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Week 7 when will it work am sick of waiting now!

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kmm14
kmm14

Depression has lifted anxiety better then it was it's just my intrusive thoughts that won't budge now sad I only ever suffer from intrusive thoughts with my OCD when I have had a baby the first time I was intrusive thoughts free after 5 week 3 year ago now on week 7 and still nothing upping dosage is not an option! 

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  • kmm14
    kmm14

    Posted

    Sorry I am on sertraline 
  • Blondey
    Blondey kmm14

    Posted

    Hi Kmm, 

    Try and not worry to much, I know it’s easy said than done, Howrver we all have intrusive thoughts sometimes, it’s how we deal with them.

    I ‘m mother of six children there all grown up now, yet I imagine all sorts of bad things happening  to my family at certain times which caused me to have server depression by constant thoughts of danger and other weird things that were going to happen.

    In reality it was just my anxiety  getting out of control. 

    So please try and not worry to much we all have these thoughts now and again.

    Speak to your doctor if you feel worse.

    God bless for now, hope you start to feel better.🌈

    • kmm14
      kmm14 Blondey

      Posted

      I have OCD so normally I its around other themes but now it's always harm ocd which involves images and thoughts of me hurting my children which I never would but it's scary and awful 

  • OCDandme123
    OCDandme123 kmm14

    Posted

    Are you currently in CBT? If you are, that’s great and you can work on your response to the thoughts with your therapist. So far (I’m also early in on Sert), the meds have helped me be able to implement my CBT skills much easier to reduce the rumination. But I still have the thoughts and think I always will because I am not increasing my dose above 50. If you are not in CBT, I would suggest following Mark freeman on YouTube and Instagram because he is really good and explaining the type of response that is helpful to reduce the stress from OCD thoughts. 
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