JodiK
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- 3y
giaparmergiaparmer
- Date posted
- 3y
Ah me too man. My real event OCD makes me super obsessive over home safety especially locks and stuff. unfortunately with this one you just have to take your medicine and tell yourself you may not be sure if you locked the door or not but if you’ve gotten up once you’re not going to get up and check. If this causes you to stress place a hand over your heart and say out loud “this is really difficult for me, I am really struggling in my heart right now and it’s very difficult to resist doing a compulsion, but instead I will be kind to myself and practice an exercise”
JodiKJodiK
- Date posted
- 3y
Wow! That's what I did!!! But I also paced my floor and just cried it out..I did the compulsions a couple of times just because my ocd told me to. This was after I took out my trash. A simple task that before was never a problem. So I did it. But I did the compulsions. I also know I did lock it. I see it that it's locked. But im hoping the outer door knob didn't fall off. I know I would have heard a loud thud had it dropped. What I did was just kept touching the doorknob to make sure it was tightly secured (it was) and the autolock is on then I closed door and locked it fully with both locks and washed hands. I'm trying to get over getting up and checking it again..im too tired for it
giaparmergiaparmer
- Date posted
- 3y
@JoJo83 I commend your effort friend!! Sometimes we don’t over come out compulsions, that’s OK! Every single time your brain wonders of the door knob is going to fall off tell yourself the exact same thing every time (bear with me I learned from an expert haha) OCD thrives on uncertainty, tell yourself “I am not sure if the doorknob is secure right now. Oh well. Who knows if the door knob is secure? Not me! Man that would be really awesome if the door knob just fell off the freaking door and somebody busted in my house and robbed the place? that would be really cool” I do this a lot and you’d be surprised how often I actually laugh. It helps.
JodiKJodiK
- Date posted
- 3y
@giaparmer At first it's a fear because I think what if I can't go out for anything because my outer door knob fell off. Then I think it can be handled..ha! Get it..lol so yea..I eventually start laughing at it like really? I also just told myself this..."don't do another compulsion because if you do, you're going to wind up with the SAME scenario OR worse. Your knob is FINE. You just checked it...let it go"..I actually am letting it go!!! This is HARDDDDDDDDDDD..like I am stopping myself from the compulsion, more than likely because it's getting dark out, I did enough for one day and thats that. It is what it is. Life is life. There's no guarantees in life about ANYTHING...and thank you..thank you for that joke! It truly did make me laugh lol
FacingWhatScaresMeFacingWhatSc...
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- 3y
You like sports? Play games?
JodiKJodiK
- Date posted
- 3y
Nope. Only game I play is solitaire on my phone. Not into video games
Ben84Ben84
- Date posted
- 3y
@JoJo83 Perhaps learn to play solitaire with a deck of cards. It's a more mindful experience. You could even learn some other solitaire games. I just got a mahjong set for Christmas.
JodiKJodiK
- Date posted
- 3y
@Ben84 I want to learn more card games.
Ben84Ben84
- Date posted
- 3y
@JoJo83 You can even learn a few tricks while you're at it. Joshua Jay is a good start.
JodiKJodiK
- Date posted
- 3y
@Ben84 Need to go buy me a deck of cards lol. All I have is virtual
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