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- 6y ago
- Date posted
- 6y ago
It depends on how severe your ocd is. Not everyone can do the therapy without it and with the meds it gives a better chance to succeed in the ERP. It really doesn’t change who you are, if you take ssri like Prozac. It increases your serotonin and helps with your depression. I was scared at first but it helped me.
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- 6y ago
I’m da same I don’t like the way they change you but maybe we don’t need meds, like maybe we can be ok with enough mindfulness practice and self care and exposure etc
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- 6y ago
That is ultimately your decision to make, your body & mind will be affected. Be informed and knowledgeable about why you don't want to take them and then make a plan of what you'll do instead for treatment. I get pressured all the time, but I'm strong in my convictions and I have strong evidence to back up my claims, just like the people who choose to take them have their own reasons. One thing to think about is, how did people recover from OCD before certain drugs were widely available? Drugs or no drugs, recovery is possible! ?
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- 6y ago
While meds can be scary (they aren’t one size fits all and may take a couple of tries to find the best one for you), they can also greatly improve your quality of life. I think meds are sometimes stigmatized. We don’t stigmatize hand sanitizer or vitamins or antibiotics, or meds like Novocain for dental work, but we stigmatize mental health meds. I think it’s best to go into the topic of meds focusing on the positive ways the meds can impact your quality of life. If I worry about how a med may affect me, I do tons of research first and then carefully monitor how I feel while on them.
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- 6y ago
Why don’t you make a pros and cons list for this and ask yourself “what evidence do I have for this” for each point
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- 6y ago
Read the book by Jonathan Grayson he explains in it about why people do or don’t need meds. It made a lot of sense.
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- 23w ago
i don’t think i can, i can’t stomach the possibility of these things, or maybe i can (because they might be true and deep down i know that) and just don’t want to and want to pretend it isn’t there. i can’t do ERP, i just want to pretend it isnt there and won’t happen to clarify, i know i have to do ERP, i know it’s necessary; i don’t need to be told this, this is just how i am feeling currently
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- 23w ago
My mind keeps telling me “something is wrong with you. the weird feeling you are feeling or the weird tingling you are feeling or there is a weird mark on your body. Those are actually a severe symptom and by ignoring it you could die!” Or especially the constant, “go to the emergency room because this impending doom you are feeling, yeah that’s because your gonna die shortly” It doesn’t help whenever people say “well if something was wrong your body would tell you” because my mind keeps telling me that what I’m feeling is proof something is wrong and I need to get it checked out. That I actually am severely sick and that I need to get it checked out as soon as possible, that if I get one more test than I’ll be okay because it will prove nothing is wrong. How do I tell my mind that it’s just anxiety whenever my mind keeps telling me “well if you keep saying that you could be ignoring something more serious.” Or “the doctors are just brushing you off..something is wrong with you” It’s hard to live with my thoughts whenever they are constantly coming up with ways to challenge me and challenge logic. New reasons on why I need to get this checked out because “I’m just being ignored” or “no one is listening to me so I’ll just end up dying” My symptoms range from weak and shaking legs and body to dizzy and unbalanced and dissociated. Recently I’ve been getting this tingling feeling inside my head and on the back of my neck. And my temples have pressure on them. My body keeps coming up with new symptoms I need to worry about, whenever most of them are probably caused by severe and constant anxiety. So severe I can’t even leave the house because I constantly worry about whether this is severe and something will happen if I leave the house. I need immediate ways to start fixing this because it’s especially horrible whenever my period comes around and my anxiety/depression is already higher than usual. I’ve even started considering taking medication (Zoloft, 25mg) which is another trigger for me, I worry about the symptoms I might get from taking it. That’s how you know it’s gotten pretty bad whenever I’ve come to taking something that I’ve been actively avoiding. What are your thoughts? Do I take the medication? What are ways I can deal with my symptoms that seem so severe in the moment but pass by once I’m not anxious? What are ways my thoughts can ease and I stop taking every symptom as something serious, because at the end of the day my anxiety is most likely the reason I have these horrible symptoms. I’ve always been extremely healthy and everytime I go to the doctors they express how healthy I am with all the tests I’ve had.
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- 22w ago
I have a question My OCD has felt almost invisible the past few weeks and now that is starting to stress me out a lot. Right now I am at a point in my treatement where I was asked if I would like to take medication. I told my therapist this week that I would like to try the medication based on how miserable I feel in during OCD flare ups. But now my brain always tells me that I only go throught this treatement etc. to seek attention and that I am just dramatic and should be ashamed of myself for wanting to take this medication. So now I am doubting if I should take the medication or not. Any advice?
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