Hello Latasha, I am new here too..I don't know if I've come to the right place, but hopefully I have. A few hours ago I called the doctor for the very first time so that I can go there and get a prescription for Paxil. I've read up on it and it seems that it's the right one for me...If anyone wants to respond to this please do, that's why I'm writing for responses on other's thoughts..anyway when I was about 10 years old I began with the counting, everything had to be done 3 times. If I dropped a fork once, I had to pick it up and do it twice more, to make it 3. That is my earliest memory of OCD for me. Then it went away for a while besides checking the stove/iron etc...but nothing too crazy that I couldn't handle..until I had my son at 19. After that I began with the anxiety and depression, then with the OCD again...The OCD is the one thing that I can't handle because it bothers the people close to me. My husband doesn't know what's wrong with me yet, I guess until my doctors appointment, but he just thinks I'm a big nag...all I do is ask him questions and then ask them again for reassurance...especially things about the past which I normally don't care about, but all the sudden I do, and even though I know it will cause an argument if I ask the question, I still have to ask it or else it will not go away in my mind unti it is answered. Then once the question is answered either Ill ask it again or I'll ask a similar question which stemed off the first question. The longer that I keep the question in my mind without asking, the more questions build up around it and the more reassurance I need in the end. So it's easier to just ask the one question so that I can somehow put it out of my mind...does this make any sense??? I know it doesn't but does it sound familiar to anyone?? The other things that I have are anxiety and depression but those are not as bad and are tolerable for now. I've learned how to deal with them on my own thank god. If anyone has any comments on this please help..thanks!
