Guest guest Posted December 19, 2008 Report Share Posted December 19, 2008 ....because I figured, what the heck? May as well. I told my psychologist about it this summer, and she was confused. She'd never heard of it before. Snapping her gum, she tilted her head to the side and said, " I guess it must bother you that I'm chewing gum, huh? " I smiled and nodded silently. Her conclusion was that it was OCD. Now, after having been on Celexa (20 mg) for four months, with fantastic success in the areas of my anxiety, depression, and PTSD (but no progress in 4s, of course) I decided to tell the man with the pills... my psychiatrist. He seemed genuinely interested in it. Asked questions, probed, really seemed to consider it. Then he pulled out a little notepad with a checklist for symptoms of OCD and had me fill it out. 4 out of 5 symptoms fit me. I've accepted the fact that I have my mother's OCD tendencies... frequent checking, the need to be reassured, paralyzing fear of making mistakes, tendency to replay failures over and over in my head, and the odd need to " feel " symmetrical... (If one hand gets cold/wet, the other has to... if one arm touches a strange texture, the other has to...) But it doesn't feel like that has anything to do with the 4s. Unfortunately, I couldn't adequately express the difference to him. He thinks it's a matter of " obsession " with those sounds... I guess I couldn't get it through to him that the obsession is secondary to (and a result of) the way they make me feel. Anyway, he suggested getting on " Luvox " , a med similar to what I'm on but better for OCD. So I was curious, anybody have any success with this or other OCD medications? I know that the general consensus is that they do not help... but I'd be interested to read about your personal experiences with them and to get your opinions. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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