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Have you told your doctor all of this? Maybe there was a different med to take or something else that can be done?
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I havent talked to my doctor about this actually.
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@Paula I would definitely ask your doctor. Ive heard of some people having the numbness feeling and switch meds and seems to help. Ive also known some people who couldn't take meds because they all made them feel the numbness. We just never know. How long have you been off of it for?
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@Kls323 I took or for 4 months and i stopped 6 days ago
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@Paula I'm sorry you are going through this. I just we all could get better.
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@Kls323 Thank you so much! We must keep fighting right? :) i mean i had days when recovery seemed so close and days when all i could tell myself was I have to keep pushing.
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@Paula Exactly!!! Every day is different. But we can do this. Thats whats great about tgis app. You know you are not alone. And we are all hear for each other.
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I had to come off medication to switch to another and let me tell you it was the worst decision of my life. I did it because I hated the symptoms it gave me but if I knew it would make me feel like this I would have stayed on them.
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Ohhh noo. Is it getting any better at all?
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Sorry to hear that. I totally understand you. I feel terrible myself. Like worse than ever
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@Kls323 Once I went back onto the tablets I cane off I started feeling a bit better again. I'm not 100% but I'm getting there. This is the first time in my life I've ever experienced what I learned was OCD, I think I may have had bouts as a child but never noticed like I do now. I feel like coming off the tablets set it off. That's why I think you should be very careful, I totally understand feeling fed up of the side effects. I think maybe have a word with your doctor as taking nothing at all might make you a lot worse x
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@b2192 What tablets are you taking? I agree with you its better to try than do nothing at all. Thats great its helping you again. I never thought I had ocd (still haven't been diagnosed) but when I think back I do think it was there at a younger age as well.
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@Kls323 I'm on 150mg sertraline, tempted to go up to you 200mg What were you on ?
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@b2192 Nothing yet. I was prescribed Cymbalta last year but never took it. Was to nervous of side effects.
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I haven’t heard of someone being able to go off meds for OCD and not have pretty bad symptoms, so I can’t comment on how much it’s possible. I personally have to take my medication for the rest of my life. When I’ve forgotten to take my OCD meds, or avoided taking them, my fears and intrusive thoughts have reached fever pitch. One year, in December, I wouldn’t leave my room at my parents’ house for two full days because the paranoia and thoughts made me feel very unsafe. It was terrible. But I also enjoyed feeling alive again. It’s really hard to not do what will activate my survival instincts. Do you have any childhood trauma, including long-term guilt about being difficult to raise? That was a factor in the experience I wrote about above. I also have depression, and the type of depression I have most often is one where I don’t have feelings and I feel like I’m in a dream. Sometimes it’s not the meds causing numbness exactly. It’s the absence of ocd, plus depression. I recommend looking into depression more.
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So sory to hear that. I also have depression so i can relate. Its like both ocd and depression hitting on my right now. The cause of my depression i belive its my tendency to be perfect and validated by others. Of you have depression i think you know what it can do to you. Like i see things differently, in another light. :(
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I dont have much trauma from childhood. I mean i was and still am very sensitive and people around me can be a little mean and uncompassionate somethimes and if i point it out they blame me in the end for being sensitive. Sometimes they make me feel like i am a burden and i am ungrateful. And i made mistakes myself i cant lie but when i try to change and make better decisions they are like" oh look at her she is trying to be better now . You forgot when you did x and y. Look at yourself a little " . Overall, its the atmosphere around me that bothers me right now, its not a traumatic event i can remember.
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@Paula Hey, being highly sensitive and feeling that can still cause trauma! It matters how it felt to you and how it feels now. Even when people didn’t know that their comments were so damaging.
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@Paula I relate to a lot of what you said about being mocked for being sensitive and being kept in the past by people who won’t forget your mistakes. I’m busy for the next few hours, but I can talk more later today.
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I started medication and therapy I statted medication approximately two months ago and I m getting worse . I just can t focus on studying I forgot what I did and this didnt happen before my brain didnt stop even in my sleep I just feel exhausted I lost my belief to recover and I dont know what to do I just feel like I shouldnt have statted take medication because It just helo my depression a little but on contrary It makes my anciety much worse and totally I feel much worse I just dont know what to do my life is miserable I feel like no one could help me anymore If you read this could you response me? I just feel like no pne really gets me and my religious ocd hits me very badly
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I feel like I’m falling apart. I’ve been with my boyfriend for 2 years. He’s kind, loving, supportive — and I know he loves me deeply. But I can’t feel anything anymore. I sit next to him, and I feel numb. I kiss him, and it feels empty. I remember how I used to feel, and now… nothing. It terrifies me. The worst part is that I don’t even know what’s real anymore. I constantly question if I ever loved him, if I’m just forcing things out of guilt or fear. Sometimes I imagine breaking up, and I feel nothing — and that scares me even more. I keep thinking: if I really loved him, wouldn’t I feel it? I’ve read about ROCD. I want to believe that’s what this is. But the thoughts feel so real. And I can’t stop spiraling. My therapist didn’t help — she made me feel like maybe I was lying to myself. My mom either tells me to stop overthinking or gets angry. I have no one to really talk to. If anyone here has been through this — through the numbness, the “what if I never loved him?” thoughts, the feeling like it’s all fake — please tell me how you got through. I’m exhausted. I just want to feel peace again.
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I would really appreciate it so much if someone took the time to read this and help me. I don’t know what to do anymore. I haven’t posted here in awhile. I had my OCD managed pretty decently for a year or so on medication, but I had to stop taking it, and after around 3-4 months, the OCD has become unbearable again. It used to be much more surrounding existential themes, eating, and others, not really real event/false memory stuff. But now it’s gotten really out of hand and I don’t know how to do it anymore. It’s surrounding a time of my life a long time ago. It was a dark time. I wasn’t myself and I was going through a lot of things, and I did a lot of things I regret. I self-destructed, embarrassed myself, and wasn’t good to the people around me. I was able to get my mind off of it for a long time, even though I would still think about it a good amount. I was able to be in the present, at least moreso than now. But now that I’m off medication, the guilt has become my obsession again. I can’t move on. I can’t do anything without thinking about all of these memories. I’m obsessed. I’ve started hating myself again, so much so that it’s hard to do anything anymore or believe I deserve anything good. The people around me tell me it wasn’t even that bad, but to me it was. To me, I failed myself, lost myself, and failed everyone around me. I can’t stop thinking about every person I said something wrong to or every time I screwed up. I’ve now started to convince myself I did terrible things I can’t remember, and that my mind just can’t deal with it. And that’s why I feel so guilty. There’s nothing to really support this though. But I’m starting to really convince myself that’s true. I’m trying not to listen to it, because I’ve convinced myself I have hit people with my car before and haven’t remembered when I absolutely didn’t and I know I never have. I drive back over and over to check there’s no one, even though I never heard any bang or felt myself anything. I can convince myself of some crazy false memories. So I know that I shouldn’t listen. But it’s hard not to when I have this guilt gnawing at me constantly. I come to conclusions that this guilt must be because I did something terrible that I don’t remember, even though I already think the things I remember were bad enough. But I would know by now right? If I did something bad I don’t remember? I don’t feel like this all the time. But it’s a lot of the time. But maybe that should be reassuring, that I only start obsessing like this when I think to. The past haunts me though. And I can never be in the present. I’ve started to resort to some unhealthy behaviors to distract myself or help me work towards something. I am starting to hate myself so much and feel like there’s no way I’ll ever be able to get out of this loop. I feel like I just can’t do this anymore. Maybe I need to go back on medication. But I don’t know. I don’t really want to. But will I ever fix this without it? Why do I feel SO guilty, all of the time? I do all these things for people because I feel indebted to them, because I feel undeserving of everything. I feel awful about myself. I don’t know what to do. Does anyone else deal with this?
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