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- 3y
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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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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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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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- 23w
but is it OCD if when i get a thought that makes me anxious i have to hit my head a certain number of times to get it out of my head to relive my brain that everything is fine now (doesn’t always help though). or am i just being dramatic?
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Okay so there’s been a few times where my boyfriend has hit me lightly across the face always in a jokey way and never hard. However I cry every time because my ocd says it’s abuse (you know what ocd is like 🙄) I told him not to do it cause I don’t like it. However I jokely hit myself a lot and pull my hair out pick my nails etc and he hates it because to him “I’m self harming myself” so he hits me across the face (not hard just a tap) as he says to him it’s okay in that context cause it’s to stop me from doing it to myself and he says “it’s like telling a kid to not have chocolate but having it yourself. Today, He pushed my head away jokely cause I said a joke to him about him and I said I told you not to and he said “it wasn’t your face” I asked him why he does my face and he says he does ir on purpose as he thinks the context he does it in is okay as he does it cause im hitting myself and he said “it’s like telling a kid not to eat chocolate but then eating it yourself” he means cause I tell him not to hit me but I hit myself or pull my hair out and he says it’s no difference… He says when I bring it up it’s like I’m always picking a fight Is this ok? He’s a lovely boyfriend and has never ever gave me any other problems.. it’s just this one thing. It’s never hard it’s just a tap. Should I worry or is my ocd interfering with this.
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- 16w
does anyone else just count for no reason? like their steps or how many times they move. just a few minutes ago i was scratching an itch on my leg and and caught myself counting how many times i scratched😂😂 and recently i’ve just been counting to ten randomly just in my head it’s so random or if i catch myself tapping on something i tap ten times. i got rid of it kind of like i used to do things 37 times or 3 times or 7 times 😂 3 and 7 or just the number 37 was the number for about like 10 months it was BAD. and i also have to turn on a light switch the right way but i don’t know what the right way is tho and it never feels right so i have to literally stop myself and walk away but i usually end up coming back cs ill think about like an hour from then and how ill have this weight on me because i didn’t turn the light switch the right way or the right amount of times but then i literally usually always forget about it so like idk am i weird orrrr does anyone else do thissss 😬😬😬😬
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