Since OCD is an anxiety disorder, I will relate to my own anxiety disorder which is Panic Disorder. Back in 2005 I started getting my panic attacks, and it debilitated me so badly that I wasn't able to attend school, and sometimes unable to get out of bed for more than a few minutes a day. Yeah. Well being put on medication gave me my life back. I have been told by "friends" that I should stop the med for it and "finally deal with it", been told by pdocs "You have to eventually deal with the anxiety" and a psychology professor that "meds are for temporarily stabilizing you so that you can deal with the issues in therapy." Sounds like I have been told meds are temporary and not a fix, just a bandaid.

But if I stopped my celexa, which blocks my panic attacks, all that will happen is that I will get panic attacks. What's the point of living with them, if I can take a pill and have them disappear? Is it worth it to "deal with it" on my own, or just take that pill and get on with my life and deal with my actual problems such as trauma from the past? Am I weak because I don't want to have panic attacks non stop like I used to? Because i want to function? Because I want to go to school like a successful college student? Is it WRONG to take a pill every day to make myself function?! Do you have a right to say what's right and wrong for me?