awful racing thoughts.

[EliseCraft]

i've been having these awful racing thoughts in my head for years.  i have weird innapropriate sexual thoughts about anyone, they make me depressed, i do not want them there.  i am terrified to be in apartment because it's dark.  i can't go to sleep because i am too terrified someone is going to get me.  when i am in a car i feel like i am going to get crushed into by the other cars, happends all the time...sometimes i have these thoughts that the walls of my apartment are going to crush me, i get nervous.  i don't have friends.  i can't keep a job.  one minute i can be extremely happy, the next completely down, sometimes the same in one, which makes me feel like i wanna shoot myself.  i went online and tried to figure out what is wrong with me because i am sure having thoughts like i do has to me there is something severely wrong me, something isn't right.  when i typed in innapropriate sexual thoughts ocd came up.  help i feel nuts.

[Les54]

I have been diagnosed with Bipolar since 2002.  Racing thoughts keep me up until day light.  I have been on antidepressants, and have been on every A typical anti psychotic known to man, except Colzrol (I know I spelled that wrong, but it is a strong medicine that requires blood work once a week for about six or eight weeks.  And then, twice a month for another period of time.  I won't take it.  I am on Seroquel XR and Geodon for almost eight years.  All of the anti psychotics causes an illness called Kardive Diskaneses.  It is involuntary movements in the mouth, tongue, twitching of the eyes, and is a progressive illness that may or may not stop after a person stops taking the medicine that causes it.  Another side effects that I've experienced is obesity.  I am 5' tall and two years ago weighed as much as 156 lbs.  I don't know what I'm going to do, but I promise you that I will find away to get off this med with or with out my Dr. I hope that you get well and find a Dr. that won't medicate you with bad drugs.  

[DumbHick]

That doesn't sound like OCD to me. Folks with OCD don't think others are "out to get them". That falls under the category of paranoia which a person strictly with OCD does not have. Another clue you don't have OCD is the fact you're happy one minute, sad the next. People with OCD would lean towards continued depression because they are continually upset by their behaviors.

[ILADVOCATE]

"Racing thoughts" sounds more like bipolar. You could have ocd as well but the medications used to treats ocd (SSRI anti-depressents) can worsen bipolar but if its bipolar a mood stabilizer (Lithium, Lamictal, Depakoate). But only a psychiatrist can make a diagnosis. For information (on all mood disorders) google "Depression Central".

[EliseCraft]

just wanted to say i am undiagnosed...but it has been happening for a long time and getting progressively worse