Why olanzapine?

[Daniel E.]

will I get better

From a behavior therapy point of view, one way at looking at medications is that they help facilitate the behavior therapy. This is talked about in Brain Lock with the analogy of medications being like waterwings to help one when learning to swim.http://books.google.com/books?id=Lo...=onepage&q=ocd brain lock water wings&f=false

 

[H011yHawkJ311yBean]

Hi stringbean, just wondering if you are in therapy in conjunction with your medications? Just taking medication alone won't typically be as successful as also seeing someone to help you with your thinking and behaviours (sorry if you already said this somewhere)...

Hence Daniel's meaning that the medication is like the waterwings... But it would be nice to have someone (therapist) at least rowing beside you while you're swimming the channel... He/She might not be able to drag you out of the water entirely, but he/she will be able to coach you and encourage and give you objective perspective, sort of like he's/she's your swimming coach and throwing you a flotation device if you need it, or shouting through a megaphone to avoid the sharks or the obstacles you might have to swim around, or help you monitor your breathing so you don't get a stitch in your side....

 

[stringbean]

Thanks Dr Baxter, I have spoken to my Dr but he is adament that i stay on these meds. Could i be feeling like this becuase I stopped taking it for three days and then started it again.

Also at the same time as restarting it i have decided not to take all my meds at night but split it and take half in the morning and half in the evening.

One other thing can all this obsessing actually turn you insane?mg:

 

[David Baxter PhD]

No but it is important to remind yourself (often) that that is probably what it is: OCD worrying can be very compelling unless you remind yourself that, as Daniel just said in another thread, "thoughts are not facts".