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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…