The Oi
Ahhhh chachachacha
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all you have to do is stay away from rcf.
How?
all you have to do is stay away from rcf.
Sorry to hear that.
How do these disorders affect your posts? Like does it affect your ability to focus or does it affect the thoughts themselves?
I know you have your good days and your bad but your posts always have good intentions and that counts a lot round here. Do you find the fact that other people use these terms unaccruately and without fully understanding the true condition hard when you have to have a serious discussion with them about it?
The idiot in me has to ask...is the random nature of the outbreaks one of the most frustrating things for an OCD sufferer to deal with
That's great news. Sounds like you have developed some other coping mechanisms. The original point of meds was to provide an initial support to allow people to develop their own coping systems. Sadly that second part often get overlooked. You might find you still have some conditioned responses that trigger the odd feeling but if you remember how far you have come you should be able to get through them quickly.Not sure if this is the right thread, but I vaguely remember there being mental health people here.
I used to be on medication, and stopped cold turkey. The months that followed were really rough. I’m about a year out, though, and am no longer having any panic attacks on any normal triggers and I feel very strange about it.
For example, there was a local Target that was so overwhelming, that in four consecutive visits I had to leave and wait in the car. In this same time period, I learned that sensory overload was a large issue for me, but that in large spaces with a singular goal, I’m able to “block it out”. I’m at the point where most things that made me nervous ended up being sensory overload reactions.
And I don’t know if it was, or if I just… got better at dealing with them? The side shoots of the anxiety/depression that the meds curb is still there, but the public spaces panic attacks have subsided and it feels like I just never actually had them? And I don’t know if that’s a health thought process.
Big nope on anxiety meds from me- after four years of them, and a year off, I’m able to do a lot more functionally without them.
Curious, what were you taking for anxiety? I've had mixed results with just about everything. Just recently quit Remeron cold turkey, partially because of weight gain, partially cause I lost the script lol. First week was bad, now it's been maybe 3-4 weeks and I'm still pretty up and down in terms of anxiety and depression, but could just be normal holiday/life stress.
The only drug that really helps me fight anxiety/depression, mostly depression, is going to the gym. If I miss a few sessions in a row I become a depressed trainwreck.