Ocd and anxiety

[zzdank]

Hi I just have a couple questions about ocd and anxiety. I have not gone to the doctor for my ocd i somtimes also get deppresed at night cannabis really helps but it is not a medicine i can take legally i want my doctor to give me somthing to help my depression and ocd. I have tried xanax and it is a ok medicne. My main question is what should i do about my deppresion and ocd i think they are related. Will the doctor prescribe my an antidepressant for my depression? I don't want to take anything daily unless it will improve my ocd and deppression. If there is such a thing. If not i want somthing i can take when i get depressed. Where should i start plz help thank you.

[Mechanix]

see a theropist about your ocd

smoke pot

if all else fails

off self

don't forget to knock on wood

[pauldiggity]

if all else fails

off self


This is not good advice at all, please don't joke around about suicide being a legitimate option for fixing something for which one has to be alive to experience... Dank, it is really important that you talk to a therapist like Mechanix suggested however don't give up if you don't feel better right away. I know from expierence that one doesn't aquire depression or OCD in one day, so there is no way that you can fix it in only one day. Sometimes it takes weeks, even up months to start seeing results. When I was at my worst with depression, I saw my therapist once a week, and he suggested using meds. I used them properly and I will soon no longer need them despite how helpful they were to me. It's good that you are addressing these issues! I wish you good luck.

[pauldiggity]

Plus every person is different so you may not need meds, it really just depends on what a professional in that field thinks. Second opinions are good sometimes too.:thumbsup:

[Coelho]

cannabis really helps but it is not a medicine i can take legally i want my doctor to give me somthing to help my depression and ocd.

Well... if weed helps you, why change it for pills? Only because its "legal"? Pills hardly will help you as well as cannabis. Most of them have worse side-effects than weed... im sure if you ask anybody here who sufered from depression they will say that weed is the best antidepressant...

By the way, just some minutes ago i did read some news about a research made by some scientists from UK, USA and canada, showing that most antidepressives only works in harder cases, and to most people only has placebo effects.
I tried to find some version of it in english but couldnt, so i will post here my best translation, and the link to the original text in portuguese. If anybody find it in english, please post it here! :thumbsup:

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Cientistas duvidam da efic�¡cia de antidepressivos - Yahoo! Not�cias (http://br.noticias.yahoo.com/s/26022008/40/entretenimento-cientistas-duvidam-da-eficacia-antidepressivos.html)



London, Feb 26 (EFE) - The new generation antidepressives doesnt work, except in graver cases, and in most patients it only have placebo effect.

This is the conclusion of a research made by scientists from UK, USA and Canada which examinated all the existing data about this kind of substances, even the clinical tests which the labs didnt divulge.

The manufacturers of Prozac and Seroxat, two of the worlds most sold antidepressives, showed, however, their disagreement with the results of this study.

One spokesman of the english lab GlaxoSmithKline, which manufactures the Seroxat, said to the press that the study has taken in account only a small segment of all available data, while the Eli Lilly, manufacturer of Prozac, said that the experience has showed its efficacy as antidepressant.

The scientists compared the effect in the patients which took antidepressants with the results obtained by who took placebo and discovered that the results were very much alike in the two groups.

The only exceptions were patients who suffered of graver depressions, explains professor Irving Kirsch, from the Psychology department of the University of Hull (England), which participated of the research.

However, it may have happened, according the scientists, because in this graver patients the placebo didnt work as well as in the ones which did took the medicine, and not because the antidepressants had any greater efect.

"Given the results, it seems there is not reasons to prescribe antidepressants, except to the patients who suffer of graver depresions and to the ones in who another methods failed", said Kirsch.

According him, people who suffers of depression "may recover without need of this kind of treatment".

For this research, published in the specialized publication "Public Library of Science", it were used the results of 47 clinical tests, and a series of inedit data due the brittanic legislation about freedom of information.

The conclusions of this research are valid to Prozac (fluoxetine), Seroxat (paroxetine), and similar substances as Effexor (venlafaxine) and Serzone (nefazodone).

According Tim Kendall, adjoint director of the Research division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the labs usually only publish the researches which shows thier products under a good light.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, from UK, advise the doctors to try another methods before to prescribe antidepressants.

Since its launching in USA in 1988, about 40 million persons did use the Prozac, givin billions of dollars to the lab Eli Lilly.

Even if its pattent has fallen in 2001, the active principle of Prozac, the fluoxetine, still gives money to this lab, as the same substance is also ingredient of Sarafem, a pill for PMS. EFE jr/wb/fb.

Dammit... translating is a hard work...

[zzdank]

Thaks for replying guys am not really deppresed that bad its just i think i have room for improvment. I smoke all the time buy it really is not good for anixety for me altho i still smoke. I think il try to go to a therapist and maybe try some meds for a bit.

[Immolation]

Thaks for replying guys am not really deppresed that bad its just i think i have room for improvment. I smoke all the time buy it really is not good for anixety for me altho i still smoke. I think il try to go to a therapist and maybe try some meds for a bit.


Hi, I have times like that.MJ is not always the best for Anxiety.Do call a Therapist.And keep calling if you have to.It will Help.:thumbsup:

[stinkyattic]

Mechanix, that is not something to joke about. Please see your user CP. Thank you.