lou47
- Date posted
- 3y
jaylee07jaylee07
- Date posted
- 3y
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
I know it’s terrible but we gotta hope it goes away one day
jfount11117jfount11117
- Date posted
- 3y
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
*NOT dwell on it
lou47lou47
- Date posted
- 3y
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
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
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
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
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
Yep. OCD is an asshole. If you give it an inch, it will immediately take a mile.
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Abuchs
- Date posted
- 20w
Length of episode - highly distressed please help
Hi, last year I had a trigger with my little cousin that made me spiral. Then that thought lead to another and lead to another thought and another one and so on and I've been feeling stuck (with ups and downs) over a year now. I hit rock bottom in July/August and that lead me to going to the psychiatrist. I am taking meds now, but I still feel bad. It doesn't take as much time of my life anymore but it is constantly back there in my mind. It's the feeling that I'm ignoring and undoubtable truth that soonest or later will come out, or that rejecting, or that I'm resisting. That's why it's been impossible for me to do ERP, because I think it's going to make me want to touch myself and if I do I'll feel bad. And then it feels like I like the thoughts, not only physically (groinals) but mentally??? It's like a brain fog that I can't tag between pleasure or confusion. And that thought leads me to thinking about the alleged "non-offending" ps and if that could be me. And that thought leads me to think OH MY GOD I can't BELIEVE I am a girl in my twenties obsessing over this I can't believe this is my life.
Anonymous
- Date posted
- 17w
I feel screwed
so its been three days now its it really bad, Im trying to just "tolerate and allow the feelings to be here for as long as it wants," not fixing it, not figuring it out, just allowing it to be a cloud raining on me while im doing my thing, but it doesnt work!! It gives me these intesne, loud, real feeelings that make me feel like i am gay and that I just need to accept it. Like its the hyperfocusing that I cant control that makes me focus on the feelings when im trying to do something else, allowing it to be there but still doing my own thing however Im still paying attention to the feeling, and the thoughts feel intense, and its like this ALLLL DAY, for three days straight. I dont know what to do anymore, because ERP doesnt seem to be working.
Anonymous
- Date posted
- 11w
Is ERP worthless?
Anyone else feel like they just sit there during sessions? Like I can’t wait for it to be over so I don’t have to do this twice a week anymore. I think I’m putting in effort but sometimes feels like a huge waste of time and I’m not making progress but maybe that’s just my ocd?
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