Feel like my ocd causes me to go through rituals more hours out of my day. I don’t have rituals all day but mainly anytime I use the bathroom expecially when I go number 2 and sometimes it gives me stress to think about for an hour after I go to the bathroom I will be doing rituals in the bathroom. Sometimes I can’t even walk out my front door without doing a ritual. These all came on worse when the pandemic started. I have told me dr and he said I should take more Prozac (40mg) but I’m only willing to do 30mg a day. I don’t know why I have these rituals it’s like it’s in my mind or something. Sometimes they cause me stress even thinking about having to do them.

I’m also on medication and I can’t get rid of them as well. I keep doing them if they get stressful. Some of the rituals get checked once some more.

@hanajade That’s about how it is for me to. I continue to do them even if it takes me sometime 2 and half 3 hours in the bathroom. Do you think this is just ocd? If so it’s bad what I have. Sometimes I stop and think should I do all of these rituals but if I don’t I will have problems in my life. What did they give you for medication? My dr gave me prozac

@Espresso16 I have 20-30 minute shower due to contamination fears and I do rituals as well. I got prescribed Zoloft.

Wow finally someone that actually gets it. Mine got worse after the pandemic started also. It’s like a constant worry about covid or that my kid will be sick in a Covid unit. I have to have hand rituals to get covid off of me. I have had 2 horrible panick attacks in the bathroom were I felt like I was losing my footing and racing heart like I was going to fall with a heart attack. Anything I do in the bathroom involves a ritual except peeing I don’t know why. My wife says I got worse of a couple years. But I know I have gotten worse sense the pandemic. I can tolerate most meds and I take my medicine everyday. Just can’t seem to get out these rituals. The pandemic dosent help because it’s been months on going with no vaccine so that adds to my anxiety and ocd. I have lost therapist telehealth also good ones to because of my rituals also. It takes me 20 mins rituals before I lay me head down to go to sleep. I have the same ritual every night

@Espresso16 My ocd got worse due to covid and the death of my grandad.

@hanajade What about covid has mad it worse for you?

@hanajade Mine has gotten way worse

@Espresso16 I was scared that I was going to get covid, that I would pass on covid to someone else which made my hand washing worse. It’s still an issue at the moment as well. Until covid has been eradication and there has been a vaccine they I am going to still wash my hands due to contamination fears.

I’m sorry about your granddad. I lost my father 4 years ago and still struggle with his loss today

@Espresso16 I’m sorry for you loss.

@hanajade It’s hard he came to visit me and went back home and 2 days later his girlfriend came home and found him dead

@hanajade What about covid has made your ocd worse? Mine seems like it’s gotten a lot worse sense covid. I was given extra prozac to help. I also live in a legal state so I have cbd but I don’t ever take that I’m worried it will mess my ocd up worse but I heard a lot of good things about it.

@Espresso16 I wrote it above

@hanajade I saw it now. Covid has had me doing more ticks and ocd rituals. My counselor calls it Wilbert in my head and he is a big tough guy that tells me what to do these rituals. He tells me to stop feeding into Wilbert but it’s difficult