions with your psychologist. It always depends on your needs and what you and your doctor think is best. I don’t think it’s a bad thing to be on medication for the rest of your life. It’s like if someone needs medication for diabetes forever, it’s just something they need. If you need it, it’s okay! Try to focus on what you need right now. Whatever is best for you now is what’s important.
I have been on Zoloft since I was 8 years old, I am now 20, and I don’t think I will ever go off of it. That is by choice, because I can always go off it if that’s what I choose. I know some people struggle with being on medication for one reason or another may it be mental, physical, or financial reasons. I am very grateful to be able to have it and have access to it, but everyone is different. It’s okay to be on a medication forever. I like what the other person said how it’s like how some people are on medications their whole life like if they have diabetes or something. The most important thing is is that if you do choose to go off of it do it with your doctor. It’s a med that usually needs to be gone off slowly and not all at once. Just remember that it’s okay to need a medication and it’s okay to be on one :)
Am on zoloft too
I think you have reasons to worry, cause psych pharmaceuticals change not just the „illness“ but affect the whole person and body. I‘m on neuroleptics since 2009 and haven‘t managed to get off of them until now. All psych meds taken over a longer time cause dependencies and have to be withdrawn very very carefully. But it‘s definitely possible! There is also a whole withdrawl community on the internet. So I would try to gather information, find strategies to help yourself or get help without medication, make a plan and then start tapering off, when you feel it is the right time and you‘re well prepared.
Does anyone else ever have this fear that maybe they are gonna be stuck with this illness forever? I keep getting mixed answers so I never know if OCD really can go away or not and even though I'm doing alot better now with medication, I sometimes get really sad and start thinking that I'm always gonna be like this and that I don't want a life with OCD
Are we with ocd condemned on using antidepressant for the rest of our lives?
How can I accept that I may need medication for the rest of my life? Some background: I have several family members with OCD, my paternal grandmother and one of my cousins on my dad's side. I had anxiety issues from really early on as a kid, particularly around health related stuff. I would clean little cuts frequently, small things like that. Other than that, I never felt majorly affected. That changed when I was 19, a few months after I gave birth to my son. I started having obsessions rooted in hypochondria, like that I might have some disease, or that myself and/or those I love would get some horrible illness and die. I was diagnosed and started taking Prozac at 21 years old. I'm now 27. Medication works incredibly well for me. I have no side effects, I function totally normal when medicated. But I've gone off medication like 5 or 6 times just to see if I'm finally okay, and without fail, I relapse (which is happening to me right now, and yes, I've restarted my meds.) My OCD thoughts don't want to accept this though, and I'm being thrown all kinds of thoughts like what if someday the world falls apart and I don't have access to medicine? Or what if I take it for years and years, just to someday find out that it gave me brain cancer or insertdiseasehere? Does anyone have any tips for accepting medication as a necessary part of my life?
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