2009-03-09, 06:15 PM
MasPan Wrote:With the help of friends, you can get a jump start on overcoming the obsessions by having them forcibly prevent you from completing your compulsions. In the same manner that rehab forces someone to quit a drug, at least for a short period, this gives you a timeframe to be unable to complete the compulsion. Whether or not you continue to avoid it afterwards (which should gradually get easier and easier) is up to you. However, if the problem lies in a brain dysfunction or is the result of chemical/hormonal imbalances, drugs may be the only viable solution.i do not think my friends are able to stop me doing all my compulsions, some of them are kind of embarrassing. it is not the sort of thing i would tell my friends, and not the sort of thing friends would generally want to be involved with anyway. my fiance stops me when he sees me doing it but that is not very often. also i don't exactly come up and display my ocd in public. i hide it. not sure what situation would arise in which my friends could ever help me in this respect?
i believe i have pervasive brain dysfunctions. however the literature is very clear that no drug can cure autism, for example, even though it is a brain dysfunction. i am not convinced that a drug is capable of curing ocd. it is very much tied up with attention and executive dysfunction and frontal lobes and that sort of thing and i'm going to go out on a limb and say i don't think it's possible to cure it with a drug... unless there is some evidence for it?
still looking for evidence if anyone has any (: does anyone have an advance on azalea's serotonin info?