• DessertStorms@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Thanks for responding, and I’m glad they’re helping you! Being able to control the thoughts even some must make a real difference…

    I’ve been considering meds for a while, but I worry that they either won’t work or have some unexpected side effects that make life worse, hearing from people who actually use them helps in trying to ease those concerns…

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      1 year ago

      Not OCD, but ADHD. Otherwise same attitude towards rx drugs, especially since my parents opted against them when first recommended as a child.

      In my lucky case, it took 2 hours after taking the stimulant medicine my brain was lacking to maintain a coherence state (aka a flow state), for me to feel like the world’s greatest fool for having waited until I was in my 30s.

      The day is literally seared in my memory levels of life changing.

      Highly encourage you to discuss with your healthcare/psychiatry provider and strongly consider trying them. The side effects are often charted and entirely avoidable in many cases. The most important thing is a dialogue with a professional.

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        I appreciate your response and glad you found meds that work for you!

        I don’t know how this works with ADHD, but being autistic I know I am much more likely to experience side effects (as I have in the past when I tried different meds), so it might not be that easy to avoid or clear cut to prescribe in the first place, but yeah, the plan is to speak to a gp at some point, there just always seems to be something more urgent to be dealing with…