Anyone with OCD?
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Yes, I have OCD. It has been very hard to live with. I get teased often because of it. Odd numbers really bother me, pictures have to be straight on the wall, I count traffic when I'm driving, (I count a lot of things) and I wash my hands all the time, and when I write a letter or something and I make a mistake, I have to rewrite it all over again. When I go to sleep, I have to make sure the doors are all locked numerous times. Sometimes I even get up in the middle of the night and check to make sure the doors are still locked. My biggest problem is the odd numbers. Everything have to be an even number or I get really upset and I want to cry. From ice cubes in my glass to the volume on the T.V. If it's not an even number it bothers me in a great way. It has been hard for me to keep a job because of it. When I did have a job and I had to give an odd number in change, I would go into the bathroom and cry. OCD is something I have had to live with for a long time. I am not taking any medication for it. I used to take Zoloft, (which did help some) but they changed doctors on me and the new doctor took me off of it suddenly. After that the problem worsened. I'm sorry you are dealing with OCD, but I know how you feel and I hope and pray it gets better for the both of us.
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I've never been diagnosed with OCD. But I often have reoccurring thoughts of things that scare me or gross me out. They just replay over and over in my head it's irritating. Sometimes I say things in my head over and over until I get irritated and say o.k. shut up now. Not me
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hellow. i too have ocd and suffered since I was about 4 or 5 years old from various ways in which ocd can manifest itself including excessive handwashing, counting and other rituals such as walking on pavement but having to take a certain amount of steps without steeping on the cracks of the pavement segments, typing conversations with my hands without moving my fingers. People were never aware that this "typing" was going on.
However as I got older I started to experience recurrent disturbing ruminations. as you are aware ocd is an anxiety disorder and is often referred to as "a disease of doubt".
These ruminations that i experienced were the result of reading of a sexual abuse case in the paper. I started to question how the article was written and questioned whether or not it sexually stimulated me". This self doubt led me to replay the sexual assualt over and over and over and over and over (get my point!) in my head for years to see if it sexually stimulated me (I never found these images to be stimulating as "regular" stimulation does however this is how and where the doubt came into play). These images were horrific and I tortured myself for years with these images and dared not to speak a word of them to anyone.
It wasn't much later that when these images or experiences occured again that I had a wonderful psychiatrist who was a God-send. I was finally diagnosed with ocd and the horrors to which I experienced were not only happening to me but to other people as well. These images or thoughts are not thoughts one would normally choose to have. That is the nature of having ruminations with ocd. Unlike schizophrenia these images do not mean you are in danger of acting them out or that you are being told to do them. They're just disturbing thoughts that you would not normally have.
I was put on various Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and found Luvox to be most effective for me. Much later I had an experience with a horrible psychiatrist who had me on so many drugs (My pharmacist alerted me to the fact that I was probably being over prescribed). I slept 18 hours a day and was a mess the rest of the time.
My best advice to you is to find an anxiety disorder clinic near you. I learned some basic things about how to handle anxiety from this course. There are exercises you have to do.
As for medication. Personally I think the world of psychiatry is too heavily based on pharmaceutical treatments because they are cheaper than having a regular counsellor and due to the fact many western doctors are also shareholders and sit on the boards of pharmaceutical companies (yes I believe they have a vested interest in medication). These drugs are only bandaids on the situation and must be used that way. The objective is to learn how to manage the anxiety so that you can move away from the pharmaceuticals.
I am also a long term survivor of AIDS and have been using marijuana to increase appetite and reduce pain. One of the greatest benefits of medicinal marijuana is that it has also allowed me to deal with the anxiety disorder. They key is to knowing about different types of marijuana and how they are grown. I suggest you look into a compassion club where patients can purchase their medicine(thank god I live in a truly free country called Canada).
Personally I suggest people either start with an indica or an indica/sative cross strain but it is something the patient will have to decide for themselves as there is various different types of marijuana grown.
It can also be eaten or vapourized for those who are concerned about health issues in regards to smoking it. Vapourizing heats the bud up to release the active ingredients as opposed to conbustion or "smoking of the weed."
Marijuana may be illegal but at one time so was alcohol, Prohibition doesn't work and keeping medicinal marijuanafrom patients who are suffering is truly immoral Providing misinformation about marijuana to the public is detrimental to democracy.
I wish you well
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