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Doesn’t help when Dr. Google then tells you “OCD and (insert another disorder here, not named anxiety/depression) can be co-morbid”
@J6 Would you know how exactly BPD and OCD coexist? To me OCD is overthinking and BPD is less thinking and more impulsive and yet I’ve read there’s overlap between the two.
@J6 Very interesting, I didn’t know about the non-impulsive side of BPD. Forgive me if I sound insensitive when I say what I’m about to say, but this past week someone had mentioned bipolar to me and I currently have harm related obsessions. So I did compulsions and found out that a lot more people who commit crimes can be bipolar, so sadly my thoughts connected the two together and made me think I’m even more capable of committing my intrusive harm thoughts if I also have bpd because I could lose control and do something awful, when I’ve never once wanted to hurt someone before (unless I was threatened). So that’s interesting though, maybe you’re right in the sense that people with BPD and OCD aren’t impulsive people personality wise, but maybe more so with just compulsions, but that doesn’t mean they’d be impulsive with their obsessions/fears.
@J6 Ah okay, forgive me also, I totally forgot about borderline personality disorder as well. I actually have not researched that at all (and at this point I don’t want to for my own sake lol). Now, when you say not knowing how to regulate emotions, how does that differ from someone just going through anxiety/depression & having a poor self image versus straight up borderline personality disorder? Because like, I’ve been told idk how to regulate my emotions, say, when I’ve been hurt in relationships with people or have just generally had my feelings hurt. However, I’ve never had BPD brought up around me. I’d be interested in hearing your take!
@J6 So, when I’ve been hurt like in relationships, I’ve wondered what is wrong with me and will ask them for a reason, rather than just accepting it as a bad match. It’s hard for me to express verbal intimacy to my family, but it’s more so because it was lacking from my parents growing up, so that’s why it’s hard for us to say it around each other. However, I’m comfortable with expressing it to others outside my immediate family. And in saying that, I don’t mind expressing my thoughts to my parents, despite what I said about the inability to show verbal intimacy. Despite that, I’m generally an open book to showing my hurt feelings to others and displaying what’s on my mind. The only time my feelings seem unregulated is when I’m hurt and I take it real personal, thinking that it’s always my fault and such. But I’ve realized that’s faulty thinking and I’m trying to now find a way to let go of that thinking. Besides when my feelings get hurt, I generally don’t think my emotions are unregulated.
particularly with schizophrenia and borderline
Omg tell me about it - especially schizophrenia, paranoia, psychosis
yes its terrifying
can i get OCD from GAD dad???
I can't figure out what type of OCD I have. I must be the only one who has mental hoarding OCD with some Just right and death themes. I've never seen a description of someone's symptoms that match mine. Mine are a combination of Just right and mental hoarding of a memory. Like if I have dinner, I need to do a routine where I take in various elements on the environment - the food, my phone, the people around, pets, the coolness of the air con, and think of them in a specific syntax. I need to go through this thinking cycle without also thinking about certain people, deceased people, any themes of death, certain colours (red and black mostly) and then when I get to the end I deliberately have to think about something that is anti-death, like a particularly person who is younger, a certain good colour. But there are other conditions to prevent having to re-do the routine. The phone can't give me a notification or ring. Then I have to touch the phone and think of a supporting person or colour. On top of this, if I go to Youtube, Facebook or anywhere else and I see something related to death first I have to re-do the whole routine. I have a pre-thought that protects me if I do see something in the theme of death. Touching a cat tail will re-trigger the routine and so will touching a certain matt or matts in my house without first say '1,2,3,4'. I do these mental hoarding routines every time I eat, every time I leave the house, every time I leave work, before I go to sleep. The other element of this is protecting loved ones and pets. In some of my routines, around food, leaving the house and going to bed, I have to mentally think of everyone in the house and all of my pets in the same way as above. I dont even know if it is OCD. It's mostly mental compulsions. I don't get anxiety, just discomfort. As exotic as my symptoms seem to be, I don't think my OCD is as bad as it is for others. it's a bit Just right and thats it. My symptoms do not fit any of the categories.
I have been having these fears about developing schizophrenia, it reached a point where i am starting to almost hear things or the smallest sounds and my mind tells me you're schizophrenic, and i feel this weird sensations in my ear as if someone is whispering yet i can barely hear them, the thing is i am not diagnosed yet because i never work with an OCD therapist but i study psychology so i just used what i learnt to give a meaning to my suffering, many themes of this fear have been happening before and this schizophrenia fear is the last one. I want to know what advice you can give me or ways to make my brain calm down a little bit, i also don't have and can't afford a therapist that's why i am here in the first place I also want to know more informations or experiences with this theme if anyone habe experienced it and what helped you with it I remember feeling better for a while but than i collapsed back, but i am hoping to get better soon too or anytime in the future, I don't want reassurance so make sure you be as real as you can, and thanks 🙏🏻
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