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- 3y
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- 3y
Yes. Frequently. I looked like the love child of an Autistic person and a schizophrenic. And please believe me I’m not making fun of either I’m just saying that because I know that people in the autism spectrum sometimes getting violent and they hit themselves and people who are schizophrenic depending on what it is sometimes talk to themselves and that’s what I do so that’s why I said that I don’t want people thinking I’m making fun of them because I wouldn’t wish that on anyone
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- 3y
Yep only when my ocd gets really bad. I hit so the thoughts go away..
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- 3y
I quite literally beat myself up. Typically it’s when I’m feeling overwhelmed, but I also have a lot of “excess” energy and it seems like pain is the only thing that’ll match that intensity. I’m working with a therapist to try and stop doing it, but it’s been rocky since I’ve been doing it for so long.
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- 3y
This is the compulsion that made me go into the research frenzy that landed me understanding I probably have OCD.
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- 3y
Have done the same in the past couple of years when very overwhelmed with stress or anxiety. Happened alot during the covid lockdown. Has been months that I’ve been harm free but it has been work to get here. Be strong and do what you can to resist the draw to hit yourself. It becomes a maladaptive coping mechanism and in my case morphed into hitting my arms and legs until they were severely bruised. The wake up call with the head hitting was when i ended up with an ocular migraine a few hours after hitting my head and was terrified that I caused a detached retina. Oddly enough, i had never felt the desire to hit myself until I had been on zoloft for a year or so. Not sure if there is a connection or just coincidence.
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- 3y
Yeah I’ve always hit myself. It’s comforting to know I’m not the only one. I usually hit myself in the head or hip bones. I used to self harm in a different way in early middle school (don’t want to trigger anyone so I won’t specify how) but then I eventually stopped. But recently I’ve felt close to relapse. I would rather hit myself than do that again.
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- 25w
Do y’all ever forget basic needs sometimes? I have been going through a phase where I don’t drink water all day until night time and I drink so much that I hold my pee throughout the night until morning. I notice sometimes I even hold my breathe and get light headed or a headache and think something is medically wrong with me 😭or is this my ocd?
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- 20w
my cat was smelling my other cat's bottom so to get him away i like quick "slapped" with the dorsal of the hand on his face and i got afraid that i did too hard so i compulsively did it again with similar strenght that i used to check if he was hurt and i regret it, like it wasn't a hard slap meant to hurt, but i did that impulsively and maybe i exceeded a bit over the limit in which it doesn't hurt. like he definetely reacted but i don't know if he was hurt, like he reacted in the moment but nothiny else, and he's lovey dovey. i dont think he was hurt but i feel bad. because if i did it once as a mistake i shouldn't have done the same thing again. i feel like an abuser. there are many things that are happening to me and im getting overwhelmed and i dont know how much longer i can hold on. because one thing i can't do is to forgive myself over mistakes.
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- 15w
So recently i had really obsessive thoughts about something and once i got over it i kept bringing back more stuff to make myself feel like a bad person. Why am i doing this? Why do i need to look for something else to burden someone with once they have forgiven me
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