lou47
- Date posted
- 3y ago
jaylee07jaylee07
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Last time I had it it went away in about 2 months it was the most misrable 2 months of my life honestly but i think it will get better i just had my first after exactly one year of feeling fine and its been a misrable week and a half
jaylee07jaylee07
- Date posted
- 3y ago
I know it’s terrible but we gotta hope it goes away one day
jfount11117jfount11117
- Date posted
- 3y ago
R u powering it up some how through reassurance, avoidance, or checking? Sounds like ERP is doing it’s job cause anxiety is down. To get rid of the obsession you have to ignore it and dwell on it. At least that is how I understand it.
jfount11117jfount11117
- Date posted
- 3y ago
*NOT dwell on it
lou47lou47
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Thank you. Yes all of my other obsessions have gone away eventually and when I have done erp. I am just fed up of waiting for it to go now. I have had this obsession for 3 months now and the last ine I had probably for about 4 or 5 months on and off. It was a scary one like they all are but this current one is just crazy. The people who helped me out of my last one 2 years ago are now the focus of my current obsession!! And this is all due to Covid and my views....they fell out with me because of my views on Covid but almost straight away I got anxiety and the OCD said it is because of that....needless to say the thoughts that have follwed are very intrusive and upsetting but I just cant seem to get out of it. I have had all of these scenarios in my head that they have told people about my intrusive thoughts i had two years ago and that THEY believed them!! It is just soooooooooo ridiculous. They read up about OCD and even said that they worried like me when I told them my thoughts back then....the OCD has just TWISTED AND TWISTED it to make me believe that they really thought my thoughts 2 years ago were real.....it is just bonkers but it wont leave my head
jaylee07jaylee07
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Yeah bro it will be its only been a week and half and im like man how did i last 2 mounts last time it’s definitely crippling i dont even want to leave the house but when i do i feel a little better im not gonna tell you go outside to feel better cause i know its way way deeper than that but we just gotta be strong man remember they will not go away they will just become of part of you and youll have to accept it thats what i did last time but the thoughts do get stuck I understand like i said we just have to wait i guess its messed up but thats what we have we have to learn to except it ………
lou47lou47
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Probably through some reassurance now actually thinking about it this week! It is soooo hard though isnt it? You just think...i will just reassure myself a little bit....then it gets worse! I hate OCD so much but I do know that this obsession will go....it is weird because a few weeks before I got this obsession I thought to myself that I dont think I could have another obsession any more ......then BAM! This one came on!
jaylee07jaylee07
- Date posted
- 3y ago
I thought the same when i felt better i was like theres no way in the world i could be like that again almost sorta feeling stupid for the dark place it put me in then BAM a couple months later were back at square one this dosent feel right man
jfount11117jfount11117
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Yes OCD pays attention. I had two great weeks, the best I have had in 10 months. Then I could feel it coming on and started doing a few reassurances and now it’s full fledged OCD in less than a week
Lms526Lms526
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Yep. OCD is an asshole. If you give it an inch, it will immediately take a mile.
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- Date posted
- 18w ago
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- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 17w ago
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