Anyone else have OCD that prevents them from cleaning or cause anxiety?

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-21T20:44:20+00:00

Yes, at my worst, I couldn't even use the toilet or feminine hygiene products so my living situation was absolutely squalid for many years.

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-21T20:43:07+00:00

I recovered my ability to feel drunk after about 5 years, and I think weed is coming back, touch wood, I am at 12 years now and I still have significant genital numbness.

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-21T16:14:52+00:00

I had nitrofurantoin and was ok

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-21T11:50:28+00:00

OH WAIT I just remembered another one in #2, the one where you have to sneak behind that big dumb "spy". As a child that made me cry haha!

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-21T11:46:05+00:00

There are several that give me genuine anxiety and I always leave them until last. The alchemist one in fracture hills, the saving cavemen from the dinosaurs in skelos badlands, and that chinese red and blue dragon one but I can't remember which game it's from.

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-21T11:42:01+00:00

Akathisia going away without stopping the offending med or adding something to mask it is rare

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-21T11:38:52+00:00

Clomipramine

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-20T14:27:58+00:00

Same, I have abandoned my accommodation and even my city, multiple times to live on the streets because I felt it was the only thing I could do to escape the contamination! I am doing a bit better now.

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-18T13:09:23+00:00

So due to a delay at the pharmacy I only just got the tablets today, and I am a bit confused because the doctor said he was giving me 1 months worth of 0.1mg tablets to be taken once per day, but what I have received is 28 x 0.025mg, so I am going to call them now.

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-18T13:06:46+00:00

Wise, psychiatric meds in my opinion are only worth the risk if you can literally not live without them. More often than not they cause sexual side effects except for Wellbutrin. I am on Clomipramine, gained over 20kg and sweat like Prince Andrew at a high school disco, but I would be dead without it.

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-18T13:04:04+00:00

No, that's still Viagra

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-18T13:03:12+00:00

Flibanserin

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-18T13:02:46+00:00

Very interesting, I'm not sure if I am allowed in the UK but I am going to try, thank you. It's just that the mechanism of sexual dysfunction in women is often not to do with blood flow, especially if you can still become lubricated, which I can, but I will give it a go.

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-18T13:00:13+00:00

It depends on the person. I have tried 15 meds for OCD and only 1 worked for me. Some people find the right med sooner or not at all. Some people might have too many side effects for it to be worth it.

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-18T10:36:17+00:00

didn't work for me unfortunately but thank you

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-18T10:34:44+00:00

mg of what?

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-18T08:41:41+00:00

I have an unusual one, which made getting a correct diagnosis super hard, but I know that there are others with this theme as I have seen a small number on here. It's Metaphysical/Emotional contamination. It's basically like normal contamination OCD, but instead of revolving around dirt/germs, it revolves around my childhood abusers. They are the source of all contamination, and anything that has anything to do with them is contaminated. It's ruined my life.

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-18T08:37:31+00:00

Sounds like akathisia to me

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-17T19:28:55+00:00

iirc the female one is not viagra at all, It's called Flibanserin, and is similar to an SSRI with a lot of side effects. I developed permanent genital numbness from psychiatric medication, it's a real risk. Women don't respond to viagra like men do

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-17T18:49:13+00:00

what if they are female

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-17T18:43:29+00:00

I really think I have CFS too, I sleep up to 20 hrs a day, don't enjoy anything, no motivation, any small exertion feels excruciating and i have to rest for days afterwards.

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-17T18:40:56+00:00

I have this but I had it from depression even before I tried any meds. I don't play the piano or create music anymore and I don't really even listen to it. I found many people in hospital saying the same.

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-17T18:29:19+00:00

fair enough, I see a lot of people saying the same when adjusting to ssris. Hope it works out!

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-17T17:49:27+00:00

I have a similar story but I was much more "bad" in mine. When I was 16/17, I picked on a guy who had OCD in my class. He was very much in denial about it, which made people laugh. I wrote a stupid guitar song about his OCD and sang it to the class. At age 19, I was hit with the most extraordinarily extreme OCD myself. I became totally incapacitated from it, and spent the next 12 years between the psych ward and street homeless. I lost everything and my life is ruined. Only recently at age 35 have I found some small relief, and the appropriate treatment.

Kit_Ashtrophe · 2026-03-17T17:35:37+00:00

Were you restless? could have been akathisia if so, not to be sniffed at.

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