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When i did therapy, i had to write my thoughts on a paper like this: "My mind gives me the following thoughts: 1. That i will harm my loved ones 2. That i will loose control, and i will go insane, and put in a hospital 3. That i will have kids and harm them. 4.... 5.... 6... Maybe this will happen or not, i choose to live with this uncertanty." I was reading this 1-2 hours daily, after 1-2 weeks, i got so tired of these thoughts that when they appeared in my mind, i was getting very bored.
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Hey! I think a good exercise will be to write all your thoughts on a sheet, and read them over and over and over, till you get rid of them. The brain will get bored, and when you will think again at it, the brain will not be triggered again. Its similar to when you listen a weird nice song that stays in your mind. But if you listen it many times, you dont get trigged anymore.
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When i say you have to read them over and over, you have to spend around 1-2 hours daily. I had harm ocd, and this helped me. When i had intrussive thoughts, my brain was so bored of them after reading so many times, that it was making me laugh :D
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Like write down I don’t wanna die or exactly my thought
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Can you write here all your bad thoughts that annoys you? Exactly like your mind says
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I’m gonna die, I’m gonna get old , I don’t know what after life
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I also had some small notes, that i kept them into my wallet . The goal here was to make me anxiety spike, and after it was decreases over time. Notes like: "I dont understand the point of living, life makes no sense." Imagine how my anxiety spiked when i knew i had that in my wallet, and someone can see it. Some people were leaving those kind of notes in bars, restaurants, taxies. LOL , like i said, the goal is to initially increase the anxiety. It will loosen after some days/weeks OCD is funny, its like a silly kid is inside of your brain, and tries to play with you.
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I don’t really spike that much I get these thoughts and get depressed and worry about them constantly about dying
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What are you willing to do to increase your anxiety? Can you set a wallpaper on your screen with this message? "Life makes no sense". This will trigger you? What triggers you the most?
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Anything I will do anything to get rid of this
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You can watch “Midnight Sun” too or “Five Feet Apart”
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- 23w
At first, it just started as harmless questions, curiously exploring the universe and what life and death mean as a human. Then it became an obsession about death and the afterlife. I’m a Catholic-turned-agnostic who recently took an interest in religion again, trying to redevelop a relationship with God without letting the fear of not being good enough and possibly going to Hell taking over me. Instead, my brain latched onto the possibility that there is no God, that there’s eternal nothingness after the short time we have here on earth and that everything means nothing. My love for my friends and family. My desire to achieve my goals, and to be happy for the people I love achieving theirs. I’m haunted by the feeling that it will all be for nothing, that I will never be reunited with those that I love, that the people I love who have passed on have ceased to exist and one day, so will I and everyone else. I can’t function now. I’ve made myself physically ill over this. I’ve lost my appetite. As someone who once took pride in how much love I have for my job as a daycare teacher, I come into work and feel numb. I go home and feel numb. I’ve obsessively started telling the people in my life how much I love and appreciate them because for the past three days, I’ve been sick thinking about how one day, either I’ll leave them or they’ll leave me. It feels like nothing matters. It feels like everything is in vain. I’ve tried so hard to reframe my mindset, to rewire my brain to not think that way. I’ve tried ERP techniques of allowing myself to sit with the discomfort that the fear brings. To try and desensitize myself to this fear. Nothing seems to work. I’m so lost. I’ve been this way for three days, with yesterday and today being worse than the day it started. It’s like the obsession is morphing into depression in a way. I’m scared I’ll never feel enjoyment in any form again. I don’t know what to do anymore.
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- 21w
I’ve been perturbed for a couple of months now with incessant thoughts about aging and dying. I really am not sure what to do. This feels like other OCD themes, but also really different, because this time, what I’m afraid of is sure to happen. I will either die, or age and then die. It’s been so difficult to enjoy anything lately. I just want to pull a blanket over my head and wait until death comes. Has anyone else felt this way? I feel quite alone. I am trying to enjoy life, but I just remember that it will all be gone in a flash. Nothing really seems to help me feel better. The only escape I have is in my dreams where I can fantasize about never aging or dying. Or at least being able to rewind the clock to have more time.
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- 16w
Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing well! I lost my dad yesterday and me having ocd since I was 7, it just skyrocketed. Yesterday it was difficult for sure, but I didn’t have any intrusive thoughts about self harm. It all happened suddenly when I was half asleep (trying to sleep even though it was really hard), were I feel as if a switch turned on in my brain and out of nowhere I started feeling angry. I recognised at that moment that I was not angry but that’s what my brain was telling me. And that’s when I had an intrusive thought of harming my mom came to my mind and immediately after that came the thought of harming myself. And it stuck. I know grief can make these themes pop up, but what if this is all real and not ocd? I’m scared. I acknowledge I don’t have thoughts in my head of planning to harm myself, it’s just a feeling that this is going to happen. Now letting my thoughts out brings me relief, even sometimes this intrusive thoughts bring me relief (that is very scary), but ocd makes me so pessimistic, and that I’m doomed in life and the sad life my dad had will also be mine as well. There are moments where I feel hope and relief, but it doesn’t last for long. As if I’m so so sure that this is going to happen. And me having magical thinking ocd doesn’t help either. Grief is hard, sometimes I cry, other times I laugh with my friends and family, but those moments I laugh is when I get terrified ( I read people who have made up the decision to (you know) are happy and laugh. Anyways, I’ve talked to my mom about it, she’s super supportive of me restarting therapy and even though she’s struggling with grief, she’s always there to listen to me and give me all the comfort I need. But I informed her about the thoughts the moment the popped up. Just so that she knows and can save me because I don’t trust myself at all. Sorry for this huge rumble, but I’d really appreciate your advice. I’m scared and so not ready to start therapy (at one hand I don’t want to, it feels such a chore, but I know I need to get help). I’m very pessimistic at the moment and I feel no one can convince me that I’ll get better. I think my future life, and it brings me this warm nice feeling and then it is followed by the thought that this will never happen. And because I have magical thinking ocd, and my uni exams have just started, I had this feeling that this exam season will be endless and it’s never going to end. Guess what, I’m probably going to just take one exam out of three (my mind is like you see, this thought and feeling came true) and that’s where I get super pessimistic. Okay, I’ll shut up for now, please give me some advice on how you try to manage your thoughts and what to do for now. Take care ❤️
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