Purely Obsessional OCD?

Question:

I have zero interest in taking medication again I was medicated from age 9 to 15 they only masked my real problems ( i was in an abusive situation) i have been off of meds for about 8 years and have been relatively fine, until now.

Starting about two months ago, suddenly, i have been having a constant occurance of OCD, only thoughts, i have no rituals, just obsessive thoughts about the most horrible things imaginable to me, constantly, and i spend the vast majority of my energy always talking myself out of having full blown panic attacks that would otherwise result from my thoughts. (i have already had 6 or 7 total full blown panic attacks the last 2 months) I believe that MY OCD and panic attacks are caused by some sort of faulty thinking.

Does anyone have any advice who maybe has had some similar experience? I believe i have the capacity to retrain my thinking patterns out of OCD, I think i just need a bit of guidance.

Answers:
talk it out. articulate the thoughts that are going through your head, however terrible you think they are. this is the solution to your problem, which is that stuff you're holding in is building up. i don't have a reliable source for this information other than experience, you'll have to look it up yourself, but benjamin franklin's fart said it.

behavioral therapy can also be used to treat OCD. In behavioral therapy, people face situations that cause or trigger their obsessions and anxiety. Then they are encouraged not to perform the rituals that usually help control their nervous feelings.

if pills are not the way for you then i reccomend this, its worth a shot, right?

I don't like medication either but I was having work related obsessive thoughts and the doctor tried Paxil. It gave me constant nausea and I stopped taking it (on my own) after 2-3 weeks. I thought it was a bad medication because of this until I realized the obsessive ramblings of my brain had stopped. And for the most part they never returned. And I never took Paxil again.

Now Paxil is one of those they try to convince you that you should take it forever. My personal experience says this wasn't the case for me.

I had tried a lot of things to stop the obsessiveness but nothing worked until the two weeks of Paxil

Purely Obsessional OCD?

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