How do I battle OCD & depression @ the same time with cleanliness & dirtiness?!
Question: How do I battle OCD & depression @ the same time with cleanliness & dirtiness!?
Most of the time, I don't have ANY energy!. It's even a struggle to get out of bed to go to the bathroom!. I find myself taking a shower, brushing my teeth, wash/comb hair once a week or every 2 weeks!. I know this is not normal!. I'm too depressed to properly take care of myself!. I wish for a bath & to be clean every day, but I just can't get myself to do it!. No energy!. & then, when I DO shower, I feel exhausted, & I faint, & my heart starts beating fast, I get dizzy & overworked & overheated!. & people tell me I stink!. (of course I do)!. I know I do, & I hate it!. I hate smelling awful!. I hate neglecting my daily hygiene!. I hate living like this!. I don't even have the energy to THINK properly!. It feels like I'm mentally dying slowly!. I take 300 mg of Wellbutrin, & I'm STILL sluggish & depressed!
I know it's situational!. I'm depressed because of my financial circumstance!. Employers refuse to hire me because it's evident to them that I appear to be retarded!. I suffer Tourette's!. I feel like my college degree went to waste!. My entire LIFE is a waste! Plus, I'm a social outcast because people say I don't conform to the norm of society!. Well, I'm not a follower!. I just be myself!. I'm shy, I'm a loner, & I have social anxiety!. I suffer OCD, Tourette's, anxiety, & depression!. I DO have obsessions & compulsions!. But people think that OCD is all about cleanliness!. It's a struggle that I wish to be clean, but my depression overtakes my wish to be clean & fresh, & people think I don't have OCD!. I have the hoarding, the checking, the intrusive thoughts, etc!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I know it's situational!. I'm depressed because of my financial circumstance!. Employers refuse to hire me because it's evident to them that I appear to be retarded!. I suffer Tourette's!. I feel like my college degree went to waste!. My entire LIFE is a waste! Plus, I'm a social outcast because people say I don't conform to the norm of society!. Well, I'm not a follower!. I just be myself!. I'm shy, I'm a loner, & I have social anxiety!. I suffer OCD, Tourette's, anxiety, & depression!. I DO have obsessions & compulsions!. But people think that OCD is all about cleanliness!. It's a struggle that I wish to be clean, but my depression overtakes my wish to be clean & fresh, & people think I don't have OCD!. I have the hoarding, the checking, the intrusive thoughts, etc!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
get new medication, go to your doctor and get new medication and start eating healthy!. get some vitamins and go out and exercise!. get better and go out and get a job that you like and love!. don't let OCD control you!. try to find a job that you qualify for but doesn't allow you to be readily scrutinized!. depression has a lot to do with your situation and you've got think positive and take things one step at a time!. don't try to change your world all in one day!.
1) get new medication
2) get yourself together and get the job you want and love otherwise it is a complete waste of your time
3) get out and excercise, eat healthy get some vitamins so that you have more energy
4) think positive always because thinking negaitve doesn't help you or anything you want to accomplish
i wish you the best, take things one step at a time and slowly but surely things will get betterWww@Answer-Health@Com
1) get new medication
2) get yourself together and get the job you want and love otherwise it is a complete waste of your time
3) get out and excercise, eat healthy get some vitamins so that you have more energy
4) think positive always because thinking negaitve doesn't help you or anything you want to accomplish
i wish you the best, take things one step at a time and slowly but surely things will get betterWww@Answer-Health@Com
It sounds like Wellbutrin isn't the right med for you!. (It sure as hell wasn't for me either! That was the most hopeless and depressed I had EVER felt!) I don't know if Wellbutrin was the first line your doc tried, or if you have (like me) been on the "Try this one!. No!? Try this one!. No, again!? Then, try this one!.!.!." regimen!. But if it is the first, definitely talk to your doc about trying something else!. My doc is great, he was willing to keep trying as long as I was (am)!. In most cases (from talking to friends) that's just how this game is played!. It's REALLY tiresome!
It took me a couple of years to get my shizzle straight(er)!. (I'm still a work in progress!.!.!.) I have social anxiety, mild OCD and RAGING ADD (inattentive)!. At the time I decided to get help, I was going down the road of panic disorder, looking at ruining another perfectly good relationship (with my current girlfriend) and beginning to realize that I was becoming depressed and hopeless about living in my mental mess!.
It was really difficult and frustrating to get to the point where I am today!. Probably enough on its own to put me in therapy!. But I just kept playing the "guinea pig" and "giving it another shot"!. If your doc isn't willing to play this game FIND ANOTHER ONE!. Also, as one of my friends put it, "I don't think there is anyone who wouldn't benefit from therapy"!. It's pretty scary and humbling to open up completely to a total stranger, but it really works!.
I know how tired you must be!. No one seems to realize how absolutely exhausting mental illness can be!. (It's REALLY easy to judge; looking in from the outside!) But you have got to start exercising!. At first, your mental fatigue will be telling you the opposite, but in short order, you will begin to gain mental and physical energy (it'll probably also force you to shower! lol)!.
Long story short:
Try therapy (if you haven't) and be brutally, tearfully honest!. It's MUCH easier than it sounds!
As far as meds go - keep trying something else!. Don't stop until your doc says so - then find another doc!.
EXERCISE! Find a park where you live, and go out and really pay attention to and experience nature - that always helps level me out!
Don't stop fighting for your mind!. When you give up, so will everyone else - that's the hardest part of all (IMHO)!.
Getting shortchanged from the start (like we have been) is complete crap!. But nothing feels better than going back to the counter and DEMANDING your money! You'll learn the tools you need in time, and probably be a very cool, understandingand likeable person because of it!.
Good luck! GO GET YOUR MONEY!!!Www@Answer-Health@Com
It took me a couple of years to get my shizzle straight(er)!. (I'm still a work in progress!.!.!.) I have social anxiety, mild OCD and RAGING ADD (inattentive)!. At the time I decided to get help, I was going down the road of panic disorder, looking at ruining another perfectly good relationship (with my current girlfriend) and beginning to realize that I was becoming depressed and hopeless about living in my mental mess!.
It was really difficult and frustrating to get to the point where I am today!. Probably enough on its own to put me in therapy!. But I just kept playing the "guinea pig" and "giving it another shot"!. If your doc isn't willing to play this game FIND ANOTHER ONE!. Also, as one of my friends put it, "I don't think there is anyone who wouldn't benefit from therapy"!. It's pretty scary and humbling to open up completely to a total stranger, but it really works!.
I know how tired you must be!. No one seems to realize how absolutely exhausting mental illness can be!. (It's REALLY easy to judge; looking in from the outside!) But you have got to start exercising!. At first, your mental fatigue will be telling you the opposite, but in short order, you will begin to gain mental and physical energy (it'll probably also force you to shower! lol)!.
Long story short:
Try therapy (if you haven't) and be brutally, tearfully honest!. It's MUCH easier than it sounds!
As far as meds go - keep trying something else!. Don't stop until your doc says so - then find another doc!.
EXERCISE! Find a park where you live, and go out and really pay attention to and experience nature - that always helps level me out!
Don't stop fighting for your mind!. When you give up, so will everyone else - that's the hardest part of all (IMHO)!.
Getting shortchanged from the start (like we have been) is complete crap!. But nothing feels better than going back to the counter and DEMANDING your money! You'll learn the tools you need in time, and probably be a very cool, understandingand likeable person because of it!.
Good luck! GO GET YOUR MONEY!!!Www@Answer-Health@Com