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Not with me! I am 63, and my OCD has gotten WORSE in the last two or three years…I am on 40 mg. of Prozac a day now, and my therapist intends for me to work up to 60 or 80 mg. He feels that 60 to 80 mg. of Prozac is necessary to relieve OCD symptoms. I have to get to that very slowly, so it will probably be summer before I reach it. I am picking at and biting my nails (as I have always done, all my life) much more now, and I also have obsessive thoughts about disastrous things happening to my family. I have PTSD, post traumatic show disorder, also, because of several tragedies, near-tragedies and catastrophic illnesses that have happened to my loved ones over the years. I think I have what they call "survivor’s guilt" — because nothing has ever happened to me personally…just the suffering of seeing them suffering! I hope OCD lessens with everyone else!!! Allison Vasos Panagiotopoulos +1-917-287-8087 Bioengineer-Financier wrote: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Probably not, but I’d suspect that SOME people with OCD learn > to id what parts of their thinking come from OCD and ignore it as they > get older – or they learn to channel the obsessive reaction in more > useful and less obstructive directions. But when they are very ill or > very tired or in some big crisis, the entire thing unravels again. > – = – > Vasos-Peter John Panagiotopoulos II, Columbia’81+, Bioengineer-Financier, NYC > BachMozart ReaganQuayle EvrytanoKastorian http://WWW.Dorsai.Org/~vjp2 > vjp2@{MCIMail.Com|CompuServe.Com|Dorsai.Org} > —{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}—
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I have seemed to get worse with age….I use to do the rituals when I was younger and eventually have a period of rest from it…but now it seems it keeps going and going….
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My son was diagnosed with OCD several years ago. He is a teenager now and I believe that his OCD is lessening as he gets older. Of course, it impossible to know what effect learning has had on his symptoms. He is very much aware of what OCD is and uses a lot of cognitive techniques that help him. **** Posted from RemarQ – http://www.remarq.com – Discussions Start Here ™ ****
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Probably not, but I’d suspect that SOME people with OCD learn to id what parts of their thinking come from OCD and ignore it as they get older – or they learn to channel the obsessive reaction in more useful and less obstructive directions. But when they are very ill or very tired or in some big crisis, the entire thing unravels again. – = – Vasos-Peter John Panagiotopoulos II, Columbia’81+, Bioengineer-Financier, NYC BachMozart ReaganQuayle EvrytanoKastorian http://WWW.Dorsai.Org/~vjp2 vjp2@{MCIMail.Com|CompuServe.Com|Dorsai.Org} —{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}—
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Seems to for me. No drugs, no theraphy, just dealing with it head on for 15 years. Don’t really have a choice in that matter, but yes, it indeed seems to lessen as I get older. What a bonus. Either that or because I got my life into a nice consistent pattern with more control and less chaos.
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– a couple of Scandinavian doctors did a long term study. http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/journals/most/recent/issues/psyc/ycm… tm – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -handy wrote in message <37219430.88953…@news.redshift.com>… >Seems to for me. No drugs, no theraphy, just dealing with it head on >for 15 years. Don’t really have a choice in that matter, but yes, it >indeed seems to lessen as I get older. What a bonus. >Either that or because I got my life into a nice consistent pattern >with more control and less chaos.
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