Dr Saavedra diagnosed me with OCD and Depression about 6 weeks ago. In my research for OCD I found a site that deals with these two mental illness through homeopathy. Since one can take these products with any medicines that are currently being used I am first trying the OCD product called Compulsin. It seems to be working. Working so well that I slept with out the guard for my teeth grinding for the first time in a long time last night.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
OCD and Depression:My Life
I have been relatively quiet on the blog these last few weeks. Mainly assessing the diagnoses of my latest psychiatrist. And getting used to the drugs once again.
- Wellbutrin 300 mg
- anafranil 125 mg
- risperdal .5 Two times a day
- I am slowly pulling up and out of the depressive circular thought patterns. Slowly.
- What happens is that I find a thought and fixate on it, make it a scary thought in anyway that I can, and then run that thought over and over again, rampping up the anxiety. Then I see no way out of the situation and go into depression.This, as I look at my life, has always been. I am now reading David Burn's Mood Therapy. It is about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. This is what my psychiatrist suggested that I needed to learn about and to use this therapy to pull out of the OCD.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Verdolaga aka Purslane
In looking for a ground cover to plant in the yard I ran across this information for a plant called purslane, or in Spanish verdolaga. It is used in salads and can help with depression.
Verdolaga is also valued in Latin America for its medicinal properties. Purslane contains more Omega-3 fatty acids than any other leafy vegetable plants, and may have positive effects on the brain and may aid in such conditions as depression, bipolar disorder, Alzheimer's disease, autism, schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity and migraines. For other medicinal uses see: http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/medicinal/portula.html#efficacy
Verdolaga is also valued in Latin America for its medicinal properties. Purslane contains more Omega-3 fatty acids than any other leafy vegetable plants, and may have positive effects on the brain and may aid in such conditions as depression, bipolar disorder, Alzheimer's disease, autism, schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity and migraines. For other medicinal uses see: http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/medicinal/portula.html#efficacy
Thursday, April 12, 2012
New Mix of Medications
I was diagnosed with OCD sometime back>knew I had it for sometime. Now I am 25 pounds heavier that when I started on anafranil and risperdal and another tranquilizer. The mix is for the high level of anxiety that I am currently suffering. The risperdal will make women lactate. and the doctor is taking me off of the drug and has put me on wellbutrin. So now I am at 125 mg anafranil and wellbutrin, at 150mg 12H.
The anafranil was causing drowsiness and I have been hitting the energy drinks hard and the chocolate for the craving for sweets that the anafranil is giving me.
But the allergy shots for the pollen, dust, dust mites, rag weed are working somewhat. I am at the top level and when I got my first shot the other day the welt was a big a a silver dollar, then later that day as big as two silver dollars, almost 6 inches long, and 3 wide. I was told to take another antihistamine and by the next morning the crisis was under control.
The anafranil was causing drowsiness and I have been hitting the energy drinks hard and the chocolate for the craving for sweets that the anafranil is giving me.
But the allergy shots for the pollen, dust, dust mites, rag weed are working somewhat. I am at the top level and when I got my first shot the other day the welt was a big a a silver dollar, then later that day as big as two silver dollars, almost 6 inches long, and 3 wide. I was told to take another antihistamine and by the next morning the crisis was under control.
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