2009-03-10, 12:43 AM
♥Ji Wrote: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?
Never studied psychiatry so much as psychology, so I'm unsure on the drugs aspect, what I meant is that a chemical imbalance would be extremely difficult to treat without altering that imbalance (which would almost certainly require a drug of some sort). Whether or not we have such a drug, no clue.
As for the friends thing, maybe ask your family, or even a doctor, to help. If they really are your friends, they won't hold the OCD against you, and most families (I understand not all) would help you through it. Most people have at least some minor psych issues that they hide, so it's not like people won't understand, some just happen to be asshats about these sorts of things.