hi KT, we only hope that you are on your way up, but sometimes that's what we want to hear, but this may not be the case or perhaps we try and kid ourselves, because your intrusive thoughts will not allow this to happen, there is always a doubt that you will keep asking yourself, will it happen or won't it happen, that's what OCD does to us.
Once you feel stressed then these thoughts will dominate your thinking, but if you are able to keep them under control then your stress will only get better.
By having depression and anxiety is awful, because I've been through it several times, but with this there can be another part to this which only complicates the issue and that's by having OCD, so you have to understand people can not figure out why we have these compulsions, obsessions or habits and believe that we can stop doing them, but quite to the contrary, we can't, sometimes it's impossible and times where you can have CBT which may reduce it, plus medication the doctors believe will reduce the behaviours we get, maybe for some it might, but with me I still have it even with medication.
You have to realise that with depression it controls your mind/mood just as OCD does, and the more stressed you are the worse it is.
The medication I take is for my depression and it is supposed to help with anxiety, that is OCD, but it doesn't obviate it, and for some with mild OCD it may do so, but yes I will be taking it for the restof my life, and with my intrusive thoughts, I know that they are not going to happen after all these years, and now take them as being a pest and tell myself not to be silly, because after 56 years none of them have come true.
Please I hope that you get back to me and ask me any question. Geoff.
