OCD, Medication and culpability

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Weighing food, feeling for hip bones. You know how you say you have an aversion or the mirror? Mine was the opposite. I would constantly check in the mirror. I wasn’t doing it out of vanity though. It was to make sure that everything looked like it had to. I kid you not, I knew the location of every mirror in ever store in my town
 
Yes! And it should! Stopping the behaviors is the only way we’ll get rid off the OCD
 
I used to work at Herberger’s when I was in High School and let me tell you my struggle was similar but the opposite! I kept wondering off to the mirrors 😂, but I’m sure working at Macy’s with all the mirrors around was just as awful. I used to weigh my rice so, I totally understand the wacky! And yes, we’ll my therapist hasn’t mentioned it, but I have read that the 20’s are a rough mental patch. This might explain why my OCD has worsened too, who knows :woman_shrugging:t2:
 
Yeah, I have been hit with real event OCD before where your mind turns a somewhat bad experience into a nightmarishly awful one. Sometimes, out of the blue, something will trigger a memory and then your brain distorts that memory into the absolute worst case scenario. It isn’t even real event, it is “distorted event” OCD really, because your OCD brain twists and turns it. Man, when that one hits, it can cause the most awful spike.

But whatever OCD I am suffering from right now always seems the worst.
 
I like that, “Distorted event” is way better than real event. Right now I’m dealing with that one pretty hard. I was telling my therapist how at times I try to change my obsessions into different ones that seem to be less awful at the time, but all in all, it all is terrible. Also, when I look back at the obsessions I had as a teenager I wonder why I ever worried about. Looking back at them they feel ridiculous, so I have this hope that, if God let’s me live years down the road, I’ll look back and see how ridiculous this all is at the moment.
 
Your old obsessions always seem like nothing in light of your current ones. That is because you are thinking rationally and aren’t caught in the middle of it. You are able to look at them in a detached way, the way a non ocd person would.

But old obsessions, even ones that haven’t bothered you in ages, can flare up out of nowhere—all of the sudden, something might trigger a memory or an old thought and next thing you know you break into a cold sweat and can’t think straight.
 
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It’s hard around the family or anyone. No one’s trained, and so they stay away. and you can hardly blame them. You know what I mean?
 
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I know. I had the feeling that my prayer life would be affected, but it hasn’t!
Been on Paxil, Prozac, and now Zoloft for OCD. They’ve all helped.
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I take Lexapro plus other medications but it doesn’t seem to be helping much. I’ll talk to my doctor about trying one of the meds you mentioned.
 
I took Lexapro for years and then it conked out on me. I was in a real bad way until I switched and had to wait for the meds to start working. I am on generic prozac now, but frankly I prefer Lexapro—of the SSRIs I took it had the least side effects.

Paxil was the first SSRI I tried, years ago, and I would not want to do it again. I gained a bunch of weight on Paxil and it leaves your system quickly—(ugh—the brain shivers from missing a dose).
 
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I took Lexapro for years and then it conked out on me. I was in a real bad way until I switched and had to wait for the meds to start working. I am on generic prozac now, but frankly I prefer Lexapro—of the SSRIs I took it had the least side effects.

Paxil was the first SSRI I tried, years ago, and I would not want to do it again. I gained a bunch of weight on Paxil and it leaves your system quickly—(ugh—the brain shivers from missing a dose).
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I’m not having any side effects from the Lexapro, except dry mouth. I don’t want any more side effects and I really don’t want weight gain.

What did you mean when you said “the brain shivers from missing a dose.”
 
Withdrawal from SSRI meds has some unpleasant effects. One common one is “brain shivers” for lack of a better term, but it describes the sensation you feel. Like your brain is shivering or being shocked. It is not fun.
 
Canvas said:
Withdrawal from SSRI meds has some unpleasant effects. One common one is “brain shivers” for lack of a better term, but it describes the sensation you feel. Like your brain is shivering or being shocked. It is not fun.
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Yikes! I certainly don’t want that. I wonder if I’d experience that side effect if I switched from Lexapro to something else?
 
If you suddenly stop taking Lexapro, you might. That is why it is very important to not just cease the meds, but taper off if you want to stop. Look it up on the internet.
 
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If you suddenly stop taking Lexapro, you might. That is why it is very important to not just cease the meds, but taper off if you want to stop. Look it up on the internet.
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Yeah I know stopping suddenly will cause problems. I was just wondering if those same problems would happen if I switched to another med at the same time, but I was wrong because my doctor ALWAYS puts me on new meds gradually anyway.
 
Yes, it seemed more like something that had to be said, along with the habit of weighing-in! It was all part of the same action, and I have know idea of the choice of words used while testing 20 scales!
 
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But old obsessions, even ones that haven’t bothered you in ages, can flare up out of nowhere—all of the sudden, something might trigger a memory or an old thought and next thing you know you break into a cold sweat and can’t think straight.
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I feel like I’m being shocked or something when a worry hits me. It’s awful, but I don’t need to tell you all that.
 
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