![]() ![]() When I came off meds I withdrew over a year by 5mg reductions lasting 1-2 months each time. When I was on meds, I eventually reduced to a smaller / maintenance dose and was happy on that for years. You can stay on these meds for life if you want. Once the anxiety starts to subside, so too will those thoughts. disturbing thoughts are then just a side effect of anxiety. Its the anxiety that then frightens you, which can make it hang around. Your body copes with stress, but when prolonged it'll build up and can result in anxiety. The intrusive thoughts are just a side effect of anxiety, and anxiety is a result of stress. Yes I was 20 years old when this hit me - a normal bubbly person who also never realised this would have happened to me either. #BEST MEDICATION FOR OCD INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS HOW TO#I’m in a really happy place now I’n my life which I believe is helping and I’m hoping this ocd is something I can look back on and think what an awful year but I come out the other side with a good understanding on how to help other people! I’m hoping to give it a few months months and this be a thing of the past!! I don’t want to be on these for ever and hoping in a few months I can come off them! What’s everyone’s opinions on it? Did intrusive thoughts come back once they did? Or isit mind over matter! She recommended I went up to 20mg as this will help squish anxiety I went to the doctors explained these have helped decrease my anxiety for sure! I still get the thoughts but they bother me a lot less. I have been suffering for about 2 months now and last month decided to start CBT and citralopram 10mg I found my self with intrusive thoughts and awful anxiety I’m 23 and very bubbly and never thought anything like this could ever happen to me, or it was even a illness!Īfter a awful year with cervical abnormal cells. Hi Kate Just wanted to thank you for your post! It’s so helpful and so great to read a story where someone has over come this awful ocd! A few hours or days etc turned into months and then years! :-) Personally I'd carry on as you are, persevere through all the low times and they should pass. Seems as if you had a few good days, then it's starting to work for you. Taking this type of meds isn't a straightforward feeling of getting better, but it's an up and down rough ride on whatever dose. Upping the dose you'll go through side effects again and eventually get back to this same up/down phase which you have to go through. If you wait when you feel down, it should pass. On each you will be up and down - it seems how the meds work. I've only ever taken a maximum dose of 20mg. Slowly this began happening more and more and the icing on the cake was when I started waking in the mornings without that dreaded feeling. it seemed that happened mostly when I was doing something ie exercising or socialising etc. I started to notice times when I hadn't thought of my illness or the intrusive thoughts. When I first took SSRI's I think I first noticed the thoughts and depression lifting around 3 months? It was such a slow process which crept up on me so gradually, that each month went by I felt slightly better - this process was interspersed with low points too which felt like I was back to square one and very depressed/anxious, but I persevered and the low points passed each time until they didn't come anymore. I first started on Seroxat (Citalopram is the 3rd type of SSRI I've been on, but had success with all). This is normal and just part of the healing process. Your mood may be up and down for a while - some days or weeks you feel great and others you feel back in the midst of it all again. This medicine take a long time to work, but keep persevering, have lots of patience and you should feel some benefit from it in time. I do t think of them much now - the anxiety was cured for me and so the thoughts lost their importance.Įveryone suits different doses and am sure you'll find the correct one for you to help. ![]() Now I'm well, the intrusive thoughts have disappeared way to the back of my mind and don't bother me or cause me any anxiety any more. Depression makes our minds tired, thoughts thrive on anxiety and then stick to a tired mind, going round and round. You get into a cycle of depression - anxiety - intrusive thoughts - anxiety - depression etc etc and this medicine helps break that cycle by relieving the anxiety, helping to lift the depression and so the intrusive thoughts will become less important. Everyone's different of course.Īs funkdakarma says, the thoughts and anxiety are closely related. I had intrusive thoughts, dreadful anxiety and depression for years and years and I recovered taking SSRI's. ![]()
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