OCD and medications-which work best for you if you feel comfortable discussing that information with me

[Thistooshalpass]

I have the kind of OCD where I have to tell my mom everything. And I mean everything. Every thought, everything I say and do. It’s just exhausting. Work controls my life. I’m a receptionist, not a brain surgeon. The amount of times I check things is just exhausting and I’m really just dreading work. I don’t no how much longer I can work. I’m so young and need to work to pay my bills I just don’t no what else to do. Everything I do at work I check and check and check and check over and over again. I obsess over it. I ask the Same questions over and over again at work. I can tell my boss is getting annoyed with me. My coworkers make me feel like a bother and I am constantly afraid that I’m going to be called into my managers office. My husband tried to tell me leave work at work. Well, I wish that was the case for me. All I do is worry about the next day or the day after that. I want to just quit but I can’t. I have to pay my bills. Everything I say or do I text my mom. I feel the need to tell my mom everything and she is the only person in the entire work who can make me feel better. If I eat bad I have to tell her. Anything I do or say I tell her. I just don’t want to do it anymore and most of all I don’t want my mom to have to go through this. I ask my husband a million questions. He’s getting annoyed. The point of this post is if you feel comfortable sharing some medications that your on .. I have been on the same meds for years now and I just don’t think they are working. My anxiety is so bad and I need something to help my OCD and anxiety. It’s getting out of control. I’m just constantly thinking of the past stuff that happened 10+years ago and having to tell my mom everything. I know I need to find a good therapist and I have a psychiatrist who I really like. I’m meeting with her this week and just want some ideas. I no she is my doctor and I will listen to her but we have discussed a lot of meds and was just wondering what others are on.

[MothFir]

I highly recommend following up with your plan to see a therapist. Make sure it is someone trained in treating OCD. I started therapy a year ago and it has helped me more than medication. Knowing why you are getting weird, sticky thoughts, and learning ways to ignore them and habituate to uncertainty without doing rituals, may be a lot more helpful to you than medication alone.

That said, I'm on a low dose of fluoxetine. It helps take the edge off without side effects. But everybody is different.

If I had to choose, I'd say therapy has helped me break the OCD cycle more than medication, but luckily we have both tools at our disposal.

[Thistooshalpass in reply to MothFir]

Thank you!!

[BlackOnyx]

I'm on Paxil and Risperidone. Paxil is antidepressant and Reperidone is antipsychotic. They've helped me a lot. I don't know where I'd be without them. However I do also sleep until the afternoon and have also started lactating which is either a side effect of the Resperidone or my birth control pills.

[Thistooshalpass in reply to BlackOnyx]

Thank you !

[SeeJoy123]

I’m so sorry you’re going through this. OCD is such a difficult thing to live with. But you can do this! I’m on a low dose of venlaflaxine and it helps me manage my symptoms a lot better than before. I definitely think you should go to a therapist and also, talk to your psychiatrist about your medicine not working anymore. Your body probably got used to it and you need to switch or get a higher dosage.

[Thistooshalpass in reply to SeeJoy123]

Thank you!

[Thistooshalpass]

Thank you so much! I wish you the best!

[Sophie30x]

It sounds like you have confession OCD. I have it too. I have to tell my GF everything things she doesn’t need to hear! Confessing is a compulsion and my therapist told me to really try not say anything to that person. The more you tell her things the worse it gets and won’t go away. Confession ocd is probably the worst one to have in my opinion. It does get better, I’m on sertraline and that helps my anxiety when I’m needing to confess and that horrible guilt in your tummy.

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