Posted by crittercuddler on December 27, 2008, at 18:15:57
In reply to Re: Is THIS anti-depressant induced Mania? » crittercuddler, posted by SLS on December 27, 2008, at 16:53:10
I am 100% positive I have OCD. I was diagnosed in 2001, started having symptoms when I was 12 though. My thoughts, obsessions, mental complusions, etc.. fit the recognized thought patterns to a tee.
Many people will be surprised to learn that OCD can be much more than being phobic about germs. Obsessions and compulsions can manifest themselves in so many other ways.
Good books on the disorder are written by
Jonathon Grayson
Fred PenzelAlso I have heard some other good reads are
Brain Lock
Rewind, Replay, RepeatI have read up on OCPD and I don't believe I have that. Neither do my doctors.
The only MAOI I have taken was Emsam, the new transdermal patch. I used the lowest patch dosage (6mg) for 3 weeks. I stopped it because I started feeling lazy/apathetic. I tolerated it better than any other anti-depressant though. I had NO side effects on it. It was great. I was surprised.
Why do you think that was? I have read the regular MAOIs are usually the hardest to tolerate, often giving people issues with insomnia. I wonder if it is because even with the high dose of selegeline used for the patch that selegeline is still acting more like a MAO-B inhibitor than an MAO-A inhibitor. They say at high doses selegeline will inhibit both A and B, thus allowing it to be an anti-depressant... but I have often wondered.
MAOIs haven't really shown efficacy in OCD have they? I read that they can help the specific problem of being concerned with symmetry that some people with OCD have, but that is all. So, I don't know about Nardil. Plus wouldn't it likely give me more side effect problems than the SSRIs?
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