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How does the medication and supplements work for you? Have they made your OCD better? I have had no luck at all with many, many SSRIS. I need yo try something new! Honestly, if you and your therapist weren't seeing eye to eye, it was probably a good thing. You'll find someone who click with at some point, just keep going!
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You’re right! It’s just been tough because I have my moments and I feel just like a horrible mom. And I love my son more than anything! As far as meds go, I HAD horrible reactions to the SSRIS, I’m on a low dose gabapentin and I have no side effects at this time. The klonopin works for a bit but if you don’t increase dose it loses its efficacy. I got on it because unfortunately my postpartum ocd was so bad.
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@Volleyball26! But I’m also taking a natural supplement for anxiety and sleep called LAVELA WS 1265 and it’s done wonders. I’d argue that it helps me sleep just like a Xanax would. If you go on amazon and read the reviews, they are glowing. I love them and take one in the morning and at night.
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@Volleyball26! The gabapentein takes less time than the SSRIs but I think it takes time to find the right dose. Still getting weird intrusive thoughts.
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I’m sos sorry you are experiencing this . My ocd definitely flared up after giving birth as well. I am on lexapro and it has helped me a lot . Just 10 mg I couldn’t handle Zoloft . I hope you find a therapist that is a better fit . There will be one out there ! Good luck !
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Thank you so much! I tried Prozac and I ended up in the ER I was having such bad panic attacks. It made my intrusive thoughts worse. I’m glad to hear that I’m not alone and this is working for you!
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I had my baby 3 months ago as well and my ocd flared up SO bad a few days before I had her and when I was having her, and while I was in labor I was doing my ERP the whole time until I had her. I’m on 5 Mg lexapro and that with ERP has significantly saved me.
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Stay strong ❤️ flares come and go with ocd, it does get better I promise
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@kleigh21 Thank you very much!! I’m glad to hear that ERP has helped you so much! I have been looking for a therapist that does this. I’m currently on a wait list. All though, I’m so scared of it. The thought of agreeing with the thoughts really gives me more anxiety! Ugh
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@Volleyball26! You don’t agree with the thoughts, thoughts are just thoughts. You set there notice your thoughts feelings urges and you sit there until your anxiety dies down
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@kleigh21 Oh see that makes much more sense to me!!! I’ve been trying to do that, but it’s so anxitey inducing. Ugh
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I’m new to treatment and only realized I have OCD a few months ago. I went through a tough and abusive marriage and ended up getting divorced. I had my first panic attack several years ago and ended up needing to go on Lexapro. This helped me significantly and allowed me to leave my partner. Several years later and I decided to stop Lexapro because I thought I was good to go. I’m in a very healthy relationship, have a great job, friends/family, go to the gym and have a wonderful life. It’s been about a year off the meds and I’ve had some panic, but I’ve been able to manage it. For some reason, the last three weeks has been really difficult for me. I have different spirals and different thought processes: what if I’m schizophrenic? What if I have a deeper mental disorder? What if I hurt someone? What if I need to leave my partner? What if I end up becoming so depressed that I end up hurting myself? My brain just goes from one what if to the next and once I conquer one, the next one pops up with even more intensity. I started taking NAC and inositol and I’m taking saffron during the day because I really don’t wanna go on back on medication but sometimes my thoughts scare me and I’m convinced that I’m not gonna get better and I know that’s just the OCD loop, but I’m wondering if this resonates with anyone else!
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I had a very bad session with a therapist today (NOT FROM NOCD). She basically told me I can’t be helped without medication, said I am too needy and if I keep being needy, people will continue to leave me, and my past trauma from relationships is my fault. I then had a second session with my old therapist who helped process and explain that OCD is lifelong and some people manage it but others have flare ups and I think I’m having a bad flare up (a month long basically) and that I may need medication which I’m terrified to go back on. Does it get better? Will I need meds? I’m scared. I don’t want to get worse and I don’t want these thoughts to scare me.
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(Long read) hello everyone. i was out of the country for about 3-4 months and traveling. my ocd was not that bad at all and I was able to handle it even if it came up. on my way back home, it immediately started. i have learned how to handle it better, but i am more sad and just “awaiting” for something bad to happen. for example, i have sexual themed ocd. pocd and family related stuff, and also my ocd targeted my pets for about a year and it manifested into compulsions that disturbed me and made me not want to be around my cats. now that i am around my cats, i feel like “what if i harm them or do something bad?” or “what if you do those weird compulsions that happened before?” , when i look back on the compulsions that happened, it doesn’t feel like me and it was clearly driven by ocd, but it makes me worry i am just a sick person. i know myself and i know im not, but i had such a weird childhood and then ocd from 15 years old and up. so when these weird compulsions had happened , whether it was for the pet ocd theme or pocd or the family ocd, it feels like some sort of proof. anyways, i feel a bit for content with myself but i know how real ocd can feel and i just remember feeling so hopeless and suici da l, i just don’t want to go through that again. i take a more spiritual route of life and healing, and i wonder if anyone has some deep spiritual warmups or practices i could do to maybe open up my mind more? maybe to realize this is all in the mind? but also to not fight it… Not fight it meaning not let it take over my life. i racked up so much debt in therapy and i truly think i can get through this alone i just need a bit of help. but i dunno. any advice would help! thanks everyone ☀️
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