What did medication help for you guys?

Are you also in therapy?

Taking Zoloft for like 3 months and I haven’t fr seen much of a difference

@Bryce Do you need to go up in dose maybe? Have you had side effects? Or worsening ocd and anxiety?

i had zoloft and it made my ocd so bad around last may

@vampire Really it made it worse? How long were you on it? What dose? Was it hard coming off it?

@Kls2121 It was when I was upped my dose. I don’t remember what dose it was I believe 50. I stopped taking them after I realized I was getting bad

@vampire How did you taper off? I thought its suposssd to help ocd. Thats what makes me scared to start

@Kls2121 Barely any side effects and ocd and anxiety hasn’t gotten worse but like not much of a difference and I just never enjoy stuff ever

@Bryce That makes sense. At least it didn't get worse. Thats a plus. Thats what I'm scared of, it getting worse.

@vampire Did u go on a new medication?

@Kls2121 Yeah I was scared of that happening too when I started but I just wanted to feel better so I took the chances

@Bryce No , After that I was completely done with pills 💊 even over the counter, I started using herbs and smoking 🍃🍃🍃 to cope with my anxiety and depression but I d

@Bryce but i dont know if it helps my ocd

What type of ocd do u have

@Bryce I have different ones. The worst is harm ocd. Thats wgat freaks me out if i get worse.. what if it makes me act on my thoughts? What about you?

@Kls2121 Same thing I have mostly harm ocd and now more pure o, but I was very scared at starting medication at first because I was scared I was gonna be sucicidal but I didn’t get sucicidal or anything but the first like 2 or 3 days wasn’t the most fun

@Bryce What happend in those few days? How did you feel after?

@Kls2121 Just kinda anxious a lot and had little body aches and insomnia, it fr wasn’t that bad just uncomfortable but after that I felt fine but with ocd medication u need higher doses so it didn’t really help at all I was on 25 mg Zoloft and now on 50 but I am thinking about going up to 75 now

@Bryce Yea I heard for ocd you need higher doses. You only had those sixe effects for a few days? Thats honestly not bad.

Wow 20 meds! Sorry to hear that. Did you have horrible side effects or did they just not work?

@Kls2121 It was both.

@Nica 😪

@Kls2121 I’m doing great without medication, so no worries there 😁

@Nica Thats awesome!!! Its definitely better tp not be on themif you don't have to.

Is it easier to dismiss the thoughts? What were your side effects at first?

😀 awesome. So happy for you. Im still scared to start meds lol

Thats how I feel. Some days Im Good then others can be super bad. Ugggghh

Hey even if it helped some what I would be happy with thst. My bad days are just so bad. It comes back worse each time.

That’s what OCD does. It makes you feel like the times when you have OCD that you’re OCD feels so real and then you go a couple days feeling good and you think “Was I overreacting?”

@vampire You said this perfectly. Thats exactly how I think.

@vampire Yes!! That’s exactly how it feels!!

@NoRuminations it really does !!

@Kls2121 its so true