Anxiety Support Group

Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

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ocdgirl 02/27/2008

I have OCD and it causes a high amount of anxiety. I have been on Zoloft a month today. I really don't notice any change. The dosage is still low, but shouldn't I have noticed SOMETHING by now? The other day I had a few hours where I felt almost like a regular person and then I went back to being anxious and feeling "out of it". I hate this so bad. I have my boyfriend's son here and he never gets to go anywhere but school. I panic when I even think about going anywhere. My house is a huge mess because it takes me SO long to clean anything because I have to keep doing it over. I'm so afraid that at any time people will come take my boyfriend's son away.

I feel like I annoy everybody. I don't have anybody to talk to and the "online" people that I talk to, I feel like I'm clingy and irritate them.

I want to be a REAL person again!

deleted_user 02/27/2008

hun we are all here to support you but with OCD you have to feel ready enough to fight it as we can only offer support but not actually make you break your behaviour...we will always be here for a chat!
Have you tried hypnotherapy?
my nephew has OCD and it drives his mum nuts but she is still there for him...we all are!
i sould as your doc about the meds as they should be working better than that i think.
Are you on the OCD support board?

keep in touch
hugs shellyxox

ocdgirl 02/27/2008

I haven't tried hypnotherapy. I was terrified of starting the meds but I wanted to have something to help with the anxiety because then I could try and face the OCD harder, if that makes sense. I know that in order to beat OCD I have to face it, but the anxiety is so strong. I'm scared of pretty much everything because of the OCD, so I do things to face that everyday.

deleted_user 02/27/2008

i think you should talk to your doc about how much your taking. keep going back, call once a week if you have to. my doc kept telling me that i 'shouldnt be able to feel anxiety' when i still was. i felt like i was bothering him, but docs cant help you if they dont know something is wrong.

deleted_user 02/27/2008

Definatly talk to your doctor. Just remember, they aren't going to take your boyfriend's son away unless he is being mistreated or living in an unhealthy home (IE: Rotting food all over the floor, dangerous pets, violent people) they can't take him away for a normal messy house chicka. The online people here know what you are going through so in no way do we feel like you are clingy or irritating. These online people are sometimes the only people we have :)

ItsKimi 02/27/2008

Hey you, perhaps it's time to up the dose. Have you talked to your doc yet? It usually takes at least 100 mg of Zoloft to be therapeutic, while some people will need more. Hey, don't worry about bothering people, because you don't. It just feels like that when you suffer from this. I'm here for ya girl.

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