Has anyone had success managing thoughts without medication. I had terrible thoughts that kept pulling me into depression and I’m wondering if there is a way to manage without medication use

I've had severe acute PTSD with Severe OCD and have managed them both without medication. Some days it's hard as hell and I just wish there was a magic pill to take it all away but I keep on hanging in there and practicing all the skills I've learned.

The only way I found out was to face off. Don't read it if you are afraid to be triggered but even though I don't want to be judgmental toward some people here I think there's a time when we have to talk about our fears even here rather than saying "I'm scared today" it's a poor message leading only to poor answers if u know what I mean so anyway. My last OCD was to make false recordings using my smartphone camera (like I switched on the snapchat application and talked to it as if I recorded something but I didn't and Never did. While don't this I can talk about me, my mother, father, brothers or nephews, or some specific colleagues or really good friends, whoever I'm scared to say awful things about. So I talk outloud and say awful things, give my address or people's address like "yo the one who potentially listening to me go seek " X" at "X" appartement and maybe you want to torture me (or my mom, or my friends, or colleagues it depends on the crisis) you won't have the courage to do it you mill piece of shit (that's when it scares the shit out of me lol). Of course it is a compulsion, it's something that came right a few days after a disaster ending with a girl I loved to date with, it's when I began to develop those compulsions. At first I struggled A LOT to try to avoid doing my compulsions, but it never ends. I thought constantly about this thing to take my phone and make false recordings, not to hope that something could really happen OF COURSE and ON THE CONTRARY, but to STOP this BS of believing that someone (like a hacker or special departments or I don't know) could listen to me and end up wanting to really hurt me or the people that I quoted. The thing is that there's a time when you're so fed up feeling guilty, losing the willing to have a girlfriend, without the envy to have go at parties (bc even though you got one you don't take pleasure at it), all the times I cried or felt destroyed by the inside for the guilt of what I did (again quoting people or giving adresses is only to prove to myself that's is BS but I can't count how many times I felt guilty) but there's a time you want to fight back and stop living in this shitty OCD world. Do I regret what I've done? Yes and no. Could something bad happen to me or people I quoted, maybe maybe not. I think I did some exposures, got out of my comfort zone and I feel better, not full recovery but yet it's better and it will get better 👌. I precise that I've been living with OCD periods since 10 and I'm 34 so do the math lol, I learned so much from them and the first thing I got from OCD is that the more you BACK OUT, the more you FREAK OUT. That's why I find the courage to say the most awful things even if I'm scared it's the only way to say to OCD : I FUCK U!

I don’t take medication because it doesn’t work for me. I do everything else in the book but medication and I’m doing well 😁