Has medication helped anyone with severe intrusive thoughts. I am considering starting and wanted to know what worked best for people.

Thank you for that. I understand it takes much more work, just wonderinf if their may be something i could take alongside doing ERP. I do not plan to take forever, maybe i can get a better grasp on releasing thoughts as the come. I struggle with intense emotions as thoughts come and it keeps me in a loop i need to manage

I started taking sertraline a few years ago and it really helped just take the edge off the anxiety. It won’t make the thoughts disappear but it definitely made them easier to deal with!

Yes! Pure O started with me in 1989 and I was on zoloft for 5 years starting in 1997 but it made me tired.I then started on Paxil and have been on 20mg daily since and it has helped me so much.

Yea. Just something to help with recovery not going to make it disappear. Thanks so much

I've never been on medication but I would say go on it with caution because I know theres certain types of anti-anxiety medication that can make ERP quite ineffective as they are calming the anxiety and feeling anxious is actually something that you need for ERP to do its job as so to speak you want to retrain your brain that whatever you've exposed yourself to is making you anxious but you're not going to do the complusions/rituals and wait for the anxiety to come down by itself and sometimes certain types of anti-anxiey medication can prevent that anxious response in your brain to, to much of an extent. I'm not saying you shouldn't go on medication, I'm just saying to do some good amount of research on ones that work best with ERP and if your only wanting to go on medication to stop the intrusive thoughts, like the above people said no medication will stop intrusive thoughts, I'm sure if that were the case they'd be no need for treatments such as ERP, also everyone gets intrusive thoughts but people with OCD tend to treat them as real threats whereas those without can quite easily let it go, lucky people I know. I hope you find the right kind of treatment combo for you whether that's with medication or without, the important thing is you recovering.

I take Latuda 40 mg and it has helped Me so much with my thoughts .

Fluoxetine 60mg saved my life literally. I was suicidal from all the harm Intrusive thoughts and almost had to be hospitalized. Once I started therapy and saw a psychiatrist, the fog and intrusive thoughts became smaller and smaller until those voices were just a whisper. I don’t think I would be here today if it weren’t for medication and my therapists and have celebrated 4 years of being alive since my first almost attempt. Hope this provides your some context and wishing you so much healing love and light 🥰 keep sitting with the thoughts, eventually they realize that they have little power over you the more you face them head on