I Have Obsessive Compulsive. Really Bad. I Have To Have Everything Colour Coded, In Alphabetical Order, Or In Size. I Am Usually Good At Controlling It. But Sometimes I Just Can't. I Get Compulsions To Press Certain Things Or Do Certain Things If I Think Of Them For To Long, Or I Erase A Whole Sentence If I've Made A Spelling Mistake. It Takes Hours To Write Things :(. I Tried To Tell My Parents [By Letting My Strictness On Keeping It Quiet Down, And Doing Things The Way I Really Wanted Them ] But My Twenty Year Old Sister Decided To Take It As A Joke And Started Copying Me, And Re-Arranging Things As If To Say That 'I Have Obsessive Compulsion Too!!!' She Actually Said To Me On Day After I Had Just Finished Doing The Living Room All Nice And Neat, And After She Had Suddenly Decided That The Bathroom Needed Cleaning She Said 'OCD Much. I Think That Your Just Being Silly, You Didn't Need To Clean The Room, It Was Fine, But I Get The Actual Compulsions To Do It!' I Went And Cried In My Room For Ages! My Parents Will NEVER Believe Me, What Can I Do???
Q: I Have OCD
Hello Pauline,
I'm an EX OCD SUFFERER. I had horrible ocd . every second i had a hundred of obsessive thoughts that came to my mind. I was obsessed with almost all kind of things that a human being could be obsessed with. Thousands and thousands of obsessions ....
I took zoloft (sertraline) for over a year at a dosage of 200 mg and believe me, i was completely cured. I don't have anymore any obsessive thought.
I read on the internet articles about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), but for me , i never tried it. As long as i was taking zoloft, the impact of the obsessive thoughts on my mind was getting lighter , lighter .... and at the end i was feeling them as normal thoughts: They couldn't bother me anymore and that's how i started forgetting them.
It's something normal that such thoughts will come to the mind of a person, but an ocd sufferer would give them more importance then he should ( he didn't choose to give them such importance but this disease forces him fo feel like that).
Actually , i don't know what's OCD. It's something like a bad dream that i had.
I was cured by taking one drug with the appropriate dosage.
zoloft was the first drug i tried and i worked for me.
I read that if one drug didn't work, another drug will do the job.
I hope that this will help you.
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