Anxiety and depression or OCD? Or some combination of both?

[3wooddriver]

My friend made a good point to me today about my condition. I have been struggling for several months now (and in years past) and having some pretty bad days lately. Anyhow, when I'm feeling anxious or depressed, my mind typically races, as I imagine some of you are familiar with. I don't necessarily have any compulsions, nor repeat things over and over, urgently etc, but I do have routines and have always been on the meticulous and careful side.

But I was thinking today, or my friend recognized, that my thoroughness and attention to detail could be making things much worse for me. I'm constantly thinking about how to get better, what to eat or not eat, what meds to take, for how long, how much to exercise, what doctor to see, and so on and so on. And when I'm not feeling well physically, everything seems to get blown out of proportion. I'm on such high alert all the time and am conscious of every little thing going on a body, that any little disruption is exacerbated and I freak out. I can't just tolerate a little bit of nausea for any period of time for instance. The whole time I'm wondering if it's the side effects from Prozac, or if it's because I consumed some gluten, or my sugar is low, or just my anxiety, or any number of other causes.

Does anyone else experience anything like this? Would this be considered GAD? OCD? Both? Are the meds the same or different for each of these conditions? Maybe I'm not even being treated for the right issues? Ugh. I'm surely going to mention it to my therapist next week but am hoping to get some insight sooner. I need a hobby, lol.

Be well, all!

[EmLee96]

OCD is defined as having obsessions (the racing thoughts focused on something) and compulsions (acts done to resolve those racing thoughts). For example if your thoughts were racing about your mother making it home in time to make you dinner and the only thing that was going to make that happen was if your shoes were in your room you would make sure your shoes were in your room. This often happens by chance in that one had has an anxiety disorder all ready and some event happened that they think was caused by what they did (like moving their shoes into their bedroom caused their mom to arrive home in time).

Does that make sense?

Generalized anxiety disorder is defined as being anxious about yourself, others and the world around you, and the future.

OCD is usually treated by stopping the person from acting on their compulsions along with an antianxiety med like a benzodiazepine.

Gad is usually treated with talk therapy and an antianxiety.

So they are kind of similar kind of not. Yours I would say would just be gad