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My Prozac experience

Postby jck524 » Thu Jan 09, 2014 1:13 am

So I started taking prozac 5 weeks ago, 20mg and this is my experience. A little background information, I'm 25 and been dealing with intrusive thoughts and depression. The thing that bothers me the most are the intrusive thoughts, they just drive me crazyyyyy and that just makes me more depressed and since I was told prozac helps in that respect I asked if i could try it out. Well basically the first 4 weeks I wanted to put a bullet in my head, the intrusive thoughts got 10x worse and my depression was worse but since everyone says it get worse before it gets better I decided to stick it out. At about 4.5 weeks in I finally noticed things getting better day by day and then 5 weeks in I woke up feeling great. It was a weird feeling for me because I havent been happy in so long because I have been dealing with intrusive thoughts for so long that it almost seemed normal to have them. Well my day was awesome and I was becoming hopeful that the prozac was going to work. During that day though it was as if my mind was doing everything it could to try bring back my intrusive thoughts, and I started getting worried that the prozac would suddenly stop. It sucks its as if my mind wants me to suffer and not be happy lol. So right now im almost 6 weeks in and I'm definitely in a better mood during the day, but my intrusive thoughts are still bad because its almost as if its become so normal to have them that its weird to me if i dont have them, its such a terrible dilemma im in lol. I'm going to stick it out though and probably buy a self help book to overcome this. One positive thing to note is that although I have intrusive thoughts they dont hurt me as much anymore, and my depression has gotten better. As for side effects I havent experienced anything. I'm still horny as hell and I have no problem with my libido, if anything its gotten better since Im not depressed anymore.

If anyone has any insight on how to help with intrusive thoughts that would be so amazing!
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