- Username
- Dess
- Date posted
- 3y ago
@dess no prob pal, eating well will help I work as a personal trainer, try eat lots of veg and lean meats some carbs are fine as they give you energy. Exercise is a must if you can, even just a brisk 20min walk can help. Just try your best not interfere with your thoughts as hard as it is. Just carry on your day as you normally would. I have to to really force myself to get out of bed in the mornings and but when I do I try keep busy. The more you do this the better you will feel.
Check your diet. Start exercise , especially leg exercise. Nothing too heavy just work towards something. Stay away from carbs and sugar.
I was working out every day for 2 weeks and now I just can't
I can relate! You are not alone. I have both adhd and ocd as well.
What's your medication routine like? I miss vyvanse... but it made my ocd worse lol
@Dess I notice the same...makes tics worse for me...but not as bad....I’m on a low dose. But lexapro didn’t help :(
@Domi Low dose of vyvanse? I'm sorry or a pro didn't work I hear ssris are trial and error!
@Dess 30 mg vyvanse went to 5 mg lexapro seeing how that goes
Hang in there buddy, I have depression anxiety and ocd too, and it’s been very bad lately. I know exactly what you mean by not being able to do anything, every time you start a task your mind wanders off. Do your best to carry on with your daily tasks, force yourself out of bed and go for a walk. Medication will tend to make you feel anxious at first but try stick to it and your body will adjust. Try not to isolate yourself, carry on as you would do if you didn’t have these problems, get therapy if you can, and I promise you will slowly drift out of this phase. Iv been dealing with it for 8-10 yrs now.
Thank you so much for this message. It really means a lot and I'm glad I'm not alone. I'm sorry you go through it too. It just feels never ending I wanna feel okay again
You can really fix a lot of that with lifestyle changes. Not saying you can cure depression or anxiety or ocd because god knows it’s a struggle for me. You can learn tools though. “Dirty carbs” mixed with a screen to look at is like poison to our minds and body. Remember most of our seratonine comes from our gut.
I know I wish our fda wasn't so messed up. It's expensive to eat healthy in America and half the stuff on the shelves is so bad for you
@Dess In combo with a pandemic and cold weather, lol
I’m taking vyvanse and lexapro...thinking of switching😢 the lexapro made a dizzy...didn’t help with ocd. Ocd is a little worse with just vyvanse but I can deal with it...but I’d like to have a different med combo .seeing my psychiatrist in 2 weeks to see what I can do
Nice I hope he/she comes up with a good routine for you!
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder has made me so drained thinking of all the thing I think I did and all the things I think I want to do that I am SEVERELY depressed. I don’t have a life anymore. I work only part time and just sit in bed all day crying or feeling so empty I can’t cry. I have ZERO motivation to do anything. Even if I’m hungry I can’t get out of bed. This eventually results in me going to work at 5pm having eaten NOTHING all day. I am in constant pain due to health issues, type 1 diabetes and PKD. I want to be a novelist and I can feel that slipping away as I haven’t written in over 2 years. My memory is getting worse due to sugar fluctuations and my depression. And my health is never going to get better. Sometimes idk the point of being alive if I’m just going to lay in bed every day of my life and cry.
Please help a struggling person This is going to be long and i apologize. Since about 11 I’ve been treated for bipolar disorder and no antipsychotics ever had any effect on me. All made me feel lucid or zombie like. Recently a psychiatrist diagnosed me with ocd and adhd and told me that the two illnesses together can present as bipolar disorder and that’s probably why i was misdiagnosed the majority of my life. I’ve come at a cross roads in my life. I desperately need help but only see my psychiatrist once a month which doesn’t really help. I’m not really a therapy person either. Can someone please help me out and tell me if I’m crazy or if they’ve had similar experiences?? My freshman year i had a 4.0 and was excited at the thought of becoming a med student in the future. Now that it’s summer I’m spiraling. I’m so angry all the time. I won’t let anyone see me or talk to anyone. Im so afraid I’m not good enough and my thoughts consume me. Im constantly worried about the future and have vivid day dreaming episodes of where I’ll end up and how I’m going to fail. I won’t go out and have gained weight and now i constant obsess about my weight and won’t let anyone see me because of what i look like. My thoughts are in patterns and repeat and repeat and won’t go away. I can’t even function anymore. All i do is lay in my bed and think. It’s like a bad movie that won’t turn off. I also won’t allow myself to experience any sort of love connection because I’m terrified of confirming or denying my sexuality. My brain is constant and i feel like there’s nothing that i can do to ever turn it off and feel normal. My intrusive thoughts and starting to become my only thoughts. This panic state has been my state for about 3 weeks now. Can someone give some advice?
I have never dealt with severe depression like this, I feel really hopeless and scared, I can't imagine a future out of all my mental health issues and I can't imagine being healthy and happy. The last 3/4 years I feel like I've done nothing but avoid things that are challenging and his at home every day because of my mental health and now it's all hitting me so hard that I'm so unhappy with my life and ick how to push through feeling so bad I can't even eat. I don’t even feel like I want to hurt myself but my will to live also feels so low. I hate feeling like I’m so trapped in a mental health cycle that nothing can break it
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