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maybe try to follow some OCD therapists and pages on instagram. they're really helpful!
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Thanks for all this wonderful info and advice đ
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OCD recovery UK are on Instagram and YouTube, they are life savers highly recommend đ
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He Roux! I would suggest depending in your level of functionality to find a project, maybe something relativity simple to focus on or even take on a small job if you are able., it could help give you something to do/focus on other than OCD/treatment, and give you a bit of confidence. Also maybe see some friends and just hang out (you dont have to tell them what has been going on), or maybe spend some time with family (perhaps take up a project with family). Importantly, be kind too yourself. :) If you can, a pet may help :) At least these are some of the things I did when I got out of the hospital. As for books: I have Scrupulosity OCD, I this book is kindof geared towards that type but it was really great for me, it is called "The Doubting Disease: Help for Scrupulosity and Religious Compulsions" by Joseph W. Ciarrocchi.
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Hey Roux*, oops haha
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Definitely use this app, read NOCD articles, look at the IOCDF website, and look at OCD accounts on IG/YT. Itâs so important to learn how OCD works and how itâs treated! You also need to be able to recognize OCDâs tactics and thoughts and the importance of not seeking reassurance. You have to train your brain to look for things that are OCD (e.g. reassurance seeking). If you donât know how to treat it and if you donât understand your OCD, OCD can grow.
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(Long read) hello everyone. i was out of the country for about 3-4 months and traveling. my ocd was not that bad at all and I was able to handle it even if it came up. on my way back home, it immediately started. i have learned how to handle it better, but i am more sad and just âawaitingâ for something bad to happen. for example, i have sexual themed ocd. pocd and family related stuff, and also my ocd targeted my pets for about a year and it manifested into compulsions that disturbed me and made me not want to be around my cats. now that i am around my cats, i feel like âwhat if i harm them or do something bad?â or âwhat if you do those weird compulsions that happened before?â , when i look back on the compulsions that happened, it doesnât feel like me and it was clearly driven by ocd, but it makes me worry i am just a sick person. i know myself and i know im not, but i had such a weird childhood and then ocd from 15 years old and up. so when these weird compulsions had happened , whether it was for the pet ocd theme or pocd or the family ocd, it feels like some sort of proof. anyways, i feel a bit for content with myself but i know how real ocd can feel and i just remember feeling so hopeless and suici da l, i just donât want to go through that again. i take a more spiritual route of life and healing, and i wonder if anyone has some deep spiritual warmups or practices i could do to maybe open up my mind more? maybe to realize this is all in the mind? but also to not fight it⌠Not fight it meaning not let it take over my life. i racked up so much debt in therapy and i truly think i can get through this alone i just need a bit of help. but i dunno. any advice would help! thanks everyone âď¸
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In 2023, as I was finally getting sober from harder substances, I found myself in one of the scariest mental spaces I'd ever known. I was still smoking daily, my relationship was rocky, and one nightâit all hit me. It felt like I had slipped into a video game. Nothing felt real⌠or maybe everything felt too real. The world around me was distorted. I had always dealt with anxiety, but this? This was something else. I was spiralingâdrenched in guilt over everything I'd ever done, every person I thought I hurt, every wrong I tried to make right all at once. It was suffocating. At 23, I tried checking myself into a mental hospitalâsomething I hadnât done since I was 17. I was desperate to understand what was happening. My relationship took a hit as I spilled every ounce of guilt I carried to my partner, unable to stop the cycle. It wasnât just anxiety. It was OCD. And while the diagnosis was terrifying at first, it was also reassuring. I finally had a name for the storm inside me. I wasnât alone. People I admireâlike Jenna Ortegaâdeal with this too. Itâs not just me. Itâs real, itâs hard, but itâs also something I can face. Since then, Iâve made big changes. I stopped smokingârealizing it only made the noise in my head louder. I started therapy. My partner didnât understand at first, but as we both learned more about OCD together, we grew stronger. Weâre now engaged, and Iâm happier than Iâve ever been. But now itâs time to reconnectâwith myself. I want to find the me before everything. The creative, passionate, connected me. I want to start streaming games again and hopefully rebuild the following I lost. I want to connect with people againâI donât have many friends left, but Iâm determined to find my people again. Iâm also diving back into my art. Journaling. Sketchingâeven when I donât like it. Because itâs the act of creating that heals, not just the end result. I wonât let OCD run my life. I will prevail.
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