milliemoo
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- 4y
ChristineKJ ChristineKJ
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- 4y
Yep, kind of like this "aha" moment, lightning bolt to the chest, stomach flip. It feels like something massive has suddenly dawned on you, like you've solved a complex puzzle. It's such an awful feeling because it illicits such a strong anxiety response.
milliemoomilliemoo
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It really does, it’s so hard for it to not feel so incredibly real when this happens
Imaan7Imaan7
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- 4y
Is it necessary to have anxiety during those? Ive had far too many realisations like that, the first couple ones shocked me, I did have anxiety but nowadays they are so common to me, Id be walking out of my bathroom or driving and id have a set of thoughts and id Realize that im gay, no anxiety either
Brian K.Brian K.
- User type
- NOCD Alumni
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- 4y
Hi milliemoo, I’ve had those before, especially during ERP. Sort of like a false memory, tough to distinguish from being real or not. I wonder if it’s like an OCD response to ERP, like a mini-back door spike it gives you in the hopes you might stop doing that ERP and feed it more doubt….or maybe I’m giving the OCD bully too much credit.
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