I suffer from ocd

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But I don't know if I should take meds cause the meds have side efefcts and so on. I don't really trust those chemical companies which are all about money and profit. What do you think? I know exactly if I get a prescription and then read the side effects then I don't dare to take it. I have already been to a doc and told him my symptoms and he prescribed celexa and I didn't dare taking it. Anyone else who has ocd?

My wife has it mildly and an SSRI really did help. It did seem worth the lower libido.

What does she take? And does she take it forever? I think it is not reasonable to think that after a cycle you get off it and then it's fine. I think once you start you're on it forever and I dont know if I want that.

I've forgotten which she is on, but yes, she needs to keep taking it. I think that would be normal with OCD, which doesn't really go away.

But I dont want to depend on a drug to fix me. What if I cannot take it or what if the insurance doesnt pay it anymore? What do I do then when I depend on it? This worries me.

If she doesn't take it for a day she is a bit ratty, but no severe withdrawal symptoms.

But if she stopped taking it from one day to the other then it would most likely cause problems. I don't like depending on a drug. Or what if it changes your brain metabolism continually? Then you're screwed.

Surely what matters is your quality of life, and whether it improves.

But I dont trust those pharmaceutical companies. I read that they want to make people easier controllable and that prozac and those antidepressants contain fluoride which was already used by the nazis to make the people in the concentration camps easier to control!

There is some very strange nonsense to be found if you did deeply enough into the conspiracy theorists. Prozac and some other antidepressants contain fluorine, but not in the form of fluoride; there are other SSRI antidepressants, such as Zoloft, that have no fluorine. Fluoride has no psychoactive effects, so does not make people easier to control. The Nazis had no need to pay money for control drugs in the concentration camps, they simply kept everyone starved.

I'm not so sure about that. The nazis were definitely interested in experimenting with people (see Mengele). Mengele wasn't just a lunatic who loved mutilating human beings he experimented with them. I can easily imagine that the nazis also experimented with psychoactive drugs.

Just take something for it!! Stop being so paranoid. I suffer from depression/anxiety/low self esteem and when I was on meds for it, it helped...I'm a cutter if you must know... I stopped as of last year but I still get urges every time I get overwhelmed. now I'm not on meds and my anxiety is awful. I even find it hard going out in public places. So basically, just accept the advice people are giving you, and relax and try a few solutions to your problems. Otherwise things will never get better.

Hello ashley, I am sorry to hear that. :frowning:
Cutting must suck. Can you not find something to replace the cutting in case you get the "urge" like masturbating or something else you can do to vent which would be less harmful?

nope. I've stopped slicing myself because it disappoints my mother and boyfriend and others.. but when i stress out I pull my hair and dig my nails in my skin.

Why do you do this kind of self-destructive stuff?
Are you aware of the reasons for this? Have you tried other
ways to release stress like for example sports or martial arts
or something like that where you can release aggressions?
I once saw a girl who obviously cuts herself and her whole arm were full of elevated scars which were all a few mm long and it looked totally ugly. Before I'd cut myself and cause permanent damage I'd rather seek other ways which at least do not cause permanent damage.

Hence why I stopped the cutting. My arm has vertical scars but they're fading away now.

But why do you cut? Do you have a lot of problems or what is it?Or can you not even tell why you do it?

I don't want to talk about it.

I have some obsessions, but I'm not compulsive... so I guess that means I have OD?? LOL. My obsessions are usually to do with counting things. I like even numbers and multiples of 4 especially. Reading this back it sounds so strange, but I'm pretty sure, if you really thought about it, everyone has their little head quirks that run in the background that they barely realize exist. I'd say most people I know show signs of "OCD"... I mean, people self-diagnose themselves with tons of things nowadays... I think these "disorders" should just be called variations of normality.