Anyone have any side effects on your anxiety? Case in point I am a happily married man, husband of 2 beautiful boys but for the past week I have been having these crazy thoughts. You are probably gonna laugh and I am laughing as I right this but its annoying. I tend to dwell more and read into things more. For example, I tend to worry more and I fear of going gay!!!! Time to laugh! You are talking to a guy who was worried when he was a kid that he was going to die and drop dead because he accidently got hairspray on his tongue. This sucks!

My therapist told me that a lot of ADDers have some OCDish traits to them. I've read and my experience was that on Concerta I was more likely to get more obsessive and stuck on things. I know they don't recommend it if you've got anxiety issues to start with although it can sometimes help anxiety caused by ADD anyway.

My pharmacist told me (and I've read it other places) is that when dopamine goes up seratonin goes down creating kind of a seasaw effect. While Concerta improved you focus and other dopamine related responses it might make obsessive tendencies worse by lowering the seratonin levels. I'm not a scientist or researcher or anything but from what I've read and experienced this seems to be what happens.

I thought I'd just raise my seratonin levels by adding a low dose of Prozac, but that messed up my focus and eventually gave me so many side effects I quit it all.

Anyway, you might want to talk to your doctor or psychologist about these feelings that have been bothering you. A book I also found helpful was Brain Lock by Jeffrey Schwartz about how to treat OCD behaviorally at home. It really helped me deal with the obsessive thoughts I was having.

tc,

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Thanks I get these thoughts in my head and I dwell on them. I know I'm not gay or gonna die but for some stupid reason I get ideas in my head and Im telling myself stop it! I love women, life but my head is spinning. GRRRRRRRR