Topic : Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

I have OCD and I am on antidepressants for anxiety, ocd and depression. But... the meds are making my sex drive low and I was never like that. I used to want to have sex and now I am not in the mood anymore.  I go to a counselor but sometimes it is hard to talk to a guy about stuff like this. I also can have an orgasm with the antidepressants. Just my luck. If I don't take the pills for a day or two I can have one then my spouse says I am being a you know what. I can't win.

     I have have this problems then I got new meds and they dont have the same effects you really need to talk to your doctor about it... I also use more vitamins now maybe that helped LOL

Eclaire

Hi everyone,

I cant stop washing for hours on end.  I have washed myself to the point where Ive bled, my skin cracks and so- forth.  At one point I put Lysol in my bath.  Not alot but like a couple tablespoons.  This was along time ago.  I take Paxil at 40mgs once per day.  I am also currently on Serax for anxiety from the ocd.  I am married and the mother of a 15 year old daughter, 9 year old son, and 1.6 year old babyboy.  I have to function!  Ocd make everyday life a living hell.  Ive contemplated suicide so many times because I dont feel that anyone understands.  I can look at a picture and not even touch it and get extreme anxiety (my mind bluffing me into thinking I have tons of dust on my face).  There was a time when I would have to walk by a picture with a towel over my head.  I dont touch my bed blankets for fear of contamination.  I must look crazy because I wear socks on my hands and feet so Im not touching anything.  If I go to the bathroom I have to take another bath, I dont like to touch light switches with my hands, instead I use my elbow or better yet since I am trained in dance and TKD I sometimes will use my feet to touch things I dont want to touch because I dont want to get stuck in brainlock then spending forever washing my hands.  I take ambien every night and it lessens my severe symptoms.   Well heres just a glimpse into my ocd nightmare!

Johanne its nice to meet you!!  I can surely identify with you.  Are you seeing a doctor for this?  Also how long have you suffered?

Keep in Touch!!!

Robin

Arent spouses difficult at times?!!!  I havent had any terribly bad sexual side effects due to my meds.  What I have noticed though is the antianxiety med masks most of my emotions so I appear as if I am okay.  Im never in the mood dont feel bad.  But I think its because my husband needs to spend a wee bit more time talking to me or romancing me.  Men are visual,  but women are emotionally wired.  Us women need to be lifted off our feet.  (smiles)

Does anyone suffer from this....

 

I go to wash my hands.. I put soap on them, rub my hands together normally, and then I rinse them thoroughly.  Okay, now this is the bluff of ocd that my brain pulls on me....  "Your hands are clean, but you still have soap on them!.  Okay your done..  Nope rinse them again I feel the soap still inbetween my fingers, okay Im done.  Nope sorry charlie now you must rinse all the way up to your wrist because somehow the water pushed the soap up your arm..  Do you see where I am going with this..  This is a SMALL example of my thought process.  Its a brain LOCK!  MY brain bluffing me.  Even though I know darn well there is no soap left on my hands I cant stop until they feel just right.

Its tiring!

I would like to know if anyone here suffers from packratting consider as OCD ?

Eclaire

I received a few fact sheets in my session that I want to post ....

The first fact sheet I got was about: Obsessive doubts and normal doubts. Learning how to tell them apart. That was easy to understand they use the person obsessing over washing their hands. A normal doubt would be answer my informations one of our sense would give us: like you can see your hands are dirty. An OCD doubt is more like maybe I miss a corner or between my fingers, maybe I didn't use enough soap.

The second info sheet was about the OCD logic. It explain that the OCD logic is base on what can happen thinking not a sensation. That they come from 5 possible areas.
1- common sense: bacteria does exist.
2- authority: surgeon wash their hands before operating.
3- hear say: they heard about someone getting sick after using public bath rooms
4-past experience: they got sick because they didn't wash their hands.
5-calculated logic: It is always possible to catch an infection.
I understand this I can even say I use most of the time the calculated logic.
Which makes me question I am using it because of the OCD or because I have always been logical thinker or Am I a logical thinker because of the OCD.

The third sheet yesterdays is about  the OCD doubts are 100% imaginary. I get that it is simple just ask myself 2 questions.
1- Is there informations in the here and now to justify my doubt?
2-Is my doubt beyond what I can perceive?

I am having problem seeing this with hoarding any help some one out here.....PLEASE

Eclaire

 

Does anyone suffer from Trichotillomania?

Cuz I have since 3rd grade and I'm now 16

and a junior in highschool.

Yeah.

I don't have trich, but a close friend of mine does. How bad is yours? You're both the same age and she started only a couple of years after you did...already she's had to shave her head and eyebrows in an attempt to control it and I was just wondering how differently they progress between individuals. Luckily, trich isn't fatal (at least, I haven't heard any stories) but if you swallow your hair then I suggest you see a doctor immediately...in fact, you should seek aid anyway (if you haven't already). I'm not an expert on the subject but from what I've learned about it from my friend and through sources on the net, it's treatable and in many circumstances, even completely curable.