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- 3y
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- 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”
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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
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You like sports? Play games?
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- 3y
Nope. Only game I play is solitaire on my phone. Not into video games
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- 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.
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@Ben84 I want to learn more card games.
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@JoJo83 You can even learn a few tricks while you're at it. Joshua Jay is a good start.
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@Ben84 Need to go buy me a deck of cards lol. All I have is virtual
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- 24w
I’ve tried living in the uncertainty today & kept myself busy but I can’t shake this feeling that I’m about to lose control & act on my thoughts. I keep feeling like I need to check in to see how I feel & keep my self safe & when I’m near my trigger it feels like I’m being pulled into doing it & feels like I want to but I’m not using compulsions. My thoughts feel like my own & feeling like I’ll be like this forever. Can someone relate or give advice 😩
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- 23w
Bro I'm scared rn, so there was a compulsion I did like 2hrs ago and I didn't do it properly cuz I kept getting a thought saying "something is gonna come in Ur room and kill you or you will have this illness It triggers me to say it but I froze because I kept seeing like a shadow and cuz I was home alone and it's dark so I didn't answer it 😃 and cuz I answered it late saying obviously I don't want to illness I would rather have the other (half of me knows it's not real), and I prayed 4 times as well cuz I didn't do the compulsion properly I tried doing it again logs if times and 1 hour later I tried again but It still didn't feel right, and now the thought is hurting my body a little and I feel shivery, and I have tried doing the compulsion but it's not working. Why can't these thighs just leave me alone and stop saying about illnesses all the time. And idk how I'm gonna get thru the night cuz I can't get the thought out of my head and I won't be able to do anything properly.
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- 22w
Advice, coping techniques, just distraction needed. Yesterday night, my parents asked me if I could take care of my baby brother and I’ve been wanting to help them out so of course I said yes, and I was taking care of him with my other brother. A big fear of mine that I’ve told my therapist about is that my OCD will latch on to my new baby brother. It hasn’t happened since he has come home with us, but now I feel like something is brewing. My little brother is prone to throwing up so he already got the shirt He was wearing all dirty so I went to my mom‘s room and decided to change his onesie. I called my other brother for help by helping me sit him up while I put the shirt over his head after the shirt went over his head. My other brother was walking out and that’s when I clipped the buttons on the bottom of the onesie and continued to carry him around the house, but it’s that action that my mind is obsessing over. Me clipping the buttons of my baby brother’s onesie. I can’t get over it. My mind keeps replaying that one thing because my thoughts are saying “oh what if you accidentally inappropriately touched him “ and I even went out of my way to avoid touching his diaper because I knew my head would start spinning shit like this. But ever since last night, I can’t stop thinking if I accidentally traumatized my little brother some how. I know I didn’t do anything wrong. I’ve helped my mom change my brother‘s clothes before. My parents literally check his diaper if he soiled himself, but when I do anything that has to do with making sure my brother is clean and healthy my head tries to make me feel sick and crazy. The thoughts are getting worse and getting to the point where my head is trying to make me feel like I’m weird for wanting to change my brother out of his dirty clothes. I’m just so scared that these thoughts are gonna get worse and I’m trying not to freak out right now so I went for a walk outside. But im still getting such intense anxiety. I dont know how to cope or what to do advice coping techniques would be a such a help ive been doing so good with avoiding compulsions. I just need help to ground myself. I dont want to go to my mom with this ill feel worse. Is me writing this a compulsion?
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