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- 3y
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- 3y
Thank you for messaging, sorry you have these symptoms too, but glad I’m not alone ♥️ Trying to be compassionate to myself tried setting a timer for myself yesterday for each email I needed to send so I limited the amount of time spent checking…. Resisting urge to check this and just send, small wins made easier having people on your side, thank you! Xxx
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- 3y
I feel you...I have the same situation with messages, important email, anxiety of not having answered someone by mistake etc. It's one of my OCD's symptoms, and I'm trying to avoid these compulsions🌿
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- 3y
It's not easy. In some situations I feel so tired of this checking loop, that I give up and I send that email, whit a lot of anxiety. I've started a therapy recently so I don't have already strategies to face this problem, but I want to say you that you're not alone and there are other people, like me, that are in the same situation
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- 24w
I’m having a big OCD relapse and would like to hear anyone’s tips on how to be present and healthily deal with these intrusive thoughts and the “need” to preform compulsions. Thank you!!
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- 21w
OK, this might sound really dumb, but when you guys get intrusive thoughts, do they just come once and then go away? I’ve heard that repeatedly thinking about an intrusive thought is considered ‘checking,’ but it doesn’t feel like I have any control over how many times it comes up in my head. It’s not like I’m trying to check anything—it just keeps showing up, almost like it’s terrorizing me every time. I can’t seem to stop it from looping, stop remembering it, or prevent it from coming up. Every time it does, I feel horrified, and I already know it’s going to horrify me. I don’t think I’m actively trying to see if my feelings have changed, so is this still considered checking? How do other people get an intrusive thought and just move on? Doesn’t it pop up a million times for them too? I always thought that was normal, but now I’m hearing this could be a compulsion, and I feel really confused, scared, and lost. Is this why my OCD feels so extreme? Because I really don’t feel like I can control how many times the thought pops up.
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- 20w
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