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@lou47 Thank you for responding and saying those things. I sometimes get so down that I just think what it would feel like to just give up. This OCD is brutal and it just seems to get worse especially when dealing with consistent negativity. I am really sorry to hear about what you had/are going through too. Loss is really hard to deal with and asding the OCD to it is a different level. I know other people experience this too. This site is really good for support. Hang in there as well. You seem to be doing great.
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You will be okay my lovely. Just please try erp. I have had ocd for 40 years now and at last I realise that erp is the way through. I am struggling at the moment because some elderly friends who I saw as parents have fallen out with me because of Covid and my views. I obsess that because I told them of my intrusive thoughts I had about their grandaughter two years ago which was actually based on sharing a bed with her 5 years or so previously that they think my OCD thoughts are real and that is why they have fallen out with me which is utterly ridiculous as they were so kind to me years ago and even read up about it tk understand what I was foing through....so as you can see OCD will twist ANYTHING you doubt over. I never ever thought that they ever even considered my OCD thoughts to be 'real' until they fell out with me over covid. In fact I even thought a few weeks before this obsession that my ocd has nothing to convince me of anymore....how wrong I was! OCD will twist and twist your brain to get to you but by doing erp it will eventually come back to you. Much love xx
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Thank you and I am sorry that you have dealt with that… being made to feel like there is something wrong with you. I just started ERP not too long ago. I appreciate your encouraging words.
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im so sorry.
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I went through exactly what you are at the moment. I was going through a divorce, lost my Mum and step dad and friend and an uncle as well. The stress has caused me to have OCD over the last few years and that is what it preys on....our stress and vulnerability....you will get through this. OCD is the most vicious disorder ever but please know you are not alone. Stay strong and do erp. I am here with you. Much love x
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You are welcome. I do feel like I am a leper with this covid....well that is how they have made me feel. But then like i said OCD will latch onto your vulnerabilities and twist everything. You are not alone with this debilitating illness and you will get over it. Much love xx
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- 11w ago
I've been bedridden with anxiety and haven't eaten much. I tried going on a walk and broke down halfway through to cry. It kind if helped my physical anxiety but hasn't helped my ocd much. ERP is so difficult. It just makes me exhausted and anxious and cry. And I don't even feel a little better afterwards, so what's the point? I get I'm supposed to build up resilience but when? when do I finally feel some reward? I'm suffering, I don't have the energy to fight these thoughts when all the thoughts I have are rumination or intrusive. Medications haven't worked for me either. Maybe I'm not going to get better. Happy new year to me.
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- 9w ago
I’m feeling kind of sad cause today was not a really good day in terms of my ocd. I was feeling kind of foggy/numb and that send me to spiraling. I’m 21 years old currently studying but my family has been having trouble with money for the last couple years(we’re just me and my mom) and I kinda want to get a job but everything is far from my home and I wouldn’t be able to return back at night, also it’s either way more expensive to move or the schedule wouldn’t let me take my classes. The point is that because of that every time my mom is stress tends to treat me bad, she speaks to me like I’m stupid or she just screams to nothing cursing all life and everything and that actually makes me feel soo bad and guilty for not doing anything, I know it’s hard for me to get a job that actually helps us without quitting school but that doesn’t stop me from feeling like I’m a burden. I want to help, I want to maybe hug her or something but I know she will be angrier and probably will reject it. So that’s it, I just feel like she punishes me for the stress she’s carrying and I get it but one day is happy and it feels like all love and the next is treating me like that, Idk it’s hard (also I feel like I shouldn’t be saying this cause it’s all my fault) 🫤
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- 8w ago
I want to go do something I enjoy so badly but I feel like I don’t deserve it. I’m full of guilt, shame, and anxiety. I wish I felt okay like I did a few days ago. I feel so awful right now. I hate OCD. I HATE pocd. I hate all of it. I wish this was easier. Sometimes I have the thought that I wish I was the things my OCD makes me afraid I am out of desperation to stop the anxiety, but then that thought makes me panic bc I don’t actually mean that or want that I just want the anxiety and urgency in the compulsions to stop. I’m so tired
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