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[Ambivalent]

Hi JP,

I've just read your recent thread. Have you considered getting help for the Obsession/Compulsion cycling? I don't mean a social worker or psychologist. But MD, or psychiatrist? I have OCD and it is not something that can be controlled from deep within.

It has to do with serotonin and how our brain and body produce and use it. When one adds stress to someone with this, it creates the behaviors. Now, medication does not cure it, but it does allow for one to step back, calmly assess and use skills learned.

You are under an incredible amount of stress presently. You are trying to handle this on your own, and perhaps with all of us watching and rooting you on! C;

My point, don't be afraid to try a med. It can interrupt the obsessive thoughts and the compulsion to act on them.

I can speak to this personally, and I have seen my daughter's success on the same prescription I use. It helps with depression and OCD. It helps with mood swings, and it is not addictive, one's body does depend on it, but it is not an over riding need for an increase in dosage to do it's job.

The more pressure you place on yourself, the more you stimulate the obsession/compulsion cycle.

I am rooting for you, and the success of your marriage. You can do this, and you WILL do this!

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