I am really struggling with OCD. I don’t want to mention what it is over, but the compulsion is so strong, resisting it makes me feel like I will have a panic attack. I was trying to get off benzos, but I think I will take a diazepam to try to calm down. It’s terrible to feel this way. Am I alone?
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I used to really struggle with my OCD,
Everyday was a battle.
If you’ve gotten to the point where you risk having a panic attack, go ahead and take the benzo,
I would.
You’re not alone,
Up until I gained some control with therapy (CBT) my life was OCD.
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Risperidone worsened my OCD symptoms.
Sometimes it gets to be too much.
Is your OCD a product of meds or did you have it before? I don’t know much about it but I wish you the best.
Thanks, y’all. I gave in to it a few times. It makes me think I may make a poor accountant, but I still love the financial field. I couldn’t resist, though; I wasn’t strong enough. Still fighting hard. It’s really riding me. I just wish it would go away so I could sleep. I want peace. I’ve just been started on fluvoxamine for it, and I can only hope it kicks in soon because this is just miserable. I am hoping that getting everything in order for school will take my mind off of everything else. I just keep looking at all of these things online, and then I can work out our budget so that it’s possible to get them. And I’m good enough at it to make it possible. But I shouldn’t. I need to stop.
Took a couple of weeks for fluvoxamine to kick in for my OCD symptoms.
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i used to have ocd’s…it drove me mad…I think the ocd’s for me were linkd to social anxiety
Thanks, @By-my-design. That gives me hope. I like to think there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Sorry to hear that you are struggling with your OCD at the moment. I’ve had some experience with this in the past. I used to obsess over horrible ways in which i’d die, and to stop those things from happening, i had to do the same thing at the same time every day. I also couldn’t touch certain objects an odd number of time, it always had to be even. But those days are behind me now. I’m lucky - my OCD behaviours came on suddenly, but they left just as suddenly also.
Good for you for trying to manage this without using benzo drugs. However, on the odd day where you’re really struggling, there is no harm in taking something. That is what they are for after all. As for your medication, it does take a white to kick in. My partner takes Escitalopram for his generalised anxiety disorder (with hypochodriasis features), and it has worked wonders for him. He hardly ever gets anxious anymore. Give your med some time and i’m sure you’ll notice a difference soon. Good luck.
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