monarda
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cozymushroomcozymushroom
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And I just started taking them and have noticed a drop in anxiety after only a few days
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monarda monarda
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I feel you! I am in a relationship but honestly if my libido were to go down due to side effects of medication my partner wouldn’t really be bothered and would totally understand. I guess I’m more worried about other side effects like feeling numb or just generally feeling like not myself, but honestly the torture I’ve experienced from OCD has made me feel less like myself than I’ve ever felt so I guess nothing can really be worse 😂
NOCD Advocate Jess, CPSSNOCD Advocat...
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- NOCD Alumni
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- 4y
I strongly urge you to do erp. The concepts are basic. List out your obsessions, order them least to greatest in distressing you. Pick something from the least to start with. Do an exposure... a script or something physical depending on what it is. Let the anxiety come and notice it increase and then Decrease. Don't do a compulsion to Decrease it. And do it every day. It's hard work but it will give you freedom!
monarda monarda
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Thank you!! I’ve been thinking about doing ERP with an NOCD specialist but I just got a new puppy and honestly I don’t really have any alone time at home because I have to always keep eyes on her, which is why I’m going to therapy in person. But I think I could figure it out!
cozymushroomcozymushroom
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Are you doing talk therapy?
monarda monarda
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I’m doing CBT, so yes I think? She basically just listens to what’s going on for me and then suggests how I need to stop the compulsions and also gives me “distress tolerance techniques” aka breathing and grounding techniques but I feel like I’m not making any concrete progress with my behaviors
cozymushroomcozymushroom
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@monarda So talk therapy is actually not effective for ocd. Your basically just paying someone to do what you do in your own head every day. Some cbt is used in all forms of therapy
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monarda monarda
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Thank you!! Do you feel open to sharing what your side effects have been? That’s one of the things I worry most about
alexisrae1999alexisrae1999
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talk therapy actually makes ocd worse because basically you're professionally ruminating. I found that out the hard way
NOCD Advocate Jess, CPSSNOCD Advocat...
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I 2nd this!
satanicstepheysatanicstephey
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Id reccomend only taking your dose, I had a bad like attack or something and decided to just get high off of zoloft and now I just wish I was high again because my ocd was gone and my normal dose doesn't work anymore
WormiezWormiez
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I take 10mg of prozac. It works well for me. But atm I might need to up the dose bc I think it's not as effective as before. It makes it so I don't care as much with the intrusive thoughts so I don't do a compulsion. Also they're nowhere near as distressing it feels like.
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