Re: Strange Side Effect Maybe?
Hi Cassie,
The medication isn’t putting thoughts into your head, the problem with obsessive thoughts is your reaction to them, I don’t know if the medication can affect your reaction but when it happened to me I wasn't on any medication.
You can’t control your thoughts, they just pop into your head but you can control your reaction to them. I’ve spent the last 6 months to a year working on my reactions to these types of thoughts; they’re very difficult to deal with. You mustn’t start avoiding driving – if you do that it will just creep into different areas of your life and you’ll start obsessing about lots of things. The content of your thought isn’t relevant, it just represents your anxiety - when you get a thought that’s scary, like driving off the road, your automatic response is to try and resist the thought – and that only makes it worse. The trick is to allow the thought for what it is – an irrational thought which is part of an anxiety disorder, don’t enter into logic with it – don’t try to reason with yourself that you would never do that as you’ll always find a thread of doubt. Just let it exist in the moment and continue with what you’re doing. I assure you – you would NEVER drive off the road.
Nel xxx
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