Some OCD medicines can be used safely for years under a doctor’s supervision. They help with intrusive thoughts, stress, even compulsive behaviors like excessive masturbation. Side effects differ person to person common ones are stomach upset, sleep changes, or weight shifts. but your psychiatrist checks risks versus benefit. What matters is never adjusting dose on your own.
For stress, add therapy, routine, prayer/meditation, exercise, and limit triggers like screen overuse. Medicines can support you, but lasting change comes when you also train your mind and body to handle urges and stress differently.
Next Steps
Stay regular with medicines, ask your doctor about long-term plan, start therapy for OCD and urges, build healthy routines, reduce stress triggers, and practice patience with recovery.
Health Tips
Keep yourself occupied in meaningful activities, delay acting on urges by a few minutes, use exercise to release stress, avoid isolation, track progress in a journal, and remind yourself recovery is step by step.