no more ocdi have always suffered from anxeity and probably slight ocd sympotoms but in the past two months it has taken an awful turn for the worse. My amazing life has turned into a everyday living turmoil. I have never expierenced this and im looking for support, i have had numerous intrusive thoughts in this time it has varied from hurting the ones i love, to myself, to being skitzo. It is literally tearing my life apart. I am seeing a therapist who reassures me weekly that this is just ocd, and last week started on 12.5 mg of zoloft, today i start 25mg. I m very afraid to take medicine so i feel i am questioning every intrusive thought to make sure this is not something i secretly want deep down inside. Medicine would never make me act on these thoughts or loose control right?? really looking for some positive sucess stories and support, thank you
Will zoloft stop intrusive thoughts?
- Posted:
- 18 Sep 2012 by no more ocd
- Topics:
- zoloft, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, fear, medicine
Responses (3)
pledge18 Sep 2012
Hello no more ocd, welcome to the site. OCD is the (my own point of view) the most difficult of the psychatric conditions to treat. Zoloft is used more often today in the treatment of OCD than ever before Since you were having these thoughts before beginning Zoloft, I am fairly certain that the Zoloft is not the culprit. Thier are other drugs that can be used along with Zoloft to help you with your thoughts, of harming others or self harm. (anti psychotics) Zoloft is used more often today in OCD than ever before. Simple reason being its success rate in helping to treat the rituals, daily repetitive time consuming, senseless behaviour that consume a person. OCD can be treated but thier is no cure. However, OCD can and is through drug therapy made manageable to the person/patient having the condition. If you believe that you are going to act out your thoughts, notify your doctor/therapist. Regards pledge
endlessPred18 Sep 2012
Hello No More OCD, you just received a very good answer. The fear you are having may seem overwhelming. I wish to assure you that as long as you know that it is not real, you are not crazy. it is a battle you can survive.
Should you feel very frightened with where your thoughts are taking you and they become too strong, please consider going to a hospital and spending some time to feel safe and get methods that will help you get through this. your psychiatrist ought to be able to guide you. this can be a very smart move, and many here will tell you it can be life saving. Best of all it is in your control!
no more ocd
18 Sep 2012
thank you for your responses, i have been evaulated many times and do not need to be admitted into a program because i do know the thoughts are irrational i just have a fear of taking any type of medicine which is heightening my anxeity, i truthfully no longer even have these thoughts im dealing with the guilt of ever having them to begin with because i feel it was so out of character to me and i attached emtions to thoughts that eveyone has
endlessPred
18 Sep 2012
Good. Then you understand how to protect yourself. Guilt takes forgiveness of your self. The process is simple but takes guts to do. Simply stop blaming yourself for irrational thoughts. I am sure you have had other thoughts that were off base before all of this. we all do. We all say wrong things. We make mistakes and choose to hang onto them. I am over sixty. Can you imagine how many errors and wrong things I have done by now? Learn from it and move on. You had an illness. Would you blame a broken ankle for being broken?
Keep going. if you said things that hurt someone apologise. If you can fix something, fix it. Keep going.
justme247 Oct 2012
no more ocd... I would realy like to talk to you, my life has suddenly turned into hell. I cant even leave the couch, i feel like the worst person in the world! I could realy use some support from someone going thought the same thing. I was just given zoloft but im too scared to take it incase it make me lose control. please let me know!
endlessPred
7 Oct 2012
Take the Zoloft. It will help you get part of your life back. Not taking it is what is making you frightened. Please do this. Thousands and thousands take this medication and do very well. It will help. It will help.
Alice10207
15 May 2013
I am going through the same thing as you :/
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I have been told over and over again that you would never act on these awful thoughts, hence the point they are causing me so much distress. My ocd fears all steam from a fear of loosing control which is apparently extremly common amoung those with pure obessional ocd. I am not a violent person, never have been nor have ever been suicidal even in my worst of depression. It just seems these "thoughts" are targeted around things i love the most. After a month of changing my diet, excersise and self help books i decided medicine could be helpful. I will not even have a sip of alchoal for being scared of a lose of control hense why taking medicine has frightened me so much. I hope this makes sense i have only been dealing with this for 2 months, and it has been awful, it has made me question my metal stability, and everything about the person i know i have been for the past 23 years
Hello. It makes sense. Only in that OCD is not a logical illness. A friend of my mine, successfull in the business world, a former CEO, has OCD. The ritual in his case is when leaving his home, he checks to make certain every window in the home is locked. He has a large home, and repeats the routine three times. For him to simply walk out his front door takes close to over a two hour time frame. And this is repeated daily, any time he needs to leave his home. This man is in his seventies and its been like this most of his life. OCD effects people from all walks of life.