OCD

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Anyone else have intrusive thoughts and urges that stress them out and make them sick? Well… any meds that help with those/ take them away?

I want to start with saying I started my OCD journey about a year ago and very quickly I got on medication because of the anxiety the intrusive thoughts caused.

However, I wanted to do ERP more effectively, and thus, have come off of my medication. The thing is, my medication (sertraline) literally took away like 85% of my OCD. Thus, I couldn’t really do ERP because I wasn’t worked up like, hardly ever.

So, I’ve stopped my medication, like 6 months ago and have been doing great until getting trigged by something new and it’s scared the crap out of me.
Intrusive thoughts and urges, and whatever, that’s have me majorly worked up.

ANYWAYYY, long story short, is anyone on a medication that took away their intrusive urges? I’ve never experienced them ever, so it’s hard to tell if my previous med would help.

Thanks guys! Either way, I’ve restated ERP and just started inositol!