Ocd and luvox? ptsd?

Lots of drugs for ocd & ptsd: anafranil, paxil, elavil, depends on what works for you.

each works differently depending on the side effects. all are "addictive" in that they build up the serotonin in the brain, the lack of which causes your symptoms (along with trauma).

Therapy deals with the trauma that depleted the serotonin in the first place
so that you understand your "triggers" and can avoid them, but studies have shown that once serotonin "overfires" in consistently traumatic situations (war, childhood abuse, sexual abuse, etc) in the brain's attempt to calm the victim, the brain will forever "overfire". Thus, the depeletion of serotonin.

The antidepressants in the SSRI class attempt to slow the serotonin firing so that the serotonin builds up in the brain, thus making more available for the person suffering from ocd or depression or ptsd, etc.

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The antidepressant can raise the levels of serotonin, but you'll still have to have therapy to deal with the issues which caused you to have ocd and ptsd (and they won't be pleasant ones, I'm sorry to say, having had this all my life, as no one just "gets" ocd or ptsd for "good" or "happy" reasons) so that you can learn what triggers the behaviour and avoid the triggers.

You'll have to learn to help your medicine so that your medicine can help you. The medicine can't do it alone and vice versa.

And that's why we're here, too. To help each other. I'm sure most of us have been through the same things. That's why we're reaching out to each other. So we can reassure each other that we're not crazy.

Healing on your path,
Elizabetta