Doctors: Diagnosis of Depression

freebie_junkie

sorry that was well long

abbieken888

Just wanted to say thanks for all your replies, really means alot to me
Just got back from the docs, got some new tabs to try, will give them ago.

I just hope I feel better soon, I am really struggling to work feeling like this.

Sorry its such a short reply, feeling a bit down today.

Thanks

PS Hope freebie_junkie and Turning_into_scrooge both feel better soon

turnitaround_3

freebie_junkie wrote:

sorry that was well long

Don't worry about it :-) You're fine :-)

Will tell you this though, I bet your house is spotless ;-) We have an OCD friend who used to do our gardening, and he got paid for it too. :j

This may sound silly but it's me trying to drag you out of this. Try and look into doing an accounting course if you could. There are simply certain jobs that those with OCD would be totally suited to. I know this is barely skimming the surface but it could be turned to your advantage.

Stick in there xx

abbieken888

Zziggi wrote:

Well i don't have OCD but expect people to remove their shoes when coming into my house - especially with toddlers crawling around the place. I thought it was common curtosey to do this, and i certainlly do this everywhere i go. I really would have thought a CPN would have been more sensitive.

Sorry... very OT!

Zziggi

Deffo agree, I ALWAYS take my shoes off. Would expect people to do the same in my house. Its just one of those things isn't it?

patchwork_cat

I really feel that if the cpn wasn't prepared to help by taking her shoes off she probably wouldn't have helped as she obviously didn't understand. I get OCD, but strangely enough only when i am pregnant- needless to say after no 2 my husband had the snip!

People don't understand how hard it is for the sufferer- I know that it is hard on the people they live with, but it is 10 times harder for the suffer.

Have you had proxac as they are recommended at 3 a day for OCD sufferers?

Have you contacted the phobics society?

To abbieken888 I hope that you feel better soon. It may be that when you find the right medication you may have to accept that you will take it for a while. Did you tell the Dr what tablets you used to have (if they helped)?

abbieken888

patchwork_cat wrote:

To abbieken888 I hope that you feel better soon. It may be that when you find the right medication you may have to accept that you will take it for a while. Did you tell the Dr what tablets you used to have (if they helped)?

Thanks Patchwork Cat
I used to be on seroxat, and they did not agree with me. Up till recently I didn't want to go back to the docs, as My childhood doctor wasn't terrible good. I was on/off seroxat about 7 times, and he never noticed that they made me work. Gonna give these new ones ago - really need them to kick in soon - I don't want to have to give up my job :-(

freebie_junkie

patchwork_cat wrote:

Have you had proxac as they are recommended at 3 a day for OCD sufferers?

i did try it but they litewrally turned me into a zombie all i did all day and night was sit on the sofa worrying and have showers, my fella had to come round and make me eat and do all my washing, (as i was chnging clothes loads of times in a day!) and clean my flat and it was awful!

im managing to to it mayself, really, at teh mo im working on my last big obsession which is really hard but im getting there slowly but surely. and i feel good about myself for it, as my mate tom put it "OCD is now your b**ch who you put in a drawer and take out once in a while to smack up!"

what you said baout pregnancy worries me too coz im only 22 now but i do want to have a baby before im 30 and id be so worried about getting PND or my OCD coming back and not being bale to cope coz i get very worried about bodily functions, lets say! and a baby has a lot!

good luck and i hope you fell better soon to everyone who uis goinf through a tough time now

freebie_junkie

abbieken888 wrote:

Deffo agree, I ALWAYS take my shoes off. Would expect people to do the same in my house. Its just one of those things isn't it?

yeah i was brought up to do that, my mum physically recoils if she see someone on tv walk around with their shoes on or put their shoes up on a bed or a sofa!

freebie_junkie

turnitaround wrote:

Don't worry about it :-) You're fine :-)

Will tell you this though, I bet your house is spotless ;-) We have an OCD friend who used to do our gardening, and he got paid for it too. :j

This may sound silly but it's me trying to drag you out of this. Try and look into doing an accounting course if you could. There are simply certain jobs that those with OCD would be totally suited to. I know this is barely skimming the surface but it could be turned to your advantage.

Stick in there xx

well i have dyspraxia too so i kinda have the advantage of seeing in 3d and being able to visualise text etc. so im doing creative writing, im methodical but cvant handle numbers very well!

im dragging myself out of it at the mo working on my last big obsession that stops me from working and being at uni full-time, so i can be full-time at uni asap, which at the earliest is feb 2007 coz ive already done one half of my second year part time and have to obviously finish it part time, (oh and i was a feb start!)

i know whta im gonna do once i graduate its a post grad in adult literacy coz i reckon with my experiences of homelessness, learning difficulties and ocd and still managing to get a degree at teh same time id be a good example and also id be able to empathise with people better i reckon thats pretty worthwhile myself- my little sister tinks the only career thats worthwhile is being famous- thank god i dont live with hewr anymore i can only cope with her in samll doses! hehe!

patchwork_cat

Freebie Junkie - well done for managing it yourself - I couldn't. You know what was strange was I never met anyone who had an OCD so directly related to pregnancy as me and the moment the babies were born I was fine.

Having read the phobic soceity's page on OCD too I realise that I had elements of it even as a child to a very small degree - so did my brother.

I say that I am fine but when I am tired some elements do occasionally come out, but I ,like you, talk sternly to myself and won't let them out of their box!