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- 3y
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- 3y
yes! me too!
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- 3y
my little sister asked if i could take her to the pet store and i panicked bc my thoughts keep making up scenarios. im so scared.
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- 3y
Saaaame!!
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- Date posted
- 25w
I donât even know where to start because thereâs so much going on in my head and it feels like thereâs so much evidence for every thought. Like my ocd feels like it doesnât just have one specific theme itâs honestly every theme and it just switches throughout the day depending on the thoughts I have. This started all about a month ago, this whole ocd flare up. Iâve been diagnosed with ocd for about 3 years now and looking back on my childhood, I feel like Iâve had it for probably my entire life. My grandpa just recently died back in February and I feel like this whole ocd spiral is a result of dealing with grief especially because it didnât even hit me for the whole month of April for some reason and things felt ânormalâ. But since this ocd flare up has started Iâve been constantly reviewing and revisiting my past, all my childhood memories and so many of them are terrifying which is weird because I never had a traumatic event hppen to me as a child. I feel like itâs always been âself-inflictedâ trauma if that makes sense? My mind is telling me so many things related to so many topics like maybe I liked my family member as a kid and have just hid it to fit in with society? That my anxiety as a kid has caught up with me and Iâm turning into a psychopath? That Iâve always been a creep and enjoyed looking at peoples privates or chests, etc but just ignored or allowed the thought this whole time. Also before this whole flare up I remember always feeling on autopilot and not really alive like everything I did I just felt numb about it. Which aids my ocd to tell me that these feelings are real and the thoughts are true and that Iâm âwaking upâ or realizing or something. I havenât felt such intense anxiety and distress since I was a kid and I didnât even understand my own thoughts. Itâs like Iâm either hyper aware or totally unaware of whatâs going on around me and it gets me thinking about my existence, personality, what my role in life is and like genuinely what Iâm even doing in the moment like whatâs the reason behind everything. Iâm constantly questioning my intentions because I donât know if theyâre true or not and itâs like my ocd doesnât even allow me to consider the thought it just jumps to conclusion. Like telling me Iâm guilty before proven innocent. It honestly feels like so much at once to even simply call it ocd or anxiety because it feels like a crisis and any moment I could spiral and breakdown completely. Going to school everyday feeling like anytbing could trigger a panic attack at any moment makes me feel like I canât be left alone with my thoughts. And like overall since I got down this rabbit hole, my first obsession was harm to myself, then it was harm to others specifically my family, then it was being a pervert or pedo, or being attracted or someone or something I shouldnât be, which then makes me question my existence and who I am along with also being hyper aware of my facial movements like my eyebrows, nose, etc. Like why does ocd have to involve itself in every aspect of my life? It feels like thereâs always something wrong that I need to fix.
- Date posted
- 20w
I know the solution is to always say âyeah that could be true, but I am choosing to live my life anyway.â However, I feel like my biggest issue is my brain always assuming that it is immediately true when I do that. Like if I say âmaybe Iâm attracted to teenagers, itâs possible,â then my brain INSTANTLY starts rationalizing that thought and defending it and being like âoh okay so you think this now and it makes sense because xyz, and now thatâs who you are and your real desire is now and always will be teenagers.â I feel really alone in this area of feeling like my brain âaccepting the thoughtsâ means my brain immediately accepts them as true. I obviously donât want to think theyâre true but I feel so stuck now.
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- 20w
sometimes my brain is thinking of every thought you could have all at once and it makes me insane and i keep telling myself in my head to shut up and i try to stop thinking but it doesnât stop
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