Huge thanks for sharing! It sounds like you were dealing with almost exactly what I'm going through right now. Really hopeful this can help!

Hi. Thanks for your video! I'm happy you are well. I've been taking Anafranil since 3 months ago. I've been in therapy for years and it has helped me. However, I needed medication to reduce my intrusive thoughts. Now, I feel great, but I'm afraid about finishing my treatment because I don't want my OCD symptoms to come back. Are you still taking medication? Could symptoms come back after finishing a medication treatment?

You are awesome and look so happy, i am also struggling with ocd and started taking anafranil . hope its gonna work. Thanks for sharing and for the postive vibes

I’m so happy you found a med that works for you. This is Prozac for me! And my ocd symptoms were also increased in the beginning on mine, for about a week.

Thank you for sharing ! How did you manage the constipation in the long run? Lexatives are a must? Or it does go better after a while?

“It tore my butthole” lol this had me dying 😂 I’m literally so happy for you that you finally found a medication that is helping you so much. I started taking Lexapro about two months ago and it has changed my life. I use to have intrusive thoughts stuck in my head 99% of the day and ocd would even show up in my dreams, now my ocd is down to maybe 25% and it never shows up in my dreams. I use to spend my entire day ruminating and trying to get things unstuck from my brain and now I hardly ever ruminate and it takes at most 5-10 minutes to get things unstuck from my brain. I still have pocd and avoid kids but I don’t worry about it when I’m not around kids. Im not suicidal anymore and actually look forward to living my life now. Sending you love and peace 💛

Adhdbaddie does it help with anxiety? I have panic attacks and anxiety and took 10-25mgs 14 years ago initially but came off 10mgs every other day as the manufacturers stopped the dose. I have tried to get on this again but couldn't due to side effects. I've tried so Many others but they don't help my anxiety and I just feel weird on them. My psych has suggested I try again...tried 8 times...he thinks I haven't been able to get on them because of my anxiety mistaking it for side effects. I would like to try again but I got shaking, sweating, lockjaw, agitation, confusion, increased anxiety, paranoia, restlessness....maybe I didnt, maybe I was just ill I don't know. Anyway did you have anxiety and panic attacks too and did it help? Xx

Good to hear it! I’ve been struggling with suicidal thoughts and things like these that I know it’s not what I want for me. My doctor prescribes me this medication and I’m going to try it! You look so happy and I’m happy for you!!

thanks for the video, glad it helped u. I'm starting it not for OCD but for anxiety mainly. Worried about potential anhedonic effects since it's highly serotonergic. i never experienced joy from music etc on the other meds, even on Parnate to an extent (that also had brutal sides)

Literally just started this medication so this video is super encouraging 💗

Hi, I see this video was over 8 months ago, I'm looking too start clomipramine myself and just wondering how are you doing now? Thanks

Please could you say how your doing now with Clomipramine? Are you still on it? Im looking too take it myself, thankyou

I took one tablet of sertraline (Zoloft) for the first time a few years ago. My anxiety went through the roof, and stayed there for a good few weeks. It put me off antidepressants. A I suffer from ocd aswell. Did your doctor specifically prescribe you with anafranil or did you mention this medication to him as my ocd is really bad I want to consider medication again

Do you still take it ? I am on it now for Gad and Ocd :)

Has anyone experienced the constipation with Clomipramine and has come off it ? When do your bowels go back to normal when you’re completely off Clomipramine ? Appreciate any reply’s.

one of the most annoying side effects is sexual dysfunction, have you experienced of it? like difficult to achieve orgasm, all SSRI can cause this but clomipramine is even worse

I'm so glad that you're feeling better! Is that your old room? There are so many wardrobes

Are you still taking clomipramine now? Does it continue to help/have side effects?

I think this medication is helping me as well. Im still trying to perfect the timing of it though. Do you take it in the morning or before bed? What time is best to minimize fatigue in your out opinion?

Thank you so much for sharing your experience.

Can you tell about side effects? I am suffering from side effects like as dizziness, throat bitterness

He pretty Anafranil stopped working on me, what should I do?

For how long have you been on antidepressants? Can I be on anfranil 25 mg for my lifetime?

I started taking Sertraline for Anxiety and panic attacks and then stopped right after 3 dosages because of rapid heartbeats and suicidal thoughts (Which I never had before). It was horrible!!!! I immediately contacted another psychiatrist after that and he prescribed Clomipramine to me. I have been taking this for the last 4 days 50 mg at night and I already feel better. I feel very sleepy though and also worried about the fact that it will stay that way. Also I’m worried that I might have to continue this for life but some people said that it stops working after some time. So I am very worried if my Psychiatrist took the right decision. Is there anybody who took Clomipramine for Anxiety and Panic Attacks?

Did you take it for depression too? Or mainly the OCD?

Mam side effects of Anafranil is greater than fluoxetine????

Are you still taking this medication? What are your thoughts after a year?

I've been on escitalopram for 15 years but it stopped working. I am on fluoxetine now 40mg but it doesnt help. I also tried trintellix but it didnt help. I feel lost, i dont know what to do. I don't know if anafranil would help me. My ocd intrusive thoughts are pretty bad 😔

I have OCD and ADHD also, and I take aderall with Clomipramine. Such an awesome combination!!!

im so thankful you made this video! i have been considering medication for my ocd and was very very nervous about starting antidepressents to treat it. obviously everyone will react differently to medication but hearing that your experience wasnt too bad made me hopeful. i hope your ocd journey continues to go well!

Anafranil helped much more that SSRI's. 60% relief. But an older medication called Nardil (Phenelzine) completely wiped out my OCD (and social anxiety).

i'm on anafranil like 4 months now. Started with 25 mg and now i am using 150 mg for my ocd. Constipation is really hard and it makes me sweat very much. İ wanna ask you ; did u struggled with pee ? Because my biggest struggle was pissing during the medication. Thank you soo much for sharing your experience hope my treatment goes well as yours too. ( İ dont see any difference in my symptoms but this feeling is maybe related with my ocd ? )

Any ocd groups out there I’m Looking to meet people with the same problem to create a support system

Does it stop compulsions and intrusive thoughts. I've tryd 10 different medications and nothing has helped my ocd

How are you now? Did you stop take it!

Ive been on anafranil for 2 weeks now for my OCD, I have terrible side effects, such as drowziness, severe dizziness all day long, sweating, fast heart rate. I spoke to my doctor and he said be patient these side effects will go away give it some time. Did you or anyone experience such side effects and it disappeared after ?

I have just started anafranil 25 mg from 5 days because of OCD and please let me know did it work quickly and tell me the side effects also

I just started taking it 2 days ago. Both nights I’ve woken up at 3:30 am and can’t fall back asleep. My body feels sedated, shaky, and weak, but my mind is wide awake. Did you experience insomnia?

Hiya, are you still taking this medication? I’ve recently taken it & like you say the side effects can be pretty tough, disturbed sleep, bad nausea feeling, dry mouth, constipation & my urine hurts? Am wondering if you ever experienced this? Thanks for the vid ❤

Does anafranil better than ssri?

Why you are so beautiful ? Tonight ,just started clomipramine 75 SR with escitalopram 20 mg. Lets pray for my recovery

Thanks for your review

Hello.. I have panic disorder.. I was on remeron and xanax for 5 months.. Nothing. My new doctor give me minitran amitrypiline and perfenazine. I am better its only a month. Tge doctor tokd me to end remeron and change it with anafranil 75mg. And im scared. Because i dont want tp have again side effects.. Like worsening my panic disorder or something else. .. Can anyone help me?????

Anyone helped with sycosomatic pain from OCD?

I thought that it caused weight gain? I'm worried about an increased appetite and I don't want to put on weight. But my OCD has become very unmanageable ☹️

I swear to God, this helped me a lot. I tried all the other depression medications, Zoloft, Ecitalopram, Amitriptyline, Fluoxetine, Mianserin, all of them did not work for me over the course of 10 years until I tried Anafranil. At first, I wanted to stop it because its side effects exhausted me, but I continued taking it. I had no other choice. Now all the side effects have disappeared and disappeared. Obsessive thoughts and depression disappeared, thank God. My advice to anyone who is tired of medications is to tell you, find the right medication for you. This is the secret.

Thank you for this video. This is also the best med I've been on. I have severe OCD, mostly intrusive thoughts.

Anafranil I can sleep. I can't sleep Seroquel! not given to OCD help me!

Is there any sedating effect of this medicine?

That's awesome that it works so well. I'm considering Anafranil or Luvox for my OCD so it really helps to hear success stories..

Hello. To be honest, I don't know who I can turn to. Maybe you can tell me something. I am 19 years old. Two months ago I was prescribed carbomazepine and sonopax (anxiety, depression, intrusive thoughts). The dosage was low. These medications were helping me. But then a traumatic event occurred and the medications became less effective. The doctor decided to prescribe clofranil 25 mg 3 times a day. On the second day of taking it, after sleeping: I got out of bed and just fell over, because I couldn't feel my legs, I had a burning sensation in my head, a terribly fast heartbeat and sweating. My mother and I called the attending physician and she cancelled all the medications. The first three days the condition was just awful, it was like everything was changing in my head. My blood pressure was jumping from 85 over 50 to 150 over 100. Now it's been 14 days since I've taken anything. The burning has gone, but what remains is a strange condition: impaired tactile sensations, sleep disturbance, a strange feeling in my head, a feeling of weakness in my limbs and their remoteness (as if I do not feel them periodically or feel them remotely), drowsiness, etc. Before taking clofranil my condition was very good: I went to the gym, studied, did voluntary work. I can't understand what could have happened in my head that now I have this condition. And I don't know if it will go away or not. Can you please tell me what it could be? Is there any way to fix what has been disturbed in my head?

I wanna take this but my mom takes all my meds away from me so idk what to do😭

as soon as you mentioned nausea my emetophobic self was like nahh😹

Anafranil is very effective. This is the first medication I've ever been on. Before taking it I had intrusive thoughts lasting sometimes for 23 hours per day due to my severe ocd and insomnia.Now, I take two pills of 75 mg every evening and I feel soo much better. I can fall asleep very fast and my intruisive thoughts are very rare. The only negative effects I've noticed is constipation (but in my case it's not that bad) and dry mouth.

I'm thinking I'm gonna have to start taking this.

Did the constipation get better?

How much time it take for the side effects to stop! About constipation any solution?

Love your accent :)

Thank you!! How are you feeling now!? 🙏💖💖

Have you started taking it earlier? Has it helped you be less tired during the day? I've been on anafranil since April and just went up to 150mg. My mind is so much quieter!

when you say you learned to deal with the stomach issues, do you still get constipated? If so, how do you deal with that? I went on Anafranil for a bout 2 weeks and started seeing some real improvements BUT the constipation was brutal. Would love to know that it gets better or ways of combatting that. Thanks!

Did u try clonazepam?

I have been using anafranil for 4 years for my OCD.

Lmao I’m sorry but this just scared me just got this rx and yeah I’m terrified of constipation 😂

Just withdrew from 20 mg of Anafranil..... terrible headaches

Weird because today is my first day on it and I have a GIANT diarrhea. It’s tearing my butthole for the different reason. I wish I was constipated…

I’ve been taking 75mg every day for the last year…… I’ve been able to finally live my life with OCD. It works

Hey. I’ve just been to my gp but they said that they have not prescribed anafranil for over 10 years due to the side effects and I’m based in Manchester! I’ve asked them what would be the best way to access this medication as they still sell it in pharmacies ! And they were cluelesss to say the least. How did you access this medication ? I also suffer from ocd and intrusive thoughts 👍

I'm on Anafranil my second week. I'm so constipated 😔, I'm falling asleep easily but I'm waking up after 2 hours and that's it no more sleep, my vision is also blurred as hell . Also I can not eat and I feel sick time to time. I had very bad fobia which is gone already, my ocd is under control and I feel happiness (feeling which I haven't feel from years). I don't know what to do, as I 'm scared of side effects which I'm experiencing .

This medication is horrendous the side effects are a nightmare it gave me severe insomnia, high temperature, increased anxiety,ocd and depression completly kills your libido for a long time went onit for around a year first time and coming off is absolute torture it is the worst experience you will ever face and test you're mental strength because it takes a hell of a lot of determination to go through the withdrawal symptoms. When it did finally kick in it worked for a short while and I felt great but it wasn't worth going rheough hell of side effects and withdrawal symptoms for the short time it actually works.

I'm surprised you're doing so well on such a low dose for OCD. Only 30 mg a day? From what I've read online, they recommend you start with 25 mg, and over two weeks, work your way up to 100 mg as your maintenance dose, and then you may increase the dose up to a maximum for 250 mg. Keeping in mind that everyone is different, would you say your OCD was moderate or severe? Another Q, do you take any other psychoactive medications?

I have constant diarrhoea so constipation would be good lol

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I am 16, male, and I am quite scared after I saw the possible sucide risk in people under 24. Now, I am in dilemma to take it or to not. The doctor has prescribed me 37.5 mg (once morning and once night) for a day

Did you can sleep nice on Sertraline? I'm on 100 mg and I'm on my 3th month. It helped me a lot for depression, anxiety and... I'm a happy little adult-kiddo at my 24 years of life. But I'm on 0.5 mg of Clonazepam and my pdoc is going to not bringing me benzodiacepines and I'm happy for that but.. the Sertraline alone helps for sleep? I have serious problems sometimes and the med that I can relate with is Mirtazapine for sleep troubles but Clomipramine is a med who's in my thoughts sometimes

im using Clomipramine to stop my wet dreams, wet dream really make me sick and weak 😞 what do you think about it madam?

Hey guys I’m in Yorkshire and just been diagnosed at 27 with OCD and 2 weeks in on 50mg what are your experiences

I said hi to your Cat , then she left 💔

I understand that each experience is different, but has anyone experienced significant weight gain from this medication? At this point, I will try anything to potentially decrease my intrusive thoughts (this is priority, as they are currently destroying my quality of life). Saying this, my weight increased by 30kg over the past two years due to poor mental health - I’m anxious about my weight problem getting worse on this medication! Thank you all. I’m thrilled this medication has worked for many of you. Xo

Great sweety

i experience bad blurry vision on this

Did you suffer from any memory issues on this drug?

I was starting to feel like a lone unicorn having OCD and ADHD. It seems so counterintuitive to have both 🥴

Oh my God, it is a bad drug. The side effects are horrific: insomnia, nausea, and increased anxiety. The worst drug I have tried

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Try the 12 steps

Jesus crise constipation:D

OMG, Anafranil made the cat disappear!

Ur cute

Study Islam and your ocd will be gone

I think I am officially the messiest person with OCD even tho it irritates me