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OCD and therapy | by dennismv | 2008-07-10 18:42:25 |
| OCD is real |
by oot |
2008-07-10 19:26:41 |
If you and your doctors think you have it, you probably do.
Meds are one option to treat it. Therapy is another.
Meds reduce symptoms when you're on them. Therapy (especially CBT) can help you learn to manage symptoms permanently.
You can just do therapy. Therapy is a permanent solution -- once you learn to manage your symptoms, you'll always know how (even though the symptoms won't necessarily go away completely). Therapy takes a while to help.
You can just do meds. Meds help right away, but they stop helping if you stop taking them.
If you need relief right now, but don't want to continue to manage your condition with meds long-term, you can just use meds until your therapy has made you able to manage your condition without meds. If you go this route, you should ask your physician for a medication that is easy to taper off of when the time comes (some are more difficult than others -- do your own research on this subject, if your doc is a GP and not a psychiatrist he may not know).
If your symptoms are really bad, you might need meds to reduce them and therapy to help you manage them, and you might stay on meds long-term to keep your symptoms down to a manageable level.
Those are the four options most people with OCD face. It's up to YOU, as the patient, which route to take. Don't let other peoples' opinions sway you -- you know what's in your head, they don't. |
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