I tried Prozac but it didn’t help a lot and I found my gf so I didn’t want the sexual side effects, then after a lot of anxiety tried Lyrica and it worked decently for a bit less than a year but I think that now it doesn’t help that much (either because my circumstances are more anxiety inducing in general or because of tolerance).

There aren’t that many CBT therapists in my country either let alone ERP specialists (most are talk therapists or psychoanalysts). I’m not sure how much it would help anyways because I mainly have mental obsessions which might are more difficult to prevent.

What did you do in a similar position? Did you manage to find some semblance of inner peace? Thanks for your time

  • AdmiralDoohickey@lemmygrad.mlOP
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    11 months ago

    They didn’t recommend it. Sometimes I feel that while my doctor is much better than the psychiatrist horror stories I have heard, they wait too long to react to certain side effects I am having, or they aren’t very good at extracting that information out of me. I tried to reduce it because it made me extra sluggish this summer (every summer I become depressed and fatigued for whatever reason), and I couldn’t take it anymore so I reduced it on my own. They didn’t object to the decrease though, so that’s on them