So I'm just about to complete my 13th week on 20mg of Citalopram. The doctor doesn't want to consider increasing my dosage or swap me onto another drug for a few more weeks yet, This is my third time on Citalopram and although I feel better than I did a few weeks ago I keep feeling incredible guilt about everything I have ever done wrong in my life and suffer from OCD thoughts. Is this normal, has anyone else had a similar experience. Should it really be taking this long before I get back to my normal self?
Bax. I'm on my 8th week of 20 mg and although I'm not crying daily I'm much like you and feel incredibly guilty especially towards my partner and children. I think it's helped in the respect of giving me more motivation but my anxiety is still quite bad. I also suffer from ocd thoughts too. Has your dr referred you for any cbt? I've been waiting for this almost a year now. It's meant to be very good for ocd.
There are people on here with experience of taking citalopram and have given me lots of reassurance that it's a very slow progress to recovering fully so I'm going to keep sticking it out for now.
I hope the longer you're on it the more progress you will make :-)
Hi Bax, for the first 9 weeks I felt exactly the same, terrible / excessive guilt over past actions and intrusive thoughts. I am on 10.5 weeks now and I have had about 3 days this week of feeling a bit more rational and calm. The guilt feelings are a side effect of induction onto citalopram in my opinion and will ease for you eventually. Everyone is different and it may take a couple more weeks for you to see improvements. The feelings you are experiencing are very painful but they will ease off. Hang in there Bax. Hugs x
Hi Bax I have been on escitalopram 10mg in morning for 1 month and i am starting to feel a bit more positive. On Waking in morning is bad still but not as bad. I hope that will improve. i try to go out every day if i am mixing its better now,before i didnt want to go anywhere except bed and then toss and turn, up and down.but escitalpram is double the strength of citalopram so maybe you need to up dose a bit. Take care and be kind to yourself