Hey @Wave Can you tell me about your ocd and how you cope?

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@Wave
Have you received treatment for your ocd? Do you take medication for it? Have you made progress with it?

I’m really struggling with my thought life this week.

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Antidepressants are the medications used to treat OCD, and I can’t tolerate AD’s because of mania.

I don’t take meds for OCD symptoms and I am not in therapy for it either.

I just try to manage through the symptoms, like intrusive thoughts on my own.

I know the risperidone is making things worse as far as OCD goes.

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@Wave Thank you for responding! I’m so sorry the risperidone is making things worse!

I can’t take ADs for the same reason!

May I ask, how do you manage through the symptoms on your own?

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I kind of just suffer through them and wait till they pass on their own.
Maybe exposure therapy or CBT could help you @FlyingPurplePeopleMeeter.

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I’m sorry I’m asking so many questions! Do you just distract yourself? Do they go away? Do you attach meaning to them? Do you ever feel ashamed of them?

I am in intensive outpatient for exposure therapy. However, it’s outrageously expensive so I will need to stop soon. Just trying to learn coping skills now.

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Yes I try to distract myself by doing other things like cleaning up, watching tv or listening to music.

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Okay. Thanks for the tips!

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I’m currently on low 10mg starting dose of prozac for depression and OCD. I’ll have to watch out for manias in case I need to continue with depakote. So far invega is blocking mania

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How long have you been on it @Ale? Have you seen improvement in your ocd?

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2 weeks now. I think I’m doing good with obsessive thoughts, but today is really my first happy day so it’s kind of early to tell.

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I wish to God that I could tolerate AD’s.
It’s really too bad.

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I wish that for you, too, Wave. I sooo want you to feel happy and motivated! I don’t want you to struggle with ocd or abandonment issues. I want you to feel whole and complete and fulfilled!

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Thanks @FlyingPurplePeopleMeeter!

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@FlyingPurplePeopleMeeter
@Wave

While I’m not dx as OCD, I have “OCD tendancies”. At my last appt w my pdoc, she told me I have to learn to let things go, stop overthinking, and concentrate on one thing at a time.

Could you explain what that means? Not sure who to ask. Thanks

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Sounds like you obsess over things @JustTrish.
This is similar to overthinking.

I do this a lot myself.

Try to distract yourself with other activities when this happens.

This kind of helps me.

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That makes sense. I can distract myself from repetitive thoughts. I’ve just got to figure out what I can distract myself with.

Thanks! That helps!

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