missparanoid
- Date posted
- 6y
Crazy.Cat.LadyCrazy.Cat.Lady
- Date posted
- 6y
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.
jmariejmarie
- Date posted
- 6y
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
wildflowerwildflower
- Date posted
- 6y
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! ?
BrieGBrieG
- Date posted
- 6y
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.
WorriedDriverWorriedDriver
- Date posted
- 6y
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
horsetherapyislove44horsetherapy...
- Date posted
- 6y
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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- Date posted
- 25w
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- Date posted
- 17w
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- Date posted
- 16w
Rant...
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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