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I asked this on my last thread but I thought I'd just go ahead and start a new one.

Does anyone ever confuse their nightmares (nightmares involving your obsessions) with reality? Like...you have a dream that you see someone doing something wrong, and then you end up dreaming YOU'RE the one doing the same thing? And then you're left wondering if what you did in your dream really happened...that's part of what happened to me today. I KNOW I didn't do what I had a nightmare of, but it felt like I did and I was left doubting myself even though I know it's illogical.

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Hi Heartplace,

I had exactly that the whole time I was on SSRIs, was a side effect. Once changed meds they stopped.

Are you on SSRI's or any other meds???

I'm on 40mg fluoxetine, just started 40mg not long ago. Even on 20mg, I was having strange dreams but lately they've been turning into nightmares, sometimes nightmares involving my obsessions. I think I had another nightmare just today but I can't even remember what it was about now. Sadly, no one in my area seems to believe in tapering off or gradually upping a dose of meds :(

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I think a big thing with ocd is the blured lines between reality and thoughts,i feel intense guilt over stuff in my mind yet ive hurt noone,quite the oppisite

I havnt thought ive done something in reality from a dream but ive had awful dreams about my fears witch have made me dought my orientation

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I'm not in anyway medical but sounds like a side effect.

I was initaily on 20mg of Citalopram, went up to 40 then 60mg. I had very vidid dreams and nightmares like you described, that increased in intensity with each increase in dose. They were one of my lesser side effects!!!!

Swapped to Escitalipram 30mg still had very vivid dreams but not as intense if you get me.

Tappered off Escitalapram and they stopped after about 8 weeks!!!

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I think a big thing with ocd is the blured lines between reality and thoughts,i feel intense guilt over stuff in my mind yet ive hurt noone,quite the oppisite

Definitely, but I think it can be even scarier when they creep into dreams and you have no control over them.

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I'm not in anyway medical but sounds like a side effect.

I was initaily on 20mg of Citalopram, went up to 40 then 60mg. I had very vidid dreams and nightmares like you described, that increased in intensity with each increase in dose. They were one of my lesser side effects!!!!

Swapped to Escitalipram 30mg still had very vivid dreams but not as intense if you get me.

Tappered off Escitalapram and they stopped after about 8 weeks!!!

Yeah, it is. I was told it's a common side effect people get on fluoxetine. I'm wondering how much longer I can handle this side effect though...I mean, is it really worth it???

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Yeah, it is. I was told it's a common side effect people get on fluoxetine. I'm wondering how much longer I can handle this side effect though...I mean, is it really worth it???

I know it is, just didnt want you thinking I was medically qualified!!!! :original:

Fluxotine is quite an old drug. Escitalopram is much newer and cleaner but is very expensive, so in England it hard to get the NHS to prescribe.

Been there so many times, drug companies sell drugs. Theres no way they want side effects a lot of us experience advertised!!!

Have you tried any other meds?? Are you in therapy??

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I used to be on Paroxetine, then I was on Bupropion (SNRI)...the first one worked for a while, then I started taking Bupropion and it didn't work at all. All of a sudden I started to experience SSRI withdrawal while on it and my OCD symptoms came back with a vengeance. So I ended up off the SNRI, back onto paroxetine, paroxetine made me feel like a robot so I went off of that and onto fluoxetine...I feel like I've been playing musical chairs with meds, lol.

I'm not in therapy right now. I've been thinking about applying CBT on my own, but I'm wondering if a therapist would be a better option. There are a couple of places I want to see about getting a therapist at, if only social phobia wouldn't get in the way of me picking up the phone to call!

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