What happened for you after OCD was treated?

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Hi,
I have been diagnosed with extreme OCD that leads to some psychosis.
(Along with depression, HFA, SPD, etc)

My doctors told me that SSRIs alleviate OCD symptoms at higher doses.

I have been highering my dosage and I had a breakthrough.
I have been OBSESSED with mental disorders for a long time, only getting greater in severity. It REALLY impaired my ability to focus on ANYTHING ELSE. Nothing else was interesting for me.

Long story short, I had what they call a "manic" episode in 2011 where my personality shifted to someone extremely personable, outgoing, sociable, etc for a week. And ever since then, I have been obsessed obsessed.

I have figured out the reason why and I immediately felt my obsession dwindle down.

If this sounds familiar or resonates with you,

I am wondering....

will my life improve now? And if so, in what ways?

I have OCD and I was able to overcome 95% of my checking compulsions (light switches, doors, etc) by doing ERP CBT(exposure response prevention). I also overcame my hoarding through CBT as well. I still struggle with germophobia everyday though but I can use CBT to work through those anxieties, it just doesn't fully go away. It is something I have to live with. Meds never did anything for my OCD.

I've had bad OCD with lots of various things. My OCD has improved a lot after I started the seizure med Neurontin/Gabapentin but I still have lots of issues. I also have anxiety & had started an anxiety med not that long before I started the Neurontin. My OCD & anxiety played off each other a lot. I screwed up my 1st two relationships cuz of my BAD OCD & anxiety. I kept getting thoughts in my head that bad things were going on which caused me to have panic attacks & I became controlling as a result. I fell into a psychotic depression around the time my 1st relationship ended. I'm in my 3rd relationship now & believe I would of screwed things up if I wasn't on those two meds. I also had problems with porn addiction partly related to my OCD. I spent alot of time involved with looking for it & DLing it/hoarding it, & labeling/organizing it. I wanted to have it on hand incase I might wanna use it but I knew I would never use most of it. I put off things I wanted & knew I should do in order for me to spend more time involved with it. I still look at porn some but now it's cuz I wanna do it instead of feeling like I need to & I'm not really involved with the organizing & labeling. I feel I am more functional since I got on the OCD & anxiety medication & it allowed me to improve my life in various ways.

What you have said is a concept so deep I will need to take it away and study myself and what it means and think about it before I can answer, and I have too mucn to deal with at the moment because I am high in anxiety while waiting near the phone.


But I can answer a basic knowledge of myself.
I recognise a tendency towards OCD in my character where I have to steer myself away from negative habitual concepts because I know if I latch onto whatever it is, it can take me years to free myself from it. An example of this is for years... Maybe about 25 or more years, I had the habbit where I had to avoid walking on any cracks in pavements, and I had to step on and touch with my shoe every drain or manhole cover that I found. It took years to brwak. I may have had it for mucn longer then 25 years. It is omly anout just over ten years ago I broke the habbits.
Now is that OCD?

What is OCD anyway? Or should it be CDO as we need to alphabetically arrange our words. Who knows! Haha. I need to think about this, but need to have a run of stress free days to think.