Click Here Repeatedly http://www.crazyboards.org/forums/index.php Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:16:16 +0000 60 http://www.crazyboards.org/forums/index.php/topic/33945-found-another-bald-patch/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:16:16 +0000 http://www.crazyboards.org/forums/index.php/topic/33945-found-another-bald-patch/ http://www.crazyboards.org/forums/index.php/topic/33807-bipolar-and-obsessive-counting/ So, i have bipolar I, and obsessive compulsive disorder (symmetry and counting by fours). ive found that my counting obsessions have been getting more and more noticeable and bothersome since my pdoc took me off my mood stabilizer. ive been getting more manic and going into mixed episodes and i was just wondering if its normal for the OCD to get worse? Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:26:58 +0000 http://www.crazyboards.org/forums/index.php/topic/33807-bipolar-and-obsessive-counting/ http://www.crazyboards.org/forums/index.php/topic/33767-medicating-ocd-in-schizoaffective/
My OCD runs along the line of "if i don't finish this task (e.g. filing these charts, studying this paragraph etc) by the time X happens (e.g. the commercials on the TV finish, my mother comes into my room) then X will happen (e.g. I will go insane, fail all my exams, the dog will die etc)"

It applies to virtually every situation in my life and is driving me mad.

I have schizoaffective bipolar type. My p-doc wants me off Prozac (I'm on 40mgs) because he likes all his lithium patients to be SSRI free and plus he thinks SSRIs make them manic (probably true) but WHAT ABOUT MY OCD?

The p-doc told me to put the Prozac down to 20mg but it got so out of control I had my GP put me back up to 40mg. The p-doc does ot know about this.

I need an SSRI for the OCD or else something else.

Plus I have another embarrassing problem.

I am an erotomanic. I get obsessions about men - I fall in love with famous men or men in authority and believe they love me back. This has been going on my entire life and is very painful for me. The last time it was my p-doc which made it even worse.

I need an SSRI to suppress my libido and these obsessions with men. I am honestly happier with no libido.

So bearing in mind the OCD and erotomania, which would be the best medicines to control these symptom,s bearing in mind I am schizoaffective (bipolar type)

Any help would be appreciated and thanks for reading this

blackbird x]]> Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:56:13 +0000 http://www.crazyboards.org/forums/index.php/topic/33767-medicating-ocd-in-schizoaffective/ http://www.crazyboards.org/forums/index.php/topic/33548-compulsion-tic-im-a-little-confused/
Anywho, sometimes I will just randomly spell things. I wont be anxious and I wont obsess over the word. I just spell a random word spoken with my index finger in the air or on my leg (or with my toe on the floor).

Is this still considered a compulsion? Or is this a tic?

I have a long history with tics. And I know tics (specifically Tourettes Syndrome) and OCD are commonly comorbid.

Just wondering is there was such thing as written echolalia. Heh.

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I'm currently taking Effexor, and it seems to have helped. I don't want to take it for more than a few years, given the Bipolar thing. Plus the fewer meds I can live with, the better I think.

My therapist of two and a half years is trained in primarily person-centered therapy. We do a lot of talking. It's helpful for regular-life stuff, but it hasn't been very helpful for the obsessions. I don't want to fire her considering how long I've been seeing her, but I could use some help with the obsessiveness that I don't think I'm going to get from her.

So, do you think self-help things would make a difference (e.g. OCD Workbook)? I don't honestly know how bad my issues are. I mean, I can go to work, take care of kiddo, take care of myself, etc. I was just pretty miserable pre-Effexor. I couldn't sleep all that well because of thoughts that wouldn't leave my head, I'd find myself weeping uncontrollably in my shower because of thoughts that wouldn't leave my head, I used to self-harm to get the thoughts to leave my head...you get the idea. I function OK, but I could be better.

So, self-help and my current therapist or self-help w/ CBT?]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:28:48 +0000 http://www.crazyboards.org/forums/index.php/topic/33522-how-much-can-i-accomplish-on-my-own/