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- 3y
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Hi unknown, sounds like a back door spike from your OCD. It doesn’t like that you feel less stress/anxiety so it is casting new doubt about not being stressed in the hopes you will feel more anxiety and feed it what it needs. OCD is devious like that, won’t even let you enjoy a lull in anxiety/stress.
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I’m trying to talk it down thank u
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This happens to me a lot with ROCD. If I have a day where the anxious thoughts/doubts don't make me literally almost throw up from anxiety then I get scared that I'm not "anxious enough" so that means I dont care about my boyfriend.
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Ya it’s a really shitty feeling.. I’m sorry you have to deal with that :((
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I feel the one thing that affirms that you are not that way would be that you had to question whether you care enough or not, which i feel is the biggest sign that u actually do. Because imo people that genuinely don't care, would never question that about themselves, and if they do, it would only prove that they really do care 😊
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Thank you :’) I’m trying my best to tell myself that :)
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I’m going to use that in the future that’s such good reasoning
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