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Take a deep deep breath friend, one hand on your heart repeat after me OUT LOUD please, “this is extremely difficult for me right now, I am struggling very hard to meet my own expectations and resist doing a compulsion. I deserve to be kind to myself, and I am allowed to make mistakes” repeat that until your blood pressure lowers. I’m so sorry, what a painful time this is. It helped me to feel less alone when I learned that everybody is experiencing a weight of devastation on their shoulders that they’re not sure how to shake, you’re going through a very human experience right now and we are right here with you. I hear that you feel very alone right now and are struggling to cope on your own, that’s so hard. I repeat psalm 56:3 when I am at my lowest “when I am afraid I will put my trust in you”. Trust in your greater power and trust in yourself, I promise every ounce of strength that you need is right there in your body just be kind and PATIENT with yourself 🙏🏻 ❤️
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Thank you for your kind words.
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Please give yourself some grace. We are all flawed and broken. It seems that those of us with OCD have such a distortion of thoughts that it can cause us to become paralyzed (leading to depression and quitting of jobs,etc.) Can you make some small measurable goals for yourself? For example, (& I really think this will help…it did wonders for me) can you listen to videos on YouTube by Mark DeJesus? Start with his video titled, “OCD and the danger of checking yourself.” Another goal may be to set an appt with a counselor who specializes in OCD (maybe here on the app.) Or maybe to walk a mile or two a day. We have to put our hand to the plow and not look back despite our feelings. I know it’s so much easier said than done. Please listen to the video that I suggested, I really think it will help. Please know that God loves you unconditionally. Search for Him and you will find Him. Please put one foot in front of the other and don’t look back. Try it for 2 weeks with small measurable goals. I am praying for you now.
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Thank you soo much. 🙏🏾
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I watched the video. Thank you he had some great insights. I thought I was doing myself a service by seeing how I was doing; had no idea I was reinforcing it.
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Hey! I also quit all my jobs and I’m a full grown adult. I just got a new job that I’m trying so hard to get through. It’s tough but just know you are not alone!
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Thank you 🙏🏾 and good luck with your new job.
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I’ve recently become unemployed and the journey to finding a new job is honestly unbearable. I struggle with a major lack of self confidence and I don’t believe I’m good at anything nor smart enough for it, so whenever I look at job websites and see different things advertised I panic. Even with what I’ve wanted to do for years, the thought of going out and doing that makes me feel horrendous because I don’t think I’m capable of doing it. And what doesn’t help is the fact I’ve told my parents this and they just scream at me saying I can’t sit around doing nothing every day when that’s already something I don’t want to do. I want a job, I want to do something I enjoy, I like working I do, and once I’m it in I know I’ll enjoy it, but there’s certain things stopping me from going for it. I hate myself over every possible level to the thought of people seeing me everyday is making me panic, I don’t think I’m very intelligent so anything that requires me to do maths or organise numbers or anything like that is out of the question. I’ve worked in hospitality for 7 years, doing shit I despise and I honestly have hated every moment of it so I can’t go back there. It’s all scaring me, all making me feel like I’m just incapable of doing anything right, I genuinely just don’t even want to wake up tomorrow because the thought of living this life for the rest of my life is ridiculous. I don’t want to do it. I don’t have anything I’m good at, there’s nothing I enjoy what the hell am I meant to do with that? I’m honestly so stuck. Everyone keeps saying “beggars can’t be choosers” but this is my fucjing life and I have to do a shit job that makes me want to throw myself off a 30 story building till I’m 70? Fuck no. What kind of life is that? Just so I can make money? And afford bills? And pay to live? wtf I don’t even want to be here so why am I doing that. I don’t enjoy living I a really fucking hate it. And working down the local grocery store is just not gonna make me wanna be here any longer. I really hate it here and now I have to find a job that I’ll hate? I’m so stuck
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My life has been hell, and I don’t know how to move on. I (15M) did awful things when I started high school, thinking being sexual was the way to connect. I crossed boundaries, overshared, and kept flirting with friends and making sexual jokes, even after they said no (all over text). One friend stopped talking to me and can’t even look at me now. I feel like a monster. Why shouldn’t I be locked up? If I got therapy, I feel like I’d be sent jail. How can I ever move on?Then there were these 2 guys who were older than me one was 16 one was 17. The 16 yr old was introduced to me by my online friend who is my best friend and I begged the 16 yr old for pics (idk how it started but after my friends ex randomly messaged me and sent me pictures and then blocked me right after I think I became addicted to chasing that high) the 16 yr old eventually sent me a pic but it was real and I stopped bugging him on it after that but i feel so bad I did that but my friend tells me not to feel bad cause the guy was weird but I still feel bad. Then the 17 yr old I did the same thing with him but went too far when I tried getting pics from him by using my best friends ass pics she sent me (she was 15) I don’t think I grasped how wrong this was but that’s not an excuse she eventually found it when I told her after she tried getting pics from the guy herself to try and help me and the guy got mad when she stopped talking to him cause we found it weird talking to him. I told her about how I sent the pics she said she felt sick but forgave me cause she thought I was gonna harm myself. Fast forward the guy told me after I had still been flirting with him that I s@d him (we never met in person ever) and I felt so guilty and apologized a lot and he got annoyed and told me that he had been kinda manipulative to me and kept me in a loop of mystery and I don’t talk to him anymore. But one of my other friends stopped talking to me after I was being by too emotionally taxing on him because I became very depressed and didn’t wanna life anymore and tried to stop lifing a few times. And now idk if I actually s@d someone if I did that to someone and now I think I’m a pdo and I think I s@d my baby cousins and my little brother and now I’m scared bf I can’t even get help because my parents don’t believe in therapy and even if I wanted to I’m scared because I don’t want to go to jail but I think I deserve it honestly why should a monster like me live.
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