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I’ve had bad thoughts about loved ones! I think everyone does...this helped me when I read about it! This article said something like “perverse thoughts (like sexual, violent or otherwise bad) are just part of the human experience, it’s just that people with OCD don’t immediately acknowledge them as such and hang on to them and that’s the problem”..... Like everyone has had some sort of weird thought about their family, we don’t talk about it because it’s creepy but pretty much every boy has imagined their mom naked, because she is a girl, girls look cool naked, your mind makes the parallel and BOOM, my brain likes to screw with me a lot with gross images, I think it’s mainly because of my dark sense of humor, but I FEEL YOUR PAIN, you are not alone
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- 6y
Zoloft - give it time. Takes weeks.
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- 6y
I’m not sure i can even get up to the high doses, it’s like it will numb your thinking so you won’t have any more thoughts! ??♀️
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And if you’re wondering why you have more of these thoughts than the normal person seems to then “try not to think about pink elephants!”....it’s because they alarmed you > you dwelled on them > they kinda stayed in your head...the act of letting them alarm you caused you to think about them more often and that’s why it keeps cropping up...you didn’t do anything wrong! You were just worried because you’re clearly a good kid and wanted to stay that way. I really hope I’m not coming off as a knowitall here I think I just have been working on this for a few years and telling someone else the stuff I know kinda solidifies it in my head
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- 6y
Ya weeks seems like hell feeling like this
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Is it normal to feeling crappy right now? Like I think what if it’s not my ocd and my brain is perfectly fine and these thoughts are true.
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It might be OCD, or it might not. Trying to work that out will make things worse! Stick with the Zoloft for now, it takes time for meds to get working for your body, but don't be afraid to discuss it with your gp if it's not working the way you want :)
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- 6y
I’m just having bad thoughts about my family...who in their right mind would think like that?
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- 6y
Lots of people :) we all have weird thoughts, and often the content is disturbing to us. But you can't control them or make them go away, and you're not a bad person for having these thoughts. Focus on your actions, as I'm sure outwardly you show care for them
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- 6y
Hang in there! Just started zoloft too and felt like such crap too! By two weeks was feeling great but of course i just increased it so back to feeling bad. But i already feel happier but haven’t noticed much different in terms of ocd yet but i am not at a big dose yet.
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- 6y
I wonder why we gotta be on such a high dose for ocd
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Maybe then that’s why lol.
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Mine are just bad thoughts. Don’t make sense. No violent or sexual.
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- 6y
Same concept, the thoughts distress you and you dwell,..instead of beating yourself up for having them just let them be there and go about your day
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- 15w
Hi everyone, I’m 23 and have been on Zoloft since I was 16. For the past couple months I’ve been having panic attacks more and I’m sick of feeling like a zombie everyday. My boyfriend said I’m very sad and unhappy then when I first met him 2 years ago…. He thinks it’s the medicine. Throughout the years I have upped and lowered my medication, but now, I feel as though it’s not helping. Either it was too much where I didn’t feel emotions at all like very scary stuff or it wasn’t enough to help me. I was given 5mg of Lexapro to try…. I’m scared to take it. All I know is how Zoloft is. I don’t want to go crazy on it, be allergic to it, etc. I feel like I’m going to trip myself out when I take it and not actually feel the difference. I could really use some positive feedback I really just want to be a normal human😭
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- 14w
For starters I was on this medicine before i remember the first few weeks were very scary and debilitating. I don’t remember why I stopped taking it , it was about 7 months ago. but I just recently started back because my ocd and anxiety has been off the chain. I keep having bad thoughts about the side affects and I’m terrified like “ what if I have a seizure” can anybody share an experience? Anyone on Zoloft here. Thanks !
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- 8w
I just feel like therapy isn’t working… like I get to talk about myself and understand myself… but I’m already incredibly self aware. My therapist thought I was like 5 years older than I am… and she gives me such basic strategies that do absolutely nothing for me. And a psychiatrist prescribed me with Zoloft… but I don’t know if T want to take medication. I’m scared of side effects… and I’m scared of getting better… I’m scared of letting my guard down. I know it will make me less cautious which makes me less likely to push myself to perfection like I currently do, which I can’t have happen. Every time I talk to my mom about it, she’s always like “Let’s talk about this some other time, I’m busy with other things”, and then never remembers. But in the rare moments we do talk about it, she treats it like I’m signing up to be a drug addict. I also feel very guilty for spending so much of my parents’ money- therapy… medication… etc… and also the idea of my being unlovable is so deeply engraved in my brain… I genuinely, truly believe it. No therapy or medication can fix it. I can’t change my mind. My therapist tells me my misophonia is not a “deal-breaker” and that someone would be lucky to have me as a partner… but then why hasn’t anyone ever liked me? My own FAMILY can’t stand me. How do I believe something I know isn’t true? That’s even harder to accept than me being unlovable. I can’t see someone loving me. And it is so incredibly exhausting to seek love,e I know I cannot have. My sister says, “It will get better with age…” It has only ever gotten worse. To the point I don’t want to get better. It has reached the severity where I feel more safe and successful with anxiety. My past 3 birthdays have been me wishing for therapy. And now I have therpay- and medication, the potential key… and I refuse? Am I too deep in? I cant get out, it’s too late. How did absolutely no one notice how much I had and have been hurting? Why did no one listen to my cries or worries? I feel really depressed and hopeless right now. It takes so much effort to get up every day… I’m so tired.
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