People with anxiety! Could this be anxiety?

Published January 5, 2014

Question by Canadian Idiot: People with anxiety! Could this be anxiety?
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This is how I felt today. I did no substance abuse for a while, I have OCD. Could this be some kind of anxiety or something?
It was just alcohol. I stopped drinking as much because I kinda realized I came from a family of alcoholics and I was potentially going to pick up the habit.
No. They decided I could learn to cope with it with out medications. And I did.

Best answer:

Answer by JenYA
Are you taking anything for your OCD?

When you say “substance abuse”, how bad was it? And did you just go cold turkey when you were off it?

I ask these questions because this would really say a lot about this anxiety.

I suggest you visit a hospital if it’s really debilitating. I’m no health expert (yet) but it does sound like anxiety. Anxiety usually isn’t a side effect of OCD medication, but it may be an adverse effect from being off whatever you were on. If anything, I would assume it’s more of the latter.

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