What can I do for my depression, anxiety, and OCD?

Question

I am already in therapy, and have been for a while, and I'm wondering what I can do on my own, at home, to help with my depression, anxiety, and OCD. What can I do to help with these things? Like eat right, exercise, etc. Is there anything else?

I'm already taking medication.

Answer 1

There are alot of good meds out now, check with your doctor. Not all work the same for everyone so don't be discouraged. Keep trying until something works for you. : )

Answer 2

We live in a world which is like a shark's jaw. One side has the terrorists and the other side is incompetent leaders. Yesterday I posted this comment to a news group--Send the terrorists in jail and send the incompetent leaders to school. It is same in all countries and continents. There is no direct way out. The only way out is Self-development--ability to serve the society with personal skill in some ways. That is why the ideas of Self-development and self-employment are becoming prevalent once again. If you feel confused, visit the following arithmetic. The rich people has increased workload physically and mentally. They have reduced pay scale and may be other facilities too. So, income is deflated. The only thing guaranteed thing in all "developed" societies is price hike and thus all expenses soar. So expense is inflated. Add up the two sides of life and you will realize that our life is a balance sheet of income and expense. The net profit in the balance sheet nosedives and threatens to enter net loss zone. That means expenses competing out incomes. It is a grand plan of rich people to load up their banks. So, they have abundance in their homes while we have recession in our homes. Thus, the society is the balance sheet of economists; the debit side is rich men and the credit side is recessioned men. As long as our governments allow crooked business policies to overthrow finance and economics, I fail to see what, how, who, when, where the economists are going to make even an iota of stable (!) improvement. All they can do is local and temporal grafts. It appears that the psychological counselors can do very little; but I may be mistaken. Do try out and I suppose you better think seriously of Self-realized ways of life, an ancient concept but it is eternally true! We are learning it the hard way. Use your brains before you entrust your life on others. PS. All rich men are not bad, they do contribute to the society. But sadly such people are becoming rarer and rarer.

Answer 3

I also have this ocd with anxiety but i am not taking any medication i do meditation its good way to erase those ocd and anxiety actually its all caused by our subconscious mind which takes the message wrongly.so by way of doing meditation and yoga if you like you can take controll of it and also you can completly get rid of this once for all and also you have to note this two wont have side affects like medications.

Answer 4

my sister has OCD, depression and anxiety. she is on meds for her's bc it is part of her bipolar. it has to do with the chemicals in the brain. has ur therapist said anything for u to do? maybe u should talk to another dr. it might help u.

Answer 5

anxiety is a type of ocd and u should see a syc about it

Answer 6

get away from the stress when it occurs would help, medications help too, but I prefer to try getting away from the stress. When stressing go for a walk, or meditate or listen to calming music.