Is the an herb/nutritional protocol for OCD?

[alwaysalone]

Just wondering if anyone has any information about that? I'm still in the "cleaning" stage of my own particular problem with OCD. I know some with the affliction are hoarders (one of my roommates is a hoarder); checkers (I have trouble here also, plus my increasing forgetfulness is exascerbating this part of OCD); thought ruminations, etc. I wish I could be like most people and just spend only 5-10 minutes showering. It takes me over an hour in the bathroom and it's hard in the roominghouse for obvious reasons. I feel guilty taking so long because I know other people need the bathroom too. I try to take my bath/shower at a time when I think nobody is home or when no one needs the bathroom. But unfortunately, I get tired at night waiting for it to be late (like after 12 or 1), by that time, I'm too tired to take a shower then. It's getting really hard to cope with it. I find the more stress I'm under, the OCD gets worse, as well as my social phobia/avoidance personality disorder. Plus I was really depressed today. They had an OCD category on Dr. Phil recently: A couple of people were having a trouble with hoarding - in the extreme: He thought the woman might have a chemical imbalance causing her hoarding, because she knew she had a problem and wanted help. I had symptoms of OCD as a child also, but was never diagnosed. The social phobias I have are bad enough, but having the OCD also makes it doubly hard to cope each day. I'm just concerned that my OCD will advance to the extreme form as what happened to a lady featured on the Oprah Winfrey show. Oprah didn't seem to understand. It seemed to me as if Oprah thought the lady was just lazy. When it gets so bad it takes hours and hours just to clean yourself or a room, that's bad enough; then a person "crashes" and everything just stays a mess - this is the stage I DON'T want to reach!

Thank you for reading

Yours truly

AlwaysAlone

[alwaysalone]

Yes, I knew that. Sugar is one of the most addictive substances on the planet. I call it "The OTHER white powder". Thanks for info.

[alwaysalone]

alwaysalone said:

Yes, I knew that. Sugar is one of the most addictive substances on the planet. I call it "The OTHER white powder". Thanks for info.

I did the Thin Myelin Sheathing Test on the website quoted by Sweet Pea above, and my score was 61, indicating that my mylelin sheath is in a desperate state and is probably a very strong contributor to my OCD symptoms.

[skyhint]

hmmm, I got 42 on that test. I have a thing where I wash too much. But thats because the dorm I live in is 40 years old and I fear that my matress is also that old and sometimes I wake up with a little round bleeding spot on my leg that I don't remember being there before. I'm scared its because bugs live in my matress. I've been being extra easily upset lately too, I tried to follow the nutrition advice but that isn't helping. Maybe its just a bad time of the month for me.

[HybridMoment]

alwaysalone said:

Yes, I knew that. Sugar is one of the most addictive substances on the planet. I call it "The OTHER white powder".

I thought that was anthrax?

My grandma was an obsessive compulsive. She washed her hands until they were raw and in her house we still have the hundreds of bars of soap she bought so she would never run out. And she never did ;D She had some other mental problems too, and back when all of this was happening her doctors didn't have all the medications available today. After trying almost every medication available back then her doctor eventually tried electroconvulsive shock therapy. Surprisingly it actually helped her for a little while, but then for some reason her doctor left the country and she refused treatment from any other doctor and it just got worse.