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Is there anyone who suffers with pure O and anxiety and deals without medication? I feel like the medicine route is not for me at this time. I am 20 years old and I just dont want to be dependant on a medicine. That is just my person preference. I do understand completely why some choose to take medicine, and I think thats wonderful! My husband and I want to have children within the next 2 years, and I dont want to have to deal with coming off of something and this all starting all over again. Is there anyone who is successfully dealing without medication?? I guess im asking, will my anxiety get worse without medicine? Is that my only answer in dealing with pure o and anxiety? I am also seeing a therapist which is helping me.

I normally deal successfully without meds, and I have pure-o. I've been dealing with OCD for as long as I can remember being alive, I'm 21. If you read one of my posts, you'll see that recently I've had a bad HOCD episode, and it still hasn't gone away.... but it is fading. Without meds or professional psychological help all you can really do is keep telling yourself it's just OCD, and eventually you'll get desensitized to that thought. You're in a life long battle though, don't forget that and don't let it bring you down either.