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Posted by your#1fan on December 3, 2007, at 0:33:58
Well its late at night like usall when i post ROFL!
well through out the day, i tell you i have ADHD mixed with OCD. Do you know how hard that is? your messy, you forget stuff, but then you obsess about thinking about it. Do you know how insane im driving myself.
I have to get stuff done, but then i have a lowered attention span, and i sit, i think i need to do it, i get up and do it, and just get clustered thinking.
I think if i just took a straight psychostimulant it would make me, calmer, but still obessive (even though i saw a test one time about dexamphetamine is good for OCD)
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/160/1/183 ..... wierd huh?I think Luvox, would be good for me. I have heard its good for anxiety. Prozac is the most nuerotic making medication i have been on. It worked wonders over the summer, got me back, got a social life going. The reason i take it is because it gives me energy, and some mood levelization.
Lithium for OCD i dont think would work.
I just get obessesed, i cant sleep, and at the same time i cannot focus.
Any suggestion, are there any therpists here?
super fan
Posted by Racer on December 3, 2007, at 1:27:09
In reply to Ok listen, i have messy OCD., posted by your#1fan on December 3, 2007, at 0:33:58
What you have described sure sounds like bipolar, rather than any mix of ADHD and OCD. You're not taking a good mix of medication to treat bipolar.
Besides, what was mentioned earlier -- that diagnosis is not nearly as important as finding the proper medication to treat your symptoms -- is good advice.
Honestly -- rather than trying to diagnose yourself and choose your own medications, how about talking to your doctor about your symptoms and letting him prescribe appropriate medication? I suspect you asked for Deplin, which you're not finding is not to your liking. Maybe if you allowed your doctor to treat you, your symptoms could get under control?
Additionally, perhaps a therapist could help you explore why you seem to feel a need to collect diagnoses? Wouldn't it be much more entertaining to go out and live your life, rather than spend so much time exploring new diagnostic criteria to meet?
Good luck.
Posted by foreigner on December 3, 2007, at 5:05:27
In reply to I don't think this is OCD » your#1fan, posted by Racer on December 3, 2007, at 1:27:09
Racer; why you think he's bipolar?
I have same symptoms and my obsessions are increasing when I think I have very limited time to do something. Try to think you have a lot of time to do everything and don't force yourself much. Read some east phlosophy books not depression treatment books. And get a good anxiolytic plus mood stabiliser antidepresant, not prozac.
Posted by polarbear206 on December 3, 2007, at 8:05:25
In reply to I don't think this is OCD » your#1fan, posted by Racer on December 3, 2007, at 1:27:09
Racer is one of those I told you that has given you good advice that you need to take seriously! Your mood cycling will get worse over time, thus harder to treat. Give Lithium a try. You can try taking it at a lower dose or with another mood stabilizer.
PB
Posted by BetterDays on December 3, 2007, at 8:46:56
In reply to Ok listen, i have messy OCD., posted by your#1fan on December 3, 2007, at 0:33:58
Hi #1Fan,
I have been following your threads and wanted to provide you the meds I use for anxiety / OCD / Bi Polar II leaning more towards getting overly excited vs depressed.
After much trial and error, here is what worked for me.
Paxil - for anxiety / OCD
Lamictal - OCD, over excitement
Trazadone - for sleepThis cocktail has worked extremely well and has enabled me to live relatively anxiety / OCD free without zapping my energy. It has also helped me with concentration and focus.
Just a thought.
Posted by Phillipa on December 3, 2007, at 11:28:43
In reply to Re: Ok listen, i have messy OCD)#1 Fan, posted by BetterDays on December 3, 2007, at 8:46:56
I'd hope you don't want luvox cause I take it. You have mentioned your pdoc is very old. Now I know you are very young so no idea what old is to you. Maybe a consult and psychological testing with a new pdoc? Have you thought of that? Phillipa
Posted by seldomseen on December 3, 2007, at 11:47:08
In reply to Re: Ok listen, i have messy OCD)#1 Fan, posted by BetterDays on December 3, 2007, at 8:46:56
that is the exact cocktail that my mom takes for her bipolar/ocd and is really has helped her too.
I think there is a lot of searching around for meds that has to be done.
Seldom.
Posted by Maxime on December 3, 2007, at 18:47:25
In reply to I don't think this is OCD » your#1fan, posted by Racer on December 3, 2007, at 1:27:09
I agree with Racer ... you are cycling right now. You need a mood stabiliser. Do you even know what OCD is? Because what you describe is not OCD.
I hope one day you will actually take the advice of people here and get on a mood stabiliser and start therapy.
Maxime
Posted by bleauberry on December 3, 2007, at 19:15:48
In reply to Ok listen, i have messy OCD., posted by your#1fan on December 3, 2007, at 0:33:58
I agree with Racer.
Other than that, all I have to say is...
Zyprexa. If there is any one pill out there that I am experienced with that has a very strong likelihood of crushing your symptoms extremely fast, like on day 1, and at the same time goes with prozac like milk and cookies, it is zyprexa.
Posted by your#1fan on December 3, 2007, at 23:30:16
In reply to Re: Ok listen, i have messy OCD)#1 Fan, posted by BetterDays on December 3, 2007, at 8:46:56
well........i always post usally at night, i have alot of danm school work to do but i get on here because people took there time to write me, and i want to write them back.
Some...thing......happened tonight with my parents that got really out of hand. Oh god, but i cant tell much. It was just a really, I cant put anymore personal information. I just tonight, i got everything done thats was on my mind, and this situation, well "roughness" happened tonihgt. I feel bad, but it always seems that im the one that is has the finger pointed out too.....
You know at least i have some advice., but sometimes poster here are just a little rough.
Well ill tell you, i do have some hypomanic symtoms. Tending towards.... I havent read all the responses, let me go read more.
Something just tore me up tongight im going to do my best to respond. To everyone.
Posted by your#1fan on December 3, 2007, at 23:41:25
In reply to I don't think this is OCD » your#1fan, posted by Racer on December 3, 2007, at 1:27:09
i do agree, thought duplin would work better for me, it just gives me a little boost of energy.
Im really tired tongight, i feel my eyes are burning...but that dosent matter, anyways! back what you where saying... i dont think, i know that i have been diagnosed hypomanic one time, and i have bascially been ADHD all my life. Its just when im thinking i go obsessed with things, but im messy about it, im obsessed, but im scatter brained at the time.
Oh, "Wouldn't it be much more entertaining to go out and live your life, rather than spend so much time exploring new diagnostic criteria to meet?"
whoa, listen, the reason im thinking is because im losing keys all the time, and i mean alot, like if i go to an amusmant park i will get lost! lose things, forget what ride im on, my head spinning too much! ROFL! people see how funny it is for me to handle some life...(its not for me). I dont want to anyazy my whole life i live, but right now i need to.
so yes the quality of life for me he right now is not that great... but i apprieate you telling get out of my box im in! its just this box is like a glass cieling. But no! i can break that glass!
Thanks...
your#1fan
Posted by your#1fan on December 3, 2007, at 23:47:31
In reply to Re: I don't think this is OCD, posted by foreigner on December 3, 2007, at 5:05:27
i do have some bipolar symptoms, but there not exactly severe, many people think i am. I really truly believe i am ADHD, result in anxiety, then reaction ..... cause = effect, kinda get it?
If i didnt think like this, i wouldnt be this way....
Its the way my mind thinks, but it aleady has its own actions, losing things, randomly saying things on my mind.
Thanks
Posted by your#1fan on December 3, 2007, at 23:53:02
In reply to Re: I don't think this is OCD, posted by polarbear206 on December 3, 2007, at 8:05:25
at this point, im losing my keys all the time. I think really its a way my operates...absent..kind of. That why im so frustrated with myself. Lithium would flatten my mood, and i would still be the same, just not as "exitement" or reaction to it. Like i wouldnt really flip out if had a paper, and obsess about get getting it done, or i would just be like "oh well" i lost my keys.
Kinda see, it would lessen my exitement in life.
but still my doctor going to decide. I tell him my difficties like no other....
I have been on Respirdal before. It was awful! not exited about anything.
Thanks
fan
Posted by your#1fan on December 3, 2007, at 23:58:59
In reply to Re: Ok listen, i have messy OCD)#1 Fan, posted by BetterDays on December 3, 2007, at 8:46:56
Thank you!
Trazadone..
been on trazodrill, knocks you clear out until the next afternood? ROFL! i cant get up the next morning.I have considere Lamicatal many times, but really lithium is maybe done....
Paxil! ahhh! paxil is stonger than prozac.... i would be all over the place.
Thanks, and if you could maybe babblemail me, could you tell me your symtoms on bipolar 2 so, ill have some insight... that up to you.
But thanks for the infomation.
your fan
Posted by your#1fan on December 4, 2007, at 0:01:35
In reply to Re: Ok listen, i have messy OCD)#1 Fan, posted by Phillipa on December 3, 2007, at 11:28:43
phillipa what is luvox like? i dont think i would really go on it.... but it has been recommened to me.
By the way im tear my mind out tonight to post back to each of yall..thank you all!
Phillipa i havent been on email.
But im still your#1fan
Posted by your#1fan on December 4, 2007, at 0:03:51
In reply to Re: Ok listen, i have messy OCD)#1 Fan, posted by seldomseen on December 3, 2007, at 11:47:08
thanks. My coctail right now is kind, needs to be redone.
your#1fan
Posted by your#1fan on December 4, 2007, at 0:08:29
In reply to Re: I don't think this is OCD » Racer, posted by Maxime on December 3, 2007, at 18:47:25
maxime, thanks for your insight.
I already take a mood stabilizer...zyprexa.Too low of a dose 2.5mg. maxime i take all advice in hand...i make sure my current post are responeded too. I do understand your trying to be "direct"
Its just, if you read my response to racer's post. You'll see why im seeking out out advice.Thanks, sorry i always usally post at night, im really sick tonight, i cant think of what to say.
But thanks for posting...and you stay in there.
Your#1fan
Posted by your#1fan on December 4, 2007, at 0:13:11
In reply to Re: Ok listen, i have messy OCD. » your#1fan, posted by bleauberry on December 3, 2007, at 19:15:48
I have been in for a almost a year, maybe i need to increase the dose. Big time. Higher doses make me alot less motivated with life. Im so tired right now from something that happened, and classes today. Abilify..no thanks.
Im sorry your last one im resonding too but not the least! very good poster. Helped me alot. Im just about to faint im so tired right now.
Thanks.
Your#1fan
Posted by your#1fan on December 4, 2007, at 0:16:01
In reply to Re: blueberry and zyprexa, posted by your#1fan on December 4, 2007, at 0:13:11
im about to pass out now..ROFL! its late.
Posted by Phillipa on December 4, 2007, at 18:10:47
In reply to Re: thanks everyone..., posted by your#1fan on December 4, 2007, at 0:16:01
Luvox is the most sedating SSRI and the only one I've had no side effects from. Phillipa
Posted by your#1fan on December 4, 2007, at 22:46:36
In reply to Re: thanks everyone... » your#1fan, posted by Phillipa on December 4, 2007, at 18:10:47
thanks...
Posted by elanor roosevelt on December 4, 2007, at 22:48:41
In reply to Ok listen, i have messy OCD., posted by your#1fan on December 3, 2007, at 0:33:58
i am borderline ocd but stepped right over that line when i took luvox
i think you might try some behavioral moves
write realistic lists and cross things out as you go along
make sure that every night your surroundings are at least a little bit neater than they were when you got up
it's annoying as all out but little steps sometimes get the momentum going
Posted by Racer on December 5, 2007, at 1:31:24
In reply to luvox, posted by elanor roosevelt on December 4, 2007, at 22:48:41
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